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EARLY LIFE "OF EDWARD VIL
GENUINE LOVE FOR DOGS AND HORSES.
24TH, 1925
DEMAND FOR EQUALITY.
CHANGING STATUS OF WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Although it leaves off is the point
Mise Alier Paul, of Washington, a which is after all of cost interest-that leader of the American wney's move- which concerus his career as tuier of the ment, has come to England to further British Empire-the first volume of Sir La feminist movement which may revolu Sidney Lee's biography of King Edward | tionise the status of women throughout VII is a bouk of absorbing interest. It the world, says the Daily VARG-- was at the request of King George that
Mix Paul, who is vice-prosilent of the the work was undertaken, and it is based on lucuments in the Royal archives to United States National Women's Party which full access was given the author, and a member of the Society of Friends. and son collections of letters addressed so gentle in sperch and manner that by King Edward to personal friends and it is with surprise one letras that shn people of prominence in the official life has suffered two terms of imprisonment
for her work on behalf of the cause. of the country.
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As the author points out in his pre- face, the investigations which he sur sued into the career of the late King developed a faith in the generosity of his disposition as well as in his shrewd nes of judgment, and from the portrait which Sir Sidney has drawn shows a signally humane, haman, any many sided personality very princes.
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These are the least important events in my life," she told a Pily News re presentative. The first was over here. a month for went to Holloway for taking part in a deputation to the Perhaps some Houses of Parliament.
may xay that as an American I should got have interfered, but I was educated over here, at Woodbrook Settlement, near Birmingham, at Birmingham, University, and at the Lonilon School of Economics, and joined in the deputation because I was knd to do so. The second time it happened in Amerien, before wą bai won the suffrag
QUEEN VICTORIA'S HAPPINESS. The volume is 'strikingly illustrated in photogravure by Emery Walker, and the two facsimile autograph letters dated
What really matters is our ideal to 1960 and 1900, respectively, the first of which was written by him to his mother, form a World Committe of women inter- Queen Victoria, when he was making his Fested in obtaining equal rights for men We hope first voyage across the Atlantic to and wonen the work beer. Canada ant the United States, and the to make the United States the garden second to Sir. Frank Lascelles, the British plot of the world, so far as wogen are Ambassador at Berlin. Much character concerned. is revealed in handwriting, and the pas sage of years can well be rend in these two letters.
King Edward was born at Buckingham Palace on November 9th, 1541, in the heart of the great London which be loved all through his life. In the next issue of Punch thers appeared this stunza.--
Huzza, we have a Prince at last,
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fot al countries. I am cne of her The happiness of Queen Victoria, in the followers, trying to carry out her ideals. birth of a son was abundantly revealed have been in France: where found in the words which she wrote in her the women leaders sympathetic towards journal O how happy, how grateful the idea of international relationship did I feel to that Almighty Providence between the women of all countries on who has blessed me so peculiarly, and this question, and here in England I she reiterated with wifely adoration the have found the same attitube. I have hope that in career and character her spoken" with some son should be a copy of his father. This was emphasized in her decision that he should be called Albert Edward, and was unmoved by Lord Melbourne's hint that the names might be reversed. Always in the family circle, however. King Edward was called Bertie," and in his letters to his kindred he incufiably used that signature. When be was baptized, the Queen wrote to the King of the Belgians how perfectly and splendidly every thing went off. Nothing could have done better, and little Albert (what a pleasure that he has that dearest name) behaved
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Although the Prince clamoured for Aldershot. Oxford was to be the next part of his training. The author reculls an interesting incident which required"& stout nerve, which occurred at the Edin- burgh University,, where the Prince was studying Science under Dr. Lynn Plas FOR BARGAINS Come to The fair. The professor, after washing the Sir Hiduey has drawn a pretty picture Prince's hand thoroughly in ammonia in- of the future King's nursery days. Be-vited him to place it in boiling metal and fore he was five he bad the company of ladle out some of it. three sisters and a brother, and between stantly did so. then there was a "cherished affection,
A BREAK FROM TRADITION. warm reciprocated." There were many
"Although," continues Sir Sidney, foreign inuences surrounding, his child-
the Queen and Prince Consort wished hood, but there was only one to which the Prince never quite reconciled himself. their son at Oxford to confine his athletic That was the solnin figure of Baron attentions to tennis and racquets, and Stuckmar, his father's former tutor and depregated hunting as an encroachment on study, the governor suffered him occa- present mentor. In matters touching the
...The Prince's upbringing he was the Royal sinually to ride to hounils
Prinse found means of breaking away ar parents first and last court of appeni." The Prince's faculty for languages deve- times from gubernatorial strings. Smok- loped early, for German as well as Eng- ing was strictly prohibited by his guard- fish was habituat in the Royal nursery, lan, but he succeeded in making sur and from babyhood the Prince's speech reptitious experiment in the compity was bilingual. Although Buckinghai fellow.undergraduates, and he "thus Palace and, Windsor Castle were the formed the lifelong habit of a free in chief homes of the Prince's infancy and duigence in tobacco."?" youth, he went with his parents on many migrations to other parts of the country, and great popular enthusiasm greeted the boy in sailor's costume wherever the Royal yacht touched land,
It was during the long vaention of 1800 that the Prince was to tread a larger stage than any before. There was to be a striking expansion of schemes of foreign travel. For the first time in his tory the Heir to the English,Throne was to cross the Atlantic, un to visit not only the oldest of England's overseas
TRAINING FOR KINDSHIP. The Prince's training for Kingship started at the age of seven, when he was settlements, but a the Amerienn Re-
taken from the nursery and given over
ver public.
to the exclusive, care of a tutor. It is
of interest to note that, though in after
The visit to Canada inspired the Prince
life the Prince disliked solitule and was at an early age with the Colonial sense never happier than when he had a con of Empire. The first of the two fues genial companion."" probably among the mile letters, referred to was written at inany defects in the Prince's regimen the sea on the" voyage across the Atlantic, gravext was his isolation from boys of and was brought home id. Plymouth. his own age other than his brothers and Writing again from Newfoundland, he the foreign cousins who were from time informed his mother that he hail to re- "Rather a to time his parents' guests. The ceive fourteen addresses. genuine love for hurses and dogs which large bumber for the Brst time," he add- was so manifest in later years started led. with early boyhood for the Prince was barely six when his pony bolted with him. "He faced the peril with surpris ing courage, which foretold a future characteristic."
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THE PRINCE AND KINGSLEY. The Prince came home in H.1.8. fern, und before she sighted Plymouth she had been well buffetted by the atorms of the Atlantic. Of this over.. long voyage bone the author writes:-
The absence of news caused the Queen and her people much anxiety." and the enthusiasm of the crowds which welcomed the Prince's disembarkation at Plymouth bore witness to the public relief at the safe termination of the expedition.
The Indian Mutiny and the Crimeas Wat were historic episodes of the Prince's boyhood which left a deep im- pression. His first visit to France in 1855 was an event which stamped itkell forcibly on his mind, and probably start- ed that love for the country and the French capital which was so pronounced in later years. It was two years after
The political influence of the tour was this that Lord Palmerston xaid: "In significant and created great "faith" in an alliance with France we are riding a influential circles on the other side of runaway horse, and must always be on the Atlantic:
The Prince's most attractive experi our guard To the change which came over that English conception of French ence at Cambridge University, to which constancy the Prince was to make a con-he then went, was his association with spicuous contribution.
the Professor of Modern History, Charles On his, eighteenth birthday there was Kingsley, the popular novelist and broad- delivered to the Prince document minded social reformer, aid the writer signed by both parents abounding in tells us that "a strong mutual affection sage counsel, and rather delusive pro- developed between Kinsley and his mises of personal liberty," and the pupil. When Kingsley died in January, author tells us that the moving words 1875, his eldest daughter wrote to the brought floods of tears to the boy's Prince: Next to his own children' I can truly way there was no human being my (Continued on next Oolumn). father loved as he did you","
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