New-York tribune., 1911-04-16

n does that I cannot help deeming nm
gr wiser than myself AS a toouler
he showed originality. He developer
ouaipt affection for billet OF "oou
which he carried about all day Wher-
o,.ar he went. and tenderly embraced III
his little bed at night. He grew INTO
bov worth liking, one fond of his par
ents and his brothers and sisters ut-
voted to robust bodily exercises, ana Iuli
of fun. He did not always choose Vhe
riqht times and seasons for his mlrlh-
!, ;s recorded that at fourteen he had
smart blow on the head from the stan
~ his roval father when at sermon time
IN an oxford church he laughed at the
ladies' who sat near him. But he was
generally amenable to discipline ana
he had tact. courtesy and courage
For those who believe in mental and
spiritual inheritances Charles is ever an
interesting study. The great Henri
Ouatre. It must he remembered, was one
Of his grandfathers and it is not dlfil-
cult 10 trace in him many of the quail
ties Of the King of France and Navarro
in truth, he was marVellously like TINS
proeenitor in some things. There was
much in him, too, Of his other grand
father. James I-clever and selfish and
not III cultured James, "the wisest fool
In Christendom." And Mary Stuart and
her wayward gracious charm-did not
that charm mark in some measure this
great-grandson of hers? He had tastes
which were more than respectable. He
cared for science and literature after a
fashion. That he knew good poetry is
revealed in the fact that his favorte
song was Shirley's THE glories of our
blood and state are shadows, not sub
stantial things" He could write musical
verse himself and he knew Spanish,
Italian and French. He experimental
in science and was one Of the founders
Of the Royal Society 1t is thousand
pitfes that while he had intellectual
tastes he had no hobby. A sound hobby
on which he might have ridden with
zest during his idle days Of exile would
have saved him, perhaps, from their
mothlike eating away Of character and
energy. One saving grace he had in his
nature-humor something like that Of
the grand-paternal Henri. Yet even this
had it's balancing drawbacks, since it Of
ten made him careless of obligation and
disposed TO drift.
The shifts TO which poverty put him
in those days Of wandering on the Con-
tinent were not wholesome for youth
Of his temperament. Mean hangers-on,
evil councillors, were always at hand.
Hyde kept him from irretrievable politi-
cal blunders, but he could not keep clean
the intimate fibre of his will. Henrietta
Maria was an injudicious and bad
tempered mother, and her son presently
ceased 10 take any advice from her or to
care for her opinions. The unlucky ex-
pedition into Scotland in 1850 and the
conditions which the Scots Commits
sioners previously imposed upon him
were shattering TO honesty. To sOlemnly
swear 10 what he most passionatcly dis
believed in, to turn his back on his most
faithful supporters and TO publicly la
ment the sins Of his father and his
mothers idolatry-all this he did as the
price Of Scottish assistanc". The Com
missioners themselves had the grace 10
be ashamed Of the eXaCtion Of these con
ditions. Jafray was plain in this mat
ter: I'VE did both sinfully entangle and
engage the nation, ourselves and that
poor young prince to whom we were
sent. making him sign and swear Gov
Cnant which we knew from clear and
dcmOnstrable reasons that he hated in !
his heart; yet finding that upon these
terms only could he be admitted To- rule !
over us, all other means having then !
failed him. he sinfuly complied with |
what we most sinfully pressed upon him. |
In this he was not 50 constant 10 his |
principles as his father. but his strait J
and our guiltiness was the greater"
Livingston was as frank 1T seems"
he said. Ito have been the guilt not of
the Commissioners only. but Of the whole
state--yea Of the Church"
Charles as a soldier showed resolution