Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-24
TIE PN|NCE, DEAA BOY,
The Subject Of a Biography by a
London Female Journalist,
Breathing the Spirit of a Sincere
Admirer, Yet the Volume Con-
tains Dstails Which the Future
King Would Probably Wish Had
Been Omitted--Incidents of His
Visit to America Recalled.

| correspondence of Associated Press
London, January 23.-The desire CT
the English people to know all the de-
tails of the official and private life Of
their royal family will be partially ap-
peased by the publication in London
this week of the first biography of the
Prince of Wales. Singularly enough
no complete record Of the remarkably
active and diversified carer of the heir
to the throne has been given to the
| world before. Attempts in this direc-
ton have been discouraged by the sub
| ject himself, and the present book fur
not compiled under the royal sanction,
for while it breathes the spirit of the
courier rather than of the critic it
| 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 carer at Trim
ity College, Cambridge illustrates
how qualities which would commonly
pass current as weaknesses, assume
| the shape of virtus, viewed through
friendly spectacles
He had not" it is said of the Duke
nor was it desirable that he should
| have, the specialized intellect which
wins university prizes and scholar
ships, but he displayed in marked de-
gree that peculiarly royal quality of
| recognizing intellect in Others
The authorship of the new book is
| concealed from the public, but the AS
| sociated Press learns that it is the
work of a journalist, well known in
| London, Mary Belloc, Mrs Lowndes.
| formerly on Mr. Steads paper1 1t
| will be issued in the United States next
| month by Appleton. In pictorial en-
! bellishments it is particularly rich,
| containing no less than
EIGHTEEN PORTRAITS
of the Prince of Wales alone, and many
other likenesses of him in company
| with other members of the royal fam
! lily. The Prince is illustrated from in
| fancy to the present day. There is the
Prince in shooting clothes as a sports
man; the Prince as yachtsman, in a
| rakish cap; the Prince as admiral, the
| Prince in fancy costume for the De-
| vonshire ball in knickerbockerS, with
| the garter on his leg, on horseback, in
| his capacity as colonel of the Tenth
| Hussars, and in various other uni
! forms and ordinary clothes. Most of
| the historical chapters of the book
| deal with matters already published.
| In describing the tour of the Prince
| throughout 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 used in re-
| plying to the addresses which would
be made to him during his progress,
| 1t explains that "the best proof of the
| Prince Consort's wisdom is to be found
in the fact that every one of those
notes afterwards turned out to be
simply invaluable, owing to the pecu-
liar aptness with which they had been
framed to suit the circumstances of
l I'D g
likely to be received"
An incident is related of
A HUNTING TRIP
which the royal party made to Dwight,
| Illinois When the Prince and his ret
| niue approached a farm house, the
| farmer. who was Briton, invited
| every one to enter except the Duke of
| New Castle.
mot you, New Castle he shouted
| 81 have been a tenant of yours and
| have sworn that you shall never set a
foot on my land" So the Prince
| passed on. The Southern slave holders
attempted to lure the Prince into the
South to exhibit to him the better
| size of slavery but the biographer
AYERS he was not impressed by the
! slave States, and fatty refused to leave
| his carriage to visit the negro guar
| tiers at HaXhall's plantation.
A great part of tho work describes
in detail the onerous public farmali
| ties which have constituted the life Of
| the heir apparent, tie corner stone lay
| ings. monument dwellings, dedicatlons
and tours to India and Egypt, to Ire
| land and other parts of the kingdom.
The royal progress through India II
| 1875, it appears, cost the government
| about 81 100000 but by way of COM
| pensation presents were received by
| the Prince from Indian potentates
| which aggregated in value S1,250,O00.
| For one trip on the Nile the boat which
carried the Princes suite was stocked
| with,
"AMONG OTHER COMMODITIES
| 5000 bottles of champagne, 1000 OF
| soda 1000 of claret, and ample sup
| plies of other drinkables.
| It is pointed out, as an evidence OF
| the great personal popularity Of the
! Prince. that all the politicians who
| advised the people 10 Ignore nj pres
/, ence in Ireland in 1885 insisted upon
| abstinence from any display CT per-
| sonal hostility.
| The married life Of the Prince and
| Princess of Wales is pictured as ideal
| Their surroundings at Sandringham
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