Show The Nouvelle Revue has an article on Queen Victoria and Napoleon III It brings back very vividly to memory the time when Napoleon first met Victoria and kissed her royal hand The hate between the French and the British had remained hot Indeed it seemed l to have Intensified after Waterloo for several sev-eral years The French cartooned tho English The English cartoonists made France as ridiculous as possible We can remember one old picture where tho French Derby was caricatured b tan t-an English artist All the riders were represented as monkeys and where there was a bend in the track nearly I all of them were unhorsed and they wero clinging to the rails of tho fence that went around the track But after Napoleon III became Emperor of France the public Interests of the two naUons for a time at least drew together to-gether and there were visits interchanged inter-changed between the sovereigns of the two countries Whatever the French I felt they assumed only an air of cordiality cor-diality but tho English while gravely polite wero rrad through and through I They thought It was contamination for the son of Ilortense to kiss the hand of I their sovereign Tho Crimean war helped to bury old differences A generation 1 gen-eration had passed away and before Scbastapol the French and English i fought side by side and the soldiers at I least as all soldiers do forgot their animosities under the exhlbltlopg ot magnificent courage which were there 1 displayed But they are two distinct and separate races They arc HO near together too that they can gee each others faults andi > yjjntcy6r kidlaotmt avardoApoct 1 may he I towardjeaoliotlicr I I down deep there Is no love between the I Englishman and the Frenchman And I the old hate has been pretty nearly all renewed since the beginning of the Boer I war and the caricatures that the French In the early period of the wnr made of Englands Queen have embittered embit-tered inllllona of Billons against France I |