Gone To Play On A Harp

Abbo Liszt, the famous pianist died in Bayieutli on ihe Ut in-t. Li.t made his appearance a a pinnist in Io30 being then oiil' in his ninth year. A (ter eiglitte i montis of zealous study in hi-. uative country, ilungury.be proceoded to Paris, where he periormeu bcforo the Duke of Or.eaiiH, and to London where he I:e3;imo a g -eat favorito of K ing UeorgB IV. Ui . youth was one of wild adventure. At th(5 age o( 23 he eloped with the young Counte s D'Agouit and lived witb her during several years in a protty villa on the horo of the Lake of Ueneva. 8he 1 ore him several children, among olhers V sim i. who married first.y tha pi mist Hans Von Bulow. frotn whoin she obtalned a dirorce to mavry Ricbird Wagner. Another daughter, now dead, mamed M. O.ivlcr, the prime minister of France at the tim of the declaration of war with Crermany in 1870. Tho Countesse D'Agouit, who ís better known by her nom de plumo of Daniel Ütern and whu is roported ti Lave been tha most Utterly depraved women of tho centurysuddenly left him to become the mistres of timile D'Girdrtün. Lis.t, a :n ,t ho irt lnoki'ii by her de.-ortion. recommenced his travels, gjving periorminoes in nll the eapltals of Europe. BeiiiR, howevnr, of a veiy impresionable nature, he was deeply attached to two married lidies one of whom was a ltussian and the other a Germán prince s, Sagno Witegenstein. The latter, after agrc.it deal of difliculty, obtained a divorce trom her husband. which waa franted on the very d-iy on which the Ruiim lady becamu a widow. LiszC having solemnly promised mavriage to eacb of thein seiarately was now at his wit's end and in despair appealed to his friend and patrón. Cardiunl Hohenlohe, f or assistance. Aotingonthe latters advice he solved the difliouky bv entering the prlesthood, and probably with a view ofescaping from the just vengeanee of two deeply wronged laaies. He took up his re iaence in the Vatican, where he remalned until 1S7. Sincetheu he has lived mo-tly in Germany and hos been the recipiënt of honors frcm almost overv sovereign in Eorope. He was covered with ileeorations. possessing close upon sixty, nnd was very prou 1 of them. His vauity was beyond all bslief and hundreds of anecdotéu are related of his extraordinary '■ehavior in soiiety.