12 MARCH 1887, Page 25

The Crown Prince of Germany a Diary. (Sampson Low and

Co.) — We must explain that this is not a diary kept by the Crown Prince. That would be a very interesting document, if it were written without reserve and printed without editing. The compiler of this book has put together the facts of the Prince's life, as far as the outside world has been permitted to know them, in the diary form, a form which we cannot profess to find particularly attractive. Still, it has its advantages. The biographer is thus able to efface himself absolutely, having no opportunity whatever of expressing an opinion about his subject. Tho most interesting part of tho volume, to English readers at least, will bo already familiar from what has been published here of the Queen's diary.