When in the coming-time, 'neath the dim ocean line, Our dear sun shall sink in the wave serene, Tears will fill these eyes of mine, tears will fill those eyes of thine, Lowly kneeling, all will pray, God save the Queen! In his "Jubilee Celebrator's _Vade Mecum_" _Punch_ did not spare criticism of the arrangements and the profiteering of speculators in seats. Yet with all deductions and drawbacks the Jubilee "was a gigantic success, for it has shown that a quarter of the world loves and appreciates a blameless Queen, and rejoices to be her subjects." The visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Ireland in July prompts the usual cartoon attributing to Erin the familiar suggestion of a Royal residence in Ireland, a cure for discontent which _Punch_ was never weary of prescribing. Queen Victoria's eightieth birthday fell in 1899, and in the same number in which _Punch_ welcomes the anniversary he indulges in an unflattering pictorial comment on "Imperial Bruin" breathing forth compliments and pacific professions while carrying on dangerous intrigues in the Far East. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, had renounced the succession to the Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the lifetime of his brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, who had succeeded to the title in 1893. _Punch_ in 1899 congratulated the Duke of Connaught on a decision the wisdom of which was amply justified in the sequel. Here _Punch_ made no claims to prophecy: he merely showed the Duke of Connaught waving aside the proffered honour and gave as his motto Gilbert's often-quoted lines:-- In spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman. _Punch's_ lines on the death of the Duke of Edinburgh in the following year attain to a positively "lapidary" excellence in their discretion and brevity:-- Summoned to lordship in a stranger land, He left his English birthright of the main, Now, swiftly touched by Death's restoring hand, He is the Queen's again. The cartoon which linked Italy with Britannia as "Sisters in Sorrow"--King Humbert had been assassinated two days before the death of the Duke of Edinburgh--strikes the ceremonial and conventional note avoided in the epitaph quoted above, and noticeable in the cartoon prompted by the Queen's visit to Ireland earlier in the year. [Illustration: THE MAGIC CARPET (Wishing "Godspeed" to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, who are starting for Australia.)] To 1900 also belongs the first appearance in a _Punch_ cartoon of the ex-Crown Prince of Germany. In consonance with German Court tradition he was now about to learn a trade, and as his tastes were said to lie in the direction of typography, _Punch_ offers to take him on as a printing apprentice.