IMPERIAL MILITARISM.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 1

IMPERIAL MILITARISM.

The Emperor of Germany is said to be ] " pipeclay all oycr," to use a soldier's, phrase, .and his palace resembles a military museum rather than a royal residence..' .Every room iv it has a picturo of battles,, portraits, busts and statues of priuces. lu.ihe entrance vestibule figure two large . paintings, which represent his Majesty [ charging the revolutionary rabble m 18-13,' when he was a prince, and just before that rabble compelled him to fly to London, disguised as a coachman, under the name of Muller. In (he reception room, where

stands a bronze statue of Frederick the Great, there are a mi tube/: of shelves, some of which are covered with miniature models of cannon, rifles, and shells, and others with wooden statuettes, clad in the uniforms of almost every country in the world. It is in this suggestive chamber that his Majesty receives ambassadors and Ministers. From the reception chamber one passes into the flag-room, so called because the Prussian Guards have the privilege of depositing their colours in it. When the regiment turns out for a review or a march, it halts opposite the palace while the colour party go in to fetch the flags out; and the Emperor always comes out from his study, which is the adjoining room, to superintend the important operation of removing the colors from the stack. The Emperor's study looks as if it had been furnished under the direction of an imaginative novelist. Except for the family photographs huiig over the mantelshelf, everything in the room has some connection with war. The ink-stand on the table is made of half a cannon ball; the paper weights are the hoof 3of favorite chargers; the pen-bolder 3 are cut from splinters of Uhlan lances, and each bears a plate with an inscription describing it as the gift of ti soldier whose lance did good service in battle. Panoplies of regimental swords and bayonets, a few military books and army lists, and a number of maps, fill up the other parts of the room, tbe two chief walls of which are adorned with a pair of life-size portraits which at once rivet the eyes of a visitor. They are likenesses of the present Emperor of Kussia, and his mother, the Emperor William's sister.