his fortune by the proceeds of the singer’s career.  However that may be, a separation took place, and Mme. Malibran returned to Paris in 1827.  Her singing in Italian opera was everywhere a source of the most enthusiastic ovation, and, as she rose like a star of the first magnitude in the world of song, so the young De Beriot was fast earning his laurels as one of the greatest violinists of the day.  In 1830 an indissoluble friendship united these two kindred spirits, and in 1832 De Beriot, Lablache, the great basso, and Mme. Malibran set out for a tour in Italy, where the latter had operatic engagements at Milan, Rome, and Naples, and where they all three appeared in concerts with the most eclatant success—­as may well be imagined.

At Bologna, in 1834, it is difficult to say whether the cantatrice, or the violinist, or the inestimable basso, produced the greatest sensation; but her bust in marble was there and then placed under the peristyle of the Opera-house.

Henceforward De Beriot never quitted her, and their affection seems to have increased as time wore on.  In the year following she appeared in London, where she gave forty representations at Drury Lane, performing in “La Sonnambula,” “The Maid of Artois,” etc., for which she received the sum of three thousand two hundred pounds.  De Beriot would not have made this amount probably with his violin in a year.

After a second journey to Italy, in which Mme. Malibran renewed the enthusiasm which she had first created in the public mind, and a series of brilliant concerts which also added to De Beriot’s prestige, they returned to Paris to wait for the divorce of Mme. Malibran from her husband, which had been dragging its way through the courts.  The much longed for release came in 1836, and the union of hearts and lives, whose sincerity and devotion had more than half condoned its irregularity, was sanctified by the Church.  The happiness of the artistic pair was not destined to be long.  Only a month afterward Mme. de Beriot, who was then singing in London, had a dangerous fall from her horse.  Always passionately fond of activity and exercise, she was an excellent horsewoman, and was somewhat reckless in pursuing her favorite pursuit.  The great singer was thrown by an unruly and badly trained animal, and received serious internal injuries.  Her indomitable spirit would not, however, permit her to rest.  She returned to the Continent after the close of the London season, to give concerts, in spite of her weak health, and gave herself but little chance of recovery, before she returned again to England in September to sing at the Manchester festival, her last triumph, and the brilliant close of a short and very remarkable life.  She was seized with sudden and severe illness, and died after nine days of suffering.  During this period of trial to De Beriot, he never left the bedside of his dying wife, but devoted himself to