. H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work. ple began to consider that their futureKing was being over-educated ; indeed Punch, in some linesentitled A Prince at High Pressure, undoubtedly summed upthe popular feeling, not only describing the past, but prophesying,with a great deal of shrewd insight, the future course of the Princeof Waless studies : To the south from the north, from the shores of the Forth,Where at hands Presbyterian pure science is quaffed, The Prince
. H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work. ple began to consider that their futureKing was being over-educated ; indeed Punch, in some linesentitled A Prince at High Pressure, undoubtedly summed upthe popular feeling, not only describing the past, but prophesying,with a great deal of shrewd insight, the future course of the Princeof Waless studies : To the south from the north, from the shores of the Forth,Where at hands Presbyterian pure science is quaffed, The Prince, in a trice, is whipped to the Isis, Where Oxford keeps springs medieval on draught. BIRTH AND EARLY EDUCATION 19 Dipped in grey Oxford mixture (lest that prove a fixture),The poor lads to be plunged in less orthodox Cam., Where dynamics and statics, and pure mathematics,Will be piled on his brains awful cargo of cram. But the Prince seems to have borne his course of study very well,and after his son had been in Edinburgh some three months thePrince Consort wrote to Baron Stockmar : In Edinburgh I hadan Educational Conference with all the persons who were taking. Christ Church, Oxford part in the education of the Prince of Wales. They all speakhighly of him, and he seems to have shown zeal and goodwill. Playfair is giving him lectures on chemistry in relation tomanufactures, and at the close of each special course he visits theappropriate manufactory with him, so as to explain its practicalapplication. Dr. Schmitz (the Director of the High School ofEdinburgh, a German) gives him lectures on Roman , German, and French are advanced at the same time ; andthree times a week the Prince exercises with the i6th Hussars, whoare stationed in the city. Mr. Fisher, who is to be the tutor for 20 THE PRINCE OF WALES Oxford, was also in Holyrood. Law and history are to be thesubjects on which he is to prepare the Prince. The young Prince spent a dehghtful holiday in t
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