New subjects and new duties come with great rapidity, but they soon fall into formulas--at least into classes.

We shall have no sharp crises nor grave difficulties so long as our Government and this Government keep their more than friendly relations.

I see Sir Edward Grey almost every day.

We talk of many things--all phases of one vast wreck; and all the clear-cut points that come up I report by telegraph.

To-day the talk was of American cargoes in British ships and the machinery they have set up here for fair settlement.