COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



As '' Fune:rai. Ambassador " is Wki^comed by Lord Dundonald 

 Received at the Mareborough House by King George V — 

 Viewed the Lying-in-State of King Edward — Protected 

 BY Red Coats after the Manner oe Royalty — Ceeebrated 

 English University Confers High Honor — Doctor of 

 Laws — Receives the Freedom of the City of London. ' 



/^OLONEL ROOSEVELT'S amazing receptions in Europe 

 ^-^ have made a breach in court etiquette the magnitude and 

 importance of which few Americans can understand. 



No similar honors ever before paid by royahy to an ex-Presi- 

 dent. Crowned heads visit Paris incognito to avoid raising any 

 awkward issue as to the precise position of the ruler of the French 

 Republic. It was years after France became a Republic before any 

 European sovereign of the first rank visited Paris in state. 



An ex-President has in the past only been recognized as a very 

 distinguished private citizen whom the sovereign of the country he 

 visited met with a gracious and friendly welcome. To European 

 eyes it seems very strange that crowned heads should have met 

 Theodore Roosevelt at railroad stations and, still more, that he was 

 asked to review troops in company with the Emperor of Germany. 



These are trifles to an American. They should be trifles every- 

 where. But in Europe questions of etiquette and precedence are 

 not trifles. They are realities. They control affairs. They affect 

 the public imagination. They influence events. Members of the 

 royal caste of Europe, numbering many hundreds of men and 

 women, hold themselves apart from all the world. 



Never since Benjamin Franklin upheld the glory and dignity 

 M. L. B. G. * 



