The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-01

| ousy. There are. however. two or three
F., Palaces in Seville which are open to the
/ public, under due restrictions They ara
! splendid representatives of their class so
! far as form and furnishings go. but being
uroccupied, are like beautiful body from
/ which the soul has departed.
one Of these is San Telmo. the heredita-
/ ~ seat of the Duke of Montpensier stand
/ ing Just back OF the Golden Tower on the
pahk or the Guadaiquiyir Here the lare
son OF Louis Philippe, who married the
Uhiy SISTER OF the former Queen Isabella.
4 nVed IN regal state, his halls filled with
elegant furniture. costly paintings, and
! ms grounds containing acres of orange
groves and rare collections of tropicai
plants. The palace was built for a naval
school. by the companions of Columbus
and dedicated to the mariners saint in
gratitude Tor having been saved from a
tempest. Isabella gave It to her sister
the Duchesse de. Montpensier. and after
the revolution of 1913 she and her husband
made 1t their principal residence They
were exceedingly popular in Seville
Where they did great deal of good by
careful and discriminating charity. and
also In the encouragement of art and skill
OF every description. San Telmo's marble
courts and halls embellished with arab
esques and verses from the Koran a foun
l.
ful beyond description; but being entirely
without hreplaces, are altogether too chill
~ IN winter 10 meet ones ideas of home
comfort. The walls are completely cover
ed with family portraits and souvenirs
evidently greatly priced and cared for
There are dozens of portraits Of Louis
PhiIippi. Sister Isabella Marie AmaIie
and Nine. Adelaide and less distinguish
ed members OF the two families. wirb
many pictures Of events in their careers
sucn as the baptism and marriage of the
Comte de Paris, Louis Phiippl. and his
i've sons on horseback. and Pripcesse AL
exandrine Nictoire represented as an angel
oil mercy visiting starving family. In one
of the patois are copies of the tombs of two
OF Louis dead children. The first child
was buried in the royal chapel of the Ca
ihedral When the second died the pa
rents naturally wished TO lay il there aIs,,
but II was not allowed. The greatest in
suit which the revolution offered them
was this refusal. in the words: You are
no longer royal; the royal chapel is not
FOR your offspring" The nearest that poor
Louis Pnilippi ever got to the throne
though he more than once figured in the
role OF pretender, was when his daughter
Mercedes, was married to the King (she
was the first Wife OF the late Alfonsol: on
which occasion 1t is said that he fell upon
his knees before his little girl and kissed
her hand-sD exalted were his ideas of roy
atty and so thorough Spaniard had the
French prince become.
The palace Of the Dukes OF Alba. in the
Gale de Duenas is semi-Moorish and
beautiful beyond compare; but being liz a
now questionable neighborhood was long
ago deserted by its aristocratc owners. 1t
contains eleven patios, a score of foun-
tains, and thousand marble pillars. be-
sides a wonderful garden and forest of
myrtles ard orange trees. over its magni-
ficent gateway the arms of the house of
Alba are emblazoned in colored tiles en-
circled by fiaHs taken in many hard-fought
battles: together with the ensigna of the
Golden Fleece and the significant motto:
''Tu IN ca ego pio ca" The crest-an an
gel holding in one hand the globe and
cross. in the other flaming sword. is sup
posed TO typify the position which that