him upon occasions of state, and is under his immediate command.  He inspects the cadets frequently and takes an active personal interest in their discipline and education.  The course of instruction lasts for three years, and is a modification of that given the cadets at West Point.  The boys are taught military tactics, riding and the sciences.  Very little attention is paid to higher mathematics of other studies except history, law and the modern languages.  No one is eligible for admission to this corps except members of the families of the ruling native princes, and they must be graduates of one of the four colleges I have mentioned, under 20 years of age.  There is great eagerness on the part of the young princess to join the dashing troop of horsemen.  Four of the privates are now actual rulers of states with several millions of subjects and more than thirty are future maharajas.  The honorary commander is the Maharaja Sir Pertas Singh, but the actual commander is a British major.  It is proposed to offer commissions in the Indian army to the members of this corps at the close of their period of training, but that was not the chief purpose in Lord Curzon’s mind when he suggested the organization.  He desired to offer the most tempting inducement possible for the young princes to attend college and qualify themselves for their life work.

American visitors to India are often impressed with the presence of the same problems of government there that perplex our own people in the Philippines, and although England has sent her ablest men and applied her most mature wisdom to their solution, they are just as troublesome and unsettled as they ever were, and we will doubtless have a similar experience among our own colonial or, as they are called, insular possessions.  There are striking coincidences.  It makes one feel quite at home to hear Lord Curzon accused of the same errors and weaknesses that Judge Taft and Governor Wright have been charged with; and if those worthy gentlemen could get together, they might embrace with sympathetic fervor.  One class of people in India declares that Lord Curzon sacrifices everything of value to the welfare of the natives; another class insists that he has his foot upon the neck of the poor Hindu and is grinding his brown face into the dust.  In both England and India are organizations of good people who have conceived it to be their mission to defend and protect the natives from real or imaginary wrongs they are suffering, while there are numerous societies and associations whose business is to see that the Englishman gets his rights in India also.

It may console Lord Curzon to know that the criticisms of his policy and administration have been directed at every viceroy and governor general of India since the time of Warren Hastings, and they will probably be repeated in the future as long as there are men of different minds and dispositions and different ideas of what is right and proper.