Identifier: romanceofmonacoi00mayn_0 (find matches)
Title: The romance of Monaco and its rulers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Mayne, Ethel Colburn, -1941
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Publisher: New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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re, amid enthusiasm—and whisperingsof many kinds. Two hundred thousand francs werespent, it was said, on the production, which tookplace just before Holy Week. Among the whisperswas one hinting at the Princes dissatisfaction withmany of the arrangements . . . but, here as else-where, since the Casino paid, the Casino (andPrincess Alice) called the well-advertised tune. It only remains to speak of Albert Fs oceano-graphic discoveries. Dumont of course assignsthem all to somebody else ; but I do not takeDumont with any high seriousness. In the BulletinScientifique for 1889,2 however, I find a well-knownsavant, M. Alfred Giard, commenting on themthus : A few quarts of sea-water ... do notsuffice to wash out the stains of the blood of thosewho have killed themselves at the gaming-tables.Still, we must admit extenuating circumstances toa man who spends nobly an ill-gotten fortune ; 1 Among them, the too-popular Gardm of Sleep, now to be heardon antiquated barrel-organs only. 2 Volume xx.
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From a photograph. ALICE, PRINCESS OF MONACO. P- 34C) 1 The Red and Black Royalties 341 and from the scientific standpoint, every one wouldapplaud such an example, if it were but shownwith a little more modesty. There let us leave the Prince of Monaco. I bear no commission to denounce or applaud theworld-renowned Casino. We should all of us, nodoubt, play there on any occasion that we foundourselves in the Principality—and probably be buttoo eager to denounce it then. The sinisterroll of the suicides (two thousand since i860), thehorrors of the funeral arrangements, so vehementlyrecounted by de Jolans and Dumont, when thebodies are thrust into the ground, in an unplanedwooden box, to a grave which stands daily readydug, and which the digger cannot find twenty-fourhours later ; the thousand devices for plucking therich pigeon and putting to flight the too-observantone ; the chain of influences whereby every weak-ness, every vice, of poor humanity is turned tothe account of the Tables

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