EX-KAISER'S KILT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 14

EX-KAISER'S KILT

■ A inTOil;- ppaird r by i ho ex-Kaiser tcUalmoral LI, 1?- 78 f^^ *».« an instalment of Ins early We,' published in the London fapectator. Aftor remarking that "the H.-hlanders. unlike the British,.' h ave a great sense of humour," Wilhelm says that the visit was precious as being the occasion of an extraordinary proof of Queen Victorias attachment to him-she granted him permission to wear the Royal clan tartan (Stuart). Dickons was a favourite -of the. ex-Kaisor as a young man, and Scott maintained a high place in his esteem. He "gobbled" everything that Fell into Ins hands that had to, do with history, travel, war, or the sea, particularly the sea. Ehs tutor it appears, wished him to try his hand at poetry, and he made one attempt In his sixteenth year he started a trasedy dealing with Harmodios and Aristogeiton, the two Athenians who assassinated Hipparchog in 514 B.C. He took his task... very seriously, and carpentered jjis verses complacently and with' greatr^ilicenco. Finally, however, his inspiration waned, and he gave up his plan. • -■•