statesmen at home, when he was abroad he traveled as a statesman among kings. It was a happy phrase which expressed, not inaptly, the difference between the rôle of the King within and without the empire. He was ever a constitutional king, holding himself severely aloof from the clash of faction and the strife of parties. But abroad he was not limited in his activities by the necessity of avoiding party politics; he was the representative of the nation over which he ruled, and he was addressed as such by all those with whom he spoke. In a very short space of time he acquired a reputation as a diplomatist that was as unique as it was unprecedented. He became almost a king of miracle, who wielded a magic scepter, which enabled him to achieve results in foreign policy which would have been impossible to any one else. Those who loved him on the Continent, and he was almost as popular in France as in his own country, magnified his successes from sheer liking, but they were magnified still more by those who feared him. There were many men in Germany who really believed that King Edward was a kind of black magician who spent all his time in Windsor Castle in casting malignant spells which would encircle the Fatherland in an iron band! He was probably playing bridge.

Edward VII. was a personality more popular with the masses than any sovereign since the days of Elizabeth. The people revered his mother more. But she was more of a tutelary deity than a creature of flesh and blood. She sympathized with the sorrows and losses of her subjects as a kind of Mater Dolorosa. Her son was cast in an altogether different mold. He was a man among men, genial, extremely kind-hearted, shrewd, tactful, fond of sport, and with a keen zest for all the common pleasures in which common men find a common ground of sympathy. If he allowed this joie de vivre to carry him further in some directions than was right, these errors were hidden from the eyes of the multitude by a scrupulous regard for the conventions, both social and ecclesiastical. There was no hypocrisy in this, nor cant. The King is reported to have asked eagerly within six hours of his passing over, whether his horse "Witch of the Air," out of "Robert le Diable," had won the two-year-old plate at Kempton, and to have expressed all a schoolboy's delight on hearing of his success. He certainly was not a plaster saint, nor an austere ascetic, but he was the same man who directed Lord Knollys to re

ply to my inquiry as to which hymn had helped him most as follows: "The Prince of Wales directs me to mention that among serious hymns he thinks there is none more touching nor one that goes more truly to the heart than No. 7 on your list,—' Nearer, My God, to Thee.' That was written in 1895. The last stanza of that hymn of devout aspiration after closer communion with the infinite and all loving heart of God, although it may seem somewhat incongruous to those who knew only the outside of the King's character, is as follows:

Or if on joyful wing,
Cleaving the sky,

Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upward I fly.

Still, still my song shall be.
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!

There is none more touching, nor one that goes more truly to the heart!"

Of the King's personal character much has been said,-some of which perhaps might have been left unsaid. But not even the worst of his few detractors have denied him an almost excessive kindliness of disposition. It was indeed one of his faults; he was too good-hearted. In this he somewhat resembled Charles the Second, who on his death-bed did not forget to beg that those who came after him would not let "pretty Nelly starve." There was a fine chivalry about the man, and a rare constancy of affection towards a few which contrasted very markedly with the variability of his mood in relation to others. He was, as the man in the street says, emphatically a good sportsman, so good that he faced one of the few scandals of his life by insisting upon exposing a fellow guest at Tranby Croft who had been caught cheating at cards. But that which endeared him to the great masses of men has always been his vitality, the keen zest he took in the occurrences of every day. If he did not exactly rejoice evermore in the sense of the apostolic precept, he was never moody, never a grumbler, never a shirker. He enjoyed all the things of this world, pressed life's brimming beaker to his lips, and unlike many he did not drain it dry. Nor had its generous contents ever lost their savor for him. He was nearly three-score years and ten but in some things he had the heart. of a schoolboy beneath the armor of the shrewd and somewhat cynical man of the world.

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1910.

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JANKING, the old capital city of the Chinese Ming dynasty, on the Yangtsze River, is this summer inviting the nations to the unique spectacle of a Chinese world's fair. The exposition is to open on June 1 and remain open for six months. This first "White City" in China will be a creditable imitation, though on a smaller scale, of the well-known expositions of Europe and America. Nanking has a larger inclosed area than even Peking, the walled circumference being twenty-five miles.

The exposition will occupy a space of 500 by 400 yards, and will be situated about half way be

tween the outer wall and the center of the city, near the Sanpailo station of the Nanking City Railroad. The entire enterprise has been generously conceived on modern lines, both in regard to architectural design and landscape features. The grounds have

The main entrance to the exposition, with its ornamental arch of characteristic Chinese design, is flanked on either side by the educational and industrial arts buildings. A short distance from this is a clock tower of brick, for observation purposes. Nearby is also a large public assembly hall, in which there will be lectures throughout the period of the exposition, on topics of current interest, by Chinese scholars, as well as by foreigners. The Administration Building is not far from the entrance, as is also the Gallery of Fine Arts, one of the most conspicuous features of the entire exposition.

been judiciously laid out, with broad roads and with due consideration for the scenic effect to be obtained by leaving some of the natural growth, especially the bamboo groves, as a background for the buildings. The well-known landscape features of modern Western expositions have been copied, with their attractive lawns, flower beds, and paths, while numerous unsightly ponds of malarial proclivities have been converted into ornamental lagoons. With a single exception, the chief buildings are of one story, and on this account have not furnished the scope for architectural display to be secured in larger structures of this character; but no little pains have been spent on the design and

There are also the usual buildings devoted to agriculture, foreign exhibits, machinery, transportation, fisheries, industrial arts, etc. Fifteen of the Chinese provinces have erected pavilions at the exposition. Previously to the opening of the, exposition a number of small exhibits, before being taken to Nanking, were displayed in various cities, for the purpose of arousing interest in the exposition.

ples of the East and the West, to the mutual appreciation of the best qualities of each.

It is true that the State Department at Washington received during the month of May disquieting rumors of an anti-foreign and anti-dynastic nature. Such feeling of this kind as exists is attributed to a factional movement of the Boxer type, and is not shared by the Chinese at Nanking in general. The consular representatives of the foreign governments promptly called on the Viceroy of the province to take steps for the suppression of the anti-foreign sentiment, and the American Minister, Mr. Calhoun, suggested the sending of a warship to Nanking. With the opening of the exposition on the first of June, however, it is hoped that there will be

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(Standing in front of the main entrance to the Nanking Exposition)

Adequate provision has been made for entertaining visitors, there being also a "foreign restaurant," while on the road leading from the city to the exposition grounds are two large hotels for foreign visitors. In addition to the assembly hall, already mentioned, a large provincial assembly hall, outside the exhibition inclosure, erected at a cost of $80,000, is to be used for educational meetings and lectures. To give the exposition the last touch of Western completeness there will be the inevitable "Midway," where the professional amusement caterers will hold forth, with the music and the glamour of a variety of alluring "shows."

Fortunately there exists in Nanking itself a very friendly feeling not only between the officials and missionaries but between Chinese and foreigners in general. For the further development of this desirable spirit a "Christian Committee" of leading missionaries has been formed to supervise the medical and philanthropic exhibits. This committee will also have charge of social rooms, tea rooms, and similar places of entertainment for foreign guests and native Christians. These social centers are expected to have a favorable influence in promoting harmonious relations between the peo

between all classes of Chinese citizens and foreigners in this vicinity.

The Shanghai and Nanking Railway has made special arrangements for transporting visitors to the exposition, and the trip on this excellently managed road,-which is one of the best railways east of Suez,-will add not a little to the pleasure of a visit to Nanking.

The incentive for the exposition came from Tu Fang, the progressive Viceroy, the province in which Nanking is located, who, with Yuan Shih Ki and Tang Shao Yi, have been retired by the Peking authorities for the present. The buildings were designed by Messrs. Atkinson & Dallas, while the landscape features are the work of Mr. N. C. Huang, who in company with the DirectorGeneral of the Nanking Exposition, Mr. H. E. Chin Che, has visited a number of American expositions.