resources, never unnerved by catastrophe. Disaster after disaster left
unexhausted her marvellous powers of recuperation. She could adapt herself
to all men and all circumstances. She was at home in the courts of
emperors and kings, in the _salons_ of the learned, in the backwoods of
California, in the mining camps of Australia, in the conventicles of New
York. To the life of a recluse in a primeval wilderness she adapted
herself as readily as to a London drawing-room. She was eloquent in many
tongues, witty and light-hearted, adding to the world's gaiety. She was
kindly and compassionate, cherishing dogs, and all four-footed things,
visiting the sick and the afflicted, saying a kind word for the despised
coolies of India. Her money she showered with reckless generosity on all
who stood in need. Her excellences were her own; her faults lie at the
door of society.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
_The files of the following newspapers_: Times, Morning Herald, Era,
Illustrated London News; Le Constitutionnel, Le Figaro, Le Journal des
Debats; New York Tribune; Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Argus.
_"Autobiography and Lectures of Lola Montez" (by C. Chauncy Burr); "An
Englishman in Paris" (Vandam); "Letters from Up-Country" (Hon. Emily
Eden); "You have heard of them?" (Q). "History of the 44th Regiment"
(Carter); "Revelations of Russia" (Henningsen); "Life and Adventures"
(George A. Sala); "Bygone Years" (Leveson Gower); "Fraser's Magazine,"
1848; "Players of a Century" (Phelps); "New York Stage" (Ireland); "Story
of a Penitent" (Hawks); "Dictionary of National Biography."_
_"Les Contemporains" (De Mirecourt); "Mes Souvenirs" (Claudin);
"Souvenirs" (Theodore de Banville); "Histoire de l'Art Dramatique en
France" (Theophile Gautier); "Dictionnaire Larousse."_
_"Ein Vormarzliches Tanzidyll" (Fuchs); "Ludwig Augustus" (Sepp); "Ludwig
I." (Heigel); "Unter den vier ersten Koenigen Bayerns" (Kobell); "Lola
Montez und die Jesuiten" (Erdmann); "Bayern's Erhebung"; "Franz Liszt als
Mensch ung Kuenstler" (Ramann); Metternich's Memoirs: Bernstorff Papers;
etc., etc._
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Historical Record of the 44th, or East Essex Regiment (1864), by
Thomas Carter, of the Adjutant-General's Office.
[2] Dodwell and Miles, Indian Army List, 1760-1834.
[3] "You have Heard of Them," New York, 1854.
[4] _Morning Herald_, 8th June 1843.
[5] "An Englishman in Paris," 1892. The author of this book was A. D.
Vandam, who could not have had this from Lola personally, seeing that he
was born in 1842.
[6] Vandam, "An Englishman in Paris."
[7] De Mirecourt (_Contemporains_) fixes the date of this episode in 1843,
and bases it in reports in the _Constitutionnel_, which I have been unable
to trace.
[8] All the statements made concerning Lola in "An Englishman in Paris"
must be received with caution, as they can only be taken at the best as
hearsay evidence transcribed by Vandam.
[9] The foregoing section may seem more in the style of a novel than a
biography, but, the dialogue not excepted, it is an exact _resume_ of the
evidence given at the subsequent trial.
[10] It is imitated by Heine in some ironical verse, condoling with
Frederick William of Prussia on Lola's preference for Louis.
[11] _Morning Herald_, 3rd March 1868.
[12] "Unter den vier ersten Koenigen Bayerns," 1894.
[13] "Ein Vormaerzliches Tanzidyll." Berlin.
[14] I have used and slightly abridged the translation given in the
_Morning Herald_.
[15] Frau Von Kobell calls her Countess of Landsberg, a place to be found
on the map, which Landsfeld is not.
[16] This was the house built by Metzger, now number 19 Barerstrasse.
[17] Fuchs, "Ein Vormaerzliches Tanzidyll."
[18] Times, 4th March 1868.
[19] So says Mr. Boase in the "Dictionary of National Biography," but
quotes no authority.
[20] "Bygone Years," 1905.
[21] "Life and Adventures of G. A. Sala," 1896.
[22] _Times_, 7th August 1849.
[23] _Les Contemporains_, Paris, 1857. No sources of information are
indicated. De Mirecourt's real name was Jacquot.
[24] _New York Tribune_, 6th December 1851.
[25] By way of digression I cannot refrain from instancing the absurd
practice obtaining in some newspapers of printing the title Mrs., when
applied to a woman not legally married, in inverted commas, in spite of
the dictum of English law which says that any one can call themselves by
any description they please.
[26] _New York Tribune_, 10th August 1853.
[27] _Era_, 6th January 1856.
[28] _Morning Herald_, 7th May, 1856.
[29] De Mirecourt.
[30] Phelps, "Players of a Century."