Recollections of the new Emperor.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2929, 20 June 1888, Page 2

Recollections of the new Emperor.

"A Former Tutor" of the new Emperor of Germany contributes somo scattered recollections of his royal pupil to" Murray's Magazine." He does not accept the common estimate of liis character, He writes; " Prince William, when I knew him was a frank, well-mannered, gomaßroy. JJtieli lias been said and written about his crippled arm that is far from accurate. I had been in the habit of sitting close beside him every day for weeks, before I ever noticed that his arm was in any way different from that of other people. Even then, I only observed it, because my attention was called to it by otlieMw Then I perceived that the left aripras always in almost exactly the sime attitude, and that the Prince could only move it very slightly, bending it a little up or a little down from its normal position across his body, as though it were fixed in an invisible sling; and that if he wished to use it to steady the sheet of paper on which he was writing, he was obliged to raise it on to the table with the other hand. No doubt this lack of power is a great loss and inconvenience, especially to so ardent a soldier as Emperor William, font compels him, I understand, to ride only horses that have been specially trained for his use, but it is, fortunately, no disfigurement whatever."