RESPONSIBILITY OF THE "AVAR CORRESPONDENT." 6 1 usual ' hullo ' of friends meeting unexpectedly, and then ne said, 'Where are you going?' 'To those palm-trees along that bank, if I could,' I replied. ' Can't,' said Cameron.

' I have been waiting here an hour to see if that blessed sentry of ours will go away, but he won't; and he says that if I try to go over the ditch he'll shoot at me. Those are his orders. But I don't mind having a try all the same,' he added. The sentry, however, was a veritable lynx, and eventually we had to content ourselves with figs and conversation on the spot where we had met. And che memory is still fresh in my mind of the friendliness with which Cameron, who had been in Alexandria from the first, put me as a new-comer through the whole business and posted me up to date. . . . In action he kept his head admirably cool, saw more than most of his competitors, and in his arrangements for getting his despatches back to the telegraph-box always showed a remarkable sagacity. I remember his cheery 'good morning' as he rode past me where I stood writing a telegram on my saddle on the field at Tel-el-Kebir, and after the fight we sat and rested too-ether in one of Arabi's tents. Together we went to Lord Wolseley, where he stood on the bridge eating grapes out of his helmet, and asked him about the chance of our specials getting through, Herbert Stewart, and I think Major Gough coming up to join in the conversation about the fight that ensued. We travelled together to Cairo, and then parted, I coming straight home, he remaining."

This account of the duties, the dangers, and the responsibilities of those special correspondents to whom reference has been made will not be out of place in the story of England's intervention in Egypt; for the special war correspondent has become a recognized representative of the public desire to learn all that may be safely made known of the progress and achievements of any conflict in which the British arms may be engaged, and no account of modern warfare would be complete, it might almost be said that no popular and unbiassed account of a modern campaign would be possible, without his aid. It should be remembered, too, that many, if not most, of the special war correspondents have taken active