Identifier: memoriesofkaiser00toph (find matches)
Title: Memories of the Kaiser's court
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Topham, Anne, 1864-1927
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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soldier and atypical Hohenzollern, with supreme confidence inthe star of his family, and earnestly desires tolive his life in his own way, to move with thetimes, to be a child of his century; and it is pro-bable that with a little more experience of life,especially perhaps of that discipline of sorrowwhich initiates most men into a new sphere ofthought, he will develop into the man the worldhopes to see in him—something steadfast andstrong, and perhaps a little more silent. Atpresent he is very good-natured, very kind, verycrude in his ideas, very young for his age, veryself-confident and rather selfish, as the moderntype of young man is apt to be. He is popularin Potsdam, where he picks up little boys forrides on his charger as he comes home fromdrill, flings gold pieces abroad to poverty-strickenpeople, gives lifts in his motor-car to weary menon the road. He has all that facile, democratic,easy generosity which wins popularity, and pos-sesses great charm of manner together with a
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