CARMEN SYLVA

pen-name of Blizabeth, Queen of Rumania, 18431916. In 1869 she married Prince Charles of Rumania, who in 1888 became King. After the death of her only child, a daughter, in 1874 she devoted much of her time to writing and soon “won an international reputation especally as a poet. Her best known works were Storms, 1881; Pilgrim Sorrow, 1884; Thoughts of a Queen, 1882. She also ‘did much to collect Rumanian folk-lore s and stories and to make them tter known by means of translations. She was greatly beloved in her adopted country as a result of her graciousne and benevolence and did much to imrove living and working conditions for Rumanian women. She died at Bucharest in March, 1916. ‘ancient town, And alus i a, Spain; many “Moorish and Rom. antiquities. Pop. 18,000.