New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-26
BRITISH TOPICS.


THE coMplrEg-INDlscREEr DISCLOSURES MADE
N 1ur BOOK REGARDING TIE EASTERN gus
rfo, AND NAPOLEON UI.-sXoBELErf CoNFAhhp
WITH SHERMAN IN AZ ENGLISH WRITER
trroo THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or 1nF TEhUNEI
JovDov. Dec. S.--rhe Legend Of Albert the GOOD
bas roached It's tlu?d volume, and lis climax MI
Theodore Martins biography Of the Prince Cohsot'
.; a., c,-ora,,io,, TO the gIt mag, Of him IN Hyde
psrl, and nothing wor5e coIid I've said OK H. lhele
IL nothing worse in the dedicatio1sol the teNeen"
century, i'm the bases; daTs Of literature VHcA III
eraturc was a matter Of patronage and er'at "''''iN
Jo.col attendance i'm anie-chambcr and Thought
themselves happy 30 go away with i've glN'as III
the;r rockets. M-. Theodore Martin has Ea9 80
,csr.c,,h,e naHc in literature, that one Is
emmy n sec him stoop 50 low. Bat what can You
sov8 HIS dedication OF th.s third volume 10 lh'
Ousen tels rs that Prince Albert was SIMPLY P'lic''
man: that rs an artist desiring 80 place uNoh hiS
ea,.,.s 4ts flaws and llemshes 81 his subject, he
regretted 10 have found none. My dihcni'y mas
been that in al my researches have come upon ""
such defect as would have furnished ua, I'.,S'
Of shadow. which would have made 'H'
,,o.,,sit II NOT more impressive in itsef yet
more acceptable 10 many who are reluctant
60 believe in the highest order OF human
worth So then Wordsworth's ideal he's been
fornd and sllpasscd: a creature much too bright
and GOOD For human natures daily food" and not
woman but man. M. Theodore Martin would
have done we'll 10 remember what VoitaiIe wrote 10
Frcdclick-,Aat respect which Is not open 10 'h'
srspcion of fattery is The only sort of homage 'he
prblic approvcs The fact that Noltaire sometimes
forgot his own maxim may be cited In defence OF
MIR Theodore Martin when Mr. Theodore Aafth
earns nigh. 10 It.
This volume has been published-dosiGnediy So 1t
would appcar-at amomcnt when something couid De
IL .-Ty- TfrVlft IN rfF o.
Court sat the head II contains amass omatter about
the Eastern question. and the IuTcophe papers
have been eagerly reproducing such extracts from
il ~ mako capital for their own side cannot 60
INTO all that Most people, not English, will be con-
tent with Nh Martins statement that the IHhceS
parers on this question. which Mr.. Marth
for come reason calls the Oriental ques-
tioo. from 1853 to 1857, fill" extend TO-"
Mr. Martin SAYS no fewer than tity
folio volumes What Mr. Martin prints contains
evidence enough that the Prince was laD'IloHS
person with fondness for details, and APT 10 lose
himself m them. There Is no evidence that he saw
through tine nlans Of the Emperor. or understood
that England was used az the instrument of the I'm
reror'. personal ambition. or felt the degradation
Of the position she then accepted The acts of thc
British Cabinet were series of blGuders which
seem 10 have been cordially approved by Prince
Albert.
An appeudix contains letters that passed in 1870
between the Queen Prince Albert. and the Emperor
Napoleon One is az Oss 20 guess why they are pub
. Gsbed They will make sad figure in history.
They prove what has been proved IN other ways
unbaupily-that the personal relations be
tween the Queen Of England and the
crowned assassin who kept France under his hee'
for nigh twenty years, were far more intimate than
official ct 1uc.c required than the necessities OF
political alliance could have imposed.
Indeed. the whole chapter describing the visit
of the Queen and Prince to Paris in August. 1900,
record If personal ntnacies with. and Of persona.
liking for a man whose hands were yet red Win lht
blood Of the December masSacres OF l>JI-l0r plood
does not wash off The Queen has put her diary IN
Mr. Martins hands; her own words are there
There ia tho written prayer of the Queen to God t.
protect the precious life of the Emperor. and
there are pages filed with details Of the days they
,.Ssed together In equal and cordial intercourse
when the Queen goes back, she writes to the
Emperor;
cit was with swelling heart that took leave Of
Won after Che beautiful and happy days that We bad
passed with YOU which YOU made so agreeable 10
us Like all things here below they passed only too
onicllv. ! cannot tell you often enough
how much am touched with all your kindness
and friendship for the Prince. Permit me
10 express all the sentiments Of tender friendship
and affection with which l sigu myself, Sire ami
dear Brother yOur Imperial Maicsty's cordial and
afYectiouate sister and friend, Victoria r. ~
She had proved as much TO him at parting
when
Il embraced him twice, and he shook hands very
warmly with Albert and the children. We followed
him TO the ladder and here once more squeezed his
hand and embraced him."
The good Albert was not less eager than the
Queen--not less ohvious of all the infamv in the
Empcror's life. If Mr.. Martin were in search Of
shadow for his helo's picture, here is one ut ms
hand, which, indeed, he has put in without know
iue 10.
Nothing in the whole book ! may say, IS more
curons than the unconscOusncss of 1t; or 10 speak
more accurately the Inconsistencies shown both 10y
the Qneen and Nr. Martin Of the effect reycla
lions in ii are likely produce Oh The public Take
Prince Albert's memorandum Of his interviews with
the Emperor al the time of tne Princes visit to him
nj Bouloene in 1854 See how Lord PalnerstOn is
spoken of. 1t IS not so much what is said tho
tone Of n: and what the Emperor says OF his own
Ministers j., with much more reason, in the
same tone. The Prince and the Emperor talk
OF their Ministers Of State very much as they
might talk Of their vaets only with rather less
consideration. 1t is the same thing when the Queeu
and the Emperor discuss the CrImean War: " He
then spoke writes the Queen very openly and
frankly OF the defects Of or generals and zee told
him equally frankly what was objected to his. II
was just a. il we had and the army and So
In fact il To-" The italics and the English are
both the Queens What strike, one IN all this is
not 30 much the sense of superior position, as Of
proprietoIship Not many years ago YOU might have
heard Southern planter discuss his human property
In much the same terms
These remarks are n no sense review Of the book