Only two incidents have occurred in the Dreyfus case this
week, but both are indicative of the strain still prevailing in France. The Government are building a covered way at Rennes along which the accused can be led from the military prison to the hall where he is to be tried. As they could surround him with soldiers on his route, this is obviously an extra precaution against an attempt to assassinate him, which many signs convince us they seriously fear. No agita- tion goes on so long as this one without producing fanatics who are really madmen in the strictest medical sense, capable, for instance, of believing that Dreyfus is Anti-Christ. On the other hand, sixty ladies of Rennes, all, it is said, good Catholics, have paid their homage to Madame Dreyfus, walking up to her in the street and bowing to her solemnly and in silence. The idea may be to express reverence for her sufferings and her devotion, or pity for her unendurable mis- fortune in having such a husband, but in either case the mode of expression is thoroughly French. In England we should subscribe.
