ratified and approved by the Senate of the United States.

But if the "Weekly" has passed, the Republicans are still acutely
conscious that Mr. Harvey is alive,--has he not reminded them of it
in his first ambassadorial utterances?--and the journal is not
beyond resuscitation. That is why Washington does not know whether
to be chagrined or angry, whether to disavow or to condone. The
discomfited Republicans frankly do not know what to think of it and
probably will not so long as the amazing ambassador makes his own
rules.





CHARLES EVANS HUGHES


"Mais resiste-t-on a' la vertu? Les gens qui n'eurent point de
faiblesses sont terribles," observed Sylvestre Bonnard of the
redoubtable Therese.

This fearsomeness of the good is an old story. Horace remarked it,
when, walking about near Rome, pure of heart and free from sin, he
met a wolf. The beast quailed before his virtue and ran away,--to
bark at the statue of the she wolf giving suck to Romulus, by way
of intelligent protest.

A similar prevalence of virtue and a similar romantic quality,
where it is least to be expected, was disclosed in a recent