With regard to the German System of Espionage, it must be said that while we do not accept everything that the arrogant Stieber claims for his organisation and himself, we are inclined to look upon Lanoir as being too much a hater of all things Prussian either to do justice to himself or to be fair to Stieber. In any case, we have supplemented the French writer's views by others emanating from Klembowsky, A. Froment, Tissot and various publicists well known in France. The work of Mr Graves we have read, and while admitting that he wins our sympathy as regards his perennial good humour and cleverness, we confess our total inability to "negotiate" (as he himself would probably say) his version of the instructions to the _Panther_ at Agadir, the same having really been conveyed by the very ordinary process of telegraphing from Berlin to the gunboat's commander by code to the _Fabra_ news agency at Madrid, whence the message travelled to Tangier and Agadir. In the pages of _The New York American_ Mr Graves's diplomatic work would certainly prove to be "just the goods," if we may judge by the printed European dispatches of that paper's ineffable correspondents. All his English countesses and peers have respectively the airs and manners of Chicago "store-ladies" and Buffalo drummers—exactly as the American yellow-paper requires them for home consumption. Following is a short list of the principal publications to which the writer referred in the course of his work:— _Allgemeine Zeitung_, old cuttings, dated 1818-1822. Collier, Price, _Germany and the Germans_. 1913. _Courrier du Bas Rhin._ 1853. Crawford, Marion, _Venetian Gleanings_. 1905. Dewees, F. P., _The Molly Maguires_. 1877. Diffenbach, L., _Schulmeister_. 1879. Fitzpatrick, Dr, _Secret Service under Pitt_. 1892. _Fortnightly Review._ 1898, 1903, 1905. Fouché, _Memoirs_. 1892. Froment, A., _L'Espionnage Militaire_. 1897. _Journal of the Roy. United Ser. Inst._, Dec. 1897. Klembowsky, M., _L'Espionnage_. 1896. Lanfrey, _Histoire de Napoleon_. 1826. Lanoir, Paul, _The German Spy System_. 1910. Lavallée, I., _Inquisitions_. 1810. Le Caron, _Twenty-five Years in the Secret Service_. 1892. Muller, Paul, _L'Espionnage sous Napoleon_. 1909. Pingaud, _Un Agent Secret_. 1894. _Quarterly Review._ 1898. Rapp, General, _Memoirs_. 1825. Rovigo (Savary), _Memoirs_. 1830. Schulmeister, _Bruchstuecke_. 1816. Stieber, _Memoirs_. 1877. _The Chautauquan Magazine._ January 1887. Thiers, _Histoire du Consulat_. 1868. Tissot, V., _La Police Secrète_. 1884. FOOTNOTES [1] Frederick was childless.