cotsman, a member of the illustrious house of Lennox, who
was with difficulty restrained by his family from offering
her his hand. In London the deceased led a gay life, being
courted by the Earl of Malmesbury and other distinguished
noblemen. Wherever she went, she was the observed of all
observers, conquering the hearts of men of all countries by
her beauty and blandishments, and their admiration by her
unflinching independence of character and superior
intellectual endowments."

The death of Lola Montez did not pass without comment in England. The
_Athenaeum_ necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in
which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name
can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria."

A Grub Street hack, employed by the curiously named _Gentleman's
Magazine_, slung together a column of abuse and lies, founded on
tap-room gossip:

"When not yet sixteen, she ran away from a school near Cork
with a young officer of the Bengal Army, Lieutenant Gilbert
(_sic_), who married her and took her to India. In
consequence of her bad conduct there, he was soon obliged to
send her back to Europe. She first tried the stage as a
profession, but, failing at it, she eventually adopted a
career of infamy."

A writer in _Temple Bar_ has endeavoured, and, on the whole, with fair
measure of success, to preserve the balance:

"With more of the good and more of the evil in her
composition than in that of most of her sisters, Lola Montez
made a wreck of her life by giving reins to the latter; and
she stands out as a prominent example of the impossibility
of a woman breaking away from the responsibilities of her
sex with any permanent gain, either to herself or to
society. Her passionate, enthusiastic and loving nature was
her strength which, by fascinating all who came into contact
with her, was also her weakness."

Cameron Rogers, writing on "Gay and Gallant Ladies," sums up the
career of Lola Montez in deft fashion:

"Thus passed one who has been called the Cleopatra and the
Aspasia of the nineteenth century. A very gallant and
courageous lady, certainly; and, though she used her beauty
and her mind not in accordance with the Decalogue, yet
worthy to be remembered as much for the excellent vigour of
the latter as for the perfection of