the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, that they are able to
govern every other country save their own! Behold a statesman like
Gladstone, forced to change his policy toward them the moment he has the
responsibility of governing them! Oh! what an opportunity for the little
foxes! How easily Envy spears him with its jest! How truly Envy shines
with the wings of that fly that passes all the sounder parts of a man's
body to dwell upon the sores! In this rapid glance across two of the
trials of a great man, across the path up to the peak where one
clambering must bind himself with strong ropes to his companions, that
if one sink into a snow-covered abyss the others may bring him forth--we
get, perhaps, a truer view of