12 APRIL 1902, Page 15

THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND MR. RHODES'S WILL.

[TO TER EDITOR OP TEl " sncarATorc."3 his,—Mr. Rhodes seems to have been impressed by the Ger- man Emperor's direction that English should be taught in the schools of Germany. It may not be uninteresting to note that his Majesty's first action on receiving Heligoland from Great Britain was to prohibit the teaching of English in the island schools. That was in 1890. The prohibition was bitterly resented by the people, who had since 1810 been subjects of the British Crown, but they were, of course,