Show HE palace type lof ot modern europe was fixed when louis XIV THE transformed his hunting box at al versailles in stately chateau which all ad the world knows france nowa nowadays otys dispenses with kings and emperors empe rois but none the less decrees a semi regal housing for her presidents the tuileries Tuil erles eries having been burned down the only suitable remaining palace in paris was P the elysee and there the pre presidents of tile the third republic have succeed succeeded e one another as indeed napoleon III preceded them during the brief period when he hae bore the namn damn of president tha building which is not lai large ga was erected in 1718 its architect being molet alme de pompadour inhabited itchen it when louis XV was king under napoleon it sheltered the great emperor himself tor for a while and then other members of his family but the charm that abides in it comes from its frolicsome days if it Is not overwhelmingly splendid it Is at least not imitative it is the genuine outcome of local french traditions and belongs visibly to its time and place in the worlds history in england there has been retained for the king a palace which has evolved out of a medieval fortress and still pre preserves gerves many of its authentic features windsor is in part at least lea st ar an ancient shell adapted more or less satisfactorily to modern uses says martin conway in country life it matters not that some of its more medieval looking features such as the round bound tower are quite modern it is the effect of the whole that counts the aspect of the total building in its place and that is superbly suggestive of the ancient dignity and long tradition which makes english life what it Is and what the life of an english king fitly represents palaces of czar and kaiser only at moscow and prague are continental tin monarchs housed in palaces even remotely corresponding to windsor the hradschin Hrad schin indeed hardly counts for it is really the remains of a fortified city the palace within it having been mainly rebuilt during the sixteenth and following centuries though some fifteenth century parts are preserved within it with moscow it Is otherwise the kremlin beyond question imposes itself upon a spectator as a great expression oi of dussias Rus sias past its assemblage of palaces churches and national bonu and some seme of the old survives while all has a strong german flavor at potsdam however under the orders of frederick the great the tha french style obtained complete control and the new palace founded after the close of the seven years war is a manifestation of the french leanings and preferences of that remarkable personage this is the favorite surn sum mer residence of the court and it was here that frederick III died after his brief and ineffectual reign the building itself is not large as palaces go but possess esthe palatial air plainly enough there 1 is s the central pavilion irr surmounted mounted by a dome flanked by two forward reaching wings at the ends of the long connecting parts on either side of it francis josefs homes the emperor of austria is perhaps more richly endowed with official residences than any other except the king of italy who seems to have a palace in every city in his kingdom the important palaces at vienna are ara two the hofberg Hot Hof burg in the heart of the city and schoenbrunn in the suburbs the former is the chief official residence the latter themual the theu usual ual abode of the emperor when at the capital of the empire the burg is not imposing architecturally it has been the site of the residence of austrian princes ever since the thirteenth century but they were small people at that time and nothing remains of the building build inz which housed them what exists Is an irregular assem blage of edifices of different late dates grouped about a number of courts to which the public has access so that there is a continual coming and going of people in every part I 1 have not seen the palace for more than thirty years and my memory of it Is vague ponderous decoration characterized some parts of it others were barrack like in their plainness it consisted then of a number of moro morn or less separate residences for royalties and officials and of various offices and rooms devoted to the storage of state archives and the great library while the Augu stiner cl church in which all the Haps burgs are buried is attached AO to it the turks not many centuries ago were knocking at the gates of vienna now they are united with austria in ill alliance so that the palace of the sul 39 wa 1 r 4 k g 4 T 5 Z C A the PaTe paterson RHon RUSSIA ments menta corresponds responds to the close union still existing between the government and the religion of 0 the people moscow itself ho bo vever is not the russia af if today it Is the russia that has gone by the czar may visit mos he does not live there in and t petrograd Petro grad he has several pal acua the winter palace in the city Gat matchina Gatch china lna selo and others but Pe peterhof Peter hot is the favorite and peter ilof hot was built in 1720 uy by peter the great and afterwards enlarged hy by catherine 11 hero here the influence of versailles Is obvious and confessed the profusion of fountains and especially the long canal leading straight away through the park from opposite the middle of the palace facade are evident versailles features and plenty filore more might be cited no less french in style are arc some of the prussian palaces the old berlin schloss indeed has a continuous history of building and rebuilding from the days of elector frederick 11 II in the fifteenth century and though frederick the first prussian king of that hame bame intended to do away with all the work of his predecessors his big cleema was not entirely carried outs out tan falls within the limits of my scattered subject needless to say it has no architectural merit over vernor nor any claims to respect on the grounds of antiquity since the time of sultan mahmud the turkish palace that followed has itself been abandoned as a residence and is only resorted to for certain state ceremonials budh muc of it in turn was burned down in 1863 it was built by mohammed 11 II and often added to in the most capricious fashion the principal entrance is the sublime porte within is nothing noteworthy except the church of saint irene which has been used as an armory here also aru are the mint the treasury and other offices as well as the halls balls of state etc difficult for a traveler to see when I 1 was there and not 1 I am told worth seeing it 14 i in the fhe that the sultan actually lives a long range of buil buildings dinda rather like tile the sea front of a row of houses built of stone in a bastard corinthian style on the river like shore of the internally ter nally it Is a gaudy place with much bright paint and gilding plentiful co ornament and cupolas of brightly stained glass |