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But all the time the eating and the drinking go on, and the clatter and clink of it fill the air; so that the great object of the fair is not lost sight of. Meantime, where is the agricultural fair and cattle-show? You must know that we do these things differently in Bavaria. On the fair-ground, there is very little to be seen of the fair.
I see very well that you cannot do any thing for me, but you have granted me your compassion, and I thank you for it. Farewell, sir." An hour later, Anna was on the road to Munich. After an exhausting journey of four days for, at that time there were no turnpikes, much less railroads, in Bavaria she reached Munich, where she stopped at a hotel.
At the commencement of the year a portion of the bishopric was still in the control of the deposed Protestant elector Gebhard Truchsess, assisted of course by the English and the States. The city of Cologne was held by the Catholic elector, Ernest of Bavaria, bishop of Liege; but Neusz and Rheinberg were in the hands of the Dutch republic.
Doctor Schell's book, Catholicismus und Fortschritt, was a plea on behalf of the Catholic Universities of Bavaria against the Jesuit seminaries which threatened to supplant them; and he had shown with striking clearness the disastrous results which the gradual narrowing of Catholic education had had on the Catholic culture of Bavaria.
Still, there are circumstances in which even a royal encore But it is better to illustrate. The King of Bavaria is a poet, and has a poet's eccentricities with the advantage over all other poets of being able to gratify them, no matter what form they may take.
Most of his operas had to wait many years for production, but the kindly care of Ludwig of Bavaria secured the performance of 'Die Meistersinger' a few months after the last note had been written. Unlike many of his other masterpieces, too, 'Die Meistersinger' was a success from the first.
The Tyrol belonged to Bavaria; the Tyrolese were subjects of the King of Bavaria; nothing gave them the right to shake off the rule of their king and choose another sovereign. And you think I should be so weak as to approve of the bad example set by the Tyrolese, and encourage the crimes committed by the revolutionists?
"The Elector of Bavaria is not a man so easily set aside," was Eugene's reply. "And yet efforts are continually being made to set him aside," cried the elector, hastily. "Who could be so presuming as to lay his sacrilegious hand upon the well-earned laurels of a warrior so distinguished as your highness?" "Who? You know quite as well as I, that it is the Duke of Lorraine."
But the Prince of Bavaria suddenly died, as it was supposed by poison, and Louis
Having lost his father at twelve years of age, he was intrusted by the archduchess to the guardianship of her brother William, Duke of Bavaria, under whose eyes he was instructed and educated by Jesuits at the Academy of Ingolstadt. What principles he was likely to imbibe by his intercourse with a prince, who from motives of devotion had abdicated his government, may be easily conceived.
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