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IJsclotlc, Writer of FamousLetters.

i'\DAMIiMOTHER OF THE REGENT.*TMS-ia=L By Arvedft Karlnc. Translated

i\"joaim«'Mairet (Mmv Charles Bigot).

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In th'; fifth and sixth decades of the

-seventeenth century there was a little

i-r.ub-nosed German princess whose un-

X travelled life in the forests and fields of

IZ&Rhino Palatinate was so Joyous that

*^?fortified her against the many miseriesjotYhVr paternal home, "Sprite of the\u25a0Rustling Leaves" was her nickname on

th* lips of her father's subjects, who

found her a most friendly and talkative'

little soul., and who always loved her. \It was a happy time never to be for- j(rotten by this Li?*eloue

—in proper state- j

ly phrase Elizabeth Charlotte—

of th** Elector Palatine. Charles Louis.-QujlT heavens!" she wrote when an

old woman, "how many times, up in themountain, have 1 oaten cherries with a

big chunk of bread, at 5 o'clock in the jmoraine! [ was then gayer than I.row am." The wretched household in

which this sunny-hearted child was

reared is vividly described by ArvedeBarine in \u25a0:..£• > memorable for theirportrait of a remarkably unconventional ;

\u25a0std hypocritical petty German sovereign

of two hundred years ago. We are toldthat emons his princely contemporaries

none so audaciously braved human and idivine laws as did Charles Louis.

It was the great good fortune of Lise-lotte that, as she grew up. her aunt jSophia, Duchess of Hanover, took her !in harp-, and pav^ her a? much train-

hsf <-\u25a0? \u25a0 great lady of that time was

likely to get. 11 was not much except

in the priceless blessing of daily inter- ;course with s. brilliant woman who lovedart and the best books and who knew |how to inspire that love in others. All

Lisriotte's life was the richer for thatkindness of Sophia

—and the richer, espe-

cially, for \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 undying affection thatjpretv between aunt and niece. Howmany people, by the way. remember that jCharles Lou- daughter was nearer in,the line of succession to the English !

throne than Wis? Sophia? It is possible

that ii" Liselotte had not become a Cath-

olic in order to marry Monsieur, thebrother of Louis XIV.there might have

been another Queen Elizabeth in Eng- jland instead of a first George. She would

have made, to say the least, a highlyamusing and original sovereign

—but her

very originality would have made her

rule far less safe than was that of dull

Cousin George. And—woful thought!—

we might then have lost the inestimable\u25a0 • sure of her correspondence. For thisprincess, as Madame, spouse of Mon-

sieur, became one of the most famous let-

ter writers in the world, and we could as

ill \u25a0Bare her pictures of ft intimate lifeof the court of the Su:.-Kingr as we couldthose to be found in the memoirs of

Saint-Simon.At eighteen Liselotte -'..-? a maiden of

"

wholesome tastes, a disbeliever in ro-

mance and very unwillingto marry. Shedid. In truth. consider herself too unat-

tractive for iikjnf:. Arvede Barine de-her as short and startlinglyplain.

"Her eytis were very mall, her bis noseall on one side; she had large, fiat hang-

ing cheeks; but she was fresh and fair,

like many German?; illuminating thisfantastic appearance there was so muchlife, such sparkling gayety that with herihore was no such thins as dulness.*"\u25a0H^is proa^i.-granddaughter of the fasci-nulingMary Stuart was perfectly frank

and reasonable about her own personal

appo.ara.nce. ln cr °^ a^ e she wrote."Ihave, all through my life, made fun

of my uncomeliness. !only laughed atit. His Grace, oar Father and our late

k brother, often told me that Iv.as ugly.I1 merely laughed and did not make my-

self \u25a0 happy about it. My brother calledmo W7«fOT-no*rrf. -which 1 took as a goodjoke." A joke it might liave been to her.poor Liselotte. but it is recorded that sheavoided a mirror and shrank from being

looked at. "Ihave always consideredmyself as sr* ply.*! she wrote, "even\u25a0wh^n Iwas young, that Idid not like to

be Peel and that 1ne\cr desired any sort

of ornament, for jewels and finery at-

tract notice." All the same, when she

arrived in France as the bride of the

King's brother, the fastidious sovereign

himself was charmed with .her, and

after their first Interview -ported to the

family that she was 'a most witty and

agreeable woman and danced well; .nfact that the first Madame was nothing

compared to her." That "first Madamewas Lisslotte-s cousin Henrietta, the

daughter of her granduncle, Charles I;

she had died in agony the year before

and the new Madame shared, then and

ever after, the belief of many people

that the young wife had been poisoned.

If she did not blame for this the hus-

band to whom she had just given her

hand, the Palatine princess blamed his

evil companions, the base courtiers, who

were presently, through their influence

over Monsieur, to become the curse of

her own life.What a husband for that clever, sin-

cere, warm-hearted Liselotte was thismean, little, roughed creature. Philippe.

Due dOrleaus! He was a being as con-

temptible in soul as in body, as viciousas he was silly. When he was not en-

gaged in dissipation he was absorbed in

his own line clothes and ornaments. Mr.

Henderson quotes Saint-Simon's descrip-

tion of him. "A little pot-bellied man.

looking as if mounted on stilts, so high

were his heels; always decked out like

\u25a0 woman; covered all over with rings,

bracelets and jewels; with a long wig.all

fluffy in front, black and powdered; with

ribbons wherever he could bestow them

and full of all sorts of perfumes." Ma-

dame herself once wrote of her lord that

his face was "long and narrow; his noselarge, his mouth small, and his teethvery bad. He was fond of cards, of

holding drawing rooms, of eating, danc-

ing and dress: in short, of all the things

that women like." Only for a few shortyears was this queer personage partially

good to his German wife: then he be-

came brutal, as only a fool can be. She

made the best of it, and was throughout

their married life faithful and loyal.

She even had a sort of affection for the

selfish little man— which was odd.

As for love of the deep and enduring

sort. Liselotte felt that only for her chil-

dren and for Aunt Sophie. Arveds

Barine is absurd enough to repeat withcredulity the twaddle which the old

scandal monger, the Princess de Tarente,

whispered to the de Sevigne. to the effect

that Madame, while totally unaware of

it herself, entertained a romantic affec-tion for the King, her brother-in-law.There could hardly be more unfoundedgossip than this, and it could hardly

come from any but an alien pen. Forthe French never thoroughly liked Lise-lotte, and Axvede Barine, throughout herracy book,. exemplifies even now that in-

compatibility of nature between the

films and the French, of which Rankespeaks in his edition of Madame's let-ters. King Louis and his courtiers couldnot understand Madame's liking for "a

good dish of sauerkraut." and they un-

derstood as little her horror-struck\u25a0wrath and sorrow when the French army

ravaged, burned, murdered, almost de-

stroyed her native Palatinate. She hadbecome a French princess— why care?\u25a0Thai cut her to the heart was the pit-

eous wonderment of those friends of her

youth beside the Rhine. There she "wasextraordinarily beloved." said a writer

of that time: and the poor people, going

down to despair and death before a fero-cious soldiery could not understand why

she who had seemed to love them couldnot protect them.

Yes. Madame had her troubles, andonly tho vigorous, irrepressible spirits

that were born with her carried her

safely through them—helped, no doubt-

by her pertinacious habit of letter writ-ing, for she wrote letters continually,

thousands of letters, letters of whichsome even yet remain imprinted. Most

of them went to her relatives and friendsin Germany, especially to Aunt Sophie,

with whom she did not need to mincematters. She shows forth with startling

clearness the misery of France and themagnificent, filthy court of the Sun-King. As we read her shrewd, straight-

forward accounts of what passed under

her eyes we cannot wonder that in laterjears there flamed up from beneath thatfilth and that obtuse cruelty and selfish-ness the equally cruel fires of revolu-tion. Madame is always loyal to the

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potential juror or witness, but also be-

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will also make a good business man.

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ure form the greatest and most neces-sary equipment of the advocate.

The obvious thing to say about "Day

In Court" is that it is an excellent bookfor young advocates, and older ones as

well, but that would be missing thepoint. Its real professional service be-gins far earlier

—the book should be

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Contemporary records as well as the

letters themselves have been used in thepreparation of the two books noticedhere. Both, differing somewhat in theirscope, are of beguiling interest to thelovers of memoirs and of history. Ar-vede Barine <the late Madame Vincens)

not only carries her heroine through to

old a^re. but. an we have Indicated, gives

with some fulness the strange story ofLiselotte's father: Mr. Henderson deals

with more detail and without the Frenchwoman's Gallic prejudice? with the

princess's life and observations InFrance. Both volumes are heartily rec-ommended to the reader.

brother-in-law, who during most of herlife in France was uniformly kind to her.

I but she has no illusions as regards his

| surroundings. • She is often coarse In

these letters— especially In those ad-| dressed to witty Aunt Sophie, who re-

Ipays her in kind—but if her pen wasi coarse her heart was clean. Something

of the young Liselotte— honesty, sym-

pathy, plain dealing—remained in thewoman grown old in a heartless court.Horace "Walpole, writing to Lord Straf-

L ford, wishes "well enough to posterity tohope that dowager highnesses will imi-tate the practice" of Madame in letterwriting,"for the world bo at least learnssome true history." That is a wish to

be echoed— but few princesses have had! Madame's brains or Madame's frank-

ness.

< iiiilinii.-.lon ninth p.'tcr.

The coming book In the endless lineof those devoted to Napoleon is entitled"Napoleon in His Own Defence" and is

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ence to the diplomatic relations thenexisting between thf Venetian Republic

and Geraaany and the neighboring

Italian states. Several of the docu-ments bear the seal of Cardinal Ippo-

lito Medici. The manuscripts have been

t l.issifird. and it is proposed to trans-

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Miss Caroline knor. is to be entitled"A Poet in Exile." The frontispiece isan early portrait of the brilliant youth.

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Our chief resource in conversation washis journey to Switzerland and stay atHagatz: for we were not going to interviewhim about his campaigns; but the con-versation about Zurich and Ragatz wasnone the less laborious, as our interlocutormade vain efforts to rind the appropriatewords. The sound of the dining room doorwhen it opened was a symphony for us.and the voice of our minister begging themarshal to offer his arm to Mine. Rothseemed likf music. If Moltke was not alalker. he was a fine diner out and activewith his fork (tine fourchette de marque),although he used that instrument as littleas possible. Adjusting the pieces on thepoint of his knife, he carried them to hismouth with clever dexterity. "He is go-ing to miss that one." we said discreetlyto our neighbor at the tahle. an amiablelady who had no likingfor deep conversa-tion, but was well versed In practical mat-ters "No," said she. "lie will not miss It;but look at his plate! He is helped so gen-erously that you cant see to the bottomof it. What a fine appetite! Oh. didn'tjou know tho marshal eats poorly at homeand maK^s up for it at the table ofothers?"

M. de Chambrier gives a graphic de-scription of the Due de Moray's funeralwhen, as the cortege passes the TheatrePorte St. Martin, the solemn silence was

broken by Irrepressible laughter. Theactors and figurantes were rehearsing a

spectacular piece and hurried to the win-dows to see the passing pageant, for-getting that they were in the grotesque

costumes of the stage. One chapter is

devoted to a visit paid by the FrenchEmperor and Empress to Switzerland;

and M. Chambrier tells of their rathereventful visit to Neuch&tel. £ Upon th»arrival there of the imperial party, theengineer of the locomotive blew thewhistle with such vehemence that itfrightened the horses of a carriage inwhich were several members of thesuite. M. do Chambrier, who was aneyewitness, tolls of the consternation oftho crowd and the alarm of the Empress.

The Princess Anna Murat, Mine, deMontebello and Mile. Bouvet werethrown out and badly hurt. The lastnamed was carried on a stretcher to thehospital, while the Empress walked bo-sido her. holding an umbrella over herhead to protect her from the sun. Whileat Xeuchatel there was a fire in one ofthe suburbs, to which the Empress hur-ried on foot, and became separated from

her attendants. She was rather roughlytreated by the police; who did not recog-

nize her, and was escorted back to thehotel by a volunteer Fireman. Wishing

to show her appreciation, she asked theman how she* might repay him. He re-plied that when he next visited Paris lie

would liko to have access to certain rarabooks and manuscripts in the collections

there. She was surprised at the request,

but he explained: "In Switzerland, weare all soldiers— and firemen. Iam city

librarian, and my name is BonhOte."

His Memories of Eugenic andOthers.•

Geneva. February 12.Mr. James de Chambrier. of Neuchatel.

for a number of years represented theSwiss government at the French court.

To several readable, it" not very pro-found, works on history and travel whichho hap written during his long life hehas now added a volume of souvenirsof his experience at Paris during thelast years of the Second Empire. Thetitle Is "Avant Apr&s Sadowa," and itsuggests the author's point of view asto an event which he regards as Indi-rectly a chief cause of the French Em-peror's downfall: The fact that France.stood aloof in 1866 and permitted Prus-sia, by defeating. Austria, to acquireEuropean supremacy was, according to

M. de Chamhrier. chiefly responsible for

the humiliation of 1870. As contributory

to this catastrophe he naturally consid-ers the Mexican adventure and the aban-donment of Maximilian, with all the lossto France of financial, political and moralprestige. Although offering to the readervery little that was not already known,

M. de Chambrier's souvenirs are for themost part lively and entertaining, andthey contain some excellent sketches ofleading men and women In the Parisianlife of the period. His political views,

especially as to placing the blame for thewar of 1870, are strongly colored by

certain enthusiasms and prejudices.Among these is an admiration

—one may

call it a cult—of the Empress Eugenic,

about whose beauty, graciousness andcharity his pen is eloquent. He displays

extreme inromvnanrc in certain, of hisreminiscences, as when he repeats theSultan's remarks at a state dinner andwhen he tells of his own conduct. at an

entertainment given to Yon Moltke by

Roth, the Swiss Minister at Berlin. M.de Chambrier was presented to the fieldmarshal. He says: l

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meant to turn over a new -leaf, and 'ereyou are again'

"Ami there the counsel

was. :?.?ifj*" -"\u25a0*"<'\u25a0' \u25a0 .- '•\u25a0"'\u25a0 '.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'...1 Concerning tlio treatment of witnesses,

Mr. Wellman tells the young advocate

that "the sympathies of the jury,are in-variably on the side <•(' the witness, anilthey are quick to resent any discourtesy

toward him." He also observes- that

men cannot enter a courtroom withouttaking sides; that witnesses uncon-

sciously become, champions of the side

by which they are called, and that thejury often loses sight of the case itself,

and comes to consider the two contend-ing lawyers as the principals. vHere is a

nugget of wisdom picked up at random:•'If for the plaintiff, an advocate shouldremember that he must win the. twelve;

if for the defendant, he needs only one."

Mr. Wellman declares that in his judg-

ment the method of selecting a jury invogue at the present time in our New

York City courts and the class of men

that are empanelled to serve upon our

juries are far superior to those In any

other locality or tribunal with which heIs acquainted. * *

According to the late Justice Miller, of

the Supreme Court, the opening state-ment of a case is of greater Importance

than the closing argument. Eloquence

still has its uses, but brevity, clearness,

simplicity, close adherence' to the salientpoints of the case, and fairness and hon-esty of statement are of greater servicein the courtroom of to-day. And, finally,

experience makes perfect. The younglawyer, like the young physician, learns

from the mistakes he makes his early

cases.

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