Evening star., 1923-11-02
Vienna, Home of Hapsburgs,
Yielding Many Art Treasures

astronomer OF that name. was tho son
Of a poTerty-strickcn Hebrew refugee
from Russian Poland. vino. after
being baptized by the Bishop of Lon
don. became a missionary among his
own former co-religionists and
started a chapel of his own off the
Edgeware road in London. where he
preached and did much good. The
poor missionary's son adopted the law
as a profession and for the first seven
years after his being called to the bar
met with every species of dfscourag ge-
ment and disappointment. At length.
however. the leader of the northern
circuit detected his remarkable legal
ability and from that time forth his
rise was steady. He became lord high
| the first member of his race TO held
the office of keeper of the great seal
and of the sOvereign'S conscience, as
the lord high chancellor is officially
styled. His elevation TO the woolsack
constituted the fulffllment Of pre-
diction made at the time when Ben
3amin Disraeli, afterward Lord Bea-
consfield. first became premier--that
it would not be long before the lord
high chancellorship Of the realm, the
highest lay office of the British en-
pire. would be held by a member of
the Jewish race.
Let me add that the present Lord
Herschell, who rec eiVed his education
dt fLtOn ana at S1dEdHIen tOIIeSs,
Oxford. is pasSionasely devoted to
music and has achieved conside rable
note as an amateur orchestra leader
and conductor. also, rs a composer.
During the war he was mainly oc-
cupied with work in connection with
the so-called 'thush'' ships in CO.
operation with Admiral Sir Reginald
Hall, the director of naval intelli-
gence and of the secret service OF the
admiralty. ~
Rome's patriciate, composed of
families that could already show 200
years of noble lineage when the
Golden Book of the Eternal city was
first complied five centuries ago, is
through marriage, or, if not Ameri-
canfzed, at any rate imbued with
a strong infusion of Transatlantic
blood. Thus, the young Princess Of
Palestrina, who has just presented
her husband with a son and heir at
their beautiful country place up in
the Alban hills. in the immediate
vicinity of the Italian metropolis. is
the daughter of Count and Countess
Frankenstein, formerly of Russian
ried by the late Archbishop Corrigaa
in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
in 1894, the countess being a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Cullen
Brewster OF New York. The baby
son of the Prince and Princess Pal
estrina has received the name of
Urbano, after the .Barberini Pope,
Urban VIII. It Is under, him that
the ancient house of Batberini may be
said to have reached the apex of it's
fortunes. It Is to him, indeed, that
the Barberini Palace in Rome, which
on the death OF the Prince and Prin-
cess Barberfni will become the. home
of Prince and Princess Palestrina,
owes its existence, and 1t was con.
structed so largely of stone and mar
especially from the Coliseum, that the
saying became popular, "Quod non fece-
runt Barbara, fecerunt Barberini' (that
which the barbarians did not destroy
was destroyed by the Barberinis). 1t
.is a most imposing and stately build
ing. of colossal size and of the renais-
sance style of architecture, commenced
by the great architect Maderno and
completed by the still more celebrated
Rarnini. whose works. including the
great eoIonnade of the Basilica of
turn In Rome. 1t is surrounded by
one of the most magnificent gardens
In the Eternal city, full of stately
pine trees and sweetly scented
orange groves. The palace is so huge
ments. and among its tenants in the
past have been Thomas ]. O'Brien,
when American ambassador in Italy,
and w. w. Storey, the artist
On the death of the last of the
Barberini in the male line, in the lat
ter part of the seventeenth century.
his only daughter and sole remaining
member and heiress of the house,
Donna Cornelfa Barberini, married
Prince Guilio Colonna of the Sciarra
branch OF that historic family and
was authorized alike by the Papacy
and by. the Holy Roman Empire to
prefix her name to his own. The
stem again became extinct in the male
line on the death of Don .Enrico Bar
berini-Colonna in 1889 He. left an
only daughter of the name of Marie
by his marriage with Princess Teresa
Orsini. and three years later she
gave her hand. to the Marquis Luigi
Sacchetti. who after his marriage and
in consequence. thereof was authors.
lied. alike by Pope Leo XIII and by
the late King Humbert. to assume
his wife's name. Of Barberini and the
ancient Barberini title of Prince of
Palestrina, now borne by his eldest
son and heir. the husband of old Mrs.
William g. Brewster's granddaughter.
Countess Henrietta Frankenstein..