The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-18

after having forfeited 10 by his inci,p pond.
encc and boldness Of Judgment and liberal
; IDEAS. and b.sn obliged 10 absent him
} seif. The Prince Of Prussia Caf,crwar,l
} Emperor William H. was anxious to i'm
prove his park az Babeisbcrg IN Po,ssiam.
and told his gardiner 10 write to the
gardener at Muskau requesting him 10
obtain . few weeks leav. from his ma ster
70 come and lay out the garden at Babsls.
berg. Tho Prince OF Prussia there,pon
received a letter from Prince Pucklcr
telling him that the real gardener was
himself. and that he was starting forth
with for Babelsberg for a consultation
with the Princes gardener. When he
arrived he undertook the whole OF the
gardener business and began to lay on:
walks, ciumps Of trees Ind so forth
Some days afterwsrd the Prince Of Pr,ls.
sin found him hard at work. and naturally
thanked him, asked him TO dinner. and
at the time Of her writing he had become
quite the fashion Tho Prince invited
tho Duchesse 10 visit him. and offered h il
help in the park at Sagan About three
weeks later she made the visit and pro-
noun,es Muskau n perfect paradise.
fairyland. created out of a desert waste
| Curiously enough. the Prince wished 10
sell it, simply because IL was finished and
he craved the work of creating a new
paradise. This distressed the Princess.
concerning whose remarkable relations
to the Prince the Duchesss comments.
AZ her editor informs III in a footnote.
The Princess was divorced by Count
Charles Pappenhem in 1917 and married
Prince Herman PNckler that same year.
They were divorced in 1929 because Prince
Pnckler. who was almost ruined 10y has
extravaganza. wished to marry rich
English woman. a Miss Harriet Hamlet
This project failed and the Prince and has
wife, though legally divorced began life
again very happily under the same roof.
though they were not married. queer
development OF the diplomatic saunbbls
between France and Russia IL recorded
by the Duchesss. When the Due dor
leans died the Empress OF Russia and the
Prince 81 Prussia. who was NJ st. Peters
burg. tried TO persuade tho Emperor
Nicholas to take the opportunity of writ
ing directly TO hing Louis Philippe. lie
refused. but told the Empress that he
would authorize her to write 30 the Ouch
esse d Orleans The two Processes had
known each other IN Germany and be.n
sufficiently Intimate Ia address each other
IN the second person singular. The
Empress wrote in German. using THIS |
form. In the cold French answer she re-
celyed this form Was absent She was
much hurt and declared that II was very
rude tn reply in another language than
that used by tho first correspondent. and /,
that IL tho Duchessc d'Orl4ans thought |
It her duty to use only the langlIag. Of
her ch,ldren's country. she. the Empress.
would do the same next tim. and write
ia Russian.
At this point We TAX. occasion to recur
to the peculiarities of the Eng sh. and to
evidences Of carelessness Tin addition
I" had prooireadins, winch annoy the
leader The Duchess. Describes the
maIsolcum at Charloitenburg saying that
the effect IN somewhat Moorish and the
general appearance by no means Christian.
Then comes the following sentence which
Ne world like 10 have interpreted. "Protes-
tant architecture is essentially dry both
in outward form. in its general worship
and IN tho essence Of its mutable
doctrines In the Memoirs for Isso We
encounter another inexplica bio passage
The Duchesss WRITES Sine. Louis. sic
at Rome. Chan9arnier is said to have
appeared less frequently at the Elysee
A footnote furnishes tho well known
letter to Edear<Ney. which France inter
preted as a programme'-but il is signed
not Louise Philippe. but Louis Napoleon
Bonapsrte
During this visit TO Berlin she Duchesss
went over tho house OF Courland, which {
hal -, hor k,-h ..r e, n
been sold by her in 1899 TO the Emperor
Nicholas for the Russian Embassy which
still inhabits it. ApropOs OF a historical
novel dealing with the time of GustavIs
III King OF Sweden. she nsrrates n curl
Gus anecdots from NJ. do Talleyrand This
King Of Sweden though, he could easily |
obtain Cardinals hat for a friend OF his
and asked Taileyrand to present his
request but the favor was declined. owing
TO the equivocal reputation Of Gustavus
III. which would have given the request .
an unpleasant coloring. At the same
time the Prlncesse de CarIgnan. mother /
10 the King OF Sardinia. was trying to
obtain from Rome the necessary dis
pensations which would have enabled
Talleyrand TO marry her " he became
a laymsr. h, being at the time the Abs.
Uo fprIRoru. DeiOrS no was blsnOp OF
Autun. and she being greatly fascinated |
with him. So Talleyrand was mixed up
stimuli sneously in two absolutely con-
Trajectory projects. both requiring the
sanction Of the Pope lie considered it .
one Of the stranges, incidents OF h,s life
A Russian friend passing through from
st. Petersburg does not surprise the
Duchesse by the information that NJ de
Cuisines book is literally the rage at
that capital and has reused the Russians
to fearful wrath. Bat Mime. de Nleyen-
dorn. wife Of tho Russian Minister at
Berlin fhersef q German. loudly pro-
claimed that the book was a. true as it
was amusing. and said she hoped 1t would
teach the Russians to be less conceited
After March. Is%<. there IL a long gap
in the Memoirs. The Duchesaa returned
30 France in April. to be with her dau ghter.
vino bore a son. She encountered Diff
cilties with her French relatives when
she wished 10 secure their consent To hs.r
establishing the fief of gan in favor