The age-herald., 1900-10-15
HOW KAISER KEEPS IN
 TOUCH WITH TIML s

From the New York Herald.
 How does William l! of Germany keep himself abreast of the times? As a general rule he has no time to read newspapers or reviews, and yet many people who have met him and conversed with him on very varied subjects agree in eXtolhng his wide knowledge of topics of the hour A Berlin correspondent forwards an answer to the question to the London Daily Mail as fol- lows:
 There Is in Berlin a so-called literary office attached to the Prussian ministry for the interior, which for the last two years has been under the management or Herr Dr. von Falck, Russian, or rather a Baltic German. from the Russian prov ince of Kurland Dr. Falcks' chief occu- patton is to read the newspapers and make from them extracts and cuttings, which are pasted in a book, the more important or interesting articles being underlined with red or blue pencil This book is placed on the Emperor's desk. The cuttings con- tain articles or extracts from articles talk en from the whole of the home and foreign press.
 The Emperor watches the foreign press in Paris, London and New York more closely than he does the German press Every one acquainted with the German court bears witness that he has a perfect knowledge of the standing and general at titude of foreign newspapers, particularly of those countries that interest him spe- cially for political or other reasons. They are certainly more familiar to him than are the great majority of the German papers. oil IT. resembles Frederick the Great, who thoroughly mastered the international lit- erature of his time to the neglect Of Prus- isan publications
 Among the French papers he gives the preference to the Figaro, and sometimes g1ances at extracts from the Journal des Debats and the Temps. In some ot the royal castles you find number of German papers, but as the selection of these papers depends on the notions of the marshal or even the administration the Kreuz Zeftung and Reichsbote, may always be seen there, and the Cologne Gazette generally finds an entrance but the best-managed German paper, the Frankfort Gazette, is nowhere, evidently owing to it's democratic pro- gramme. The weekly sporting papers have made their appearance in the castles With in the last two years
 All these papers the Emperor has no time to read, but there is one thing for which
 
 He reads the English illustrated weeklies regularly, rarely missing the opportunity. It must not be forgotten that he spent much of his youth in England. He re- minded an Englishman once of the days when he used to play as boy in the dock yard at Portsmouth.
 With the exception of these English weeklies, he is content to read Dr. von Falck's cuttings These it is which give him his knowledge of everything important that is said about him in the foreign press, be it pleasant or unpleasant, polite or cynical. The caricatures published in London and Paris, the articles written about him and his polcy-he sees and reads at any rate the essence of them. The criticisms his speeches encounter, the praises bestowed on them-he knows them all. In this respect he is some thing like his grandfather, Will liam I, who made careful collection of the most ridiculous caricatures of himself print~ ed in France from 1866 onward.