Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-06
SOME ROYAL AUTHORS.
Mutso Hito Of Japan Turning Out
Poetry by the Yard.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Japan turns up the latest addition in the
Royal Scribblers Club. That body is SO
big now that it ought to get organized, with
Carmen Sylvia in the chair and Emperor
William Of Germany as general manager.
The Japanese recruit is the emperor him
SELF According to the latest accounts, his
majesty Mutso Hito has been turning out
poetry at a rate never equaled by King o.
car of Sweden. The mikado is q poet of
rare and noble quality, too, for he keeps
most Of his output strictly to himself 1t is
stated that he has written as much as 60.
600 words in one year-enough to fill fat
volume-and has manfully suppressed all
but very little Of it. not even permitting
the empress to lay eyes on 1t.
The scientific section OF the Scribblers'
Club would be well maintained by King
Carlos of Portugal. whose book on ocean
ography has been well received by the ex-
perts and by the Prince of Monaco, who
spends good share Of his income from the
Monte Carlo gaming tables on deep-sea
soundings A man who has spent some time
as sort OF scientific adviser to the prince
on these expeditions says his royal high
ness Is as keen and enthusiastic natural
list as one could find anywhere. He has
contributed some really important data to
the sum of knowledge on the strange forms
of life down under the sea.
Another royal author-one not hitherto
Bourbon line, Prince Alphonse Of Bourbon.
brother OF Don Carlos, pretender to the
throne of Spain. He has been writing of
late concerning his pet hobby, the abolition
of dueling. His manuscript is all carefully
and neatly written in French, in his own
hand at an expense of time and labor that
few writer's outside of the royal coterie
can afford.
Emperor William has so many ideas that
go shooting off in many directions that
he probably will not be able to hold him.
self down to writing book on some one
subject, but it is well known that his liter
airy ambitions are boundless, and unlike the
other royalties, except Carmen SYLVIA the
Queen Of Roumania, he has the gift of style.
His words come tumbling out in effective
groupings without much effort on his part.
Princes Victoria, King Edwards only I'M
married daughter, is the only one Of the
English royal family that shows much liter
airy tendency. and she is suspected Of hav-
ing written poetry, not, however, with a
view to publication. She hardly ever travels
without a volume Of her favor1te Browning
She goes in for history and scientific books
too, and has quite library of horticulture
She is said to get through with more books
outside Of fiction than all the rest Of the
family put together. It has been said Of
her-with how much truth 1t Is, of course
impossible to say-that II she had not been
a monarchs daughter she could have made
a living at literature.
The official representative Of Burmah at
King Edwards coronation in London en-
countered an interviewer who happened to
quote the lines:
Elephants a-pilin teak
In the sludgy, spudgy creek
On the road to Mandalay"
'.Ah. your Mr.. Kipling,' said the Bur-
mese representative. Fine poem, but very
incorrect. By the old MoulmaIn pagoda
looking eastward to the sea it commences.
1 believe! Yes; well, as a matter OF fact
looking eastward from the pagoda you look
over hundreds Of miles of land-the sea Is
-c5fv ord Whar fhn Htyr,' HSho ,,loxy ;e
I think. another phase Not flying fish
within 100 miles Of it,