Servia's New Monarch

As a Paris Art Student He Was Picturesque and Harmless

Tall, thick, dark, a Cossack in aspect, Peter Karageorgevitch, the new king of Servia, is a familiar figure to Americans who have studied art and letters In Paris, says Henri Pene Du Bois in the New York Evening Journal. He was for years an art student, but as he learned little it is probable that he adopted that profession for the pleasure of doing nothing.

As a student of painting he went to the Quat-'z-Arts ball; as a student of medicine he went to the medical students' ball; as a writer of odd, barbarous poems for an ephemeral review he went to the Cafe d'Harcourt. He was picturesque and harmless. As a pretender to the throne of Servia he made a good impression.

The faithful to his family that came to Paris paid court to him without a doubt of his earnest desire to be king. His classmates were sure that nothing would embarrass him so much as a revolution to make his accession possible.

He pretended to be a pretender, his Parisian acquaintances thought. There was no sign of his having the slightest popularity among them. He attained distinction in nothing. Alphonse Daudet, whose bohemianism was captivated by the personalities of the pretenders to thrones of Europe, made no mention in his "Kings In Exile" of Karageorgevitch.