Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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vant.The Prince of Naples is a man small of stature,who has never given any indication of excep-tional ability or statecraft. At the time whenthe King was pressed to exercise his royal pn;-rogative and assert himself moi-e in the govern-ment of his kingdom, it was reported in Home tliat the King had said : If you want anythinglike that to be done, let me abdicate and my suc-cessor will have less scruples than myself. The Prince was reported, not unnaturally, per-haps, to have expi-essed very strong opinionsagainst Crispi at the time of the disaster inAbyssinia. But for the most part he has kepthimself out of politics, and the world waits withinterest not unmixed witli curiosity to see thenote of the first wcrds which he will address tohis subjects. He has one specialty which doesnot shed much light upon the line of his futurepolicy. He is a devoted student of numismat-ics, and his collection of coins is said to be oneof the finest in Europe. He married, four years ago, the Princess of
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VK^TOH F.MMANITKI, III., ITy\T-YS NKW KINO. 322 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REI^IEIVS. Montenegro, a beautiful wo-man, simple and unostenta-tious, wlio was little qualifiedby her training in the moun-tain hamlet of Cettinge toplay the role of a great Eu-ropean queen. The mar-riage, unfortunately, has notl)een blessed by offspring, sothat in case of the demise ofVictor Emmanuel III. thecrown would pass to hiscousin, the Duke dAosta,the son of King Amadeus ofSpain, who married a sisterof the Duke of Orleans. TheDuke dAosta is an artilleryofficer of commanding pres-ence and of considerableoratorical ability. He has afamily,—both sons anddaughters,—so that, even inthe case of another catas-trophe, the succession is secured. The youngerbrother of the Duke dAosta, the Duke ofAbruzzi, is in the arctic regions, on his way tothe north pole. King Humberts assassin was an Italian, aswas also the assassin of the Empress of Austria.His crime, whether prompted by the frenzy ofan individual

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