It was announced on Wednesday that Sir Ernest Cassel has
decided to found and endow an Anglo-German Institute as a memorial to King Edward VII. The object of the Institute, on which the founder is spending £200,000, is defined as " to assist, especially by facilitating their employment, workers of British nationality in Germany and workers of German nationality in this country," and the scheme has the approval of the King, the Queen, and Queen Alexandra, and of the German Emperor and Empress. The Berlin Tageblatt, in an article on the scheme, maintains that an international philanthropic institution of this kind cannot fail to improve Anglo-German relations. Sir Ernest Cassel, who, though German born, is now a British citizen, has stated in an interview that his intention in making this gift was that it should be a memorial to King Edward; but if it would promote peace between the two countries, as he was assured it would, it would be even a better memorial of the late King—a great peacemaker—than he had hoped for. In the absence of details, it is enough to wish prosperity to so laudable an enterprise. It is anticipated that as our national weakness iu languages is a common obstacle to the employment of British subjects on the Continent, helping them to learn German is one form of assistance which the Institute will be doubtless asked to consider.
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