I enclose also an article about him from the _Daily Telegraph_, which tells how he has interviewed most of the Old World monarchs.

Get also, immediately, the new two-volume life of Lord Lyons, Minister to the United States during the Civil War, and subsequently Ambassador to France.

You will find an interesting account of the campaign of about 1870 to reduce armaments, when old Bismarck dumped the whole basket of apples by marching against France.

You know I sometimes fear some sort of repetition of that experience.

Some government (probably Germany) will see bankruptcy staring it in the face and the easiest way out will seem a great war.