Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . iotism to fight and with suffi-cient enthusiasm to vanquish the enemy. Troops commandedby him in person became practically invincible, for every sol-dier in the ranks was stirred by the sight of his princely leaderto deeds of courage and darinor. Even the greatest cowardbecame a hero when he felt the kindly eye of Frederick the (327) 328 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. Noble upon the eye was in-deed a kindly one, inperfect keeping withhis gentle demeanor,his unaffected go
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . iotism to fight and with suffi-cient enthusiasm to vanquish the enemy. Troops commandedby him in person became practically invincible, for every sol-dier in the ranks was stirred by the sight of his princely leaderto deeds of courage and darinor. Even the greatest cowardbecame a hero when he felt the kindly eye of Frederick the (327) 328 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. Noble upon the eye was in-deed a kindly one, inperfect keeping withhis gentle demeanor,his unaffected good-nature, his utter ab-sence of self-suffi-ciency. The Ger-mans have one wordwhich expresses allthis, namely, leuthsee-lig, and FrederickIII. was certainly themost leuthseeligMonarch who eversat upon a father, the oldEmperor William,was a far less im-pressive personage,notwithstanding hiscr r e a t stature andhandsome appear-ance. Indeed, thefeelings with whichhis aspect imbuedme were those whichnaturally I shouldEMiKROR FREDERICK. have expencnced for any poor old gentleman hovering on the edge of the THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF GERMANY. 329 The present Emperor offers a most striking contrast bothto his grandfather and to his late father, and his charactermay be summed up in one single French word—poseur. Every-thing that he either says or does is for the sake of effect, andit is an open question as to whether there is one hour in thetwenty-four, save the time devoted to sleep, when he is notin the act of posturing for the sake of some person or no occasion did this trait of his character strike me somuch as at a reception given a few years ago at Berlin by hismother, the Empress Frederick, at that time only CrownPrincess. Among the distinguished guests present was Car-dinal Prince Hohenlohe, the most witty, worldly and cynicalmember of the Sacred College. Standing in front of the fireplace of one of the salons, hewas carrying on an animated conversati
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