deal of this gigantic and pervading power to the influence of the American woman. To quote: 66 A unique and original factor contributes toward its intensification, and this is the influence of woman. It is no secret to any one that North America makes of woman a veritable object of worship. To her influence, recognized and fostered, the United States owes its hearth and home, founded not on interest, but affection, the mainstay of its religion and the inspiration of daring and valor which exalt a man and make him worthy of being loved. It was for the American woman that such heroic exploits were achieved during the war of secession. Thus for woman the Yankee can feel proud of his imperialism, and can develop it to its furthest limits." He goes on to show that neither questions of pure politics, constitutional law, nor finance are allowed to interfere with America's ever-growing passion for imperial expansion. In 19co, he says, the presidential election, in opposition to some of the weightiest and wisest of political protests, was decided for imperialism. The acquisition of new territories was favored by the Supreme Court; C. KNUDSEN. THE NORWEGIAN COUNCIL OF STATE, Which is now administering the government. war revenue bills exhausted the country. But nothing can withstand the conquering energy of America. To quote his own words: "Everything rights itself in the United States: all hollows are filled; all faults correct themselves." He says that Americans, for example, have even found a way of solving the negro question by instructing the negroes with a view to their Americanization and treating them with consideration. "The President has invited Booker Washington to his table." He goes on to say that the United States are not "finished"; they have not yet realized, in finest detail, their "E Pluribus Unum." He proceeds: "Yet the position taken by their imperialism is formidable. What will it be after the last touches have been given to the structure! And what will be the result if ever the Anglo-American Federation becomes a reality? Germany and England, blinded by their imperialism, persist in demanding concessions which can not result to the first but in a collision, and to the second in an alliance, worse, for Europe, than a war." So much for the description of this frightful American product that is menacing the nations. Who shall check it? Why, who but France? When he comes to describe how the checking is to be done, however, his prescription resembles a proposition to stop a runaway locomotive with a verse of poetry. Here is his remedy: "It is at this point that France, the land of light, must use her restraining influence; allying herself with the Slavic group, rallying round her the Latin Sisters.' She must use her prestige and her unique international position pacifically but firmly to impress upon the United States the mighty dictum of Spinoza, 'There is room for all in the house of the Lord.'"-Translation made for THE LITERARY DIGEST. A. VINJE. as naïveté in the King's reason, as given by a correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung-" Mistrust in Norway and mistrust in Sweden" would be the result, says Oscar, for "the King of Sweden would be accused of being influenced by the King of Norway, and vice versa." Many expect to see a prince of the royal house of Denmark elected to the Norwegian throne. There has always been a close attachment between Norway and Denmark, and a corresponding alienation of the latter from Sweden. At the present moment ill feeling runs high between Denmark and Sweden. Says the Vossische Zeitung (Berlin): 66 'The anti-Danish feeling in Sweden is beginning to be the subject of some anxiety in Denmark. Many are the causes alleged for the existence of this feeling. As is well known, the relations between Denmark and Sweden have never been so cordial as those existing between the little kingdom and that Norway to whom she is closely allied in tongue and general civilization. In the dissolution of the union Denmark always gave her favor and sympathy to Norway, without coming too near to a rupture with Sweden." This national antipathy may possibly play an important part in deciding the ultimate destiny of the Scandinavian peninsula. It will at any rate throw an obstacle in the way of a Pan-Scandinavian union, for Denmark is now too far out of sympathy with Sweden to admit of such a thing being possible. On this subject " A Swedish Patriot" observes in The Independent Review (London): 46 Five hundred years ago an attempt was made to form a permanent union of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The greatest of Sweden's historians said repeatedly, that that union 'looked like an idea'; and that union broke down, because it came to be tried too late, several centuries too late. Norway issued into acknowledged free and independent national life in 1814, after four centuries of union under the Danish kings; but she had not been in any way amalgamated with Denmark." With regard to the reunion of Sweden and Norway, the same writer remarks that while they are not to be reunited, even by war, they can, and probably will, make common cause against any enemy: "There is no hope of amalgamation between Sweden and Norway. Still, they can stand together against an enemy; and most probably they will. . . . In the present state of international politics it is of the highest importance that our two nations should make common cause against any one Power which should attempt to infringe the independence or integrity of the territory of either. But the idea of obtaining a pr nanent assurance of such common cause by means of a war for making one nation out of two, seems PREMIER MICHELSEN READING TO THE STORTHING THE NORWEGIAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, The Premier is indicated by an arrow. to have disappeared from practical politics. That idea of making one nation out of the two was founded on a serious misreading of American history. The Civil War was fought between parties who had grown up from a common British stem, gained their freedom together, ever lived in a common union, with the same language, the same traditions. Norway and Sweden have had quite distinct nationalities, different languages, institutions, and laws, for a thousand years." This opinion is confirmed by the conclusion arrived at by the Indépendance Belge (Brussels), which thinks that the revolution will end peacefully, and indulges a faint hope that the three Scandinavian sisters will be prepared to face with united forces the aggression of an external Power. To quote: "Undoubtedly the Swedish-Norwegian question will be solved without recourse to arms. ... Further negotiations between the two countries are scarcely possible excepting on the basis of the new order of things, and this, very probably, will be the course taken by events in the near future. "It is surmised in certain quarters that the separation of Sweden and Norway will by no means hinder these two States from joining Denmark in a political entente or convention-especially against Russia, whose covetous schemes constitute a serious menace to the independence of the Scandinavian countries. This would be a wise and prudent policy, and we must hope that the present SwedishNorwegian quarrel will not grow so bitter as to preclude the possibility of such a course in the future." PRINCE CHARLES OF DENMARK, Who is being "mentioned" for the vacant throne of Norway. Many of the other European papers express their views clearly on the possible designs of Russia upon the Scandinavian peninsula. Mr. E. John Solano, in The Monthly Review (London) sees in this condition of things a danger to England also from a Russian people leavened with liberty, industrially prosperous, and infinitely powerful, pent up within eighteen miles of the open waters of Norwegian shores." Germany, whose emperor is at present making friends with the Scandinavian princes, will be a possible party to any anti-Anglo-Saxon demonstrations. As Mr. Solano says: "The problem of a weak or unsettled Scandinavia becomes a factor of vital importance both to the security of the British Islands and to the peace of the whole world. The particular peril as well as the value of Scandinavia in respect of future world polity lies firstly in the danger to Britain which that peninsula might constitute in the possession of great power, and, secondly, by reason of the fact that it may, some day, prove a lever in the hands of the Teuton which he may use to drive the pathway of his progress wedge-like between the Anglo-Saxon and the Slav. For it is clear that while the present necessities of the Russian people endure, the Norwegian littoral will constitute a constant temptation to the Russian nation, and that, as a factor of political exchange in respect of this national demand, Scandinavia may some day.provide a make-weight in the balance of scales which Germany shal hold and regulate to her own benefit."-Translation made for THE LITERARY DIGEST. POSSIBILITIES OF THE CRISIS IN HUNGARY. THA HAT "history repeats itself" is a truth which originated with Thucydides, altho he probably would himself be surprised at some of the illustrations of it. The crisis in Hungary is almost exactly parallel to the recent crisis, ending in revolution, in the Scandinavian peninsula. To put the matter in a nutshell, the Emperor of Austria, as also King of Hungary and in command of the common army, has attempted to Germanize the army in Hungary and has thus disgusted the Magyars, according to François de Kossuth, who writes in the Revue Bleue (Paris). To quote this representative of a famous name, who is a deputy in the Hungarian Parliament: "The last drop that caused the cup of indignation to overflow was the attempt of the common Minister of War to increase the number of the conscripts, and as a consequence to augment the budget of war, without rime or reason." The Hungarian constitution gives Parliament the right of annexing conditions to the granting of credits, and Parliament accordingly demanded the abolition of the Austrian imperial flag, and of the German language, in the Hungarian army. A deadlock succeeded, the end of which it is not easy to foresee. Subsequently the King sent a message conceding everything, excepting the use of Magyar in the Hungarian regiments. The King's reasons for his action are stated in The Statist (London). After remarking that other demands are to be granted, it proceeds: confusion would be made in the army. And, secondly, he points out that there are not enough of Hungarian officers who are able to speak Magyar, so that the concession could not be carried into effect even if made. The coalition leaders, however, are not satisfied with the Monarch's concessions, and so the matter seems to be at a deadlock." The writer proceeds to consider what would be the ultimate consequences if Hungary should do as Norway has done with regard to Sweden and secede from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.. He says: "The Roumanians and the Croats are as much excited now as they were in 1848, and if a struggle were to arise between Hungary and Austria, the Croats, as on that occasion, would take sides. with Austria. Over and above this, if, when the Emperor Francis Joseph is no longer present to keep the peace, there should be an outburst in Austria-Hungary, and if, in consequence, there were to be foreign intervention, what would become of Hungary? The Germans would be at home in the neighboring German Empire. The Slavs might likewise content themselves in a reformed and liberalized Russia. But the Magyars can not look to any kindred nation. For the sake of Austria-Hungary, for the sake of the whole continent, and for the sake of the world's peace, it is earnestly to be hoped that an arrangement between the King and the Hungarian majority will be quickly arrived at." René Henry, discussing the situation of Hungary in the Correspondant (Paris), thinks it may end in disaster to France; possibly it will tempt the intervention of William II. To quote : To en At this moment Russia is absent and France absorbed in domestic affairs and by the Moroccan difficulties which the Kaiser is complicating. 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