"THE LEGEND OF MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue LXVII, 30 January 1904, Page 13

"THE LEGEND OF MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF.

Prince Bodijar Karageorgoviteh, ii^ the Fortnightly Review, attempts to discredit " The Legend of Mario Bashkirtseff." He knew, her and protests that she was not the neurotic person her too famous journal makes her out. Her precocious love affairs wore simple inventions, the passion for Hiustian-Leppge a meie inference from a brief friendship. Apparently, her family were at fault in publishing only the inure sensational portions of tho diary : " I know (lint it must have been a difficult tank to conden.se into two volumes tho memoirs of Minis Bashkirtseff which,' printed in extenso, would have tilled ten or twelve volume* nt leiwt. I except from blame M. Andre Thcuriet, who edited tho Diary, and this all tho more freoly as I know that ho never met Millie, nor saw the real manuscript of her Diiuy, but only a copy which had been edited beforo ho received it. I grant that tho question of the moment wa« to make tho book int resting, Maiio wiu, qnito unknown at tho moment of her death, and tho mention of celebrated persons in her memoirs would naturally greatly augment the interest of her Dairy nnd increaso its sale. Marie, however, in her«elf, Vns interesting enough, and real enough ; she was much more interesting than can be imagined by those who credit the absurd stories of her precocity which, instead of representing hor a« the good, amiable, and clever girl she leally was, make her out to bo a 'case' or an insupportable and neurotic arriviste."