The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-24
PRINCE IN PRINT
BRITISH PUBLIC CAN FOR THE
FIRST TIME READ THE RE
PUTED COMPLETE
BIOGRAPHY OF WALES,
SOME INTERESTING PASSAGES IN
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS' CAREER
LACKING.
HIS AMERICAN TRIP RECOUNTED.
Whole Subject Handled in n Manner
Which Suggests Censor
ship.
BIOGRAPHY OF WALES
HIS AMERICAN TRIP RECOUNTED.

of the official and private life of their
royal family will be partially appeased
by the publication in London this week
of the first complete biography of the
Prince of Wales Singularly enough,
no complete record of the remarka bly,
active and diversified career of the
heir to the throne has been given to
the world before. Attempts in this di-
rection have been discouraged by the
subject himself, and the present book
furnishes internal evidences that it was
not compiled under the royal sanction,
for, while 1T breathes the spirit of the
! ccurtier rather than that of the critic.
1T records such episodes as the famous
baccarat trial, which the prince would
probably be willing the public should
forget. Two quotations from it's refer
ences to royalty will, however, give the
keynote of this spirit. Concerning the
prince, the writer says: He is familiar
with an almost bewildering variety of
subjects, and possesses a wonderful
faculty for almost instinctively grasp
ing the important features and the
really essential points Of any matter
under discussion
An estimate Of the Duke of Clarence
/ in connection with his career at Trinity
college, Cambridge, illustrates how
qualities that would commonly pass cur
rent as weaknesses assume the shape of
virtues, viewed through friendly spec
tacles. He had not" it is said of the
duke, nor was 1t desira BILE that he
should have, the specialized intellect
which wins university prizes and schol-
arships, but he displayed in a marked
degree that peculiarly royal quality Of
recognizing intellect in Others -
The authorship Of the new book is
concealed from the public, but the AS
ISOLATED Press learns that it is the work
OF a journalist, well known in London,
Mary Belloc (Mrs. LoWndes, formerly
! on Mr.. Stead'S paper. In pictorial en-
! belllshments it is particularly rich, con-
tanning no less than eighteen portraits
OF the Prince of Wales alone, and many
other llkenesses of him in company with
! other members of the royal family. The
prince is illustrated from infancy to the
present day. There is the prince in
! shooting clothes as sportsman the
| prince as yachtsman in rakish cap, the
| prince as admiral, the prince in fancy
costume for the Devonshire ball, in
| knickerbockers with the garter on his
leg, on horseback IL his capacity as
| colonel Of the Tenth hussars, and In
various other uniforms and ordinary
clothes. Most Of the historical chapters
! OF the book deal with matters already
! published. In describing the tour of
| the prince through America, in his
| youth. it reveals the interesting fact
| that before he was launched upon his
| journey his father, the prince consort,
| supplied him with memoranda to be
| In n To 11n n 6rnc iaJ,
would be made to him during his prog
ress. 1t explains that the ncst proof
! of the prince consort'S wisdom is to be
found in the fact that every one of
/ those notes afterward turned out to be
! simply invaluable, owing to the pecu-
| liar aptness with which they had been
framed to suit the circumstances of each
| locality where an address was likely
to be received
An incident is related of a hunting
| trip which the party made to Dwight,
! Ill. When the prince and his retinue
| approached a farm house, the farmer
! who was a Briton, invited every one to
enter except the Duke of Newcastle.
Notice, Newcastle" he shouted, Il
| have been a tenant of yours, and you
shall never set a foot on my land" so
the prince passed on. The Southern
! Shareholders attempted to lure the
| prince into the South to exhibit to him
the better side of slavery, but the biog-
| rapher AYERS, he was not impressed by
| the slave cities, and fatty refused to
leave his carriage to visit the negro
| quarters at Haxhslls plantation.
A great part of the work describes
| in detail the onerous public formalities
which have constituted the life of the
! heir apparent, the cornerstone layings,
monument dwellings, the dedications
and tours to India and Egypt, to Ire
| land and other parts of the kingdom.
| The royal progress through India in
| 1875, it appears, cost the government
about $1,000,000; but, by way Of COM
pensation, presents were received by
! the prince from Indian potentates
which aggregated in value $1,250, 900.
For one trip on the Nile the boat
which carried the princes suite was
stocked with, among other commodi-
! ties" 5000 bottles of champagne, 1000
of soda, 1000 Of claret, and ample sup
! plies Of other drinkables.
1t is pointed out as an evidence of
the great personal popularity of the
f! prince that all the politicians who ad-
! vised the people to ignore his presence
in Ireland in 1885 insisted upon absti-
nence from any display Of personal
hostility.
The married life of the Prince and
Princess of Wales is pictured as ideal.
|
and Marlborough are described with
minute details, which will delight per-
sons who have an appetite for this
sort of small beer. The princess pri-
vate library at the former residence is
fitted with the furnishings from the
cabin of the Seraphis, in which he voy-
aged to India. All the finishings are
in dark blue or green leather stamped
with the princes monogram. His lit
erary tastes, judged from his book
shelves, tend toward English history.
Many shelves are devoted to docu-
ments in India, in which he is great
ly interested, with a great array of
! volumes about the mutiny, as we'll as
a complete collection Of literature upon
the Crimean war and of colonial his
tories There is a whole room full of
cigar cases and smoking parapher-
MALTA, some of them works of art, that
have been presented, while the tobacco
itself is stored in a special room kept
! at even temperature throughout the
year. a stock of the princes special
| tobacco is kept also at the Marlbor-
ough club the Jockey club at New
market, the Royal Yacht Squadron
club house, and on board all the royal
yachts The emperor of Austria and
| the car of Russia each Christmas
send a box of cigars.
The Greater JOY.