LIFE
OF
H E N R I E T T E S O N T A G,
COUNTESS DE ROSSI.

WITH
INTERESTING SKETCHES
BY
SCUDO, HECTOR BERLIOZ, LOUIS BOERNE, ADOLPHE ADAM,
MARIE AYCARD, JULIE DE MARGUERITTE, PRINCE
PUCKLER-MUSKAU, AND THEOPHILE GAUTIER.

NEW YORK:
STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 BROADWAY.
——
1852.


ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
STRINGER AND TOWNSEND,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

B. CRAIGHEAD, Printer and Stereotyper,
53 Vesey Street.

CONTENTS.

[Life of the Countess de Rossi], [5]
[Pen and Ink Portrait], byMarie Aycard,[37]
[Henriette Sontag], byM. Scudo,[39]
[Henriette Sontag in Francfort], byLouis Boerne,[46]
[Past and Present], byTheophile Gautier,[51]
[How Sontag Sings], byHector Berlioz,[53]
[The Prima Donna and the Countess], by " "[53]
[Is it the Mother or the Daughter?] byAdolphe Adam,[57]
[Souvenir of the Opera], byJulie de Marguerittes,[59]
[Sontag and the Emperor of Russia], byPrince Puckler-Muskau,[64]