EDUCATING PRINCES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18015, 6 March 1924, Page 2

EDUCATING PRINCES.

THE SPOILED AND THE UNSPOILED.

The statement, apparently authentic, that the eldest son of the late Austrian Emperor and King of Hungary is being educated with the use of pre-war maps, the intention of which is to keep from him until he la grown up, the history of the last ten years, certainly deserves a place in the curious history of the education of princes. Few of these pages are as pleasant as the story of how Victoria was gradually brought to a knowledge that she was one day to be Queen, and how, when she had grasped the fact, she said quietly, "I will be good. At the other end of the scale might be put the education of the great Frederick (writes a correspondent of the ''Manchester Guardian"), Whose classical tutor was chased out of the palace, whoso French books were burned, whose flute was broken, who was thrashed and kicked and starred. An education which at least left its mark was that of George 111., with its constant reiteration of "George, be King." One of the most conscientious attempts at a complete education for a prinoe was that devised for King Edward by the Prince Consort, though even the boy's natural docility could not make a success of it. The character of the education of another heirapparent may be judged from the fact that the tutors of George 11. 's eldest son complained to his mother'of His conduct to them. "Pages' tricks," said his mother, indulgently. "Would to God they were," said the tutors, "but they are the tricks of lackeys and knaves!"

A princely education which seems to have been successful was the "English education" of the present King of Italy, an affair of Spartan life, exhaustive lessons, and the garnish of "Remember. Prince, that when a man is a blockhead, whether he be a prince or a he is a blockhead." The Empress Eugenie was a Spartan mother, and attempts to mitigate the severity of the Prince Imperial's education were met with a cold, "My dear, you are Louis XVI.: I am Louis XIV."