Foreign News: Bertie's Biography

KING EDWARD VII, Vol. I—Sir Sydney Lee—Macmillan ($8.00). A detailed biography of King Edward as Prince of Wales (1841-1901), written from a mass of official information by the editor of the British Dictionary of National Biography, authorized by King George V.

The author has been over-reticent in dealing with many of the episodes of "Bertie's" early life; he has been over-fearful of ruffling the supposed Germanophobe predilections of the reading public, as is witnessed by his fortuitous depreciation of the ex-Kaiser and his forced attempts to defend the Prince ; he has failed...

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