. Review of reviews and world's work. ed so much oncomplications in the European situation at vari-ous j)eriods, all of which Bismarck turned to thefurtherance of his plans, that the article is prac-tically a summary of those events which haveled to Germanys critical position in Europeanpolitics at the present time. The modern world-policy of Germany beganin September, 1S7J, Dr. Daniels tells us, withthe meeting of the Emperors of Germany, Aus-tria, and Russia at Berlin. To this meeting the Czar Alexander II. came with aheart full of bitterness toward Great Britain, whosejingoistic and quasi-r
. Review of reviews and world's work. ed so much oncomplications in the European situation at vari-ous j)eriods, all of which Bismarck turned to thefurtherance of his plans, that the article is prac-tically a summary of those events which haveled to Germanys critical position in Europeanpolitics at the present time. The modern world-policy of Germany beganin September, 1S7J, Dr. Daniels tells us, withthe meeting of the Emperors of Germany, Aus-tria, and Russia at Berlin. To this meeting the Czar Alexander II. came with aheart full of bitterness toward Great Britain, whosejingoistic and quasi-republican tendencies, he was con-vinced, were a menace to the worlds peace. All threeemperors were then, as true believers in rule by divineright, attached to principles of monarchical govern-ment conceived on feudalistic rather than constitutionallines. Bismarck, on the other hand, combined in hisstatesmanship many of the attributes of the late LordRandolph Churcliill; he was a firm believer in the LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 483. A GERMAN CARTOON PAPER SEES DANGER IN THE ANGLO-JAPANESE AlAAKlsCT^. — KladderaclatSCll (Builin). People of Europe, look out for your colonies! (American readers will recall the German Kaisers famous cartoon on the Yellow Peril.) peoples i;ltimate sovereigntj, a tory-democrat, yet,through his early training and by his hereditary in-stincts as an aristocrat, inclined to put a benevolent re-striction on popular power. All but omnipotent inEurope at this time, he was successful in imposing hiswill upon the three emperors so far as to obtain theirtacit consent to his exercising, in his capacity as ImperialChancellor, similar powers to those which go to makethe English Prime Minister the real ruler of GreatBritain. This concession once obtained, by that diplo-matic finesse of which he was a master, he determinedto take advantage of the .situation then existing inEurope to inaugurate liis plans for colonial attitude may be defined by a s
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