On the 21st of May Bucher wrote respecting this article:--“The doctor considers that the medicine prescribed is too strong and has been administered too rapidly. The patient will now require a _longer_ rest. I should like to see the next prescription before it is sent to the apothecary’s.” In my reply, I asked what the Foreign Office thought of the new Cabinet in Paris, and whether anything should be said on the subject. Bucher answered on the 23rd:--“I have nothing to say with regard to the new French Ministry except what the entire press says: that we view it with mistrust. It might be mentioned in rectification, that though the statement that Jules Simon’s fall has been promoted from Berlin is quite incorrect, this does not exclude the co-operation of G. B. (Gontaut-Biron) in the matter, which is indeed very probable.” On the 25th of May Bucher sent various supplementary items for the article dealing with Baden which I had forwarded to him for inspection previous to sending it to the press. On the 11th of June he sent me a sketch of another prominent member of the _Bonbonnière_, in an article in which I found little to alter, and which therefore appeared in the _Grenzboten_ in all important particulars, both of form and substance, as it left his hands. It ran as follows:-- “A Minister _in partibus_. “Berlin, _June 9th_. “A few weeks ago a Berlin local newspaper (he was thinking of the _Tribune_) published a statement that Baron von Schleinitz, the Minister of the Royal Household, has felt it his duty to submit the notorious _Grenzboten_ articles--it is not said where or to whom--and to propose that an inquiry should be instituted with the object of ascertaining whether they issued from the Press Bureau--which Press Bureau is not specified. The business of the Minister in question, apart from Court functions with which we are not very well acquainted, consists in the administration of the property of the Royal House. According to Rönne members of the Ministry of the Household are not State officials, and questions affecting the press and the administration of the laws do not in any way fall within their jurisdiction. Perhaps this piece of news is only meant as a humorous reminder to us that one portrait was missing from the little gallery we recently presented of persons whom the achievements of the Chancellor have had the misfortune to displease. We certainly passed over the gentleman in question, but had by no means forgotten him,--any more than many others; but we thought that to each day sufficed the evil thereof. Herr von Schleinitz when he held the seals of the Foreign Office, certainly pursued quite a different policy to that of Prince Bismarck, and, therefore, it is after all small blame to him that he does not approve of the Bismarckian policy. We refrain from an analysis and discussion of the nature and success of the Schleinitz method, which was known in its time as the policy of _moral_ conquests. We