President of a republic, how marked the contrast! Chosen as he is by party machinery, he is ever in danger of becoming the representative of, not the whole people, but a part only, perhaps the major part, it may be even less. Yet, if after election he follows a line of political conduct that estranges him from a great part of the people, possibly from those even with whom previously he has been most closely associated, he has never been known to resign his office, nor has a President ever been successfully impeached. Instead, he stays until his term expires (unless death removes him first). During his continuance in office he is the mark of every opposing newspaper, political clique, and personal enemy in the country. Abused, vilified, cartooned, subjected to the most hostile, and unfair as well as permissible, criticism, is it to be so much wondered at that an exPresident is a personage of no greater importance and held in no more universally popular esteem than he is? The censure that the Queen escapes, shielded as she is by the customary respect with which the high office she fills is held, the President not only cannot escape but actually invites by the exposed situation, prominent though it is, he occupies. Custom in one case respects the office, in the other case the office by custom carries with it very little to inspire awe.

In this case, the woman and the man each had a circle of loving relatives, warm friends, and sincere admirers, both personally and politically; each had enemies, as all who hold public positions have. Each has had a share in directing the historic progress of an illustrious member of the family of nations; to each was given the opportunity that power brings to mold important events in the life of nations; each was honored in life more than it is vouchsafed the ordinary mortal to be. Yet, when the curtain has finally fallen on the long life each enjoyed, the woman draws unto herself by far the major share of the world's attention. Not because of her sex, for there have been

other queens, and, commonly speaking, woman, in the past, at least, has ever been held as the "weaker vessel"; not because of her long life, for the man's was long, as well; not even on account of any evidence of superior intellect or natural ability was the woman honored, for, if anything, perhaps the mind of the man was the more keen, and his decision governed by a finer judicial temperament than was that of the woman-yet, after all, History. and Biography will more frequently and at greater length record the name of Victoria, one time Queen of England, than of Harrison, one time President of the United States. In the nature of things it must be so, and so undoubtedly it will be. Sic transit!

Prosperity in Egypt

Dr. Donaldson's article in a recent issue of THE ANGLOAMERICAN MAGAZINE on "Agriculture in Egypt" is lent additional interest by the latest report on the trade and commerce of Egypt, a report which apart from its statistical features gives an admirable view of the prosperity Egypt is enjoying and the value to the country of British occupation. All the figures go to show that Egypt has entered on an era of increasing prosperity. The condition of the native cultivators has materially improved in late years, and many of them are in so good a financial position that, though the present prices are high, they are holding back their cotton crop, gathered in September, in the expectation that there will be a further rise. It will be remembered that in the days before the occupation the humble native cultivator was absolutely at the mercy of the usurer, but now through equality of taxation and a fair distribution of water supply the native cultivator is in a position of greater independence and certainly has more material comfort. The requirements of the fellahcen increase, of course, with their improved condition, and British traders are looking to Egypt for widened markets. The

extension of railways in the Soudan is opening up a vast country to trade. The manufactured articles in greatest demand are textiles, metal goods, and machinery, but the report says that there is a fair field for many other articles. The condition of Egypt under British guidance is an object lesson that many who are disposed to look upon Great Britain as a land-grabbing nation purely would do well to study.

Editorial Notes

THE physiognomy of President McKinley has sometimes been likened by the cartoonists to that of the Emperor Napoleon I. Now cometh one William Jennings Bryan, commoner, who deposeth and sayeth that the people of the United States have in truth now an emperor over them-presumably William I., although as to that deponent sayeth not. Which reminds us of the ambition of this same Bryan, some few months ago, to succeed the said McKinley as “Emperor," "President-Emperor," or whatever it may be. (Really, these imperial titles are quite confusing.) But, as the world knows, instead of there being now a (presumably) William II., unfortunately (or fortunately?) the best that this other William could do in the race for honors was to come in a poor second (another kind of William the second)—" played for place," as it were. Something like the boy who stood "next to the head "-in a class of two.

APROPOS of the 17th of March just past, the following has been vouched for as an actual fact: A son of the "ould sod," just arrived in America, heard some one apostrophizing the Fourth of July, the significance of which the simple Irishman failed to grasp entirely. At last his emerald patriotism and propensity for combativeness would not permit him to remain silent longer. "I'll not stand for it, I'll not stand for it," he broke in, with contemptuous pity. "Your Fourth of Ju-ly, your Fourth of Ju-ly, is it? Sure, an' St. Patrick, blessed be his name! was worth a dozen of your Fourth of Ju-lys.”

THE New York Sun criticizes the Lawson yacht because it is named Independence instead of Declaration of Independence. This is the converse of Admiral Dewey's criticism of naming warships after educational institutions. Speaking of the Harvard and Yale

during the Spanish war, the Admiral is reported to have said, sarcastically, "Next, I suppose, we shall have The Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

THE difference between the Anti-Saloon League and the Kansas reformer is that the former would do away with the liquor traffic by acts of law, while the latter thinks it can be done more effectively by another kind of axe.

A SPEECH in his native tongue by an Irishman in Parliament? Well, hardly. As well have a speech in Irish in Congress by a member from any one of several New York City districts.

IT is a close race between the Commoner and the Smasher's Mail as to which will reform the United States the quicker. One says free silver, the other free Nation.

THE Hay-Pauncefote treaty may be dead, but there is some consolation in knowing that so will be some of its opponents-politically-after Congress adjourns.

JUDGED by his record, Mr. Balfour is not Chief Secretary for Ireland, at all, at all. His position is rather that of Chief Secretary. against Ireland.

It is passing strange that no "anti-imperialist" has come forward to assert he saw Chief Justice Fuller offering any "kingly crowns" on March 4th.

It takes more than English eloquence to move the Irish in the House of Commons.

SOME new

"Alabama claims "-those by the Senator from there.

(P)ax vobiscum, says Mrs. Nation to the saloon-keeper.

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Personal and Incidental

THE NEW BISHOP OF LONDON

HE appointment to the vacant Bishopric of London of the Rev. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of Stepney, has caused considerable comment in English ecclesiastical circles, but is received with general satisfaction: comment, because the Bishop-designate has no wide-spread reputation as a scholar and because of his youth-he is only fortythree; and general satisfaction, because the qualities that have already made him famous will, it is believed, be of particular benefit to the church and the people of his new diocese.

Bishop Ingram is admittedly one of the leaders of that little band of devoted churchmen who have made the poor and outcasts of London their especial care. He has made himself a power in the East End, where his earnestness, piety, and manliness have touched the hearts of the people in a manner quite inconceivable to those who handle London's poor with the tongs of organized charity and who find a fashionable excitement in superficially ministering to supposed slum necessities.

He compels love because his heart is full of it. He has the broad charity of the liberalist; he knows what the poor need, materially and spiritually, and he has worked loyally to give it them. His sympathies are boundless. He believes in work. His enthusiasm is unlimited and his optimism is contagious. He is not a great preacher in the sense that his thought is profound, his elocution perfect, and his sentences well balanced. In fact, the contrary is the case. Yet few men can so move a congregation or are listened to with such attention. It is his powerful conviction that compels men, and this is true of him whether he is talking in the drawing-rooms of the West End, where he