The official programme of the Czar's tour was published on
Tuesday. He will go first to Vienna, which he will reach on August 27th, on a visit to the Emperor of Austria. Next he will visit the Emperor William at Breslau and witness a series of mauceuvres. These proceedings will doubtless bore him greatly, for he dislikes as much as his cousin likes playing at. soldiers. From Germany he will go to Copenhagen, and will there take a real holiday among his mother's family. From Copenhagen he and the Empress will go by sea to Aberdeen, and thence to Balmoral, where again there will be a fortnight's real holiday. On October 5th he will reach Cherbourg, and Paris on the morning of the 6th. On leaving Paris the Imperial pair will go on to Darmstadt, where they will stay till November 8th. The Empress will, of course, be at Balmoral, as well as in Paris, bat it does not seem clear whether she will be with her husband in Austria and Germany. The excitement that the prospect of the visit is awakening in Europe is most marked. The nations feel that this unknown and untried young man holds peace and war in his hands as. absolutely as did Augustus, and they long to get into a little closer touch with one whose policy means so much for good or ill.
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