We congratulate the Prince of Wales most heartily on the
attainment of hie majority, or rather of his second majority, for the heir to the Throne comes of age at eighteen. The Prince of Wales has never set himself to be a charmer or to practise the arts of the popularity-hunting Prince. But, in spite of this fact, or rather because of it, he has won the respect of his comrades-in-arms, just as he won the respect of his fellow-undergraduates at Oxford. He won it because he is a good-hearted, sympathetic, good-tempered, and straight- forward young man. He has been brought early in touch with the very sternest realities of life. That experience may prove of the greatest use to him when in later life there falls to his lot the assumption of the highest responsibilities that a man can undertake. But this is rather a schoolmaatery way of writing of a young Prince who, when all is said and done, represents the best type of British subaltern—" light-hearted, hot jolly keen on his job."
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