His earlier devotion to the idea of British ascendancy, while not lost, had become but a part of his larger idea of Anglo-Saxon supremacy. So unbiased had he become that in 1891 he expressed himself as so desirous of seeing an English-speaking union that he would be willing that the English monarchical system and isolated imperial existence be sacrificed, if necessary, to its achievement.[2] [Sidenote: Fourth Will, 1891.] In 1891 he signed his fourth Will, making over his real and personal property to two persons, one of whom was ‘W. T. Stead of the Review of Reviews’. [Sidenote: Fifth Will, 1893.] The fifth Will was drafted in 1892 and signed by Mr. Rhodes in 1893. The name of Mr. Hawksley was added as one of the Executors, and joint-heir. It was understood that Mr. Stead was the ‘custodian of the Rhodesian ideas’, and the other two Executors were to direct necessary financial and legal measures. In January, 1895, Rhodes first announced to Mr. Stead his intention of founding a number of scholarships. He said that while on the Red Sea in 1893 the thought had struck him of creating a number of scholarships at a residential English University to be open to various British Colonies. His proposition at that time was to provide for twelve scholarships at Oxford each year, each tenable for three years, of a value of £250 per year. A codicil was added to the fifth Will providing for these scholarships for Canada, the Australian Colonies, including Western Australia and Tasmania, and for Cape Colony. A good many things happened in the life of Rhodes between the time he left England in February, 1895, and the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899. There was the Johannesburg Raid, for instance; and there were all those strenuous preliminaries to the war in which Rhodes stood as the champion of what his imperial school considered the true rights of England. [Sidenote: Sixth Will, 1899.] In July, 1899, before the outbreak of the War, Rhodes recast and expanded the whole scheme of his Will and substituted, for that of 1893, a sixth document, which became his ‘Last Will and Testament’,[3] wherein he outlined and provided plans and detailed directions for establishing the scholarships which are now known as the _Rhodes Scholarships_. Each of the friends who became a Trustee doubtless had a share in the discussions and suggestions which gradually shaped and realized the Scholarship idea. Mr. Stead tried, without success, to persuade Rhodes to divide the scholarships between Oxford and Cambridge, also to open them to women; he was successful, however, in his suggestion which resulted in scholarships being granted to the States and Territories of the United States. Rhodes rejected all propositions whereby the appointments were to be based solely upon Competitive Examinations. His own ideas upon this subject were expressed in the Codicil of October, 1901.[4]