IIERR VON KEUDELL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1
'Sin,—It is difficult to find fault with a phrase when the censor is not quite sure of the sense in which it is intended to be taken by the user, but if by "right-hand man," applied to Major von Keiidell in your article on "Prince Bismarck and the Eastern Question," you meant to imply that the North-German Chancellor really depended much for the execution of his plans on the aid of the excellent gentleman who has gone out to Constantinople to help General Ignatieff, I conceive that you have been mistaken as to the relations to his great chief of one who was subordinate to Herr Abeken and Herr Bucher in the Blinds Kanzlei, and who was sometimes, as is well known in diplomatic circles at Berlin, subjected to the physical slings and arrows of outrageous fortune when the Prince was en humeur. Major von Keiidell, who is in the Landwehr, like the Prince, is a very reserved, cautious, observant man, a Borussian of Borussians, with a big Wend head and brain, and not over fond of Great Britons.—I am,
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