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THE EAGLE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 18ÍI5. SPAIN'S UNLUCKY KING. Ominous Future for the Juvenile Monarch. The Country Is Overburdened with Taxei and Harassed by Rouullloni Dark Spots In tlio Royul Family History. The eyes of all the world have been turned upon Spain lately, both on ac count of the firing on the Allianca by a Spanish gunboat and of the resignation of the Sagasta ministry under the most remarkable cireuir.stances. Spain is a land of moods and tenses, and at pres ent its people are engaging in both. The military, led by Field Marshal Martinez Campos, have been goaded to the point of open revolt by the taunts, deserved or otherwise, of the press of Madrid. The press, with the customary candor and courage of newspapers, have decided to fight, if necessary, and have taken dras'.u precautions in bar ricading doors and in purchasing arms. A boy of nine is king of Spain under the regency of hij mother, Queen Maria Christina, an amiable and estimable woman but a foreigner. The country is overburdened by takes, is harassed by rebellions, small though they may be, in Cuba and Manilla, and is threat ' ened at home by military revolt. How lonir the royal house can withstand all these shocks remains to bo seen. King Alfonso XIII., who will be un-1 lucky if superstition counts for any thing, is the grandson of Isabella II., a woman with a number of pasts. Un like the Isabella in the burlesque of "1402," she is not a "queen of great propriety," but is inclined toward ultra bohemianism. She came of .good stock, lüood does not always tell: or, perhaps in this case, it told too muuh. She was born on October 1J. MA her father being Ferdinand VII. of Spain, and her mother Christina, daughter of the king of the Two Sbilies, and grand daughter of Charles IV., another king of Spain. When three years old Ferdi nand II. died, and Isabella was ac claimed queen under the regency of her mother. The latter hud a love af fair with a young dragoon, who, be cause of it, was created Dnko dc Rian zares. After eleven years of "mar riage" the pope bestowed a nuptial benediction upon them. Shortly after ward Isabella reached her majority, the age of thirteen, and at on m validated her mother's lefi-handod marriage. Then Isabella concluded to follow in her mothers footsteps, ana did so with such enthusiasm and energy that soon all Europe was aghast at the young girl's amours. This lifo lasted three years, when a family council was called, and it wasdejided to miirry Isa bella to her couain on her father's side, Don Franoisco d'Assizi. Despito vigor ous objections by Queen Victoria, who objected to French predominance in Spain, the marriage took placo on Isa bella's sixteenth birthday. Don Francisco was a physical wreck, and had ho been anyone but a duke ho would hr.v? been c?-isidorcd an idiot. Naturally Isabella did not take kiclly to her husband, and bestowed her affec tions on Marshal Serrano. In 1851 Isa bella became the mother of a son whose paternity was laid at the door of Ser rano. This son afterward became Al fonso XII., the father of the present king. For thirty-five years Isabella reigned and revelled. Then came the revolution of 1808, and one night the wanton queen crossed the Pyrenees to find shelter at the court of Napoleon III. Isabella's husband lived with the ex-queen while Alfonso, her son, went to school in Woolwich, England. In 1874 Alfonso was called to the Spanish throne, and Isabella abdicated in his favor. The new king, who was only seventeen years old when recalled, proved a veritable Don Juan after his return to Madrid. Like his mother be fore him, his punishment came in the shape of an uncongenial marriage with' his cousin. The young queen died six months after her marriage, and ' Al fonso married again in the following year, his wife being Maria Christina, a daughter of Archduke Carl Ferdinand, of Austria, and a niece of the present emperor. Alfonso's excesses led' to disease, and he died on November 25, 1887. On May 17 of the following year the queen gave birth to a posthumous child, King Alfonso XIII. THE CROP OF NOVELS. of ATALE f TWO RATIONS. life: Works of Fiction Form the Majority Manuscripts Sent to Publishers. Novels form the largest part of the book manuscripts received by publish ing houses, says the Philadelphia Times. Out of 100 manuscripts re ceived during a recent fortnight by a ' prominent publishing firm 03 were novels. In another caso 51 out of 100 manuscripts submitted dur ing three weeks were novels. This same publisher told me that sometimes the percentage of novels would reach 75 per cent. This tendency for novel writing is undoubtedly due to the fact that the greatest "hits'1 in the literary world arc made with novels, and this stimulates the average writer to work in this field. Of all these novels it is plain to be seen from the figures given in the pre ceding paragraph that score:; must be written before one is acje;i'.ed. And even if a writer has a novel :i jj; pled the percentage of success i ; d.v.'í.ledly against him. During this i:ivesti;;::tion process I selected fifteen ycj..':j pub lished novels issued by :.!:: f.L.Vrout houses and 1 learned t!i::' '.'.:c entire number printed of these iUX!U was 41,000 copies, or 2.7J3 uv.u:; of each. And in this fifteen 0,000 eovLvj- were printed of ono novel ror.lly. the only successful novel of the L1. 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