The Crown Prince of Germany has been entered as a
student at Bonn, his father being present at the ceremony. The Emperor received in the evening an entertainment from the crack corps of the University, the " Borussia," and made an eloquent and rather touching speech. After a kindly reference to his own father and to Prince Alberti, husband of "that now glorified, queenly woman," Queen Victoria, both Princes having studied at Bonn, his Majesty descanted on the glories of the Rhine and the old history of Germany. Her time of splendour, he said, was the time of Frederick Barbarossa, but it came to naught, because the idea of the old Empire was universalism, and national strength requires terntorial demarcation. ' Universalism is too fluid ; "it binders crystallisation." Now: however, thanks to God and Kaiser William the Great, the Empire is formed, and the duty of students is to use their strength to make that Empire stable, and not "to squander it in cosmopolitan dreams." The Emperor is eloquent, but might not the perora- tion of his speech be quoted by Herr Richter when he inveighs against the new Welt-politik ? Can one base a world- policy upon anything but a cosmopolitan dream?
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