Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-07
A MAD KINGS PALACE.
The Beauties of the island Horne
she Late Bavarfan King.

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she Late Bavarfan King.
LFrom the London Daily News
OF all the fantastical abodes which the
late Louis of Bavaria created for his restive
self the copy of the Chateau de Versailles as
see is that which best reflects the artistic
mind, which in the unerring pursuit of beau
ty has certainly never gone astray.
The castle, of which the central building
and the right wing only are complete, mass
of granite and solid stone adorned with stat
ues and relief and surrounded by an attica
at the height of thirty yards, stands upon a
bread eminence which gradually slopes
down to the lake on both sides. The view
from the windows embraces park in several
terraces, each adorned with waterworks of
colossal dimensions, SO that the eye has to
travel over mile of nature improved by art
before it reposes upon the blue surface of the
lake, encircled by violet hills in the distance
To exclude all else from view a trelliswork,
which in the course of years will form a
green wall fifteen yards high, is raised on
either side, at first wide enough to comprise
the terraces and fountains, and narrowing as
it slopes down to the lake, but always spa
cious enough for broad lawn in the middle
and two carriage drives.
AS we slowly ascend these drives from the
| lake the dimensions of the castle gradually
| appear, and by the time we have reached the
lowest terrace we fully aware that we
have one of the finest buildings in the world
| before us. The center of the lower terrace
| is occupied by the Latona fountain, consist
| ing of five basins of red, green and yellow
marble rising out of the other. The
| lowest is surrounded by sixty ty-four gilt metal
| tortoises and crocodiles, each the size of a
| man, from whose open jaws thick jets of
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Here monstrous golden frogs alternating
with strange beings, half men, half animals,
rise in strange confusion, and higher up in
| the center of the mountain kneels Latona,
| one arm outstretched in supplication, the
| ether wound round the baby form of Apollo.
The seventy two jets of water are SO ar
ranged as to pass over the white marble
| group of Latona and Apollo, who are seen
| in a huge crystal GLOBE which the suns rays
| gild and color. The water jets alternately
| rise and fall, forming thousand broken re-
| Elections and myriads of fitting diamonds
around the strange forms to which the move
ment of the water gives animation and
| warmth At either side of the Latona foun-
| tain two huge basins throw up thick jets of
| water which can be seen from all the coun-
| try around. Twenty broad steps of Bayari-
| an granite lead to the terrace above. The
center is gravel square, which allows an
unobstructed view of the palace and its
| three golden gates, to which, however, rises
another flight of granite steps. On the large
terrace there is an oval fountain at either
side, gracefully curved and adorned at each
of it's twelve angles by colossal statues and
/ groups of gold rive gods, sprltes ana groups
| of children.
| The front of the middle building, with its
| twenty two windows below opening upon a
narrow balcony, and it's twenty-five windows
above, is entirely taken up by the large gal
lery of mirrors, which is fanked by two halls
| cSl %hofo
rated from the gallery by high columns only.
| Notwithstanding the enormous space it does
not look empty OF desolate. The ceiling is
| arched, and the paintings, which commence