At the unveiling of the memorial to the Empress Frederick
at Homburg on Tuesday the Kaiser paid an eloquent tribute to the powerful influence exerted by his " illustrious mother " on education, social life, art, and philanthropy in Germany. She was, he said, proud of her Royal and national origin, " always concerned to give effect to impressions and experiences of her youth in her second home in Germany," and he specially noted her successful labours to extend the education and the earning capacity of women. In his sum- mary of her many fine qualities he laid stress on her high spirits, her courage, her wonderful fortitude and patience in suffering. Finally, he described her as earning abiding remembrance as "the loving wife and constant companion
of the Crown Prince, the head of a happy family circle, a partaker in all the great incidents and occurrences of her eventful life, the thoughtful consort of the Emperor and King in anxious and sorrowful days, the widow in her dignified mourning at the. early close of her own career." There was, in truth, a ring of genuine admiration about this address which is not always to be found in Royal eulogies, and which will be peculiarly gratifying to English readers.
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