VICTOR EMMANUEL IN PRIVATE LIFE. A.D.. I

Victor Emmanuel had always been a man of the simplest tastes and habits, and his résidence in Rome had in no way changed his mode of life. He rose at a little past four o’clock summer and winter, and took a small cup of coffee before going out for his morrjing walk. In the shooting season hç never went without his gun and dogs ; his favourite of the canine species being an English terrier called ‘ Milord,’ a créature of extraordinary sagacity and dévotion, and as a protection to his master as good as a régiment of soldiers. When the king died the poor dog, tied up in his house, sent forth the most pitiful cries, and refusing his food almost perished of hunger. On returning from the country the king transacted business of various kinds until his simple breakfast between eleven and twelve o’clock, which was also his dinner, for he tasted nothing more till he took a light supper at a late hour. He then rested for an hour or two, reading and smoking, and afterwards resumed his multifarious duties, ofanswering correspondence public and private, and giving audiences to ail sorts and con-