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Mr. Milton Bronner, a well- known American writer, recently wrote from London: A big heavily-built man in loose-fitting comfortable clothes brushes past us in this London shop run by Frenchmen for Frenchmen and where the chief articles on sale are French newspapers, magazines and books and the French cigarettes put out by the French government through its tobacco monopoly,

OF LIFE.

The name of Julius Epstein is irrevocably associated with the history of modern music. He was, for years, the most celebrated tenchor of piano at the Vienna Conservatory, where the greatest! virtuoses of the last generation have studied. He was born in 1830. And curiously, and indeed tragically, he still lives.

This fact will sturtle many who know his name, because all except Three or four clerks, French a few of his most recent pupils republicans all, run up to great have forgotten him. Ha in a the big man and ask solicitously living refutation of the idea about his health And he asks expressed by Bernard Shaw .in about theirs. Then he brings "Black to Methuselah" that long- them closer by n wink and tells evity is desirable, for as the chem a naughty story, and a group (number of his years nears 100 he of happy Frenchmen laugh (find himself a living ghost, a man Cogether.

But one son notless they do not address him as "Monsieur." Monseigneur" is the word that is

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Monseigneur, Monseigneur!

Then it comes back to us-that ix felt hat, that bold ne, that prajecting chin, that blonde beard ow streaked with gray. Ah, of course, it's the Duke of Orleans, head of the. Houses of Bourbon and Orleans, principal pretender to the throne of France.

He was born in England and he lives part of his time near London and part near Brussels.

who has survived not only his own contemporaries but the con- temporaries of his children; whose friends, one after another, have passed into oblivion or into his- tory, na he himself, though yet living, has become a personality of history.

'For a decade or more he has been confined to his room, and there, in a chair, or bed, visited only occasionally by some middle- aged men who remember him us a venerable and reverence-inspiring figure in their extreme youth, he awaits his end, surrended by the portraits of his friends and pupils. long since dead,

Sometimes, in a. melancholy His personality remains 11 mystery, although in republican mood, half-rebellious. that his France there is an active royalist years stretch on and on, he takeý party which elects members to the a long cane and points around, the French Parliament, maintains an walls at the faces which look down

These photographs, | army of agitalors, the "Camelots upon him.

dedicated to "my dear friend" or

de Roi," and a daily newspaper,my beloved teacher," he tolls off,

L'Action Francaise."

"My dear one after. another. Rubinstein-dead! My Joachim -dead! My Brahms, my Mahler, even my son--dead!"

But few of his French followers have ever seen him close up and simply human, as we have just seen him in this French shop. Over in France they know he has been a great hunter. They know he did some exploring in the Aretie regions of Greenland years They know he fell of a hors and hurt his hip.

ago.

They know he was once "in Datch with the king of England

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This man, whose birth almost coincided with the death of Beethoven, has known intimately who already, for us, are memories all the great musical personalities

living only in the immortality of their works.

One day when Epstein, airendy, a recognized figure in the Vienna musical world, was teaching in the conservatory, a shy, bland North German lad came to see him. He twisted his hat between his fingers from sheer nervous- ness, but managed to get out that he wanted to study, with Epstein.

"What is your name?" asked Epstein, kindly, of the body.

"My name is Johannes Brahms,” he replied shyly.

The two words meant nothing to Epstein, and nothing to anybody in the world, "at that moment," But Epstein had not taught the bashful boy many weeks before he realized that his pupil was no common clay. He began to beg him to appear before the public, to let himself be shown. But Brahms shrank from publicity.] Epstein, all afire with enthusiasm, rented a little concert hall in the "Tuehlaben" and himself jorganized the concert and sold the

tickets.

It was the first time the name of Johannes Brahmas ever became known to a public which was one day to include the whole civilized Western world.

Duke of Orleans. because of some careless remark he let drop about Queen Victoria. The shy, blond boy became a And they know that some years man; the lad studying pigno ago the duke welcomed to his became a great composer; the home in England his nephew, great composer died at a ripe age. But his teacher lives on In the Ex-King Manuel.

Philippe, Duke of Orleans, was born in Twickenham near London in 1869. Educated in Paris, he had to lease because all his family were barrel.

little Vienna flat, and, pointing with his cane to the picture on the wall, murmurs only", "Dead!"

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Another day, years later, a prosperous alcohol manufacturer gether for weeks, One day she He returned to England, went from the Bohemian city of Brucan sang in the studio and Epstein "Abandon plano. through the great military college came to Vienna, leading his son, advised her:

She was Mar-

of Sandhurst and for two years youth in his teens, who had Sing.". She did. served in the British army in protested, against his father's cella Sembrich.

In all the great centres of the India. In 1900 he came to Paris adview, that he wanted to study

world there are musicians who in disguise and asked the privilege muste.

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of serving in the French army, à The alcohol manufacturer came, remember Epstein.. I have no, duty all young Frenehmen have to in the course of events, to Julius doubt that many who studied with perform.

Epstein talked to the him and who are now in New, He was recognized, arrested father and to the young boy. He York or London or elsewhere are and sentenced

He read some unaware that he is still living. to two years heard him play. imprisonment. All the royalists little compositions which the boy He himself is tired of existenes of France smothered his cell in hud put together. And then, and longs; he says, to join the flowers, fruits and deliencies. turning to the father, he said, company of his numerous illus. The republican papers laughed at "What do you want to make out trious friends.

the 14-course dinners in the prison of your son?"

of Clairvaux.

British armies.

The father smiled. "If I had

my way-an alcohol manufacturer, like myself," he replied.

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The government commuted his sentence and escorted him out of

In 2000 A.D. the American city` France with a warning never to Epstein adjusted his glasses and will have building, 100 or more. return. He hasn't. But he tried winked behind them, little storeys in height, with landing to during the war, asking to be funnily, in his pedagogic munnor.stages for aircraft, and the streets allowed to serve in the French or In, this world," he said, "there will be of two or three levels to is plenty of alcohol, but of brains relieve traffic congestion. This is France vetoed it. Then he usk-there is never enough." So he the conception of the futuro ed President Wilson to be allowed kept the son of the alcohol manu- metropolitan municipality to serve with the American troops, facturer with him, and he became skotched by artists and architects, a musician. His name was Gustay|whó, exhibit thoir. pictorial Another veta.

Since then he has dropped out

prophesies as one of the features of public view. But he's great I have heard that a young of the American Institute of Stool friends with the clerka in the woman once came to study the piano Construction, which has opened French bookshop in London. with Epstein. They worked to its convention.

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