The British Museum Library! might be searched in vain for any work dealing with Nigeria compre-"Nigeria Under British by Sir W.N.M. Geary, Bart. (Methuen, 16/. net) "tells the history of Nigeria since it became! British, with details of that progress during the last thirty years which has made it and Malaya the two most prosperous Crown Col des, The original nucleus ws Lagos, stormed Christmas, 1851, by naval force, the rest of Nigeria only became British in 1885. But. progress was slow till in 1895 the statesmanship of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain developed these backward estates and enabled Nigeria and the other West African colon-4es to occupy the rich hinterland by railways constructed out of capital] Joans. Since then trade and revenue have been continually on the rise.
The Author knows West Africa from before the period of prosperity down to the war: for hile he was a law officer quently in private faithful -critie of the administra. tion, while personally on friendly terms with the responsible officials, His unbiased judgment declares} what a great and successful work! has been done for England by high-minded gentlemen, England equally miy be proud of her officials and of her black subjects, whose loyalty das been won and proved in the: Great War, Stalky and his faithful companions are to have an enduring memorial on the cliffs of Western Hill, near the United Services College at Westward Ho, which were the scene of ro many of their memorable adventures.
In summer all right-minded boys: Duilt, themselves buts in the furze fon the hills behind the college. Those cliffs have been rechristened, revelations, often far from discreet, inside history of political and social events and about the personalities' of the leading figures Jof the day.
Queen Victoria was furious, In Jo letter, written when the first! volumes' appeared, she denounced.
the dreadful indiscretion and dite procefliy had Masts of Me. Reeve shat ioverg" tensive: and' mot Toyal towards the Sovereigns he ser Sovereigns. and. Princes even intimacy Of George 'IV. he for any gent Sovereign, But in the meiniers as published ie would seem 1,100" suppressions, amounting to more than 400 pages of typescript. Tt ig these that are now given to the world, They are understood contain a mass of curious and sometimes scandalous information land to throw a considerable amount: fof new light spon the inner history] of the period. It is believed, for Hestance "that farther deta are bout the strange case of Eady Flora Hastings, which brought much odium on the Court in 1839.
Greville, who was related through Ihig father to the Earl of Warwick land through his mother to. the Duke of Portland, knew everybody, society and was the recipient of, udies confidences and gossip. He froryed King George IV... King! William IV., and Queen Victoria, Ihe was an intimate friend of the! great Duke of Wellington and of Napoleon" Hil, and the Empress Bugénie. He knew such diverse characters as Pope Pius Talleyrand, Beau Brammel, Thack-Jeray, and Disraeli, and he has storfes to tell of almost every outstand-Ing figure of his Tite describes George IV. with Lady "Conyngham at Brighton, William TV. struggling against the greed of his children, and Queea Victoria quarrelling, in turn with Jexistence of the new Germany. Ex-Jcept on purely emotional grounds, it is a little difficult to understand why. Tt is very rare for any nation to suffer an overwhelming defeat, Jwith the tremendous results that} [follow a catastrophe of that kind, Jand remain absolutely. unchanged. The argument of those who believe that this has happened in Germany' is based on the assumption that the German temperanient is incurably_ "militaristic," and found its per-' manent natural expression in the Prussian militarism of the Hohenzoller Empire. In fact, both Prussian militarism in its modern form jand the Hohenzollern Empire were mere interludes in German history, both forcibly imposed on a people whose record was certainly not one lof aggression. Prussian militarism dates no further back than Frederick Wiliam, the father of Frederick the Great; and the Hohenzollern monarchy lasted only 48 years, including the very brief reign of the 'Crown Prince Frederick, Had that wise, noble figure not been snatched Jaway by a cruelly irenic fate within a hundred days of his accession in 1888, the whole course of German history' and of the world's history would have been completely changed, writes Mr, Stuart Hodgson in the "Daily News." Read his diary after the war of 1870:
What good to us is all power "and victorious glory and clamour if hatred and mistrust confront us everywhere on our path, Bismarck has made us great and powerful, but he is robbing of our friends, of the sympathies of the world and of our own conscience, I still stand firmly today by the opinion that Germany could make moral conquests and become united, free, and powerful, without blood and iron, with the sole help of her own good right. How difficult will it be to fight against the blind worship of crude force and material suc-and to raise men's spirits direct their ambitions towards beautiful and wholesome ends!
Doubtless the singular elevation Jof these sentiments is high above and will be known henceforward as Kipling Tors, in honour of Rud-the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert t wwerage German mentality to-for that matter, it is above yard Kipling, the recorder of the] fe deals with the fight over Free tality of any people). But exploits of 'Stalky, MeTurk and. is much nearer the real popular' Beotle—("with his spectacles the Reform Bill, and he gives German feeling than ever the rave ded with a bit of bootlace, for graphic descriptions of his first ings of the militarists were (except Rife of a poet in a public school is during the situat war fever). The hayd.") ordinary German is not naturally Exact information is lacking, but great fighting man; he is a comit Is hoped that the area includes picture of the cholera outbreak of fort-loving, dreamy, somewhat elusthe pleasant Isle of Aves, where wish personage, who was forced al-the perfect hut was found after most tearfully by an fron tyranny the egregious Prout had discovered indeed, a ney ete to beat his ploughshare into a the hut on the hill—("I found Batya beat-priate al over the' ville, sword. That he could be so forced, Tu his pages are to be met, on the and with such formidable complete-lace ness, indicates the weak spot in his That hut, it will be remembered, Jtemperament. But it does not alter was the refuge where Stalky read "Jorrocks," M'Turk reveled in Ruskin, sand Beetle excavated unwanton, srtats, legal Agares, peers, his temperament, The tyranny is now irretrievably actors, and authors They fallen. Out of the nine German dreamed-of epithet from Browning, and all three smoked entirely inn motley procession before parties, only one (with a member-Greville's observant, wordly, bat ship of 14 in a House of 493) is.any: illegal pipes, which were cached on not unkindly gaze, and he ledge an arm's length down from longer professedly Monarchist, 'The idly for the reader the German Republic is firmly establish. the edge of the cliff. pressions they left upon' ed, It is now definitely accepted They were led from the hut to the adventure which introduced all the groups but two—this lit Greville was, in his way, as great them to Cul. Dabney—"Ye can be tle Right Wing group and the Com-'a diarist as Pepys—and, like Pepys: munists numbering between them as private with me as ye like on (though for rather different rea the other side of the hedge." less than 60. What will be its des-sons), he has had to wait many 'Thereafter they extended their tiny, and what will be its aims? years' before all he wrote could be These are the questions to which borders, acquired a badger (which made public, As the social historian grunted go amazingly like the Dr. Jiickh's three lectures attempt of his age The ¢olonel) where-with to coneitiate fan answer. They are earnestly to the "bughunters," and secured a passages of be commended to every Englishman now at Inst to see the refuge where vexations might be—and I wish there were more—who (it is confidently be-forgotten and triumphs celebrated. realizes how enormously important Hieved) as valuable on account of "Jamaig j'al gloat comme jo: to Europe and to England herself eloaterai aujourd'hui." That after-thais information as they are is the temper and constitution of noon there was joy in Aves. terraining on account of their inthe new German Republic.
"Kipling Tors" is liable to be-Her.nine parties are at least six come a place of pilgrimage for all The story of how they have come number is not: to be published is itself a romance. who have not forgotten th very likely to be reduced. She is Two years ago Mr. Gabriel Wells, youth, still hampered by the legacies of the New York dealer in rare books, [the old tyranny, notably the dearth had the luck to bay manuscript of political ability. Dr. Stress.
'A book which seems likely 40 be of Grevillo's Diaries in England. mann is extraordinarily industry the sensation of the publishing He speedily perceived that the son was issued by Messrs. Heine manuscript was complete and con-insight and experience and admi Jable temper. Yet I doubt if he! mann (by arrangement with and tained hundreds of pages that were not in the edition published by would have risen above the second
Green, and Ca.) 1 Messrs. Longmans, Green. The rank of public man in this country.
This is no les than a selective value of the "find" may be imagin-or, France. Mis lonely eminence in dition of Greville's memoirs, coned when it ig stated that hitherto his own country as the ablest of taining about 100,000 words, which the only complete manuscript was her statesmen, so superior to any were formerly suppressed owing to supposed to be carefully locked rival that he is in a class by him-the extreme offence they would insels, is eloquent of the famine of away first-class ability in the land. Tt evitably have caused in Court and high social circles, Even as they!" will develop in the new air of free-
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