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Show An i:uir.rtr' Miul.-itt DuyB. During his school caiver the German linpi ror wan a iimi't-l ol ihesludioiis (ier- J nan ymiih. He ton I; bin place as a coin- , aion pupil ill the public nciioul at l.'as-, !, md ph.y. -l aud htu.li-l wilh the oth-r ! icholars. At the linal eiaiiiiiiatiuii he was, iniii-ed. unly tenth in the li.it; but men In- was two ve:irs ymitiu'iT than his j luali-s, and was rightly considered to liave done so well that hit tutor was immediately immedi-ately knighted. There is no enmiming , lystetn in (iermauy; he paused without, aid or favor. At the University of ltonn I have sat on the same benches with him, and seen him, with hid little note book, writing down, like a hard worked reporter, aearly all the professor uttered in his lectures on tho great German authors or on the genius of our own Shakespeare. Tho prince was anxious also to study subjects not Just then in tho curriculum, and for these tho professors attended at hhj rooms. By the professors the prince was treated with an almost servile, adulation, and he won their esteem and love, lie hud them all in turn to dinner at his rooms in a villa which overhung tho Rhine, with the honey suck lo, clematis and Virginia creepers reaching over and down thy garden walls almost to tho water's edge. The queen sent him out from England a splendid boat, costing nearly 201), but he used it very little, and It generally lay moored by tho bank beneath his garden, gar-den, idly rocking in the ripple of the lUdue. But ho look part heartily In all tho amusements common among German Btudents, namely, beer drinking, dueling, duel-ing, torchlight processions, carriage driving, bathing and, in winter, sledging. sledg-ing. I do not think he ever fought a real duel, but ho mingled freely with the duelers, and in knelpen (drinking bouls) and torchlight serenades, sipping and Bitting with the sippers of light German beer till late into tho night. All tho Year Round. |
