Show Much Loved Noblewoman Looks Over Europe roc and nd Tall Talks s or of Books Book and Men 0 Presents English Views I 1 BY LADY 01 HENRY lIE rn- rn Republican Special Cable Lotion London March 21 A l.-A A charming little stOl story Is told toM about the tho Queen of or Portugal Por Por- of her capacity for or nursing When then 1 Jen walking ln In hl a wo wood with one oCher oC or lice her ladles ladies les In waiting she heard a tL cry err and found that a woo wood cutter culler hu had been injured b by the flip falling failing of ur u a branch blanch Tho The queen Immediately herself attended at attended at- at tended ended to him nn and then assisted him to his cabin ell hl I Later she called to lo see sec her shall never cr bo ho hot e t umlaut patient who said I In- In able to repay repa you ou but hut when I am ani better better bet bet- ter tel I will bring you a basket of or fresh v Cl eggs J an and butter butler in or order or to lo thank you rou The queen t U en visited England but a few fete months ago and tho the king In as tho guest of oC King E Edward Dom Carlos Carloa 1 was one unc of or the happiest men nten one une of or the merriest m and o one ie who took look his lifer life standpoint r I from the most Joyful joul Standing Standing- whilst shooting one ono snowy morning at al Wood Yoo Norton orton In Worcestershire he Ire said to a friend When I 1 Iam nm am In England I am happy E cr onu is so kind hind thc they make you feel as aft It If you ou were lucre the special guest uc t of or each one Every crr time I conic come I am urn am more at nt home and then thon 1 pointing to the snow now and the lie bleak landscape he said Maill I 1 lure Ip It It He seem seemed ell like a merry rY schoolboy l who was enjoying his hla holidays StayIng Stay Stay- hag Ing at Chatsworth with the Duke and antI Duchess s ot of D Devonshire he bombarded ur c chis his ambassador with snowballs The rhe Marquis de lie was saunterIng saunter saunter- In lug Ing- out n with two ladles when J ling King ln Carlos opened tire lire lie Ilc dared not re return return re- re turn lurn the shell but ut the ladles speedily llY protected their escort and a merry melr scene ensued The rho freedom of or England was to F Kin Ii g I C Carlos lIlos the greatest t jo Joy As 8 h he ho wandered wan wan- dered through the streets with a cigar In his mouth he he is felt sac safe The Thc great strong man with a Itin kindly l heart and a genial face acc and a ready laugh h lh this Is was the than mon who In 10 a L few ow brief moments was hurried from flom his throne Into the tho world beyond tI the tho grave 1111 The actual story stor of oC the lOur murder r has hns been lold told again and anil again In the Journals journ Journ- journals als of oC every cery nation during U the last lat two t weeks Never Nc e cr has lias a n r r. r a tragedy trat been enacted the husband the wife and the two boys Os O's tho the woman endeavoring endeavoring oring to protect her hOl son Ion warding 0 off death with a a. bouquet the tho mournful I vigil H Hol of ol the tho two queens through h that dark night In the presence of or death which h had ll come cone with wilh such terrible swiftness The Flip king find 1111 a t presentiment of or what would happen for rot when ho was presented presented pre pre- IJ by Senor enol Franco with the docu docu- document ment which caused such sueh deep dissatisfaction action faction he lie t said bald al I 1 urn signing my lentil death sentence U It does oos not nol matter much an and then ho Iw affixed his i rile fine VCr very morning he hc left lert to 10 go 10 to 10 1 Lisbon ls on hl hi his usually happy C race ace ce was i gloomy gloom and sad sod Undoubtedly he hc hall had badone I one of or those strange e forebodings which so often foreshadow o dl disaster The grief among our royal family In England En lan has boon been deep and l' l personal I and the presence of ur the king Icing anti ami queen and ad Prince and amI Princess ss of Walt Wales 3 s atthe at nt the requiem nii nta-c nta r hold held nt at the thc lie church chinch churchIn chinchIn In Spanish place on Saturday u has had hall i no pi i nt t tot for or some t c n I U 1 and 11 It was wao no good that for Cor th the time lh the uhl cr universal l sorrow which effaces ees differences of oC nationality should also efface cr tilt the difference of or creed A solemn 80 service ser was also Iso held hell In St. St Pauls Paul's cathedral ral nt 11 which the names of the Ring of oC Portugal QI and the tiro crown pi prince Inco were mentioned h In prayer Such testimonies 8 to the respect and affection in which the tile king was held h l In this country by Kind E Edward on and Queen AI Alexandra an rn were no nu mere ceremonial noIH who remembers ers tho tho 1 kindly ln h pleasantries that passed between bc them themon on the occasion of or their meeting at the Due house In fin Worcestershire Worcestershire Worcester Worcester- shire the tho Jokes joles and banter when 11 the and ill all royal roal group was photographed an the many little touch touches s which show the comradeship and kindliness which existed ex- ex C ex existed isted Iste between weon thorn them will 1111 realise that It was Wt i a personal friend of oC whom they were bon bereft As I 1 look 1001 out across the tho long of green reen fleWs to lo the blue hills which bound hound tho horizon I think today to ay of or Meredith whose little cottage there in ht the corner of oC a n sunny slope In this lovely lo Surrey country There lo today a he ccle celebrates rates his SOth birthday for COf he hc and ami Mr arc the last surviving s authors of that great Victorian mill mid literature T I hear already that ho ht Is 01 over over- er- er with cc congratulation I U In t I UI an and tt with Ith I the Ilie expressions sion of If honing and r r respect re- re P ct paid to M 11 J glut ut a 1 x i monts and hl Id 11 i i Tl N i ison- ison COn I allty It Jt t is la difficult to remember what Su u yours jc-ara CI r means ns in Ir I literature Hera t urt Dickens and nn Thackeray were well t on their way wa to fl Maine famo i when hf lw began h to write wale and It ItIs Itis itis Is still BUll more difficult to remember what was tho rho conventional work frame of or the action which George Meredith broke down own Tho The volume three no novel el was then Ihen In Its glory lory but Georgo Meredith broke broko the bonds OlI asunder cr h ho ha suppressed all the wearing details which tilled nIle I most of the la pages c I lie Ile burst Into these brilliant flights I Io o of poetical Imagination and with nn an and I unerring knowledge e of oC psychology his characters walked and moved In a J. J real r l world IJU Instead of or strutting upon a 1 stage Itu As 8 Is usually tho the case casc with nil all real genius his novels wore 1 Ignored but he altered not nolo neither dl did be lie swerve from his Intentions he lie just lust justI walled for Cor his nu audience I It Is js Interesting to know that thai nt at the he time when whap tho the appreciation of oC Meredith More Mere 1 Ic was still slow In lu this country countr lu in America he was already being rend read ren renwith with avidity lh After Arter some years ar of constant constant constant con con- stant disappointment he said sahl speaking o of Q adverse criticism In England My Iy mind looks elsewhere America ha has taught u us to lo appreciate many good 00 things In ht England but in nothing has ha this been more hore conspicuously conspicuously tho case cale than In the literature of Meredith |