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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2923, 12 September 1896, Page 1 (Supplement)

t( The Prince has endeared himself to the people no less by his good qualities than by his nearness to them; which shows that he is not only a Prince and the first gentleman in the land, but a man like the best of themselves. Therein lies the secret of the love which the English people has for him. He stands on the steps of the throne, but he does not wear the crown. The lady_ who wears it is to many but an abstraction; placed too far above common humanity for common humanity to grasp the idea of her apart from her exalted office. The people love and respect the Queen —but does so, for so it must be, at a distance. The Prince is prwsens Dcus- —the visible God." And it is a presumably sensible paper, Vanity Fair, which indites this sickening rubbish. Sir Walter Besant was sixty years of age last Friday. He has written 54 books in his time, including novels, histories, biographies and critical works. At his present rate of production he will soon have to his record a book for every year of bis life. This is a rather remarkable performance, but it is beaten in another branch of work, by the record of Eossini the composer, who at the age of 33 had composed 37 operas. President Cleveland is half an Irishman. His mother was a Miss Neal, of Baltimore, whese father emigrated to that city from Ireland. On his father’s side Mr Cleveland is descended from an Ipswich family that emigrated to America in the middle of the seventeenth century.