Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . ite-capped heights. Yet the whiteness of fact and of name isbut a curious coincidence, for the nameof Liechtenstein originated elsewhere, andcame to the principality when it first se-cured independence, something over twohundred years ago. Vallis dulcis —from this comes thename of Vaduz; and it is in truth asweet and smiling valley in which it lies:a narrow stretch, yet of breadth suf-ficient for flax and maize, for apples andpears and plums, for homely valley as level as a floor, yet in Switzer-land on the one side,
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . ite-capped heights. Yet the whiteness of fact and of name isbut a curious coincidence, for the nameof Liechtenstein originated elsewhere, andcame to the principality when it first se-cured independence, something over twohundred years ago. Vallis dulcis —from this comes thename of Vaduz; and it is in truth asweet and smiling valley in which it lies:a narrow stretch, yet of breadth suf-ficient for flax and maize, for apples andpears and plums, for homely valley as level as a floor, yet in Switzer-land on the one side, and in Liechten-stein on the other, tremendous mountainsovershadowingly arise. Like a page from a fairy-book is thestory of Liechtenstein, past and present—this independent principality, whose ruler,from his castle above his capital, can seepractically all of his domain in one greatsweep: the solemn mountain walls, andthe level stretch along the riverside, withhere and there a spire, a ruined tower,or clustered homes. The founder of the house of Liechten-. A Church on the Mountain-side LIECHTENSTEIN: A SOVEREIGN STATE. 247 stein is said to have been a Lombard whomade his way northward from Italy inthe twelfth century, and becoming richthrough lending- to princes and sover-eigns, took pay in land by preference,and finally, securing a title, married aprincess, and was thenceforth a promi-nent lord. The Liechtenstein family have main-tained and increased the reputation forland - getting, and the present Prince,Johann the Second, besides possessingthis little country, owns immense estatesin Austria, in Prussia, and in Saxony,including altogether more than two thou-sand square miles. Some one has remarked on how pru-dently most men creep into namelessgraves/ but the men of the Liechten-stein family have been of a kind to makethemselves uniquely known. LTlric vonLiechtenstein, the Don Quixote of Ger-many/ was of a branch of this house:the poet-knight who, with suits of apparelof
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