blessing that has entered our family with of the Suez Canal in 1869, copious journals her. of which are extant. None show the charLike his younger brother, Prince Will-acter of the man more plainly, wherefore iam loves the sea, ship-building, and ap- I will devote as much of the remaining plied mathematics. But how could he be space as possible to an outline of it. spared for the navy when grim Tradition was already put out of humor by this youngest branch of the national defenses taking one of the family away from the army, Prussia's main-stay? Prince Heinrich is reckoned to be one of the pluckiest sailors afloat, enjoying his life supremely, and nowhere disguising his conviction that the German navy is superior to any other in the world. To mark the regard for the sacredness of education which his parents manifest on every occasion, let me mention a small anecdote of Prince William's earlier days. One day he appeared in his tutor's room, deeply mortified by what had happened to him. He related the circumstances, and asked, amid many tears, whether his father had not wronged him. The dilemma was somewhat awkward. But Dr. Hinzpeter, after considering a moment, said, "I think your father has done you wrong; if so, he will be sorry." With this, after setting his pupil to his task, he walked out of the room, and returned soon with a summons to the Crown Prince. Tremblingly did the son walk in, but was soon re-assured. When they left, the father took Dr. Hinzpeter's hand into his, thanking him. "I trust you will preserve to us and our children your uprightness and truth." The Crown Princess, on her part, does not occasionally drop into the schoolroom where her daughters Victoria, Sophie, and Marguerite are being brought up-she takes the lessons with them, resolved not only to advance by a knowledge of books on political economy or metaphysics, but to perfect herself year by year in those matters which are the groundwork of everybody's development. Self-education! A hard word for each and all of us-a claim that never sleeps, any more than our conscience. To this duty of self-culture have the two personages whose life we are accompanying devoted their years of comparative quiet. They read much, attend to the fine arts, see the people's life with their own eyes, and travel as much as possible, together or separate, as circumstances may prescribe. The most remarkable, perhaps, of those journeys which the Crown Prince undertook without his wife was to the opening It was at his father's desire that he began his travels with a formal visit to Vienna, the first after the hostilities of 1866. Francis Joseph and his beautiful Empress were not courteous simply, but cordial; as for politics, however, the hosts abstained from even the slightest allusion. At Venice he rejoices to perceive how wonderful a change the events of 1866 had wrought in the sentiments of the Italian people toward Germany, thus renewing an observation he had made during the previous year, when the marriage festivities of Prince Umberto with Marguerite of Savoy had brought him to Turin and Florence.* At Corfu, and then passing Ithaca and Delphi and Missolonghi, at Corinth and Athens, he observes upon the great physical beauty of the Greek inhabitants and their Albanian costume, "the most tasteful perhaps in all Europe," bewails the disappearance of every vestige of ancient culture, and upbraids the present generation for not planting so much as an olive-tree." The Acropolis of Athens he hails as an old friend, thanking Curtius (in thought) for having taught him to love that superlative type of architectonic beauty. By the King and Queen he is received as a near relative, and becomes. much attached to them. At Constantinople, as likewise later on at Cairo, he deplores the scant honor done to Oriental styles of architecture, and the too often tasteless introduction of modern European notions utterly out of keeping with the character of the people and its rulers. The failing finances of the Turkish Empire under the then Sultan also attract his attention, its impecuniosity being so great at times that the money obtained through octroi duties at the gates had frequently to be taken then and there to the Sultan's treasurer to supply some most ordinary and most pressing need of the household. But let us hear his opening remarks upon Jerusalem: "What makes me happy for the rest of my life is having stood in the places where Jesus Christ has tar "Che tipo d'un Teutone !" a voice from the Florentine crowd then admiringly exclaimed as he passed them on his steed. ried-the places on which He placed His | ward the Mount of Olives at the time foot-having beheld the mountains and when the sun prepares his move downthe waters upon which His eye rested ward, and then stops a moment near the daily. This applies chiefly to the Mount primeval trees of Gethsemane, of which of Olives, to Gethsemane, with the bed of it is not impossible that they were conthe brook Cedron, and to the grand rocky temporaries of our Lord, since the olivecoast of the Dead Sea, with the valley tree is very slow of growth, and reaches of the Jordan, and to the neighborhood an enormous longevity. I shall never of Bethlehem. These localities have no forget this first evening at Jerusalem, doubt retained their character as of yore, when I gazed upon the sunset from the and they can be considered as witnesses Mount of Olives, while at the same time of the deeds and teaching and passion of that grand silence arose in nature which our Redeemer, since fortunately no hand in every other place already produces a of man has been able to do violence to the feeling of awe and solemnity. Here the landscape, and also no religious zeal has mind could turn away from the earth, attempted to disfigure what preserves its and indulge undisturbedly in the thought historical character only in its simple which moves every Christian's inmost naturalness. In full contrast to this, the soul in looking back upon the great work usually so-called holy places are most of redemption, which took its most sublime scandalously overlaid and defiled." starting-point on this very spot. Reading one's favorite passages in the Gospels in such a place is a Divine Service in itself. "The fullest compensation," he says in another place (for the squalor and mustiness of the city), "is offered by a climb up the Mount of Olives. After stepping across the dried-up bed of the brook Cedron, and gazing upon the valley of Jehoshaphat, I reached the summit of the mount a short time before sunset, and had so chosen my standing-point that the whole extent of the city, following the gradual slope toward the brook Cedron, unrolled itself before me, whilst on the opposite side, the most originally beautiful forms of the rock walls of the Dead Sea, with its water mirror, and a portion of the valley of the Jordan, were visible in all their lovely grandeur. The rays of the setting sun lighted the city and the treeless, gray, and waste mountains with their golden hue, suddenly imparting life and warmth to that landscape. At the same moment the rocks of the Dead Sea, which forcibly reminded me of Loch Muich in Scotland, caught that glimmer of the evening sun which always bestows upon mountains so peculiar a spell, and brighter and brighter each minute were the waters under its effect. Now only could I form a notion of the beauty with which Scripture always connects the name of the 'holy and glorious' city; now only could I figure to myself how the Redeemer, tarrying up here, cast His pitying eye on this landscape and the buildings when He grieved over their inhabitants that they would not know, at least in this their day, the things which belonged unto their peace. Every stranger should first of all wend his way to "Later on in the twilight, with only a few lamps glowing around me, I paid a second visit to the Church of the Entombment, undisturbed this time by the repelling figures of the monks. This comforted me in a way for the loathing I had experienced during my official visit. At all times I love seeing churches late of an evening, and under a moderate light; but in this consecrated place, which is unique of its kind, a sacred awe crept over me. However, nothing could equal the sensations on the Mount of Olives." On the 7th November, a Sunday, the Prince attended Holy Communion at the early service. At noontime all Germans had assembled, and in the midst of them he most solemnly and publicly took possession, in the name of his royal father, of a considerable plot of ground inclosing the ruined ancient hospice of the Knights of St. John, with the church adjoining, which the Sultan had made over to his ally the King of Prussia whilst the Prince was at Constantinople. Only two more passages shall be mentioned before we quit Jerusalem and its environs. The gate through which the Crown Prince entered Jerusalem, that called of Damascus, near which Godfrey of Bouillon undertook his victorious assault, "no Christian prince was heretofore permitted to pass, because Mohammedan superstition predicted that in such a case the same would drive out the Moslem." And describing the spot on which he and his par ty bivouacked on their ride to Hebron and that seemed absolutely endless-with a Bethlehem, he dwells on the fact that dull pasha or two, with disgusting dogs"there lay the colossal mountain dikes dining off carcasses that remain about foror pools of Solomon, which, through aque-ever totally uncovered, only to enjoy a ducts, provided Jerusalem with water." (A humiliating memento to the waning nineteenth century.) During this whole progress through the Levant the Crown Prince never fails to mark each institution for the sick and the education of children, provided with deaconesses and teachers and funds from Germany. This is a form of mission among nations of differing creed against which not even the greatest skeptic could well take exception. The sick are tended, the children are instructed, and many of them entirely kept; but nothing is done to remove them from their form of religion beyond showing in acts of mercy and peace the unknown light that pervades and vivifies their foreign friends. No doubt the ordinary traveller has many advantages in seeing objects of interest which are kept out of sight when a royal personage approaches. On the other hand, there can be no doubt that, to take an example, no one saw the range of Mount Lebanon under more favorable circumstances than the Crown Prince. From its foot to the fastnesses on its summit the population, whether Mohammedan Druses or Christian Maronites, met him chanting and bearing palm leaves and green twigs in their hands, women kindling incense in front of him, or spurting orange-water over the wearied and heated traveller. "This constant, gentle shower," he remarks at Deir-el-Kamer, was by no means unpleasant. The ancient fortress of Beit - Eddin, until not very long ago the seat of an independent Christian dynasty of emirs called Beshir Shebab, possessed even to-day what our traveller had been longing for from the beginning, a thoroughly Oriental charaċter. Alas! its walls and the streets of Deir-el-Kamer, the chief town of Lebanon, had seen torrents of blood during the last massacre of Maronites by Druses, in 1860. Since then the Porte is bound to appoint a Christian governor, and Franko Pasha did the honors of his territory admirably. Truly Oriental, too, was the effect of Damascus upon the Prince's mind-"a pearl incased in emeralds," according to the journal. "Never can this impression pass from my mind. How gladly did I bear with the atrocious pavement view like that!" There was not a little that seemed peculiar inside the mosques, too, where "close to the faithful that performed their devotions others could be seen sipping coffee, several throwing dice (astragali), or seeking entertainment in other ways, each according to his particular inclinations," says the journal, discreetly. In order that nothing might be wanting to give their visit to Damascus a romantic coloring, our travellers were requested to grace with their presence a Greek wedding in their host's house late at night. The bride, in a flowing robe of pale pink silk woven with gold, stood with the mother at her side, whose hand was firmly clasped round her left arm during the whole ceremony, whilst the Crown Prince was placed behind the bridegroom. The whole company held candles in their hands except the couple before the altar. When the party broke up, the Crown Prince could not expect what actually took place, viz., that the whole home party sat up until 3 A. M., when our travellers had to leave, after a brief rest, in order to reach Baalbeck in a day. Before they reached Damascus on their return from "those majestic ruins" a fresh surprise was awaiting them-a troop of Turkish cavalry on camels' backs performing a number of military evolutions in a very dignified and precise manner, and even trotting with praiseworthy exactness. We will hurry across the sea to Port Said, where the travellers met not only the Khedive Ismail, the most amiable Empress Eugénie, Emperor Francis Joseph, and other royal guests of the Khedive, but had the gratification of making the acquaintance of Abd-el-Kader, whose fine countenance, bearing yet all the appearance of youth, highly energetic traits, and most attractive, mentally enlivened physiognomy, impressed the Germans greatly. There is little to say of the ceremonies that inaugurated the historic meeting of two oceans. But before Suez was reached from whence Frederic William sent a longing sigh across the Red Sea to India ("Alas! I shall never set eyes on that land")--the Crown Prince had a very great delight in watching Arab tent life at Ismailia, the half-way place on the ried-the places on which He placed His foot-having beheld the mountains and the waters upon which His eye rested daily. This applies chiefly to the Mount of Olives, to Gethsemane, with the bed of the brook Cedron, and to the grand rocky coast of the Dead Sea, with the valley of the Jordan, and to the neighborhood of Bethlehem. These localities have no doubt retained their character as of yore, and they can be considered as witnesses of the deeds and teaching and passion of our Redeemer, since fortunately no hand of man has been able to do violence to the landscape, and also no religious zeal has attempted to disfigure what preserves its historical character only in its simple naturalness. In full contrast to this, the usually so-called holy places are most scandalously overlaid and defiled." ward the Mount of Olives at the time when the sun prepares his move downward, and then stops a moment near the primeval trees of Gethsemane, of which it is not impossible that they were contemporaries of our Lord, since the olivetree is very slow of growth, and reaches an enormous longevity. I shall never forget this first evening at Jerusalem, when I gazed upon the sunset from the Mount of Olives, while at the same time that grand silence arose in nature which in every other place already produces a feeling of awe and solemnity. Here the mind could turn away from the earth, and indulge undisturbedly in the thought which moves every Christian's inmost soul in looking back upon the great work of redemption, which took its most sublime starting-point on this very spot. Reading one's favorite passages in the Gospels in such a place is a Divine Service in itself. "Later on in the twilight, with only a few lamps glowing around me, I paid a second visit to the Church of the Entombment, undisturbed this time by the repel ed me in a way for the loathing I had experienced during my official visit. At all times I love seeing churches late of an evening, and under a moderate light; but in this consecrated place, which is unique of its kind, a sacred awe crept over me. However, nothing could equal the sensations on the Mount of Olives." "The fullest compensation," he says in another place (for the squalor and mustiness of the city), "is offered by a climb up the Mount of Olives. After stepping across the dried-up bed of the brook Cedron, and gazing upon the valley of Jehoshaphat, I reached the summit of the mount a short time before sunset, andling figures of the monks. This comforthad so chosen my standing-point that the whole extent of the city, following the gradual slope toward the brook Cedron, unrolled itself before me, whilst on the opposite side, the most originally beautiful forms of the rock walls of the Dead Sea, with its water mirror, and a portion of the valley of the Jordan, were visible in all their lovely grandeur. The rays of the setting sun lighted the city and the treeless, gray, and waste mountains with their golden hue, suddenly imparting life and warmth to that landscape. At the same moment the rocks of the Dead Sea, which forcibly reminded me of Loch Muich in Scotland, caught that glimmer of the evening sun which always bestows upon mountains so peculiar a spell, and brighter and brighter each minute were the waters under its effect. Now only could I form a notion of the beauty with which Scripture always connects the name of the 'holy and glorious' city; now only could I figure to myself how the Redeemer, tarrying up here, cast His pitying eye on this landscape and the buildings when He grieved over their inhabitants that they would not know, at least in this their day, the things which belonged unto their peace. Every stranger should first of all wend his way to On the 7th November, a Sunday, the Prince attended Holy Communion at the early service. At noontime all Germans had assembled, and in the midst of them he most solemnly and publicly took possession, in the name of his royal father, of a considerable plot of ground inclosing the ruined ancient hospice of the Knights of St. John, with the church adjoining, which the Sultan had made over to his ally the King of Prussia whilst the Prince was at Constantinople. Only two more passages shall be mentioned before we quit Jerusalem and its environs. The gate through which the Crown Prince entered Jerusalem, that called of Damascus, near which Godfrey of Bouillon undertook his victorious assault, “no Christian prince was heretofore permitted to pass, because Mohammedan superstition predicted that in such a case the same would drive out the Moslem." And describing the spot on which he and his par have always admired in the Crown Prince | to be placed at their disposal for training is his power to wait patiently." And now (25th of January) whilst these pages are preparing for their flight across the Atlantic, this great capital is instinct with simple, unostentatious sympathy for the royal couple here spoken of, who are celebrating their silver wedding, or twentyfifth anniversary of their marriage. All festivities connected with this family event have had to be countermanded, owing to the demise of an uncle, Prince Karl, incidentally mentioned at the beginning of this paper. The young and the beautiful, more than five hundred among whom had prepared costly costumes for "historical processions," shed many a tear of disappointment. But everything is done to give pleasure to the Crown Prince and Princess. The city of Berlin has voted a sum nurses for the needy, and another, larger sum has been silently collected throughout Germany, to be placed at their disposal for any charitable purposes they may desire to assist. Several cities have combined to furnish their dining hall afresh. A "loan collection" of pictures in the possession of private owners at Berlin has been opened expressly for the occasion, etc. And the Berliner walks about perfectly contented in the bright sunshine of a frosty day in January. Frederic William and Victoria his wife with their children are at church. "Hitherto hath the Lord helped. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." AN aged man came late to Abraham's tent. He asked for bread; his strength was well-nigh spent; The food was brought. He sat with thankful eyes, 66 Where is that aged man?" the Presence said, That asked for shelter from the driving blast? "I've borne him long," God said, "and still I wait: |