2 APRIL 1887, Page 13

THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

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you kindly give a place to the correction of a slight mistake in your article on "The German Emperor ?" Alexander L did not call himself "a happy accident." To the compliment of Madame de Steel, "Sire, your character is a constitution for your Empire, and your conscience its best guarantee," he replied in these words,—" Qnand cela serait, je no serais jamais qu'un accident heureux." This, you will perceive, puts quite a different complexion on the saying. One may as well be just to a dead Czar as to a living statesman, especially when the Czar was a very loveable man.—I am, Sir, Ac., D. A.