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62 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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, The Thomas History Carl Of Yle Frederi...
How beautiful is the story of tlie Salzburg Pilgrims ! Let those read it wlio wish , to know what Friedricli WiHielm in his better inind
could accomplish for the benefit of his fellow-creatures . Some ing years of lat the er , the nourishing Crown Prince condition , writing of to the Voltaire once desolate , says , in Prussian
speak-Lithuania , " All this that I tell you of is due to the king ; he made regulations full of wisdom , he not only gave the orders but
superintended the execution of them ; it was he that devised the lans and himself got them carried to fulfilment , and spared neither
p care nor pains , nor immense expenditures , nor promises , nor recomensesto secure happiness and life to this half million of
thinking p beings , , who owe to him alone that they have possessions and felicity in the world . "
We must not omit a more detailed mention of the double-marriage project , though it never had much solid foundation , and came to
worse than nothing , for it occasioned much of the domestic trouble which beset the family of the Old Schloss .
Qaeen Feekin , with a not altogether unusual leaning towards her own kith and kinhad set her heart on uniting her eldest son and
the daug Princess hter to her Amelia eldest , of nep Eng hew land and . niece The , young the Prince people of themselve Wales and s
appear also to have ardently desired the success of the project ; though we do not find that either pair had ever met ! It is certain
that his mother persuaded _" Crown Prince Friedrich , who was always his mother's boy , and who perhaps needed little bidding in this
instance , to write to Queen Caroline of England , letters , one or several thrice-dangerous letters ; setting forth ( in substance ) his
deathless affection to that beauty of the world , her majesty ' s divine daughter the Princess Amelia ( a very paragon of young women , to
, judge by her picture and one ' s own imagination ; ) and likewise the firm resolution he , Friedrich , Crown Prince , has formed , and the
vow he hereby makes : Either to wed that celestial creature when permitted , or else never any of the daughters of Eve in this world . "
. But his vows were of small avail ; for the Kaiser was unwilling , and set his emissaries to work in the court and " tobacco-parliament "
of Berlin , to poison Friedrich Wilhelm ' s mind against the plan ; " and after pros and cons of interminable length , and dreadful
domestic convulsions , the double marriage comes to " fearful shipwreck , " and Wilhelmina is suddenly wedded to Prince Friedrich of
Baireuth . Wilhelmina ' s wedding has a chapter to itself , a chapter fall of gossiand detailand not unpleasing , since among the
various suitors p for the hand , of the Princess Royal of Prussia a far worse miht have been chosen" for he proved a very rational ,
honorable g , and eligible young prince , , " and privately a much better domestic bargain than Prince Frederick of England . " Who knows
but , of all the offers she had , ' four' or three ' crowned heads' among them , this final modest honest one may be intrinsically the best ?
Take your portion , if inevitable , and be thankful !"
62 Notices Of Books.
62 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/62/
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