The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-10
Another European Celebrity in America.


Mr.. Charles Dickens, Mr.. Anthony Trollope,
Mr.. Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Butler and the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton are
among the literary celebrities who have lately
visited the United States, and we chronicled
not long ago the arrival of Mime. Ia Comtesse
de la Morliere, well known in the literary
world by her pseudonym Of Olympic Audouard
This lady halls from the faubourg st. German
in Paris, and is descended from one of the
oldest aristocratic families in France. Some
Of her ancestors doubtless crossed swords
during the age of the Crusades with the brav-
est soldiers of Saladin. Perhaps this may
have determined the decided taste Of Nine de
Ia Morliere for Oriental travel, the fruits of
which the public have enjoyed in her piquant
revelations Of hsrem life, her animated de-
scriptions Of the East, especially in her work
entitled ''L'Orient ct SEES Peuplsdes," and In
her account of the Suez canal, detached
chapter from her promised volume upon Egypt.
A pamphlet by this lady, 'Lettre N. Hauss-
mann, Prefet de la Seine, denouncing with all
the indignation of mothers heart the sacriie-
gious project Of the Project to run a new bou-
levard through the cemetery Montmartre,
where the remains of her beloved SON had been
consigned to the grave, provoked the i'll will of
that powerful agent Of the present Emperor
Of the French. Her demand for an authorize
ton to convert the heoue Cosm0polite, of
which she was editress, into political publ
cation was denied by the French Minister
Of the Interior and consequently she was
obliged to publish the review for the
10th June, 1867, with the omission of
her article entitled Lies Droits de la Femme,
10 Situation que lui fait Ia Legislation
FRANCHISE" Another article in that number
Of her review gives, in an extract from NJ
Pommier's ''Pronls Contemporaries" an ad-
mirable portrait Of her distinguished friend
Nine. la Comtesse d'Agoult Daniel Stern), the
author Of an ''Essai sur Ia Liberte, Of "Neli-
da" and Of "l'Histoire de Ia Revolution de
1S48." Still another article contains the first
chapter Of q romance by Nine. Olympic Au-
douard, '1'Homme de Quarante Ans" The
Reoue Cosmopolite was suppressed by the
authorities of the Second Empire, which ap-
pears in this instance to be no less jealous of
the influence Of female intellect and beauty
than the First Empire, with all its prosecutions
Of Nine. de Stael and Mime. Recamier by
Napoleon I.
As Nine. de Stael avenged herself in her
exile by her '1Allemagne" against imperial
persecution, so Nine. Olympic Audouard has
avenged herself by publishing narratives Of
her extensive travels in the East. And now
she visits the great republic Of the West with
view ofpublishing hereafter her observations
upon people which fatters itself, rightly or
wrongly, on having solved the problem. Of
selfgovernment. During this summer Nine.
Audouard proposes TO study at our principal
watering places the prominent features of our
American society, and II is safe to predict that
her quick perceptions and her fondness for
generalization will insure the interest and
value of her comments upon the subject. We
shall have an opportunity Of having Burns
wish fulfilled
owad some power the gifte gle US
To see oursels as others see us