JRevietr of Renews, 119/06. 



History of the Month. 



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The Khedive has gone on a visit 

 Trouble in to Constantinople, Lord Cromer 

 Egypt- has become a member of the 



Order of Merit, but the chief 

 interest excited in Egyptian affairs has been the 

 gruesome horror of the punishment inflicted upon 

 the Egyptian villagers who Icilled Captain Bull and 

 attacked some other officers who had been invited 

 to their village to shoot pigeons. The officers who 

 gave up their guns peaceably when the villagers 

 complained were then dragged from their carriages 

 and made the victims of a murderous attack. The 

 murder appears to have been, unprovoked, and it 

 was avenged by the hanging of four and the flog- 

 ging of six others. What grates on the English 

 imagination was the sandwiching of the flogging 

 and hanging. To hang two and then flog three 

 before hanging the other two in the presence of 

 three awaiting their flogging seems needlessly brutal. 

 The incident will not be useless if it reniinds us of 

 •our neglected duty to the f>eople of Egypt. When 

 we smashed Arabi and suppressed the germ of 



■ parliamentary institutions in Egypt we swore before 

 high heaven that we onlv did it in order to give 

 "th;? natives genuine parliamentan- government. 



■"I'wenty-five years have passed since then, and we 



: have done nothing. Is it not time we made ? 



': '4)eginning ? If the new member of the Order of 

 Merit wishes to merit his order, let him re-read 



J'"Lcrd Dufferin's despatch and see what can. be done. 



The death of Sir Wilfrid Lawson 

 Sir deprives the House of Commons 



Wilfrid lawson. of one of its most respected 

 members and English public life 

 of one of its most familiar figures. Sir Wilfrid 

 Lawson, although capable of turning everythirig in,to 

 a jest, was one of the most seriously earnest of 

 politicians. He was a stalwart of the stalwarts in the 

 war against war. He hated Jingoes worse than he 

 hated strong drink, against which he warred all his 

 life long. He was a capital spt-aker with a ringing 

 voice, and if it had not been for his inveterate love 

 of a jest and his fanatical hatred of alcohol he 

 v/ould have held high office in more than one Liberal 



•Cabinet. In the very last conversation I had with 

 him he gloated over the success with which he and 



■his emissaries had discomfited the Public Trust Com- 

 pany in the Channel Islands. He would not hold a 

 • andle to the devil, he said; nor would he have any 



:partnership with strong drink. But although he de- 

 nounced you as if you were the accredited agent of 



■Beelzebub, he always made you feel that he loved 

 you none the less as a man and a brother. Now that 



■he has gone we shall miss him sorely, for no one 



combined so well as he the genial jocosity of the 



:humorist with the earnest severity of the Radical 



JReformer. 



Photo.2 



The Late Sir Wilfrid Lawson. M.P. 



[Lafayette, 



... , ,, One of the most extraordmary in- 



Cnivalrous Man .„„ ^ ., ■ ^ c j, 



gu(j stances of the persistence of a de- 



female fducation. lusion in the popular mind is thnt 

 Englishmen are chivalrous in their 

 treatment of women. An appeal which has recently 

 been issued for a paltry j£,2>°°° for the endowment 

 of one research fellowship at Xownham College af- 

 fords us an opportune remindi-r of the hollowness 

 of this imposture. We male creatures revel in the 

 fattest of endowments. We have scholarships, fel- 

 lowships, and all the good things of this life. But 

 for our sisters at Newnham there has hitherto been 

 maintained with difficulty by annual subscriptions 

 three research fellowships of £m^o each. Oreatlv 

 daring, and encouraged by the generous offer of Mrs. 

 Herringham to contribute one-third of the three 

 thousand required, the College authorities ventured 

 to appeal for this trifling sum to aid and encourage 

 women to follow scholarly and scientific pursuits. In 

 bygone times women founded colleges for men. 

 Clare, Pembroke, Queen's, and Sidney were all 

 endowed by women for men. It will be time to 

 talk of male chivalry when anything corresponding 

 to these benefactions are forthcoming from men for 

 women. With the exception of Mr. Hollaway, what 

 have our male founders done for the cause of female 

 education? It is about time our walthy women be- 

 .stirred themselves in this matter. Men,' like heaven, 

 help those who help themselves. 



