Mr. Grant Duff is -going to India, intending,, he says,
to clear away the "veil before his eyes" which harasses his view of Indian politics. He has learnt, he thinks, all that. can be learnt at home, and he certainly has learnt one thing,—the absurd under-estimate of the strength of the Indian Empire current among Russophobists. At the end of a very able answer to "Cassandra" Greg, which it is impossible to condense, he gives very clearly, though not dogmati- cally, his opinion that if Russia and India ever clash in Asia, it is not Great Britain who will lose her Asiatic dominions. We want no more territory, but if we are harassed by the Czars too much, three such expeditions as that which pulled down Theodore would release Asia from Russian grasp and carry our Protectorate up to the Pole. Mr. Grant Duff, in fact, adheres in Asia as in Europe to the first canon of warfare, " If you have to fight, invade," and then- you discover your enemy's secret weakness. How many Mussulnians in 'India, we wonder, would enlist to rescue the old dominion of Jenghiz Khan?
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