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INTERESTING DYNASTIES.
Peculiar CHARACTERISTICS of the Va
riOus Royal Houses.

The idea, not only OF the puDHc.
but of psychologists and historians
also, is that a man derives more from
his mother than from his father; but
it is curiously contradicted by the his
tory of European dynasties. The SOW
ereigns inherit thrones from their
fathers only, or, in a case like that of
King Alphonso MI. or the Prince OF
Wales, from a mother who is heiress,
and therefore represents, not a for
eign family, as a queen consort does,
but the reigning house itself. Yet
every dynasty has presented certain
marked and fixed tendencies, extend
ing. like the Hapsburg under lip, even
to physical peculiarities.
The Bourbons, who inherit from
men only, have always been very
royal, able to reign if not to rule, with
certain largeness of view visible even
in the unhappy Louis XVI, and an
invincible obstinacy, which has illus
trated or discredited them according to
its object. They have been different
men, but nobody mistakes the Bour-
bon face, and we can not recall N of
the house who has lacked the special
Bourbon qualification, which we can
best define Is regalitY.
The Hapsburgs have been much
more alike, and have all exhibited a
certain Jovian serenity as OF men
above the accidents OF fortune as we'll
as most of the obligations of life.
They believe in themselves to q
strange degree, and on the morrow
after adefeat or on n day after a vic
lory equally feel and behave as right
full emperors.
Dignity, as we suppose it ought to
be called, is their special characters
tic-combined with a hurry to act
which comes out throughout their his
tory and is probably an inheritance
from the visionary Macmillan las
streuuousness has been that Of the
Ho~henzollerns, who for the rest have
resembled domineering, thrifty, but
not unexpected, land One
always thinks of them as of a great
race of squires, which is what they
have personally looked, though Fred
erick the Great rose higher, and
would have been taken for a person
age IN any society in the world.
The British reigning family, which
has never ceased to be German in APP
pearance, has always exhibited in
different ways a character of strong
ordinariness, which the English peo-
pie have understood as the Hanoveri-
ans did, and, ON the whole, with most
curious little outbreaks of popular
contempt, have agreed to approve.
1t is a character which rises at crisis
and somehow impresses those about
them, probably from a conviction, al
ways grateful to Englishmen, that
| they will never do anything wholly
unexpected.
What the English would do with q
really original monarch it is impossi-
BILE to say; probably move an address
of both houses, praying MIN lever to
speak in public. except through a re-
sponsible minister. The house of
Bonaparte has characteristics as
marked as those of any older family
whose habit of reigning has been less
spasmodic. Its members have all
shown ability. have all been ambi-
tious of thrones-to be kings is the
role of Bonapartes as to be adinirals
and generals is of SO many naval and
military families-and have all shown
an incapacity to feel the pressure of
obligations, whether religious or So
| cial or moral.
They have not been gentlemen, not
because they have any liking for COM
mon ways, but because to be refined
is to submit to an immense number OF
rules and obligations which oppressed
them much as clothes oppresss a
Maori. They have been at heart like
the ancient Caesars, solntf a Legi6uS,
unbound by laws "a position which
by the way, the great Bonaparte
used to claim for himself when talk
ing with his intimates, in so many
words.
The Charm of Eugenie's Face.
When the Empress Eugene was at
her best | could only admire her side
face, and thought the front face un.
pleasant and full of glaring defects
Its under part was the reverse OF oval
and Appropriated to the pear shape
of Louis Philippe's visage. The nose
at the nostrils was very wide, and al
the bridge so extremely narrow as al
most to be unsightly. Her eyebrows
rose too high above the inner corners
of the eyes and fell much to low al
the outer ones. The eyelids seemed
drawn down along with them.
She had a very poor forehead, ano
the narrowness of the face across the
eyes showed that the mass of brair
behind was too limited in quantity
and had not, such as it was. room FOL
easy play. All these defects have be
come accumulated. But think hel
profile. from an aesthetic standpoint
more beautiful than in the triumph
ant phase of her strange life because
of the purifying action of sorrow anC
q doubt not contrition. It's harmony
is marvellous. The charm vanishei