LORD BEACONSFIELD AND THE CZAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—May I call your attention to a slight inaccuracy in your last issue, which disguises a great fact ? You say, " The military preparations continue, and the ultimate decision rests in the breasts of the two Czars, the Emperor Alexander and Lord Beaconsfield." Surely this should be " Lord Beaconsfield and the Emperor Alexander." That,— " Ton are the mightiest monarch upon earth, I but a little Queen,"
can no longer be said is due to the foresight, the firmness, and the political instinct of the greatest of modern statesmen, whom you would place second to a mere Emperor,—the founder of the greatest of modern Empires second to the mere embodiment of a lesser empire. But you may reply, " We did but place a candle in the sun to show the smoke." Good, but why leave doubt which is the candle and which the sun ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
C. H. LAKE.
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