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in
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PHILIP, PRINCE ZU EULENBURG.
THE KAISER'S FRIEND.
poor Emperor," he wrote in 1894, only six years after William 31. asconded the throne, "le getting on everyone's nerves, but there is no help for i When a marriage turas out badly the pair can separate, Between people and sovereign that is not such an easy matter. So the unhappy purringe must only go on." And go on it did, until, în November, 1918, the aged, dis- graced, and physically broken Eu- lenburg was granted tho melancholy antisfaction of seeing his own worst
SHOTS FROM A CAR
NIGHT
MOTURIST'S
ADVENTURE.
To sen the driver of another car which was travelling ahead of him at night suddenly produce a re- volver and fire three shots was the alarming experience of Mr. Brinn Williami, who lives at Chipper-
priceles fulfilled in the Kaiser's held, five miles from Watford. flight to Holland and the establish- ment of the German Republic
As
Sympathetic Pencil. delineated by Professor Huller's possibly
too sympathetic and shoulders above the time-sory- penell, Eulenburg stands out hend ing courtiers and brusque Prussian officers among whom he was faled
"Truly amazing!" is the exclama tion that arises to the lips of the render on laying down Professor Haller's sympathetic biography of Philip, Prines zu Eulenburg, who through two decades was Kaiser's loyal friend and mentor. Amazing the picture painted of the Court and life of the monarch whoni King Edward justly styled "the most brilliant failure known to his- tory:" amazing the portrait drawn of that monarch himself
all his superficial clover instability, neuroticism, and astounding want of breed
ng; and still more amazing the thumb-nail sketches of the men by whom the Kaiser, was surround- ed and flattered and befooled. Not the majority of his days. A veritable grand soigneur, an since the eighteenth century, and artist to the finger-tips, musician perhaps not since the Renaissance, and composer and friend of Cosima can there have existed & Court in
Wagner," a brilliant writer and intrigue and sycophaney causeur, scnsitive and sympathetic which were so rife as in the Court of Wil- and intuitive, Philip Eulenburg was
above all else a great gentleman n Court where gentlemen, in the true sense of the word, were con- spicuous by their absence. On
Ham II.
Fools and Mummers, Fools and mummers were there in
plenty and not a few knaves; but
|
reading his own letters and die
a
patches, and still more Professor Haller's story of the tragic close to his public life, it becomes easy to understand how Count Witte, on visit, in 1905, to the Emperor at Rominten, noted in his diary: "Four tous ceux qui etalent presents,
of all the uniformed crowd whose duty It was lo amuse and listen to | their Importal muster, senreely one was to be found who had the up rightness of character and the moral courage to tell him the truth. The one exception was the Kaiser's friend-Philip Eulenburg. Ho c'etait en realite le comte Eulen- never shirked the highly dangerous burk qui paraissait le souverain." task and, if he clothed the unpaint- Fate, however, had dented Eulen. able truth in honeyed phrases, he burg the purple mantle and nasign- never did so to such an extent thated to him instead the thankless role its bitter taste would be hidden of an emperor's friend. How from the Kaiser's tongue. When thankless and tragic that role was the Kaiger, in a telegram sent en
to prove in Eulenburg's case the clair to Eulenburg, who was then reader must be left to learn from Prussian Minister in Munich, spoke Professor Haller, whose dramatic of the "idiotic Bavarian loyalists," and moving narration has gained and added, "How often have rather than lost in vividness in launghed over the incredible folly Miss Colburn Mayne's English of the good Bavarians," Eulenburg translation. administered n sharp reproof.
It was a favourite thesis of the "When Your Majesty telegraphs on
late Prince Bulow that the storm- clair such expressions as 'idiotic
clouds only gathered over Germany Bavarian loyalists,' and 'foolish after his own fall from nower in Bavarians, Your Majesty compro- 1900--like many other notions of mises yourself, Your Majesty's Gov-"the German Machiavell" it was ernment, and Your Majesty's Am- That message of bassador. yesterday wounds the Bavarians in their most sensitive spot-their vanity. It may have consequences of which we can as yet form no con- ception. Or does Your Majesty want a fight?" It must be admitted in the Kaiser's favour that he does not seem to have borne any malice towards Eulenburg for his plain speaking. Unhappily, both for the Kaiser and for Germany, Eulen- burg's admonitions failed of effect Jupon his volatile monarch. "The
very far removed from the truth. As early as 1894 Eulenburg wrote: Everyone snapping at everyone elso, hating everyone else, lying about everyone else, betraying everyone else they are drawing the chariot of State, indeed, but not for love of the poor Emperor, who real- ly means well, and yet is for ever with his self-invented spoon, and stirring up the State soup-kettle preventing it from turning into any sort of soup at all." later: "More frequently than ever before I feel as if I were living in a
And a month
Mr. Williams was driving some friends home-to-Watford-when the other car, a red saloon, pasɛod as he was turning on to the main road.
} "Wo followed for Homo สรัส- tance," Mr. Williams said "and when at the top of Whippendeli Hill we were startled to see the driver thrust his hand, holding & revolver, out of the aide window of the car.
There were three reports and we saw the flashes. Instinctively I pulled up my car, but the other before I could overtake it to sco Its one continued down the hill and number It had disappeared.
"I can only assume that it was a car bandit who, thinking that wildly in front of us we might be following him, fired put us off
his track."
The spot whore the incident oc- curred is a mile from King's Langley, on the main road to Lon- don, and two miles from tho
northern end of the Watford by-
pann road.
madhouse. Insane narrow-minded- ness--inkane. controversies-in- sune arrogance Bedlam-Bedlam— Bedlam!" After this book it will be unnecessary and will become the foreigner to pass judgment upon William II. and his generals and statesmen. It has been done by the pen of a Prussian gentleman and
Prussian patriot.
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