The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
First Complete Biography of Wales
Has Appeared.
ADULATION AND CRITICISM
BOTH HARMoNIoUsLY BLENDED
BY THE AUTHOR.
For Instance, the Famous Baccarat
Trial Is Succeeded With a De-
scription of His Wonderful Per-
ceptive Faculties-Childhood to
Manhood-American Tour.

! London. Jan. 15.-CEnglish correspond.
ence of the Associated Press).-The desire
I of the English people to know all the de-
tails Of the official and private life OF
their royal family has been partly APP
/ peased by the publication in London this
week of the first complete biography OF
! the Prince of Wales. Singularly enough
no complete record of the remarkably
! diversified career of the heir to the throne
has been gwen TO the world before AT
temDts in this direction have been dis
couraged by the subject himself, and the
present book furnishes internal evidences
that II was completed under the royal
sanction, for. while il breathes the spirit
OF the courtler rather than the critic, ii
| records such episodes as the famous bac-
carat trial. which the prince would prob
ably be willing for the public to forget.
Concerning the prince the writer says:
QUICK PERCEPTION.
HE is familiar with an almost bewilder-
ing variety of subjects and possesses a
wonderful FACULTY for almost instinctively
comprehending any matter under discus
sion.
An estimate of the Duke of Clarence, in
Connection with his career at Trinity col
lege, Cambridge, illustrates how qualities
which would commonly pass current as
weaknesses, assume the shape OF virtues,
viewed IQIOuSn IIleUulN SptCldClcS-
He has not" it is said of the duke,
nor was il desired that he should have
the specialized intellect which wins uni
versity prizes and scholarships. but he
displayed in a marked degree that pecu-
larry royal quality of recognizing intellect
in Others
THE AUTHOR.
The authorship of the new book is con-
cealed from the public. but the Associated
Press learns that it is the work OF a
journalist well known in London, Mary
Belloc (AIrs. Lowndes. formerly of Mr.
Stead paper. 1t viii be issued in the
United States next month by Appleton.
In pictorial embellishments, containing no
less than is portraits OF the Prince OF
Wales alone, and many other Akenesses
of him in company with other members
of the royal family, it is exceptionally
rich.
CHILDHOOD TO MANHOOD.
The prince is illustrated from infancy
to the present day. There is the prince IN
shooting clothes as sportsman, yachtsman
in a rakish cap, as an admiral. in fancy
costume for the DevOnshire ball IN hnlck-
erbockers with the garter on his leg, on
horseback in 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
AMERICAN TOUR.
In describing the tour of the prince
through Am erica in his youth, 1t reveals
the interesting fact that before he was
prince consort supplied him with mem
oranda to be used in replying to the ad-
dresses which would be made TO him
during his progress It says;
The best 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 10 tns
peculiar aDtness with which they had
frar cd n
each locality where an ADDRESS was hheIy
to be received
AN INCIDENT.
An incident is related of hunting trip
which the hunting party made TO Dwight,
Ills. When the prince and his retlnue
who was a Briton. invited every one 20
enter except thu Duke of New Castle.
Notice. New Castle he shouted, l
have been tenant Of yours and you snal
prince passed on.
The southern shareholders attempted
to lure the prince into the south TO eX-
hibit to him the better side of slavery,
but the biographer AYERS. he was not i'm
pressed BY the slave cities and refused to
leave his carriage TO visit the negro
quarters at Haxhall's plantation
PUBLIC FORMALITIES
A great part of the work describes in
detail the onerous public tormaltles
WQ1cn nave tic lit VI NiC
heir apparent-the cornerstone layings;
dwellings, the dedications and
tours to India and Egypt to ireland ana
other parts OF the kingdom Inc royal
through India in 1919. II appears,
cost the government about $l,uV0'VJ0, put
BY way of compensation. presents were
received by the prince from Indian po-
tentates which aggregated in value $l22O,-
&C., For one trip on the Nile boat Which
carried the princes suite was stocked
with among other commodities, 5000
bottles of champagne. 2.000 of soda, 1000
Of claret and ample supplies of other
lrinkables Il is pointed out as an evil
ience of the great personal popularity of
he prince that all the politicians who adj
,isad the people 10 ignore his presence In
ireland in 1885 insisted upon abstinence
from any display of personal hospitality
MARRIED LIFE.
The married life of the Prince, and
Princess of Wales is pictured as ideal.
Their surroundings at Sandringham and
are described with minute
ietails which will delight persons who
nave an appetite for this sort OF small
letail.
The princes private library at the form /
II residence is filed with the furnishings !
rom the cabin OF thu Seraphis in which /
he sailed to India.
-reen leather stamped with the princes /
monogram. His literary tastes. Judging /
~ his books, tend toward English his |
Ory Many shelves are devoted to docu- |
nents on India. in which he is greatly in !
crested. with a great array OF volumes ]
.bout the mutiny as well as a complete !
collection OF literature on the Crimean I
var and Of colonial histories
The emperor of Austria and the car ]
II Russia send each Christmas a box OF /
.igars.