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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928.

"THE LININGS OF MOTHER'S DILEMMA.

LIFE.”

THE REMINISCENCES OF LADY PAGET.

SIEGE OF PARIS.

LUNATIC SON SHOT TO SAVE

HIM FROM ASYLUM.

Berlin, Sept. 24

A pathetic case of murder to re- lleve auffering is reported from a Berlin suburb to-day when a woman shot her mentally deranged son and then surrendered voluntarily to the

Emperors and Kinge, Princes police. and Dukes, great names in history The son had for long been sub- and big events in the shaping of ject to violent fits of frenzy. He modern Europe,' dealt with in an had already been in an asylum, and Intimate and inconsequential vein hough uncured had been released by one who has known and lived at the urgent request of the family, among them all, are to be mot Latterly his condition had become with in every page of Walburga so markedly worse that he was a Lady Paget's latest book "The perpetual source of danger to the Linings of Life," which has just rest of the family. It was at been published in two volumes by length decided that there was no Messrs. Hurst and Blackett Ltd. course but to restore him to the (21s. net each).

asylum. The unhappy mother

As a contribution to knowledge, realising the Incurable character of as a history without tears, as a her son's disease, could not face the mirror to the life of the last cen- prospect of his being confined in on. tury, or merely as light and amus-asyium for life. In despair at her ing reading, Lady Paget'a book dilemma slo shot the sufferer in his

bed during the night. will find many friends. With an atmospheric background provided by the rigid and hustoro diacl-

pline of Nineteenth Century to onable the suito to arrive in European Courts, Lady Faget yet Brussels in ordinary clothes and manages to make her book warm not uniform, the smallness of the and real by always showing us hotel bills during the journey, and the human aldo of everything and the excitement and anticipation finding a silver lining of laughter of the whole party show up this to even the blackest cloud of historic journey in a new and etiquette.

homely licht.

Here and there with little re- "Deadly Dull" Court.

forence to anything. In particular That the English Court of those are dropped a fow lines of absorb- days at least did not exactly ringing interest to students of his- with 'merriment is evident from tory-"Lord Palmerston'a tradi- Lady Paget's confession: "The tion never to think of dressing Queen this year ordered A (Str until the dinner bell had gone." Augustus Paget) to come to Bal-"A Miss Sneyd who had been im- moral, and I was not sorry when mensely admired in Paris by I heard there would not be any Napoleon III., who, it is said, re- roon for me, as the accounts pented too late at not having which I had heard from ladies of chosen her for his consort, The the deadly dulness of the life fortunes of Europe would have) there and the iciness of the rooms been very different in that ease' filled me with terror."

as the Empress Eugenie dragged However, there is a bright side her unwilling husband Into to everything, as the following iniquitous war, and caused the extract from one of the au-fall of his, dynasty." thoress's letter shows: "It is for- tunate the Queen will be at Bal-:

were.

Gladstone.

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moral, for it is only when she is "The Princess of Wales told me there that the mall trains run that living at St. Petersburg was right through on Sunday. Was like living on a mine. Sho anys there ever such barbarism? the Empress never has a quiet Wilhelm, Bismarck, King Ed-moment. I am told Mr. Gladstone ward and Queen Alexandra, Pal-has to be guarded wherever he meraton, and, Gladstone appear in goos, the Feniania are always after the pages of the boolt, not as great him. Mrs. Gladstono is in a fearful personages but as ordinary men slate about it.". and women "off the stage," as it Another glimpse of Gladstone fis in reference to the Balkan Of Frederick William, then troubles of the time. "They all Crown Prince, Lady Paget writes: own that it was owing to Lord "We always used to have oat Salisbury's tact that war had been- enkes..... the, Crown Prince, who prevented hitherto, Mr. Brineloy adored everything English and Richards, the correspondent of Scotch, vowed he could never get the Times, said he had seen piles any half so good, and asked me of postcards and letters from Mr. where they came from....I had Gindstone to Bulgarians. Had he promised to teach Count Eulan-been at the head of affairs burg, the Crown Prince's Hof should have had a European war Marshal...He looked very funny in by this time." a white apron.”

Before the Bombardment,

The war of 1870 finds a large place in the book, and references to I are constantly cropping up. In the main these are contained in letters received by Lady Paget from Count Maurice Hohenthal at the front. Written from Ecouen, before Parls, in October, 1870, they throw some new light on the historie events of that time, "Yesterday the King created the Crown Prince and Princa Fre- derick Charles Field-Marshals, The bombardment (of Paris) Is to begin in a few days. The rail- way lines have all been destroyed round Parla... this town of luxury and pleasure will be a town of mourning. How long this last no man can tell. Moltke and Bismarck don't know It, either."

Then, later in December, he wrote: "We have noticed that there is still French cavalry in the forts; they can therefore still live some time on horae flesh. The bombardment will not take place because the Crown Prince and Genoral Blumenthal are against it."

These letters, of which there are many, are in themselves a history of the alege of Paris. For the rest, the book is light-hearted enough and deals with personall- Lies, some of whom are still with us, while some are to-day only

names.

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"An everyday and intimato book," Lady Paget calls it, "a book full of littlo nothings, which many may think is useless-it may be so to this generation, but, please God in another hundred years, peonle will live whose only Interests are not centred in racing pr motoring, airships, cinemas, football, tennis, and such like, and will like to know something about their forebears, just as we like to inquire into Elizabethan days in which some of us have found many hints of grace and dignity."

Behind the Scenes. Intimate the book certainly is und gives many delightful glimpses behind the scenes of big events, The journey of Princess Alexandra from Denmark to Lon don to marry the Prince of Wales provides a typical Instance. Of this, Lady Paget writes, in refer- ence to the entourage: "It seems to me our progress is very liké a snowball; the further we roll the more we increnso in size." -- The successful efforts of her husband

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