Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . he many other beautiful w^omen present. No one thought thenthat this peerless Queen of the winter stood a chance of be-coming Empress of Austro-Hungary. The Crown Prince wasalive, strong and healthy, full of spirits and joyful plans for thefuture, while Archduke Carl-Ludwig, who wore on that occa-sion the sombre, if rich costume of a Doge of Venice, gaveone the impression as he leaned wearily and gloomily againsta marble column in the ball room watching the gay pageantb
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . he many other beautiful w^omen present. No one thought thenthat this peerless Queen of the winter stood a chance of be-coming Empress of Austro-Hungary. The Crown Prince wasalive, strong and healthy, full of spirits and joyful plans for thefuture, while Archduke Carl-Ludwig, who wore on that occa-sion the sombre, if rich costume of a Doge of Venice, gaveone the impression as he leaned wearily and gloomily againsta marble column in the ball room watching the gay pageantbefore him, of having almost reached the end of his earthlypilgrimage. And yet to-day the gay young Prince is sleepinghis eternal sleep and his place is occupied by the uncle whom THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF AUSTRIA. 569 in the ordinary course of things he ought to have survived formany and many a year. Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, Carl Ludwigs eldest son, andheir, is a very bright and intelligent young man. He pub-lished a short time ago a very remarkable monograph on thefamous Field-Marshal Radetsky. He is also the author of a. KECEPTION ROOM OF THE IMPEEIAL PALACE. collection of Upper-Austrian and Styrian poems and balladswhich have attracted much notice in literary circles. Of the Imperial Palaces in Austria, I will say but little, asany ordinary book of history gives descriptions thereof. The Hofburg at Vienna is a rather jumbled and confusedmass of buildings, very old and dark-looking but, of course,very magnificently decorated and furnished. Excepting the 570 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. ball room, which is pure white from floor to ceiling, all theapartments are sombre and gorgeous ; old tapestries, old oak,old silver and old ivories forming the principal ornamentstherein contained. The entire Burg is like some black letterrecord of old German history written in granite, carvedwainscoting and wrought iron. Though light is not spared atnight in the immense halls and rooms, yet it is only
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