The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-15
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Comments on the Coming Presiden.
Ha1 Campaign in America.


| tia1 Campaign in America.
| LONDON. July 14.-Though China holds
the field in English political thought, some
noteworthy comment is being passed upon
the Presidential election in the United
States. Keep cool and sit on the fence, P"
is the kind Of advice the Englishman in
authority gives just now to the journalist
whom he meets. Don't allow yourself the
luxury of taking sides" is the counsel OF
perfection. Many English journalists. es-
pecially in the hurried daily press, find 1t
extremely difficult counsel to follow. They
put the issue bluntly thus. Gold versus
silver-imperialism versus anti-imperial-
ISM" and they plump for Mckinley.
This provokes the sedate Spectator" II
warns the Englishmen that while they may
rightly prefer President Mckinley, they
should not say So and, besides, they should
remember that IL Bryan and his friends
win, they will be unable appreciably TO
alter the main policy of the States, either
regards the gold standard or imperial
policy. The country will be run on Anglo
Saxon lines whoever wins. and despite the
shouting of hyphenated Americans. The
Saturday Review" also gladly recognizes
that Bryans ideas and ideals do something
to redeem the barren materialism of Amer
lean politics, while the anti-impeTialist
Speaker" gleefully believes that Bryan
has come to stay, az force in American
life. and has an excellent fighting chance,
which the Gold Democrats may, If they
like. greatly strengthen by bargaining for
the subordinaton of the silver question in
the campaign, and insisting on antrim
perialism as the real issue.
Some comment has been aroused by the
fact that Stephen Cranes estate in Great
Britain has been declared at only $500
gross. personally nil, and the statement
is made that for the English rights for
THE Red Badge of Courage" he received
only 500. In contrast 4 is noted that
writer's such as Guy Boothby. Max Penn
berton, and Cutliffe Hine can keep yachts.
shooting boxes, and hunters, and lead
lives of we'll do country gentry.
Today the newly established Review OF
the Week. weekly review of literature,
politics. and the arts. jumps in price from
one penny TO sixpence. Competent judges
say that penny review Is the
great need OF the British reading public, |
and will be the next journalistic boom,
yet every attempt to found one has ended |
in defeat.
The public schools count for so r.uch In |
the making of leaders in every department |
of British effort that an enthusiastic lexi- |
cographer, John S. Farmer. has for some |
time been at work on the compilation OF |
a dictionary of the public school argot.
The prospectus now issued shows tie title
to be The Public School Word Book" a
Contribution to the historical glossary
Of words, phrases, and terms Of expression
obsolete and in present use, peculiar 10 our
great public schools. Price one guinea"
Those who expected theatrical rush for
David Garricks diaries. put UP at auction
his week. were disappointed. Not single
ictor. not even Charles Wyndham. put in
IN appearance. Lots were sold of between
domestic pots and pans.
Next week wifi be sold some autograph
etters OF Lord Byron including one of the
ew addressed to John Murray, yet not in
luded in the Murray collection. In this
etteri The poet instructs the publisher to
liter in proof Tin The Curse of Mfnerva'')
he line. Whose arts and arms but live
N poets lore" to Whose arts revive
whose arms avenge. no more Byron adds
Remember this" Yet the line has never
een altered. and in the Byron edition de
IKE. now issued by Murray. it remains as
{ this letter had never been penned.
Lord Delamere has presented the Natural {
history Museum at South Kensington with
Is valuable collection Of birds obtained in | s
is recent expedition in British East Africa. {
comprises thousand specimens, several |
I species new to science. C
The council of the ROYAL Society has re- /
eived a report from DR.. Stephens and Dr. @
the medical men of the Ma S
aria Commission now investigating in s
Terra Leone, 1t deals fully with the dis
ribution of the noxious mosquito an
pheles in Sierra Leone. and says the
rinciple underlying all attempts at ex- s
armina ton should be in cities and colo |
les, essentially that OF drainage. Every
fort should be directed to the prevention 7,
small collections of standing water"
pecial emphasis is laid on the well-ascer- d
aimed fact that native dwellings are the :.
lost fertile sources Of infected anopheles. I,
s to surmises how malaria can be con-
acted in districts rarely visited by man. y
lie report states that such conditions are
irely fulfilled. Observations show that >,
the vast majority of cases where men :,
re supposed TO have contracted malaria -
uninhabited swamps they have in reality =,
scome infected in houses. camps. or ma ~
We villages where feyar ALREADY avictsd ~