Face to Face with Kaiserism

e is no country in the world where kings and princes have

orld-the kings of Italy and of Montenegro-who are not

call Germany, there are houses of royalty in it almost as numerous as our big corporations. There are the three kings of Bavaria, Würtemburg and Saxony, grand dukes and dukes, and princes, all of them taking themselves v

with his time in the small provincial town which is the capital of the principality.

of these poverty-stricken little courts were cent

ch at Weimar where Goethe resided and where he was entrusted with r

Mecklenburg duchies are protected by neither constitution nor bill of rights. The grand duke's power is absolute and he can behead at

pposed to have been involved in a love affair with a Swedish Count, Philip Konigsmarck. Konigsmarck was murdered by order of George I, and Sophia Dorothea incarcerated in Ahlden where she died in 1726. Konigsmarck's sister went to Saxony to beg the aid of the Saxon King, Augustu

r in a disparaging manner is subject to be imprisoned, under the decisions of the Imperial Supreme Court, for "lèse-majesté" or injuring the person of the present monarc

t, where the means are discussed by which their privileges may be preserve

not so much under the dominion of feudal tradi

up their positions two peasant girls walked past me. One of them, to my surprise, caught hold of my hand, which she kissed with true feudal devotion. As a guest of the Count I was presumably of the noble class and there

y, German courts and relates how he left Pumpernickel hurriedly, by night, after the court ball where he ha

the King of Prussia and of his position of German

have a box for the Gaiety Theatre, we all went there together and paid a visit to George Grossmith behind the scenes and talked with Emmy Wehlen, the Austrian actress, who was appearing in the comic opera t

ever having been presented. The fact that the American Ambassador is accredited to none of these courts is a distinct disadvantage because without letters of credence he does not come into contact with any of the twenty-four rulers of Germany who co