What is more, he can make an after-dinner speech in French and he can joke in the same tongue. He is fond of late hours ; but no matter how late he may go to bed lie rises early the next morning. He is a keen sports man and a fair shot. At whist he plays an excellent hand. And whether the occupation bo Avhist, sport, or dancing, he enters into it with a hearty relish, which contrasts strangely with tho blase airs of the golden youth of tho day. His con stitution is an excellent one. He rarely has a day's illness ; and he is a living proof that no amount of tobacco can en feeble either mind or body. I believe that he was tho inventor of the now popular drink " lemon and soda." It has often been said that there is no Eoyal road to learning. Let anyone who believes this talk half an hour Avith the Prince of Wales, when he may perhaps ask himself whether this good proverb is so very true after all. There is a Eoyal road to knowledge, though few have the privilege of treading it. What most of us must gain from the study of books a Prince of Wales can gain from the living conversation of the greatest men of the day, from travels tinder the guidance of the most delightful of cicerones, from the best place at all the most famous sights and shows, from early conversance with reasons of State, and question's oJ! policy, from assisting at, and taking part in the making of history. The Prince is admir ably inf ormed. Of late, too, he has shown a taste and capacity for work from which one augurs that he will scarcely be the Itoi faineant which certain persons have prophesied and hoped he would be. There is no doubt that on questions of foreign affairs he will insist on having a voice. His interest in them is, of course, of a two-fold nature. He is a thorough Englishman, and very enthusiastic about the necessity for the maintenance of our prestige ; he is also a German prince. His German sympathies, however, did not parry him so far as to enable him to ap prove of ifhe spoliation of Denmark ; and lie even expressed himself with unwonted bitterness on the subject. 