Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-17
A APrincess-Author's Visit.

| Madame Dora d Istria, the princess author, was in Hartford for 8 short time this week to visit Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. In an in- | terview with Post reporter she expressed delight over this country and decided inter est in American politics, which she had given some study. She was amazed at the great wealth and business of New York and it's pa- latial buildings. She came here direct from Florence. She much regretted the absence of Mrs. Stowe who was away in the country, and expressed admiration for Uncle Toms Cabin. She goes to Boston, and thence will radiate in different directions in short jour neys. She will publish book containing her American impressions upon her return in October to her villa near Fieso1e.
 The Princess was born at Bucharest in 1929, received liberal education and speaks, beside her native tongue, Latin, Greek, Ger man, English French, Italian and Russian Her father was a prime minister. The princess travelled much with him: When she was only fifteen she translated part of the Iliad into German and wrote several plays Her beauty at this time was most eaptivat- ing. It was of the Grecian style; oval face and classic features, magnificent brown eyes and an abundance of chestnut hair. It was said that she looked like Venus and spoke like Minerva. She added physical exercise to literary and artistic culture, was @ bold rider and excelled all her brothers in swim ming and saved one of her sisters from drown ing. In 1S49 she married Russian prince Alexander Kolzoffmassalsky. The marriage was an unhappy one, and after six years of court life at Russia she returned. A newspaper sketching her at that time said ''She is in the flower of her age Her dress is simple and her virtue unsullied. She is beautiful and strict as Roman matron. Unobtrusive in the midst of wealth, her fortune has not changed her generous instincts. I believe that no woman living or dead ever received such enthusiastic commendation, appreciation and honor as have been awarded to Dora d'Istria, which nom de plume, by the way means Dora of the Ister or Danube''
 Miss Kate Sanborn says of her in lecture
 Other women have been voluminous as for instance, Mime. de Genlis with her ninety volumes, and dashing Lady Morgan with hre seventy volumes and the untiring novelists, from Miss Braddon-the woman of tragic mysteries-to Mary J. Holmes, the creator of harmless and popular love-tales. The names even of Dora d'Istria's books I should not venture to give entire. I should lose my breath and I fear you would lose your pa dence. The subjects are often far beyond the grasp of an ordinarily cultivated woman yet her treatment of them is never mascu- line Dora d'Istria writes because she is AA6CHSSLCO III u0I bu6Iu0, Wu0Gner It De science or art, history or philosophy, politics or travel, romance or statistics, philanthro- py or horticulture Her versatile mind, pro digious learning and facility as a linguist 1for she speaks and writes seven languages) ena- able her to discuss great variety of subjects, many of which are beyond my feeble com prehension. Indeed-( (laughingly}- cannot pronounce the names of half her works cor rectly, and have the faintest ghost of an idea about them, for instance 1.-The Mahabasa- la, which you will be glad to hear was read before the Archaeological Society of Athens, or 'SThe Indian Epopatheramaeana, ? which was first read to the Synagos Ellinokos of Constantinople.