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between neighbouring Moslem countries themselves. This is really the key of the success of British administration in the East. Any political movement taking place to-day in Afghanistan is the property of the British Press, and therefore of every Englishman, to-morrow. It may, perhaps, take some weeks to reach the Emperial ears of the Shah of Persia. Long before the people of Hyderabad knew anything of the religious riots in Bombay, the London dailies were devoting long leaders to the discussion of their cause and effects. So also the Egyptians and the Turks may know nothing of a marriage in the Royal Family of Morocco; but the news of the marriage of the grandson of the Queen of England was the very next day the gossip of Cairo and Constantinople. Few Moslems in Constantinople speak Hindustani, but a great many speak English and French. London, therefore, may be termed the General Post Office of the Moslem world.

Twenty-six years ago a Turkish monarch, for the first time in the history of Christendom, landed on these shores, not as an invader, not as a dreaded foe, but as a powerful ally and honoured guest of the Sovereign and people of England. With his entry into London, for the first time, too, in the annals of this kingdom, the flag of the Crescent and the Star floated side by side with the Union Jack on the walls of Buckingham Palace, This Prince was Sultan Abdul Aziz, of sacred memory, "Lord of two lands, master of two seas, servant of two sacred shrines, and Caliph of the Moslems." The Sovereign and the nation entertained him with the greatest possible ceremony.

The Lord Mayor received him at the Guildhall, and within its historic walls, for the first time in the history of Europe, the Sultan made a speech to a Christian audience. His Majesty, after thanking his hosts, said: "I have two objects in visiting this and other parts of Europe: one to see in these centres of civilization what still remains to be done in my own country to complete the work which we have begun; the other to show my desire to establish, not only