Review of reviews and world's work . terest attaches to her at present—the centennial of her death. The exhibition oflikenesses of the Queen now being held in theHohenzollern Museum at Berlin offers thebest opportunity to obtain genuine portrayalsof her at various ages. P. Bailleu, writing in the IUustrirte Zeitung(Leipsicj on the occasion of the anniversary,gives us a vivid idea of the personality of theQueen, who enthralled the fancy not only ofher contemporaries but of succeeding genera-tions. A reproduction of a beautiful, youthfulpicture of her, by Tischbein (now in the RoyalPalace at Ber
Review of reviews and world's work . terest attaches to her at present—the centennial of her death. The exhibition oflikenesses of the Queen now being held in theHohenzollern Museum at Berlin offers thebest opportunity to obtain genuine portrayalsof her at various ages. P. Bailleu, writing in the IUustrirte Zeitung(Leipsicj on the occasion of the anniversary,gives us a vivid idea of the personality of theQueen, who enthralled the fancy not only ofher contemporaries but of succeeding genera-tions. A reproduction of a beautiful, youthfulpicture of her, by Tischbein (now in the RoyalPalace at Berlin), precedes his article. In lecturing—the writer begins—some yearsago on Queen Louise before a Berlin speaking of the fascination of her personal-ity, her captivating grace, one of the audiencestepped up to him at the close and askedwhether she had reallv been so beautiful andI, so irresistibly winning, or was it all onlya Prussian legend. This is the question, he con-tinues, which n too, on the eve of the cen-.
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