Talleyrand it was who stated the rule that the Russian mode of succession to the throne was by the son killing the father. In something the same way supreme authority among the Zulus has hitherto ben transmitted. In the February Macmillan woe find a brief political and military history of Cetewayo's kingdom taken down from the lips of that extinguished potentate, and truly such a tale of bloodshed and butchery it does not often fall to one's lot to read. The details, choked as they are with unpronounceable names, will not rest long in the memory, but the general impression left is that no exertions could be esteemed too great which led to the effacement of such a system as prevailed in Zululand. King Chaka, who had always been a great favourite with his tribe, sitting unprotected was set upon by his brothers Dingaan and five others, and killed. A chief much attached to master begged them to kill him too. This they did. Panda, requested to assume the crown, declined it on the ground that it had not fallen to him in the legitimate way. "Let Dingaan," said he, who killed his brother, be king." Meanwhile Dinigaan and one of his brothers who had
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