and extend the influence of the Englishspeaking race." (p. 98.)

Whether one accepts these broad notions concerning the destiny of the Englishspeaking race, hinging as they do on hasty and inconclusive judgments of that most complex of questions, the relative value of the divisions of the human family; or, indeed, granting for the moment that the premises laid down adequately support these vast conclusions, whether one feels their allurement, or instead is incensed by them: all this does not here concern us. Imperialism here appears before us stripped of industrial politics and clad in the robes of justice and liberty and peace for all mankind. Whether or not our hearts go out to the vision, is beside our point. If we would understand what he was trying to do, we must remember that to this dream of the future Mr. Rhodes dedicated himself. It became nothing less than his religion. To such a conclusion the "due weighing and agreeing to the plan" brought him.

The second and third essentials, namely "the first organization and the seizure of the necessary wealth," except so far as the latter touches the distribution of his own property, may be briefly stated.

For some years he seems to have considered the formation of the secret society. It was to be to the future what the Society of Jesus under Loyola's leadership was to the Papacy, or what Caesar's legions were to the Roman Empire. To the moral force. of the one should be added the material strength of the other. The difficulties involved in such a scheme of organization were, of course, enormous. Upon its members it would lay the obligation of a clearly stated purpose with the minimum opportunity of doing anything toward its fulfillment. Some hints of these difficulties appear in quotations from Mr. Rhodes which Mr. Stead gives us. And it would seem fair

to infer that nothing came of this far-reaching scheme.1

It remains only to deal with the last essential, "the seizure of the necessary wealth," and to show how Mr. Rhodes so far as his own means permitted sought to make his dream come true.

In his will, as published,2 he first provides for a trust fund, from which the "Trustees shall in such manner as in their uncontrolled discretion they shall think fit cultivate (certain estates) for the instruction of the people of Rhodesia." He gives a park at Bulawyo, and also directs that a railroad be built thence to Westacre "so that the people may enjoy the glory of the Matoppos3 from Saturday to Monday." To the same locality he gives an agricultural college. He provides that Groote Schuur, his beautiful homestead, shall become the residence of the Federal premier. He gives outright to Oriel, his own college at Oxford, half a million dollars; to be spent for college buildings, the maintenance of Resident Fellows, for the High Table, and for a Repair Fund.*

He then proceeds to establish the Scholarships. "Whereas, I do consider that the education of young colonists at one of the Universities in the United Kingdom is of great advantage to them for giving breadth to their views for their instruction in life and manners and for instilling into their minds the advantage to the Colonies as well

"Whether or not this inference is correct is hardly to be gathered from Mr. Stead's pages: and so far as known by the writer of this article, no other authority is accessible.

At this writing the will in full has not been made public.

"A range of gigantic barren rocks or mountains, where, at his suggestion, his body was buried.

"As the college authorities live secluded from the world," he adds, "and so are like children as to commercial matters, I would advise them to consult my trustees as to the investment of these various funds. They would receive great assistance from my trustees in such matters.' Perhaps Mr. Rhodes did not over-estimate the value of academic judgment.

each of £250 value, for students of German. birth to be nominated by the Emperor, for Northwest Territories, and British Columbia; in the West Indies, Bahamas, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Barbadoes, Trinidad and Tobago; in the Mediterranean, Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus; in the Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Ceylon; in the far east, Borneo, New Guinea and Hong Kong. The Indian Empire, Egypt, and the Soudan are also unmentioned in the bequest.

The average of scholarships to population is one in 760,000 in the United States, and one in 224,000 in the fifteen British Colonies to which they have been allotted. If the omitted colonies were dealt with on the same basis, 33 new scholarships would be needed.

had to

i his literary and scholastic attainments ii his fondness of and success in manly outdoor sports such as cricket and football and the like

iii his qualities of manhood truth courage devotion to duty sympathy for the protection of the weak kindliness unselfishness and fellowship

iv his exhibition during school days of

1At the time of the last census there were forty-five States and five Territories.

moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates for those latter attributes wil be likely in after life to guide him to esteem the performance of public duty as his highest aim."

"No student shall be disqualified for election . . . on account of his race or religious opinions."

While the selection of the student varies in the several Colonies and States, it is left largely to the local universities. In this country it is either vested in the State Universities, or in those universities which enjoy similar prominence within their own commonwealths,-as Yale in Connecticut and Harvard in Massachusetts.

Arrived at Oxford, the student is in the same position as any undergraduate ("commoner") of the University. "The duties of a Rhodes Scholar are not different from any other member of a college," says the Rhodes Agent in Oxford. "The receipt of the Scholarship does not bind him to do anything in particular."

Such are the provisions made by Mr. Rhodes to put his vast plan at least partly into execution. Last September the first American Scholars met in Boston and thence sailed together for Oxford. At the same time the Colonial Scholars were beginning their journey from these fifteen British Colonies. Surely, to quote Milton's phrase, here is a faith manifested in "God's Englishmen."

To what endeavor and achievement in the

far future will this perpetual session of an international conference lead? Who shall say! And yet the comment of Mr. Stead (p. 52) offers some suggestion. "Once each year Founder's Day will be celebrated at Oxford; and not at Oxford only, but wherever on the broad world's surface half a dozen old Rhodes Scholars come together they will celebrate the great ideal of Cecil Rhodes the first of modern statesmen to grasp the sublime conception of the essential unity of the race. Thirty years hereafter there will be between two and three thousand men in the prime of life scattered all over the world, each one of whom will have had impressed upon his mind in the most susceptible period of his life the dream of the Founder."

If in the quarrels of mediaeval Oxford we have seen our modern social adjustments working themselves into definition, if therein we have seen the English nationality slowly emerging; then are we not warranted in seeing in this present movement, in this mere fragment of the Founder's dream come true, the promise of the time when "God's Englishmen" shall establish justice and liberty and peace in a far.broader fellowship?

"Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age," says Matthew Arnold, "who will deny that Oxford, by ner ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us.