New-York tribune., 1907-07-29


they have graduated into the ensign rank. after
the age Of nineteen or twenty
The avowed object Of the Car and of the Rus
sian Admiralty in making this departure is
TO set up before their young officers a standard OF
manners and of department, OF resourcefulness, of
courtesy OF breeding which they recognize as
lacking for the most part in their compatriots.
That young Englishmen should have been chosen
Tor this service cannot be regarded otherwise than
great compliment, coming especially it doe.
fi;'m a nation such the Russians. who have al
ways looked upon the English their arch enc
mics 1t IS also a tribute to the character OF tho
wholesome minded, clean lived healthy bodied
young Englishman of birth and education, who
| commands good will and sympathy wherever he
goes, In barbarous well as in civilized countries
Just why the Car and his government should have
pitched upon the University of Cambridge rather
man that of Oxford 1t is difficult TO say unless 1t
be that the instruction at Cambridge IS less classical
and more modern and even chronological than
on the banks of the Isis Moreover, mathematics,
which nowadays than ever Indispensable
! 10 navigation. carried to n higher point at
Cambridge than at any other seat OF learning IN
! England. II the Russian Amba ssador has ad-
dressed his invitation in the matter the vice
chancellor it is because the latter digntary is the
permanent chief and executive of the institution.
the chancellor. namely. the Duke OF Devonshire.
deegating all his administrative and magfsteriai
powers TO the vice-chancellor, when he him
self attends at Cambridge in order to preside at
the ceremony OF the comforting OF honorary de-
grees.
PRINCE WANTS TO SELL TO AMERICA
Prince Maximian Waldburg, hereditary grand
master and grand marshal of the Court OF Wtirtem-
berg and hereditary grand carver of the crown at
Vienna who succeeded TO the family honors and
estates last January. Is anxious TO find purchaser
/ for the famous Waldseemuller map of 1907 and OF
the hardly less valuable map, the Carta Marina.
dated 1916. of America. discovered at the princes
castle OF WOlfegg in 1901 by the Rev. Professor
Fischer, s. j. when searching for materials for his
history of the early voyages of the Norsemen.
These maps remarkable being the first in
existence in which the name of the explorer
Amerigo Nespucci used to designate this
great continent AS the discovery was
made known the late Prince Waldburg was be-
sesed by the representatives OF libraries and col
lectors from all parts of the world each anxious to
purchase the maps He. however refused TO part
| with them, although he permitted Father Fischer
10 reproduce them. His son and successor is Of a
different opinion, and is anxious to sell the orig
inals. which he thinks should fttingly find a
home in America.
Wadseemuller not only the librarian OF the
( lords OF Waldburg Mt the Cni OF the Hfteentl and
at the beginning of the sixteenth century also
the most famous geOGrapner and photographer Of
his day. He carried his work in the immense
/ library OF the grand old castle OF Wofegg on the
/ danube in Wurtemberg. and It was while rum
/ maging In that library years ago that the
Rev Father Fischer likewise discovered maps
peaIlhs the name or Wedseemuller, dated 1907, and
delineating with amazing accuracy the great
that constitute the sources OF the Nile, which
according TO all modern biographies. encyclopedias
and other standard contemporary works Of refer
enCe, were first discovered little less than half
century ago by the explorers Speke Grant ana Sir
Samuel Baker. Yet Aristotle, in speaking of the
cranes Of lower Egypt, declares that they migrate
from the 6cythan regions to the lakes lying above
tus also makes mention of these lakes. From this
II VIII be seen that there IS nothing under
sun, and that the sources of the Nile were per
fectly we'll known at the time the discovery OF
America, that in some strange way they had
become lost to the geographers and scientists Of
the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries. ind had
TO be discovered afresh IN the nineteenth century
by the explorers Spoke. Grant and Baker.
The Waldburg family traces its descent back
Werner Won Tame, who fourished IN the year 100
and who was the first owner Of that grand old
stronghold the Castle OF Wolfegg. The present
prince his succession TO the title and
the death Of his elder brother. who spent consid-
cradle time in America, a prince possessed
of vast wealth. but Jesuit priest. under tho
name of Father Frederick. An unfortunate love
affair inpellcd him to forsake the world and
enter holy orders, Joining the Society Of Jesus
where after the completion OF his novitiate he
| speedily acquired celebrity through his eloqlence
He died in England. IN the Jesuit Institute of Dit
ton Hall. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.