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'Wlfc'iiii in 1 1 it ir-tn i- 1 rr--v: 'wWWHWIiiiiWr SNMMMMVfM' 4M" WiMW ORK, SATU RDA 0 0T0 BE it 1 1904. G53 i KAISER WILHELM A Strong Man as the Author' of The Martyrdom of an Empress Sees i. Him and Paints Him. HE lady whose specialty Is Kings and Queens, who has written so much about the ill-fated House ot "Austria, has now transferred her at-tentlon to the Court of Ber lin. She kings arms and the man.

his royal and imperial Majesty William by the grace of King of Prussia and by that of his army Emperor of Germany," as also by virtue ot his own energy, many things besides. The lady as convinced monarchist," Invests everything about the Emperor with a glamourous lights of another world. To her, he is not a mere man, rather a demigod. 8he wraps him in vague words as in a mantle, till be looms mountain large, and his silver helmet, eacle crowned, scrapes the dun sky, and reflecting a beam of sunlight, piercing a rift in the canopy, daisies the eyes of the beholder. In short, and eschewing -f Iguresr you-get- trrlperator" et "Ret much adulation and not very many concrete facts.

To be sure, there are details of the Imperial babyhood. On the 27th day of January, 185l, the capital of Prussia was suddenly roused from the dcupondency Into which It had been thrown by the intense gloom of the political horizon and by the Incurable malady of Its King, Frederick William who, entombed in the grim magnificence of an old Roman paUce, was existing rather than living out his miserable days, a mental and physical wreck, under the unceasing care of his devoted consort, Queen Elisabeth. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon cannon had been fired 121 salvos. If you please booming loudly beneath the cold, bleak, snow-laden northern sky, proclaiming to all the good cltisens ot Berlin the birth of a royal Prince, of a future-J Kins; of Prussia, and perchance of Great Britain also and hit presto: the general at dark --resentful -disenchantment of sullen fatigue, which had enwrapped the town like a heavy stifling mantle, made, way with surprising swift- erlchers that he should reign at any cost Site will have It that these latter arranged with Sir Morel! Mackenzie that the royal patient must on no account have cancer ot the throat as the German physicians said was the case, and thus the operation was too late. She scoffs at the notion that William was.

as the world then said, unfillal and heartless. She declares that bis on desire was to save his father's life; that he was passionately grieved and hurt at his helplessness in tho hands of Bismarck on one side and his father's friends on the other. What fiery gleams of anger, what clash as of weapons, there musi been In the interviews between these tw powerful per- onauiies Bismarck ana wuiium) wno naa ceased to understand one anothct-the one ness for an atmosphere delightfully a wane, joyous, and bright The author paints the grandfatherly beatitude" ot the Prince Regent later William at the sight ot the child: His Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand-William-Victor-Albert was not one of those coarse, red-faced, squealing; infants who frown themselves sourly into this vale of tears, but a delicate, pretty be by, with an exquisite texture of skin, smooth and rosily pale, the tiny blue veins faintly visible at the wee temples, and unusually alert and wide-open sapphire hued eyes already showing a grave underglow, as If the very beginning of life was for him an especially perilous undertaking, to be met with extreme energy. She writes more or less In like manner of the other romantic periods of the Ufa of the Prince; his boyhood, the episode much celebrated, ot how In his fierce eagerness to receive the salute due to small Hohen- sollcrns he used to rush down stairs before he was half dressed and so appear before the tall grenadiers at the door, and how he wept and was heart broken when by his father's command the giants omitted the salute. She tella how with his brother.

Prince Henry he used to play at soldier and red Indian, and sometimes sailor In the miniature frigate on the pond called the Jungfernsee at Potsdam. 8he, tells of his schooling at the Cased Gymnasium with Dr. Hlnzpeter as tutor. You are given to understand that It was a time of hard work modest behavior on the part of the Prince, but you get no details save that at the end of his three years William was awarded a medal customarily given, to the most clever, diligent and meritorious pupil, and great was the royal lad's surprise apd gratification." Later, as to the young man's life at Bonn, the author is still more She admits that he began to be gloomy, she. will not have It that he was jthen or ever was given to the usual princely vices.

So she comes to bis meet-i Ing with Her Serene Highness Augusta Victoria of 8chleswlg-HolsteIn-Sonderburg- Augustenburg, now the Empress and the mother of his brood of Piincelets. In the depths of the park, fat Schloss Prinkenau.) where the sun shone gently through a cool green veil, gilding here and there with pinkish gold the points of the spears of grass through the interstices of the folia re. a hammock was swinging be-1 tween rose-garlanded firs roses had a habit, of clambering everywhere at Schloss Prinkenau and in that hammock, fast asleep, lay a girl whose rounded cheeks were flushed with a warm, healthy shell pink, which Is the prerogative of those who prefer the air as God made It to the com-" paratlve stuffiness of even the vastest of iddonly the branches of a Siberian pine parted, and a young man, erect and graceful, stepped Into the bower where the hammock was swung, while a voice youthful and well modulated, though expressing the extreme of joyful surprise, exclnlmed: Dornenroschen! The Prince had found his Princess! Bismarck tha convinced monarchist paints very black. She quotes (as having heard the saying from" himself) certain haughty words of the Iron Chancellor about women who should confine their atten- tlon to their kitchens and stiUrooms and to the rearing of their children, until they are bidden to use their accursed feminine Influence In some good cause, and then only when told'howto go about It." As to the year 1888, when Germany had "three Emperors within 100 days, the author maintains with fervor that ail the sorrows and misunderstandings of that time were tho fault of Bismarck and tha Liberals who surrounded Crown Prince Frederick. Bismarck she says, was resolved to exclude Frederick from the succession, the Fried- WPFRATOR FT REX.

W1LI.UM II. OF fcr.KMA.NV. fly' the Author of The Mar-: tyrdora Emprtii." Illustrated. Umo. Pp.

Sit New Yoik: Harper ft Brother. lilt. 3 t. IVlBUmilG IUCU1UU VI IIClBUlVlllll) wn personal influence by lavish distribution of cynical, he who has seen too much to allow himself the luxury of Illusions; the other in a most exalted mental condition, Impassioned, full of beat -courage, and purity of motive. In short tha monarchist can find no fault in William's conduct then or at any other time.

The Kaiser's Empire. GERMAHYl THE WELtHG OP A WORLD POHKH. By Wolf von Bohlr- brand. 8vt. New- York; Mr.

Wolf von SchlerWand's book on the actual Germany of the present time, which first appeared two years ago, has attested Its value and Interest by going now Into a second It Is the work ot a keen and cultivated observer of journalistic training whose duties required of him a knowledge and understanding of what he actual facts are. Conditions have rapidly changed in Germany in recent years, and he has been shrewd enough to perceive the change and the drift of It Mr. von Schlerbrand's analyses art vigorous and keen, and he knows how to make his discussions entertaining. He has told some truths candidly about the German Emperor In language which there Is doubtless small reason to change atter'two-years his development' He sketches his studied and persistent disregard ot the Constitution and his sys- I decorations and by Increasing the splendors of his Court His efforts to remodel the educational system are among tha few items to the credit of his personal account Incalculable harm, on the other hand thinks Mr. von Schierbrand, has been done by his autocratic lowering of national standards of political thought and liberty, his Imposition of his personal preferences on the literary and artistic movement opposing the new and original thinkers In these linesand especially by his effective muzzling of the press.

One of the most marked symptoms of the last decade In Germany has been the enormous decrease of political liberalism; It Is now almost dead there. Two generations of protest gainst the absurd election laws ot Prussia have neither changed the law nor organised a compact and Irresistible publio opinion against It Of the Socialist movement Mr. von Schierbrand presents an Interesting account From the much-heralded Mclal reform movements by the Government, such ae old age pensions, but little tangible roo2 has resulted, and the mediaeval conditions that prevail In too many Industries end In the relations that exist be- tween employers and employed have bred In the lower classes a fierce and Inextinguishable hatred of their oppressors. Taxation has been devised, apparently, to "lie with crushing force upon the weary backs of the poor." The best minds of the nation recognize the Injustice of existing ccndltlons, and are beginning to advocate measures cure the nation of Its Social-Ism that will cure It of the evils that beget A glowing description ot German commerce and manufacturing, on the other hand, shows many features of progress, and the application of the highest Intelligence. Yet even the sober-minded German writers who had been pointing out German supe-rloilty over American conditions were confounded In their criticisms upon American conditions by the disastrous collapse that came upon German Industry four years ago, from which it Is not yet recovered.

The attempt to suppress academic liberty, one of the rrosi significant of recent manifestations ot the reactionary tendencies of the Kmperor and the Government Is described, and the resultant feeling of unrest In the Garman educational world has Introduced a spirit of rampant utilitarianism among students and piplln as well as among profes sor! ancl. teachers. Ka amusing picture of tho change that has come over the type of the Gi-rmun professor representative of this. The German professor ot the Ule-gende with his goggles, his cane, hla long hair, his perennial absent-mindedness and his colossal erudition, has gone; In his place stands Hbe modern German I rofessor, almost the antlpode of his prede-cesMor. He is alert, often commercial, sleek, frequently elegant and" fastidious in his bearing and get-up, a connolsMtur In th i matter of a dinner, a fine painting, of a house, even of a Havana cigar or an Kgyp- tlan cigarette.

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