Both would like to know all things, and both have had, and have exercised more, perhaps, than any other two living men, the power to bring to themselves the central figures in all manner of world events, and thus learn at first hand, from acknowledged authorities, about the subjects that interest them--which is to say, everything.
"He frankly admired America.

I don't mean that he said so for the sake of courtesy to me, but that he has--or did have, then--an immense and rather romantic interest in this country.

A great many Germans used to resent this trait in him.

America held in his mind the same romantic position that the idea of monarchy did in the minds of some of us.

I mean that the average American went for romance to stories of monarchy, but that the Kaiser, being used to the monarchial idea, found his romance over here.