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Show Crar as Composer of Music. i For tho Inst IS months thn cxnr has Yffli virtually a prisoner In ono of bis' own palace nnd In the Intervals .of stnto work ho has solaced himself with composing music and writing rcrso Ills iKielry Is melodious and tarefully polished and his music Is miiancholy and Inspired by n spirit nf fatalism Some three years ago some Of tho cinr's poems were published Bnder tho pseudonim of Olaf with Bitulc by his cousin tho (Irani! Duke D'Assln, but ho has himself set some cflil vorses to music with n consider iblo amount of tssto nnd n real knowl elfo of harmony .Nicholas II has a fine collodion uf violins, of which hs Is vory proud |