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band's mind. Bismarck regarded the Liberal 

 Englishwoman as his chief antagonist and most 

 dangerous enemy as long as her husband lived. 

 He feared she would import into the empire that 

 he had built British constitutional liberties which 

 he detested, or that she would endanger its exist- 

 ence by influencing her husband when he became 

 Emperor to sacrifice its vital interests through 

 being made an instrument of some design of Eng- 

 lish policy. The Crown Prince and Princess, as 

 well as the Liberal party of Germany, opposed 

 the military armaments, the annexation of 

 Schleswig-Holstein, and the invasion of Austria, 

 but the man of blood and iron had his way and 

 was successful, and the multitude who had exe- 

 crated him now acclaimed him. The Crown Prin- 

 cess thought the conquest of Hanover an act of 

 spoliation, and in the French war she raised her 

 voice to prevent the bombardment of Paris, 

 which Bismarck thought a most unjustifiable in- 

 terference. When negotiations were taking place 

 for the federation of the German states the 

 Crown Prince carried on separate negotiations 

 with a view to an empire proceeding from the 

 people, to be governed by an elective Parliament 

 with responsible ministers. When the Crown 

 Prince became the Emperor Friedrich I, on March 

 9, 1888, he was sinking rapidly with a fatal dis- 

 ease, and in ninety-nine days he was succeeded 

 by his son Wilhelm II. This young prince had 

 been placed by his grandfather under the polit- 

 ical tuition of Bismarck, who had impressed 

 upon him the sacred rights and responsibilities 

 of the Kings of Prussia, the evils of Liberal ideas, 

 and the danger of English influence. The rela- 

 tions between the Emperor and his mother were 

 consequently unpleasant in the extreme. When 

 Wilhelm withdrew his favor from the old Chan- 

 cellor and unceremoniously dismissed him, and 

 when he asked the Empress Friedrich to use her 

 influence in his behalf for the sake of the coun- 

 try, she replied that through his own action she 

 had been deprived of the power of influencing the 

 Kaiser. She found her position in Berlin unbear- 

 able, and retired to a country place at Kronberg, 

 near Frankfort, calling the house built for her 

 Friedrichshof, in memory of her deceased husband. 

 The bitterness and chagrin of her life were soft- 

 ened when the Kaiser began to show some re- 

 spect to his father's memory and some filial re- 

 gard for her. She was seized with cancer, the 

 same malady that carried off her husband, and 

 had a lingering and painful end. She left six 

 children: Emperor Wilhelm; Prince Heinrich of 

 Prussia, who married Princess Irene of Hesse; 

 Princess Charlotte, wife of Prince Bernhard of 

 Saxe-Meiningen ; Princess Victoria, married to 

 Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe ; Princess 

 Sofia, married to the Crown Prince of Greece; 

 and Princess Marguerite, married to Prince Fried- 

 rich Karl of Hesse. 



Warr, George Charles Winter, an English 

 scholar, born in Toronto, Canada, May 23, 1845; 

 died in London, Feb. 21, 1901. He was educated 

 at Cambridge, and was elected to a fellowship, 

 but declined on account of the religious tests 

 then in force. In after years he took part in the 

 movement for the abolition of such tests. In 

 1874 he was appointed classical lecturer in King's 

 College, London, and professor there in 1881. He 

 assisted in founding the women's department of 

 King's College at Kensington, and was classical 

 lecturer there also. He published in 1883 The 

 Tale of Troy: A Classical Masque, and followed 

 it in 1886 with The Story of Orestes, from JEs- 

 <:hylus, the two plays being issued in one volume 

 in 1888, entitled Echoes of Hellas. His other 

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works include a translation <>\ 'h-nU'el'-i History 

 of Roman Literature (1HHO); '| 'j i( . (,r<...)< KI,J<. 

 (1895); and The Oresteut of ylCM-hylu.i, a verse 

 translation (1901). 



Watkin, Sir Edward William, :m Kn^lM, 

 railroad manager, born in London in LSI'.); died 

 there, April 14, 1901. He was the son ol :> Lon- 

 don merchant, and engaged in the railroad bn-i 

 ness when it was new and uncertain, heeon/m^ 

 secretary of the Trent Valley Railroad in i.si.Y. 

 and after this was absorbed by the London and 

 Northwestern, general manager of the Alandi.-- 

 ter, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, of which he became 

 chairman. In 1867 he became chairman of the 

 Southeastern to extricate it from financial diffi- 

 culties. In 1872 he performed a like service for 

 the Metropolitan. He was a director of the most 

 important British companies, and at one time 

 president of the Canadian Grand Trunk. When 

 the Erie Railroad was plunged into bankruptcy 

 by Fisk and Gould he was sent to the United 

 States to protect the interests of English invest- 

 ors. On his return he introduced some American 

 methods in the British companies that he man- 

 aged. He was elected to Parliament from Great 

 Yarmouth in 1857, but was unseated on petition. 

 He represented Stockport from 1864 to 1868 and 

 the borough of Hythe from 1874 to 1895, first as 

 a Liberal and after the division of the party on 

 the Irish question as a Liberal Unionist. He was 

 knighted in 1868 and made a baronet in 1880. 

 Asa railroad manager he had little experience 

 of practical details. His distinction was in the 

 conception of large schemes of amalgamation and 

 expansion. He carried the Sheffield line, now 

 known as the Great Central, to London, but did 

 not succeed in uniting with it the Welsh and 

 other railroads. He was the chief promoter of 

 the Channel tunnel, which was condemned for 

 military, not for engineering or financial, rea- 

 sons. 



Watters, Thomas, an English scholar, died in 

 Baling, Middlesex, Jan. 10, 1901. From 1863 to 

 1895 he had been in the Chinese consular service, 

 and his knowledge of Chinese Buddhism was ex- 

 tensive, while he possessed also considerable fa- 

 miliarity with Sanskrit. He published Lao-tzu: 

 A Study in Chinese Philosophy (1870); A Guide 

 to the Tablets in a Temple of Confucius, Shang- 

 hai (1879); Essay on the Chinese Language 

 (1889); and Stories of Life in China (1896). 



Watts, Alfred Alaric, an English author, 

 born in 1824; died in London, Jan. 2, 1901. He 

 was a son of the English minor poet Alaric Alex- 

 ander Watts, and in 1859 he married the eldest 

 daughter of William and Mary Howitt, the well- 

 known authors. Besides several poems, Mr. 

 Watts was the author of a pleasant, gossipy life 

 of his father (1884). His more talented wife 

 died in 1884. When the French poet B6ranger 

 died, in 1857, Mr. Watts wrote and published a 

 poem on the funeral, which began with the lines: 



Bury Beranger ! Well for you 

 Could you bury the spirit of Beranger, too ! 

 Bury the bard if you will, and rejoice ; 

 But you bury the body and not the voice. 



This poem may have been, and probably was, the 

 inspiration for the famous John Brown song that 

 appeared nearly three years later. 



the University of Upsala and became Professor 

 of Esthetics in 1846. He was called as counselor 

 to the Ministry of Education in 1865, became 

 Councilor of State in 1870, and in 1875 Governor 



