The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-23

daughter. Even Freiligrath softens the music
of his verse when he sings of the old pic
tured Bible in his fathers house."
"rHE GALAXY.o
Turner q Co. send us the October num-
Der of Tie GALAXY, which has the following
table of contents:-
'Lady judith; A Tale of Two Continents"
chapters V and VI, by Justin Mccarthy; Sin
and About Peking, by N. b. Dennys; 'James
Buchanan" by Horatio King; 'Ante Nor
tenn" by Edgar Fawcett Overland" chap
ters XI, XII, and KILL ''Does it Pay to Visit
Yo Semite?" by Olive Logan; 'Playing Beg
gars," by Sarah M. B. Piatt; ''Private Picture
Collections in Cincinnati" by George Ward
Abbey; Glamour ou La Mort, !" adapted from
the Spanish of Larra by Antony Armstrong;
will Murder Out?" by Edward Crapsey;
s'The King of Prussia" by Justin Mccarthy;
'Drift-wood, " by Philip Quiiibet; Literature
and Art" Memoranda" by Mark Twain;
''Nebul@, by the Editor.
From the readable article by Justin
Mccarthy on "The King of Prussia" we
mark this extract:
With the success of Prussia at Sadowa
ended King Williams personal unpopularity
in Europe. Those who were prepared to take
anything like rational view of the situation
of great cause behind such risks, sacrifices,
and success. Those who disliked Prussia
more than ever, as many in France did, were
disposed to put the King out of their consid-
Grafton altogether, and to turn their detesta-
tion wholly on the Kings Minister. In fact
Bismarck so entirely eclipsed or occulted the
King, that the latter may be said to have dis
appeared from the horizon of European poll
tics. His good qualities or bad qualities no
10n noaro tod for obi ha aoti Of
foreigners. Bismarck was everything, the
King was nothing. Now I wish the
readers of the GALAXY not to take
this view of the matter. In everything
which has been done by Prussia since his
accession to the throne, King William has
counted for something. His stern uncom-
promising truthfulness, seen as clearly in the
dispatches he sent from recent battle-felds
as in any other deeds of his life, has always
counted for much. So too has his narrow
minded dread of anything which he believes
to SAVIOR of the revolution. So has his tho
rough and devoted Germanism. 1 am con-
vinced that il would have been far more easy
of late to induce Bismarck to make compro-
misses with seemingly powerful enemies at
the expense of German soil, than it would
have been to persuade Bismarcks master to
consent to such proposals. The Kings is far
more of typical German character Except
for its lack of intellect) than that of Bis
marck, in whom there is so much of French
audacity as we'll as of French humor On
the other hand, would ask my readers
not to rush into wild admiration
of the King of Prussia, or to suppose
that liberty owes him personally any direct
thanks. King Williams subjects know too
well that they have little to thank him for on
that score Strange as the comparison may
seem at first, it is not less true that the en-
thusiasm now felt by Germans for the King
is derived from just the same source as the
early enthusiasm of Frenchmen for the first
Napoleon. In each man his people see the
champion who has repelled the aggression of
the insolent foreigner, and has been strong
enough to pursue the foreigner into his own
home and there chastise him for his aggres-
sion. The blind stupidity of Austria and
the crimes of Bonapartism have made King
William patriot King. When Theirs wit tily
and bitterly said that the Second Empire had
made two great statesmen, Cavour and Bis
marck, he might have said with still closer
accuracy that it had made one great soye-
reign, William of Prussia. Never man
attained such a position as that lately
won by King William with less of
original outfit to qualify" him for
the place. Five or six years ago the King of
! Prussia was as much disliked and distrusted
by his own subjects as ever the Emperor of
the French was by the followers of the Left
Look back to the famousdays when "Bockum-
Dolffs s hat seemed likely to become symbol
of civil revolution in Germany. Look back
to the time when the Kings own son and heir
apparent, the warrior Crown Prince who since
has famed across SO many field of blood,
felt called upon to make formal protest in
public speech against the illiberal, repressiye,
and despotic policy of his father Think of
these things, and say whether any change
could be more surprising than that which has
converted King William into the typical
champion and patriot of Germany;
and when you seek the expla-
nation of the change, you will simply
fiLd that the worst enemies of Prussia
have been unwittingly the kindest friends
and best patrons of Prussia's honest and de-
spotic old sovereign.
/ think the King of Prussia's subjects were
not wrong when they disliked and dreaded
him, and 1 also think they are now not wrong
when they trust and applaud him. 1t has
been his great good fortune to reign during
period when the foreign policy of the State
was of infinitely greater importance than its
domestic management. 1t became the busi-
ness of the King of Prussia to help his coun-
try to assert and maintain national exist
ence. Nothing better was needed in the
sovereign for this purpose than the qualities
of military dictator, and the King, in this
! case, was saved all trouble Of thinking and