The Palace of Peace erected by the munificence of Mr.
Carnegie was opened on Thursday in the presence of the Queen of Holland and a distinguished company by Jonkheer van Karnebeek, a former Foreign Minister and President of the Carnegie Foundation. The building, which stands in pleasant wooded grounds on the left of the avenue from The Hague to Scheveningen, has been built from the designs of M. Cordonnier, of Lille, which were chosen out of two hundred and- sixteen from all countries submitted to an international jury, and is partly Dutch, partly Flemish in character. Besides the Great Court and the Small Court the Palace contains reading and map rooms, a library and restaurant, and ample accommodation for the officials of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the press. All the countries have contributed to the decoration of the Palace, Great Britain sending stained-glass windows ; France a picture and Gobelin tapestries ; Germany the entrance gates; Italy marble for the corridor; Japan gold-embroidered tapestries, and so' on.
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