wre is all over Europe a type of political writer
who few equivalents here. He makes it his profession to me foreign affairs with minute care ; lie signs his ries and may rise to eminence on his merits or on demerits may sink to the category of quidnuncs. et'eally every French newspaper has such a writer bed to it. He pieces together all the evidence, and mind works more mathematically than humanly he t'S at conclusions which are the surprise and despair r awn countrymen, whose minds move more slowly and more simply. Lord Cromer when he was ruling Egypt used to say that he learned for the first time of the sinister purposes Which were supposed to be his when he read the European criticisms of his annual Report. Dr. Johnson's saying that men do not suspect faults which they do not commit explains why Englishmen are not quick either to attribute plots to others or to understand the processes of reasoning by which plots are attributed to us.
