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...LOST SPLENDOR, by Prince Felix Youssoupoff (307 pp.; Putnam; $4.50), offers the memoirs of the scion of one of Rus sia's great feudal families. Prince Youssoupoff's great-grandmother was Emperor Nicholas I's mistress, and his great-greatgrandfather was a lover of Catherine the Great. The old rake was so rich he had a private theater and ballet, and so dissolute that when he waved his cane all dancers appeared on stage stark naked. Young Prince Felix married a niece of the Czar, vowed he would save the 300-year-old Romanoff dynasty by assassinating...
...memorable display of the nation's early art from the grass roots opens this week in the cool marble splendor of Washington's National Gallery. The show includes more than 100 top items from the 1,500-picture collection amassed since World War II by Edgar William Garbisch-and his wife (the former Bernice Chrysler). The entire collection will eventually be presented to the National Gallery, making that repository of Old World masterpieces a good deal more "national" than heretofore...
...four), he played it for keeps. He had been named Dieudonne-God-given-and believed it. In The Splendid Century, British Author W. H. Lewis shows that despite the King's intimate relationship with the Almighty, he was all too human, and that for all its splendor, Louis le Grand's grand siecle was not as splendid as it seemed. Author Lewis is an urbane scholar who knows how to squeeze the juice from the fruit of his research. He has turned out a series of lively sketches of 17th century France and managed to give an intimate...
...what he paid he was repaid in splendor, but not in comfort. Even his wife's room was icy in winter, broiling in summer, and the King would not allow her to put a shutter on her window "because it would mar the external symmetry...
...rooms are generally bigger than in House suites. Living rooms retain some of their original Victorian splendor, with ornate, carved mantlepieces, curving windows, and high ceilings. Some bathrooms still feature marble wash basins, and most have bathtubs...