The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-22
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
An Anti-fmpefialistic sentiment AD-
~neS IN Englaad.

An Antl-fmneFlalistfc Sentiment AD-
DRase in England.
LONDON, yust e1.-in the midst Of the
doubt ard MsGvinss concerning the par
tition OF CSil,s. .one remarkable develop
ment Of HlJsA opinion must be noted.
That section ISf the London press which
has hitherto Been most closely associated
with rampant tpperialism is now joining
what tits the ofAshion to call the Little
England" section in the cry Of hands OF
China" Thus the .'st. James Gazette"
made Its Tory readers rub their eyes last
night BY calmly predicting and even vel
coming the disappearance Of England's
political predominance in China. England's
commercial predominance, It argues, de-
ponds upon one fact alone, that 1--WE have
goods to sell which others cannot produce
Of equal quality or cannot sell at the same
price. When that ceases to be the case,
We shall be beaten in the markets. but not
till then. and the fate II one from whicn
NO politics can ever save US"
In the equally imperialist Daily Mail
we read today: THE partitioning powers
have raised the dragon. AS the dragon ID
mainly concerned with. them, they may
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China succeeds Id wrestling her territory
from their grasp is all one to u.s.
This outburst Of ministerial opinion
makes, of course. dead against the Euro
pean concert in China with Great Britain
as member Of II, and dead, also. against
M. Delcasse'a vague proposals OF this week,
to which Lord Salisbury has replied, in a
friendly spirit, that conference be held
to frame an international agreement In
China, In regard not alone to immediate
police work. but presumably. also. to flu
ture policy there. The very fact that Rus
sia's ally should make such a proposal.
seemingly SO contrary to Russia's policy
Of individual action In China. adds to the
confusion Of thought, and leads the Spec
tator" today to the despairing conviction
that Chipa must be carved up, talk az
Europe may Of International self-denying
ordinances and the open doors. Each
power WILL" 1t says. "be in the end COM
PEELED to limit Its sacrifices, Russia 10
Manchuria, Mongolia, and Pe-Chi-Li; Ger
many to Shantung and Human; Britain to
Tibet and Central China: France to the
south, and each look to the taxation OF Ito
peculium for Its reward"
As against this acceptance Of a parti.
tion as inevitable, stands the newly formed
China League. with its strong backing CT
Tory and Radical Imperialist NJ. P.'s ard
the Chambers of Commerce throughout
England. They yet hope that Great Britain
may, with the support OF the Unit;d
States and Japan, save China, and help her
to reconstruct and reform on open-door
and Western lines, and with especial hope
do they look for President McKinley's re-
election. Who shall say at this moment OF
Babel which way China's destiny lies?
Archaeological students insist upon the
Importance Of the recent discoveries In
Crete. Several years ago A. J. Evans Sc
cured some Cretan gems which bore pecu-
liar signs. Many would have called them
some pictures. Mr.. Evans d.
vined that they were local script. He
then found similar signs ON other objects
votive
After great difficulty he got leave to ex-
cavate, and was rewarded with the dis
covery OF a royal Mycenaean palace and,
still more wonderful, Of the palace arch
Ives. whole chests full of records engraved
in the mysterious manuscript. Lately an
other find has been made of different
sort. Mr.. Hogarth has opened up the
Dictaean cave. very ancient seat of wor-
ship full oflvotive arms. statuettes. and so
'orth; while a shaft $50 feet deep leads to
| lower cavern containing others.
These fnds as 'testifying to an independ-
ant Photograph script and an indigenous
are, II is claimed, the most i'm
oortant made on Greek soil since those of
DR.. Schliemann.e
1t has been announced that Robert Barr
will finish Stephen Cranes posthumous
novel. The o'Ruddy" II Is now Under
stood, however. that the work will be
by Mrs. Crane herself. who nat
lrally knows more Of her husbands in
lentions and schemes for the story.
The announcement, made this week, that
Mr.. Ruskin's executors have decided that
an Official life is not to be- written, has
caused much disappointment The executors
that ''Praeterita" and Colling-
woods biography are sufilcient. but though
'Praeterita" Ii fine autobiography, so
far as it goes. and Collingwood's book sets
forth the facts Of Mr.. Ruskin's life in out
line. 1t is felt that the two together present
no adequate picture Of the man in his Iarg-
r. aspects. There must be q vast amount
of material in the way Of letters written
BY him to his friends and disciples, and
rom them to him, and probably OF privete
3iaries and tottings which would be of the
highest value In computing the man and
his work, but the executors have said their
anal mo" Remembering, perhaps, Mr..
Ruskin's intimacy with Carlyle, they have
evidently determined that there shall be
40 Froude to provoke scandal and cry
,vef the married and private life Of the
master.
The following incident at Sir Walter Be-
,ant's recent garden party In honor of the
newly formed Anglo-American union is
worth noting. DR.. Conan Doyle objected to
he prefix Anglo-American, demanding that
Justice be done to Ireland and the Celts
Some leading American opposed
Anglo-Celtic or account Of the German ele-
nent-in tbs States SO all agreed to the
name Of the Atlantic Unon.
The musical critics seem to grow more
severe upon Puccinis new opera, La Tos-
"a" as performances proceed here. It Is.
hey agree, vulgar and altogether futile
piece Of work. the only real attempts at
music in 1t being mere enlargements upon
motifs Of Wagner. and bad at that. Ia
rosca" is having every chance with Frau
rernina in the principal part, but It Is felt
hat this prima donna, one Of the greatest
Europe has seen for many long day, is
throwing herself away on such a work.
Her friends say she herself admits her
allure in 1t. For all that, the opera still
s great draw with fashionable London.
P. A. H.
Not . Free Country.
From the st. Louis Republic.)
To tie exact degree that the United States
1~- a.. A.