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    • THE SPHINX TO THE PRINCE OF WALES.
    • BOTH SIDES OF IT!
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      The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

      THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . tiYxttli hg & rt | ptr x * $ ttkttt "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PR / ETERIT . "

      No. 95.] London, February 27, 1869. [Pri...

      No . 95 . ] LONDON , FEBRUARY 27 , 1869 . [ Price Twopence .

      The Sphinx To The Prince Of Wales.

      THE SPHINX TO THE PRINCE OF WALES .

      O, Noble Prince! You Are Now Beneath The...

      O , noble Prince ! you are now beneath the shade of the greatest and oldest monument of man ' s industry and perseverance , with the ghosts of forty centuries looking down on you . Heir to the richest , if not the most powerful , kingdom in the world , you appear b afore the face of one who has seen more dynasties pass away than you can number principalities . Listen to the voice of the Great Enigma , and learn wisdom from the experience of ages . You enjoy advantages which very few princes , if any , before you ever enjoyed . You have been brought up under the watchful eyes of parents whose virtues are known and admired throughout the whole civilized world j you have had constantly before you in yor . r youth a living example of blamelessness and purity of life to which history affords no parallel , and you hare been iadeed happy in winning a wife who is fit , not only to prompt b it to take her share in noble deeds . You have , through circ lmstances which should not bs without their lesson , been c Dmpelled to take a more active part in the duties of royalty than generally falls to the lot of an heir apparent , and have thus the opportunity of securing an apprenticeship to your kingship which ought to enable you to mount the throne with the confidence as well as the affection of your subjects .

      I have seen many great monarchs fall from their high estate through their own faults , as well as through misfortune . Ambition I do not think is likely to be your failing ; but the love of pleasure , which has been almost as prolific a source of ruin to kings and princes , may be . This is an age when the ingenuity of man finds vent in elaborate schemes for amusement and appliances for luxury as well as in steam engines and great guns . Pleasure is worshipped now as zealously under a Christian religion as she ever was in the days of gorgeous idolatry . Look upon the vast and solemn monuments of stone that tower ' above you—no less enduring , no less venerable is the memory of a good king . The ruler who employs his people in building up their country ' s progress will never need a pyramid to perpetuate his name . But the memories of dissolute princes and bad rulers are buried in the sand , the only trace of their greatness bsing a few whitened bones , round which the hyaena prowls , on which the vulture perches . You will tell me that you will have no power as King of England . I tell you that you of will inculcating have the greatest virtue power by you which 1 * examp , belongs le . Even to royal now rank your , that influence is almost boundless . Young men of the present day are courtiers enough to offer to their prince the flattery of imi-

      O, Noble Prince! You Are Now Beneath The...

      tation ; they will exaggerate his vices , if they fall short of his virtues ; and you have only to look not far from your home to see how a profligate monarch creates profligate subjects , and in what wide-spreading waves the degradation of intellect passes over a whole nation . The world is very clever now , If I were to come back to life I should give up asking enigmas , for in this age of double acrostics the trouble of inventing and of solving ought to be enough to turn one ' s brain inside out . Everybody would guess them , and I should have to pass most of my days in knocking my head against a stone . In my day few princes knew how to read , fewer still could write their own name ; now everybody , even the very dogs and horses and pigs , are ' educated , and it is in your power , Prince , to juide the literary and artistic talent of your country into a noble or into an ignoble channel , according as you suffer your declared tastes to be vulgar or refined . Believe me , the irksome monotony of regal ceremonies will be much easier to get through , if your leisure hours are passed in striving to aid struggling merit , and advance the progress of growing intellects , in encouraging what is high and noble in art , in discouraging everything that is vulgar and debasing . There are many enigmas which a prince might do well to try and solve now ; enigmas far more difficult than the simple one which GEdipus progress answered . , but Cut which the gordian , like . that knots , involve which the entang question le so many of man vital ' s problems of social life , and your fame will outshine Alexander ' s if not Alexandra ' s . Ponder , O Prince , on the few words which I have spoken , ponder on the memories which surround these grand and silent monuments ot the past , and your visit to the Sphinx will not have been useless .

      Both Sides Of It!

      BOTH SIDES OF IT !

      That It Unhappy Appears That Youth Th , ...

      that It unhappy appears that youth th , e the Emperor King of of Greece Russia , to has congratulate telegraphed him to knows on his of adhesion the matter to . the The Conference real explanation . This is is as all follows the : public — [ Private Telegram . ] St . Petersburg , Feb . 17 , 1869 . your Jf you toys don , your ' t k pocke nock under t-money at , and once send I'll General takeaway Ingaestshikof your wife , down to Athens with a mustard-plaster and a stout cain . [ Public Telegram St . Petersburg . ] , Feb . 18 , 1869 . his The Emperor determination of Russia congratulates to adhere the to the King decision of Greece of the on Conference courageous .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 27, 1869, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_27021869/page/3/