BOYHOOD AND COLLEGE DAYS OF EDWARD THE SEVENTH
His Education Considered—A Complex Problem—Baron Stockmar and others Advise—Advent of Mr. Birch—A Thoroughly English Education—Religious Training—A Family Likeness—The Prince is Confirmed—Charles Kingsley's Influence—Studies at Edinburgh—The Boiling Lead Incident—Albert Edward as a Reader of Romance—Studies at Oxford—"A Prince at High Pressure"—Feats of Horsemanship—"A Capital King, my Lord"—Cambridge Days—"Out of Bounds" and its Sequel . . . 57
SEEING THE WORLD
A Trip in the State Barge—Across the Border to Scotland—Albert Edward as a Highland Laddie—The Prince at the Great Exhibition of 1851—At the House of Lords—The Crimean War and its Price—Napoleon III. and the Royal Children—A Trip to Paris—Delightful Days—The Seeds of the Entente Cordiale—Back in England—A Flying Visit to Germany—A Fortnight in the Emerald Isle—The Continental Tour of 1859—Presented to the Pope—A Glimpse of Gibraltar—Standing on Manhood's Verge—A Prince at Prayer . . . 71
ENGLAND IN EDWARD'S CHILDHOOD—CONDITION OF THE WORKERS
A Gloomy Outlook—A Nation Awaking to Consciousness—The Exploitation of Child Labour—Lord Shaftesbury's Good Work—The Workers Combine—An Early Cotton Strike—The Queen's Speech, 1839—"The Duke" is Ready—The Chartist Rising—The Newport Attack—Cobden and the Corn Laws—Coal Mining Horrors—The Act of 1842—Ireland in a State of Famine—Roadsides Strewn with Dead—Father Mathew's Noble Work—The New Poor Law—O'Connell—Albert Edward Visits Ireland—An Enthusiastic Reception . . . 91
ENGLAND IN EDWARD'S CHILDHOOD—SOME OTHER ASPECTS
The Passing of the Stage Coach—Seatless, Roofless Railway Coaches—First Steamships across the Atlantic—Progress in the Navy—The Coming of the Ironclad—Jack Tar Put into Uniform—Abolition of Flogging in the Navy—The Advent of the Breech-loader—The Volunteer Movement in England and Scotland—London Lit by Gas—The Manufacturing Centres Follow Suit—The Electric Telegraph—Its Value Demonstrated—The Five Needle Machine—The Laying of the Dover-Calais Cable . . . 111
