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interchange of ideas. Misunderstandings may 

 thus be avoided which would be due solely to 

 ignorance of a different standpoint. Somewhat 

 in this connection, it may be mentioned that the 

 Public Service Board of New South Wales advo- 

 cates a limited reciprocity between the Australian 

 Service and those of the rest of the Empire. In 

 quoting this proposal, the Australian correspon- 

 dent of the Times expresses exactly the idea that 

 the present writer desires to convey : " One feels 

 more certainly year by year that the parts of the 

 Empire do not understand each other as they 

 should, and that a more intimate mutual know- 

 ledge is absolutely necessary for the well-being 

 of the whole. More especially, London does not 

 understand Ottawa, or Cape Town, or Sydney, 

 and they do not understand London." And he 

 adds that "any scheme, particularly one origi- 

 nating in the colonies, for remedying this grave 

 defect, deserves not polite shelving, but the care- 

 ful and hopeful consideration of men anxious to 

 develop all its possibilities and ensure its ultimate 

 success." 



To return to the influence of the Rhodes scholar- 

 ships. There can be no doubt that it was under 

 the inspiration of Mr. Rhodes' liberality that Mr. 

 Beit has founded, also at Oxford, his Professor- 

 ship of Colonial History. It will provide the first 

 opportunity in the British Isles for systematic in- 

 struction in regard to the British Empire as a 

 whole, and the growth of its component parts, 

 and these lectures, as Mr. Beit may well have 



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