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Show INTI'.IIILSTINfl IIV.VASTIES. OltAIUOTntUTICS Of TUB VAIII0US ItUlIalFAl C 1UIVAI.TV, The Idea, not only of the publlo but of physiologists ami historians also, Is that n man derive more from nl, luuther than hla father; but It la curiously curi-ously contrndlcttil by the history of LuroMMiidyuaitttu. Tho sovereigns Inherit throne from their fathers only, or lu a caso Uko that of King Altihou-so Altihou-so XII, or our awn l'rlucuof Wales, from u mother who I heiress ami therefore there-fore represeuts not n foreign family, as a quern consort dots, but the reigning housu Itself, Yet every dynasty has presented certain marked and fixed teudenoles, extunling Uko the Hups-burg Hups-burg uuJer lip, even lu physical peculiarities. peculi-arities. Thu Bouillons, who Inherit from men ouly, liavu always lieon very royal, able, to relgu If not to rule, with ia certain largeness of view vlalblu even lu the unhappy Lout XVI,, and nu luvlncililaobslluacy, which has Illustrated Illus-trated or discredited litem according to Its ol Jolt. They have been dlllVreut men, but nobody mistakes thu llourlmu face, and we cauiiut recall one of the livute who has lifted the special ltourlionijuallflcatlon, whtcji atn can best detliia, an regality, al'lin Hopsbtirga have been much morualiku and havn nil exhlbltctl a certain Jovian serenity ns of men above the accident nf fortune ns well ns mot of tho oldla tlouanf life. They believe in tlnm. Mleia tun uraico ill-grew nud on the morrow nfler n ilefaiat ur on n day of victory equally feel and bahavu oa rightful vmprrort. Dignity, a we suppose ltourht to he colled, I, their special cliaraderlstlc combined with ia hurry lo net which cnnie out throughout their history nnd Is probably prob-ably an Inheritance from the visionary .Maximilian I. as sirenilousuw. has been that of the Hoheiiiollcnis, who for the rrV, havo reruia.tsl alumlneer lug, thrifty, but not unrrepected landowners. land-owners. One always think of them aa of a great race of tqulrtx, which Is what they have ersonally looked, thiugh FreJerlck the (Ileal rose higher, high-er, and would havn hern taken for a iwrautiago In any society lu the world. The llrlllili reigning family, which has never erased tu I (Irrniau In op la-arance, haanlwny cxhlbtteil lu different dif-ferent ways a character nf strong ordl-tiarlnrM ordl-tiarlnrM which llie Lngllali iieopln unileralooil a the IliinoverlausillJ, nnd, on the whole, with most curious Utile outbreaks uf populnr contempt, have agreed In niiova. II I nchar-atter nchar-atter which rise nt crises, nnd somehow some-how tmprce'a-s these about ttietn, proliablv from a conviction, nlavnya grateful to KngllahmeUi that they will never do anything whully unrxtcteil. What the Hugllsli would do with n really original mo.lsrch It Is Imposslblo to say; probAhly muvo nn address of both house iraylughlmnuvertutiKak In public except through a responsible minister. Thu house of Honajmrte lias characteristics charac-teristics a, marked at Ih'iteof n'ny older amllles whoso habit of reigning ha, U-vti lea siaimodlo. Ila members have all shown ability, have all been ambitious of Ihronci to bo king Is Iho role of llonapnrles as to be admirals aud generals Is of su many naval mid military families and tare all shown nn Incapacity to feel the pressure of oblUatkins, whether religious or social or iuor.il. They havo not been gentlemen, gentle-men, not because thry have any liking for cumniou ways, but bocause lo 1 u refined la to submit to mi Imiuonsu number of ruhai and obligations which oppressed them much as clothe op-press op-press a Maori. They have been at heart llkotheaiioleiit Croiars, salute a legl-bus, legl-bus, unbound by laws a position which, by the way, the great Itoua- tarto used to claim for himself, when alklng with hla Intimates, In to many words. |