The Princess Wittgenstein [who then lived in Rome, but in 1850 at Weimar, and is said to have had a share in the production of the book] wished me to make some alterations in the new edition.

I tried to please her, but, when she was still dissatisfied, I told her to add and alter whatever she liked." From this statement it is clear that Liszt had not the stuff of a biographer in him.

And, whatever value we may put on the Princess Wittgenstein's additions and alterations, they did not touch the vital faults of the work, which, as a French critic remarked, was a symphonie funebre rather than a biography.

The next book we have to notice, M.A.
Szulc's Polish Fryderyk Chopin i Utwory jego Muzyczne (Posen, 1873), is little more than a chaotic, unsifted collection of notices, criticisms, anecdotes, &c., from Polish, German, and French books and magazines.

In 1877 Moritz Karasowski, a native of Warsaw, and since 1864 a member of the Dresden orchestra, published his Friedrich Chopin: sein Leben, seine Werke und seine Briefe (Dresden: F.Ries .-- Translated into English by E.Hill, under the title Frederick Chopin: "His Life, Letters, and Work," and published by William Reeves, London, in 1879).