developments," has received a number of French artisans, and has
made a speech worthy of M. Drumont himself. " I know," he says, "the tenacity and valour of your patriotic efforts against the parricidal acts of an occult and cosmo- politan power whose aim is the destruction of the French Fatherland, which my ancestors, aided by your fathers, had made so great, so proud, so glorious, so re- spected, by relying at once on the people and on the Army." " You who are Royalists and patriots have like me painfully felt the insults cast on the Army by a nameless coalition." Therefore the Duke of Orleans will "reconstitute the French Fatherland." Reading such words one thinks of those which Scott puts in the mouth of a great Jacobite addressing the Young Pretender during a descent on Scotland later than the '45. " What crime," he asks—we quote from memory—" had your ancestors committed, that they should be punished by an infliction of judicial blindness ? " Kings are not chiefs of parties, and the wildest Anti-Semite will feel that the Pretender who refuses unjustly to ostracise a caste for the imaginary, or if you will, the real, crime of an individual is more " Royal " than the Pretender who in veiled words promised the populace vengeance on them. The 18th Brumaire was bad enough, but St. Bartholo- mew ! We hope a revised Republic will survive them both.
