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Memories and Anecdotes

CHAPTER VI
15/19

They number about twenty volumes on nationality, on social questions more than eight, on politics eighteen or twenty.

Her travels fill fifteen books, and, beside all this, she wrote three romances, numerous letters and articles for the daily papers, and addresses to be read before various learned societies, of which she was an honoured member.

M.Deschanel, the critic of the _Journal des Debats_, has said of her that "each one of her works would suffice for the reputation of a man." As an artist, her paintings have been much admired.

One of her books of travel, _A Summer on the Banks of the Danube_, has a drawing by its author, a view of Borcia in Roumania.

From a notable exhibition at St.Petersburg she received a silver medal for two pictures called "The Pine" and "The Palm," suggested to her by Heine's beautiful little poem: "A pine-tree sleeps alone On northern mountain-side; Eternal stainless snows Stretch round it far and wide.
"The pine dreams of a palm As lonely, sad, and still, In glowing eastern clime On burning, rocky hill." This princess was the idol of her native people, who called her, with the warm enthusiasm of their race, "The Star of Albania." The learned and cultivated also did her homage.


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