The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-09
COUNTESS Won BUELow.
She Was the Greatly True" FnvOrite
Of Liszt.


She Was the "RenIly True" Fnvorite
Of Liszt.
One of the most fascinating and talent
| ed women in German is the Countess Bue-
| low. wife of the new Chancellor Of the
Empire She is no longer youthful, for
| she has a daughter Of thirty-two, the
Countess Eugene Doenhoff and a son who
| is captain of horse in the Imperial Army.
1t is not given out how many years the
Countess Buelow has to her credit; that is
left to conjecture, but she still retains the
graces of youth. No wrinkles fu.row her
| brow and her figure is 1.-the and erect,
while her manner is as viyacious as that
OF a woman of thirty. She rides. drives,
! plays. and hunts with all the enthusiasm
| of young woman just arrived at matnri-
| ty. and yet twenty-five years ago she stood
| for one OF the figures in Makart's great
canvas, Charles VS. Entry in Antwerp.
| 1t Is admitted that she is on the shady side
| of fifty. According to the fashion OF her
| own country, the second lady in the En-
pire retains her maiden name OF Princess
| di Canporeale-a great title that she can
| well afford to support out OF the revenues
of her marqusate of Aitaviiie, Sicily. She
became marchioness when scarcely five
years old upon the death of her father
The income is nearly Geo. GOO francs per
year. and 1t is said that she boarded up
the greater part of ii while her husband
was waiting to step into the shoes OF the
ancient Hohenlohe.
This winter her grace promises to show
Berlin what rich and clever woman can
do in the position she holds. Under Bue-
lows predecessor the grand old palace on
Wilhelm strasse had ceased to be re-
SORT Of fashion and gayety. Nine. de Bis
marck was plebeian and parsimcnious. Ca
privi happened to be bachelor with the
taste Of a sub-lieutenant, old Princess
Hohenlohe entertained in her own castles
and country seats. but never in shop
keeping city, rs she used to put it, and az
ter her death the Chancellor's stateroom
was opened only On very rare occasions for
a mixed crowd of parliainentarians and
other political pot-boilers with scarcely a
shrinking of persons that belonged to high
life.
1t will be all SO different now. Count
Buelow has twice the salary and perhaps
five times the private income that Prince
Bismarck enjoyed; he is q youth COM
pared with Hohenlohe. and his wife as
much of a grand dame as the late prin-
cess, and as his conception Of ofiicehold-
ing is to do the imperial masters will
without questioning and without Offer
in either advice or opinion, he never wor-
ries never poses. and so has plenty OF
time for society.
Invitations for several receptions and
state dinners and to two big balls to come
off before Christmas are out.
List used to call the princess his ia
yorite pupil, and the finest amateur pi-
anist in Europe. Her grace's mushroom
is a museum filled with charming remin-
iscences Of the gypsy able. Look, she
said. pointing to a large crayon, this
represents a scene from our concert at
the Palais Auersberg in Vienna. 1885.
had then for the first time consented to
play in public. OF course. only the cream
of the aristocracy was admitted and they
paid fabulous prices for the privilege. We
made. | believe. some 5000 forms for the
benefit OF the poor that evening"
The artist has depicted List and the
princess at the piano. List seems to be
thoroughly pleased with his partner. for
his mighty head with the long. silvery
name is proudly thrown back and his eyes
are afire with the pleasure art gave him.
IT'S easy to believe that his pupil was
then the reigning beauty of Vienna, home
of fine women. But no. she wasn't beau
tiful." or at least not exactly beautiful
we have the great MaSart's word for that.
Maria Anne is fascinating, he wrote;
Ito call her beautiful would be too much
her pretty l would thrash. Her figure is
exduisiteIy alluring. at once slender and
full. but her slenderness is splendidly of
set by the glow of health Her complex
ion is perfect and her dark eyes are full
OF intelligence tenderness, and fire. This
description may seem paradoxical, but 1t
is not"
List was so fond OF playing together
with the princess that she seldom had oc
casion to be heard alone when he was in
Vienna or neighborhood. After the macs
tro's death she never accepted another ac-
companis, The best critics of the day
saw that LISTS estimate of her art holds
good even now. only that her technique is
nearer perfection than ever before.
AT the age of seventeen the present
countess married Count DoenhoT. diplo
mat of some note. At Dresden the prin-
cess frs, met her present husband, then a
simple baron. attached to Count Dozen
hoff's staff. Domestic unhappiness fol-
lowed and she took up her residence at
the Italian embassy in Vienna. over which
her stepfather then presided. II was but
a short time afterward that her husband
died and she married Count Buelow. who
had by that time attained considerable
distinction as diplomat. His rise was
rapid. and now he stands at the tight hand
of the Emperor, while his beautiful wife
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