OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL
AND HISTORICAL
QUARTERLY.
EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENT.
RECOLLECTIONS OF ROYALTY.
Elsewhere in this issue reference has
been made to an ad-
dress delivered by our late Secretary,
Emilius Oviatt Randall,
before the Kit-Kat club, entitled
"Recollections of Royalty".
This address will long be remembered by
those who heard it as
one of the most interesting and
entertaining every delivered be-
fore a Columbus gathering. It was
published in the April num-
ber of the Kit-Kat for 1918. The
reader who peruses one or two
of its pages will not lay it aside until
he has read it through.
Excellent as it is in printed form, it
lacks, of course, something
of the charm of Mr. Randall's personality and his inimitable
presentation. On the evening of its
delivery he was at his best.
A year or more previous to this date he
had been in failing
health and some of his close friends
feared that he would not
regain his former strength and be able
to actively participate in
the numerous societies to which he
belonged. On the evening
that he presented his
"Recollections of Royalty", however, he
brought to his assembled friends of the
Kit-Kat Club and numer-
ous guests not only the rich treat and
rare humor of his paper
but joy at beholding him again at his
best and apparently re-
stored to health and vigor.
Mr. Randall in company with his father
visited the Paris
Exposition of 1867. In speaking of this
he said:
"The international expositions of
later years have surpassed it in
size, but none of them have been so
artfully organized, so admirably pro-
portioned in its several parts, so
perfectly adjusted to facilitate the display
of the character and culture of each
country. All eyes were turned
toward France, all roads led to Paris;
it outrivalled the 'Field of the
Cloth of Gold'; never before nor since,
such a concourse of distinguished
guests; within three months, the Emperor
Napoleon and Empress
Eugenie entertained three Emperors,
eight Kings, one Sultan, one Shah,
one Viceroy, five Queens, twenty-four
Princes, seven Princesses, nine
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