Show Rivalry of Royal Writers I 1 That royalty shoutd seek distinction In the great republic of letters Is a development I de-velopment of tho most modern times I Queen Elizabeth ol ROumanla Carmen Sylva is perhaps the b st known of these crowned writers but she is by no means the onlj one Queeii Victoria of England can claim no lessj than I three volume as the product ot her r I pen Her first Workwas n description 1 of the boyhood of the prince qonsort I In I iSis she published Highland Leaves or Leaves from thC l book of our life In the Scotch Highlands Fourteen years latft Vnm T < ° > < s r > w I k i appeared shortly before which the bi ography of Prince Albert her husband t was published written by Sir Theodore Martin but largely dictated by her majesty While the queen was very young she sent numerous anonymous contributions chiefly poetry to some of the magazines but the editors haying hay-ing no suspicion of the identity of this contributor returned the compositions with the usual regrets that they are not available It is an official but open secret that Nicholas csar of all the Hussies is engaged en-gaged upon a monograph on the subject sub-ject Waste of Public Funds in Preserving Pre-serving the Armed F6rce of Europe His father Alexander III while crown prince was A frequent anonymous contributor con-tributor to the Moscow Gazette aiming In his articles to convince the nlhfllsts of the sincerity and liberality of his ideas Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria writes constant on the subjects of botany bot-any and archaeology His unfortunate son Crown Prince Rudolph was the author of two works one on the Austria Aus-tria Fauna the other A History of Europe Both of these volumes are considered of high value Archduchess Valerie Is a frequent contributor Ot poems to a Vienna paper and th lately murdered Empress Bite I beth had written much In prose and poetry I King Oscar of Sweden strives lustily fort literary fame The Stockholm dead I emy awarded hint a necond prize for an anonymous article on Freedom notIons not-Ions ago A small collection of very i sympathetic poems and a memoir of Charles XII was published by him 3 short time since I b unhappy exqueen of ServJa Natalie Na-talie is i nov busily engaged upon an autobiographical novel Prince Chariest Theodore ot Bavaria i 1 the famous oculist has written numerous numer-ous treatises on the treatment of the eye 1 I Prince Henry oc Orleans has lately I f i published his j Adventures Thibet J I I Prince Roland Bonaparte Is i the author 1 au-thor of several scientific works and the Prince of Monaco has published a worfe on Life in the Depth of the Seaf f II |