New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-02
THE GERMAI CROWY PRINCE.
From me L0udon World.


As hard-working painstakIng oiiccr the Prince
has no superior; and 1t was eXCmpllilrd aboui five
years ago, when the Chancellor decreod that all
officers in the PTuSSiau army ought to learn Rus
sian; and, hard as II Is for inlddlc-acel man TO
acquire a lew language, and such % difficult one
the Prince applied himself TO The task, and learned
it. Yet his Imperial Iiighncss Is not generally ac-
credited with literary tastes and hunting. rs con-
Quoted at German Courts cannot be exciting to
a man who has served throughout such cam-
paigns as those with Austria ANA France. He
was formerly not unknown AT the gaung-tablps
i'll HOmburg and Baden. and was generally foriu-
nate at play but since those establishments have
been banisned altogether from Germany, ho has
not even had that TeSOuIcr. Perhaps he finds the
entertainment of the RO. al visitors g." Brriu, with
the sth etiquette still preserved at that Court,
somewhat irksolne and mQnot0nons, asst Icp9lted
that he ~ already tired OF ten years peace When
the Shah paid hs first visit to Berlin aud severely
tried the patience OF his hosts, the Prince al last
made his escape to Babels6erg, but was pursued
unceTemOnlOusly 10y his wearsOme guest, who II
was said found hIm sitting out IN the garden by
the side of his wife, smoking a short pipe anu with
out his coat. The Shal's VISIT was followed
by one from the late King Victor Emanuel. who
almost as unappreclatIye n the srnl-barhaTOus
pOtentate of the monuments of PrtIssiaS greatness
and Of the souvenirs OF her phllus0phcr-kng I'm
fact, il was even stated that when the Italian mOn
arch, whose education had been much Lcglcctcl,
was asked if he should like to drive To POtaGam, II
was found that he had never even heard of Frcdcr-
lex the Great, and the only sight hr wished to see
in Berlin was the Geological GaIdcns. ImthCT tho
Prince accompanied HIM IN a glass statc-car-
rage, with the windows down, and almost InYiNib.c
from their cigars II may DO supposed that tnry
did not find each Others company very cuhGrnial.
as Victor Emanuel abruptly cut ms visit day
shorter than had been arranged, for no 9TH. reason
but his own pleasure, aud declined to taSto Il mOrscl
of the sunptuOlls repast picedlbefOrc INN every
occasion wien he dIned with the German lmpcria
family; but, having brought hls Italian cooks to
Berlin he ate the SOUPS and rago0ts in private
which they prepared in his own apartments No
wonder If the Prince grew tired of such visitors,
Prince Frederick William il Il wcll-proporlI0ned
man Of feet 10. his most striking feature beng
his thick whskers, beard aud haIr, and ho looks
particularly well III the light-Dlue uniform Of the
prussian Imperial Guard. His eldest SON. u very
Misunderstanding young man, III appearance takes
after his mothers family while the brother,
Prince Henry. resembles their father aud is re-
ported to he OF more volatile Maynard dis
position than his elder, who was dlIgcnt
student OF college and Is now an excellent
officer. Besides tho young Princess OF Sake
Meningen the Prince has three daughters
Victoria. Sophie and Margaret But the most
prominent member of Tho family will always be the
Imperial Princess, our Princess Royal, whose lntll-
cnCc over her husband is well known, and who has
closely superintendent the education OF her children
to al extent tor winch slIo could have hardly had
the time If She had already occupied "A share of the
throne. Loyalty is not u characteristic of the pep
pie or Berlin ; ana EnEllShmen who are accustomed
TO see crowds wait patiently for hours to
catch glimpse of even one of tho Younger
members OF the Royal Family arr sur
prlsed 1T the little outward RESPECT which fine Ger
mans shCw for their fine old Emperor or for his
gallant son, who IL good temper pcIsoniied, and
has pleasing bow or military salute for every
body. Even the children of the Imperial Priucn
have been Kissed in pat OF Berlin winch they had
never visited before, merely on account Of their
royal parentagc. Yet there IL hardly German who
has not good word for the Princess, owing 10 fhc
admirable manner in which sine fullls her duties ~
a mother and "a vile; and their pIalaD would PROB
ably be warmer still were it not for lurking fear,
often EXPRESSED, that some day sho may lead
her husband INTO for the benefit of
Great Britain rather than of Germany; for
the German middle class, feeling the weight
OF taxation and The COnsCTIptlOu have Us great Il
horror of war as Mr. BngIt himself Her economy,
as setting good example to Tie upper class is ais0
hRhly spoken of: hut II must be admitted that tio
PrlIssian Royal Family has seldom failed in that
respect, and the present Emperor brought up ~ he
was, III adversely ~ notable proof of IT, His sons
more lavish disposition used TO be regarded as very
contrary to the traditions of his house vet his in
come is less than that OF the youngest English
Prince, and he has never been known to eXccrd IT,