Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . y as a constitutional monarch,and, so far as opportunity has offered, to display a kind-hearted interest in his people. My sole ambition, hesaid, on the day of his accession, will be to deserve mypeoples love. Humbert is not, apparently, a man of striking abilities,and he has placed himself always in the hands of his minis-ters. One after another they have governed Italy. Hehas nothing of the personal magnetism of his father, whoattracted to himself almost the adoration of all who werebrought into contact with him;
Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . y as a constitutional monarch,and, so far as opportunity has offered, to display a kind-hearted interest in his people. My sole ambition, hesaid, on the day of his accession, will be to deserve mypeoples love. Humbert is not, apparently, a man of striking abilities,and he has placed himself always in the hands of his minis-ters. One after another they have governed Italy. Hehas nothing of the personal magnetism of his father, whoattracted to himself almost the adoration of all who werebrought into contact with him; besides which, the laxmorality which was condoned in the father has told againstthe son, whose subjects are almost ready to worship hisbeautiful wife, born, like himself, a member of the houseof Savoy. Humbert is not handsome; he wears the sameaggressive-looking moustachios as his father, and his hairis now snow-white, though he is only fifty-two years mother died in 1855, when he was only eleven; andhis father, then in the very crisis of Italian affairs, could give. KING HUMBERT. KING HUMBERT AND HIS REIGN. 375 little time to the five children whom she had left him, —Umberto, Amadeo, Odone, Clotilde, and Maria Pia. Butthey were all early imbued with the traditions of theirhouse, and with an eager desire for the expulsion of thestranger from Italy, while they were fast bound together byties of family affection. In 1859, at the age of fifteen, Humbert fought by hisfathers side in the campaign that ended at Villafranca, andvery early he was employed on important political was at Palermo when Garibaldi landed there on the eveof his second invasion of the kingdom of Naples. Theprince and the general dined together, and together went tothe theatre, ?— the prince not suspecting, probably, what hisfathers restless subject had in his mind. Umberto wassubsequently sent to Paris, shortly before the Seven WeeksWar, to sound the French government as to its sentimen
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