The Future of European Monarchies
THE change which has taken place in Brazil has led many politicians and writers to querying as to the monarchies and empires of the Old World. It is generally agreed that none of them stand on any too secure a basis, that revolution is imminent, and that at any time the kaleidoscope of politics may present the same phase of government in several countries of the Old World that is now before us in Brazil. An article in the February Contemporary Review, of England, by Mr. Frank H. Hill, in discussing the matter from an English standpoint, says: "If we are to have a king of England in future, he must be like one of his Stuart ancestry in Scotland, the king of the commons, by which I do not mean the House of Commons. He can no longer afford to be simply the head of the classes, the chief of society in its conventional sense, the culminating point of the aristocracy. He must belong to the whole people, to the masses as well as to the classes." It is difficult to say what lies before us.