New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-12
BATTERED HER CITIZENSHIP

In order 10 understand the concessions which
the Saxon government has been willing to make
to the ex-Crown Princess in return for her aban-
donnsent Of Saxon citizenship and German nation
altty which she acquired by her marriage but
which she did not lose by her divorce il must be
explained that as long the princess remained
Saxon the Saxon government had no right to
expel her from Saxon territory. In fact, her ex-
pulsion last Christmas was absolutely contrary
both to the law of Saxony and TO the law OF Ger
many. and furnished the ex-Crown Princess with
ground for heavy damages. BY inducing her to
give up her Saxon and German citizenship the
Saxon government not only protects itself from
any suit for damages in respect to her expulsion
last Christmas. but likewise renders it possible for
the Saxon government and for the German au-
thorites to keep her out OF the country
desirable foreigner.
AS have often explained before in these letters
such thing as Punishment longer exists in any
civilized country excepting Russia The French
government It is true. imposes exile in cases
a punishment for high treason. the sentence
being imposed not by any ordinary tribunal, but
by the Senate sitting high court Of justice.
Save in these instances citizen has legal right
remain in his native land, if at liberty no mat
how Objectionable his presence may be. 1t is
only the foreigners who can be expelled unde-
srable, and IL any attempts explain his
repatriation by assertion to the effect that
he has been banished from his native land it must
be taken TO that has fled in order TO es-
cape the legal penalties for his Offences which he
would be compelled TO face if he returned Fa
PRINCESS METTERNICHs "REMINISCENCES.
Princess Pauline Observation-Disclosures, following
the example of many celebrities, has begun: TO
publish her "reminiscences, which, in view of her
experiences as one Of the leaders Of society at
Paris throughout the reign Of Napoleon III, and,
since his downfall, thirty-ve years ago, the
acknowledged queen of fashion and social arbiter
at Vienna, arc bound TO prove exceedingly inter
esting.
first batch IS appearing in the principal Aus
TRAN monthly review and deals. among other
things, vita the fad at the Court Of the Tueries
for spritualsm- 1t may be recalled that the Spirit
ualist Home in particular made an extraordinary
impression upon Napoleon and Eugenie He does
not seem however. to have succeeded equally well
with the princess For, while she admits that h.
was a wonderfully clever conjurer, she absolutely
declined TO believe in him hypnotst a
spirttualist owing she declares, TO the pitiable
and contemplate role invariably played by the
spirits which he pretended to evoke.
HOW SCHILLER WAS HONORED IN DEATH.
The celebrations now in progress throughout this
country and in Europe in connection with the
tennta1 Of the death of Schiller, serve 10 recall the
fact that his body like that Of Goethe lies in the
so-called ''furstengruft," or mausoleum, OF the
reigning house Of Saxe-Weimar, in the cemetery
inst outside the town of Weimar. The two poets
are the only dead OF non-royal rank whose bodies
are entonbed in this mausoIeum, and it was by the
desire of their friend and patron, the Grand Duke
Charles that they accorded this unique species
Of rost-rnortem distinction the part of the reign
ing house of Saxe-Weimar. The mausoleum is well
lighted and located in grounds that convey more
the impression of a beautiful garden than OF a
cemetery Indeed it is the collins, with their
s1onsna, roof ranged in lines in the mausoleum that
alone recall to the mind Of the visitor the real char
scter OF the building.