New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-05

From sondershausen. at the expense of tho .prln;,
cess, Eugenc went to Vienna wnerc sno coh'nuCb h
finishing course at the Conservatory But, uhior,,
tunatey. at this time slight deafness manifested
itself. which. however She could not believe to DO
other than transitory lnfrmy. due to cold Sh9
vcntured to make her debut on the LEIPZIG stage ana
forbcarancc. arlbutng her bad singing TO nervous
ness; but when In second ar n so 9ec0 Se
signs the poor girl to understand that she was
DSappcni ment. humiliation, mortified pride cast her
into the deepest ascouragemfnt The anpli,oh OF ner
life was bliehed. and other Crecr offered Mean
while the family circumstances had become desperate
Her brother who at the university, studying Tor
learned profession, obliged TO leave because his
father was unable TO maintain him there HIS career
also seemed blasted. He was man Of some talent
and of literary tastes but was either deficient in imag-
nation in energy. He became finally. teacher
OF modern languages in tho Gymnasium at Arnstadt.
did anything in literature deserving OF notice
Eugene had her first and last appearance on the
stage. She withdrew, covered with mortiication TO
hide her head and eat out her heart I'm the privacy OF
her 70 home G IN s nGcs GaG T w 9f
voice like her own, and qualifying to distinguish
herself in an art which had been sealed TO her.
be moor rirl and. TO soften TO her the Sharpness of
her disappointment. offered her situation about nor
person as companion and reader EuGcnlc thankfully
I her impoverished homo and the llttc commonplace
the pomp. culture and etiquette of German court
Eugene John had recovered somewhat OF her wounded
sefeStecm. and she chafcd at the sights or imagl-
nary sights TO which she was subjected at court She
was only a john not Won John, and n saaricd ser
Of precedence all proved irlsOmc 70 the morbid mind
of ihe girl who could not forgive that She was thrust
into the background by little mobiles and gcntlefolk
whose intellectual powers wcre far short OF her own
II was probably at the court of SOndershauScn
that she was brought into contact with
petlSs, strict purltans OF narrow sympahicS Those
who have read cold Else will recall the bitterness
with which she describes the hanGcrs-on In small
her disgust at pictsm crops up in Other novels
notably I'm "The Old Maids Secret and IN "The Prin-
cess of tho Heath" As a distinguished German
auhOrcss said 10 the writer Of this notice. Marltt
a 'Kranks Seele,' had n morbid mind. and nnfor
giving spirit. She attacked those who had offended
her with rcmorseless animoslty painting thcnl-car-
icaturcd-n her tales under the thinnes disguise.
that every who knew the court could recognize
whom she drew"
As n safety valve 10 her annoyance and irritation,
Fugenic John begar to keep vCrme of verses. "hch
she called her Hcrbarium. In which she poured forth
her troubles In lines Of tOlerellc poetry The Her
barum certainly contained many poetic flowers OF the
genus Norwood. Toward her patroness Eugene was
always respectful and bore her real affection. In
1855 whilst staying at Friedrichsruhe with the prin-
cess she entered Into correspondence with School
Director Kern OF Ulm and no perceived the genius In
the girl, and encouraged her to wie, though he was
unable TO obtain publisher for her verses 1t was
not, however until ten years later that she made her
first appearance In print.