The sub-title of Guy de Pourtal new study of Liszt, "Franz Liszt, The Man of Love" (Thornton Butter worth, 10s. 6), is justified Liszt was a man of love—or, rather, of many loves: from Caroline de Saint-Cricq, his beautiful youre pupil, to the Countess Janina, vho fell madly in love with him at Rome after he had become the Abbé Liszt, and who went to the extreme lof dressing as a man to gain access to him in his' garden; from Marie Agoult, his greatest love, to the Princess' Carolyne of Sayn-Wittgenstein, the impassioned? Amazon, Pourtalés has made an attempt to relate the mosie of this passionate, pious genius to the man, says "Zohn o'London's Weekly."
Valuable study; with all the facts his life: his loves, which never were uninspired, his deep religious sense, which finally mastered all else in him, before us, we begin to understand end account for his "I Dread Women."
Az Adam Liszt lay dying, he said] to his son, Franz, "I dread women on your account; they will trouble and dominate your life"—a prophecy which was to come so unhappily] true, For Liszt's love-affairs always had a bitter element in them.
Tt was at a Bohemian supper-party given in honour of Chopin in Pari that Franz net the Countess Marie d'Agoult, Tall, slender, and fair, Maric} "seemed like some Rhenish princess, wye for the French precision of her eyebrows and her nose and mocking curve of her mouth, She /was especially vain of her colour-jing? Is it to be wondered that Franz loved her at si that the beautiful, whose dress was the last
tell, awkward youth whase long, straight hair fell about a girlish face." They had run away, leaving! all Paris in an uproar.
The Journey Towards Truth In a little while Blandine, their' first child, was born. In the spring' they invited the eccentric George Sand, who had been the friend of both ' in Paris, and counsellor of their love, to come to stay with them. She delayed her coming until, when she arrived in Geneva, she found they had left for Chamonix. In the guest-book of the Hotel de. TUnion she discovered traces of them, where Liszt had registered as ican-philosopher, born coming from the Land noying towards Trath, There followed flirtations—neither serious of—of Franz with George Sand, and of Marie, by way of revenge, with the pact Ronchaua, "When you write the story of two happy lovers place them on the shores of Lake Come," wrote Liszt to Ronehaud afterwards, Marie and Franz were established at Bellagio, a pretty village that rises in an am: phitheatre beside the waters of the Jake. But there was no malice in advice. They were again on a "voyage of love." They found and adored each other again, 'They Jest themselves in ench other, then outside themselves, conceiving the "supernatural harmony' of the world."
Tt was here that, in 1897, was born their second child, the girl, Cosima, named in memory of the Blake, who was destined to become the wife of Bulow and to break his heart and end a 20 years' friend. ship by running off with that mighty ins, Wagner. Cosima in that]
as truly her father's daughter,
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