New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-27
TOPICS IN PARIS.
GAMB"TTA's FUIURE-ACTRESSES IN AND
OFT OF NOVELS.

Lis advent in the South caused any excitement, I'M
less at Marseies At Nice he abode with his father
and mother who are very old, and a qnict, simple
hammered, worthy pair. At Monaco he witnessed a
pigeon-shootlns match rsked nothing on the tables,
and dIned at the Hotel de Paris whore he also slept
The trip to Bordghera was made in the equipage
of NJ Bischoffsheim. the original of Steiner, the
banker, in "Nana." As Queen Margaret
of Italy accepted n loan of this millionalre's
house two months ago. the eX-Premier, ex-Presdent
of the Chamber might sans sen canaer be his guest
for few days. Besides Bischoifsheim is Deputy
and he is promoter of astronomy and patron as
well of astronomers of blonde Venuses'" In
whom lola finds models. His villa on the Riviera
is in the style of the Paris Opera House and was
built by Carrier II is but of cOlored marbles and
is very gorgeous structure. Jews like to paint
the lily and gild refined gold" Communicating
with the villa there is high tower Ii is sur
mounted by a telescope, through which the stars
may be drawn to earth and peep be obtained
of the highlands of Corsica.
On his return NJ Gambetta will resume his old
position at the head of La Republiqae Frdncdise,
which has for more than year done him mischief
by the overbearing style of its polemics. lie will
live at the Rue St. Dider the dining-room OF which
has been enlarged to suit his convenience The part
he has to play will be a difficult one. His bench
| men VINO 1ell from power WIFI Hlnl, anu VIII peihB
men, of small value may not rise again, are exaspe-
rated at their defeat and burning to avenge it, They
menace the Chamber with a severe correction and
that body is naturally irritated and to some extent
| because of Gambetta's influence and the political
| organization that he disposes of-alarmed at
their threats. So are the President of the
! Republic and the Minister'S of whom
yesterday brought r bill to enable all the munich
palites that Of Paris to elect their own Mayors
! Under the existing law civic magistrates in the
chief towns of departments, ACCOMPLISHMENTS and
cantOns are nominated by the Government. The
| great majority of them, it so happens, owe their
nominations to NJ. Gambetta, and would, in all
probability be his electoral agents there be-
fore the passing of the bill in question an appeal
made to universal suffrage. Apart from the motives
which have induced the Government to press 1t on,
this municipal bill is excellent and a step in the
right direction. should be glad to see Mayors in
vested with power to elect the Projects or Govern
ors of Departments, who generally know great
deal more about the boulevards than the localities
which they are sent to bring into communication
with the Ministry of the Interior.
Since wrote the above, this mornings Repubtique
Francase which was delivered at the usual hour,
has been brought in to me- The leading article does
not promise peace between Gambetta and the Cham
Der. am sorry to find a declaration of war on the
| majority and the Ministers. 1t Is not the kind of
war which Mr.. Gladstone would have waged upon
Lord Beaconsfeld. An appeal to the people ls indi-
| Gated The position of the RepaJiique is that Gam
beta and his friends represent the Nation and that
the Parliament which will not intrust power to him
is factiOus one. This is a deplOrable one 1t
is vet time for Gambetta to rerace his steps. IL he
fails to do so he must he beaten. The union of the
President Paris, the Radicals of all the great towns
and the Parliament, would form an ntGambettist
force too strong for him to resist successfully His
| immediate friends however, do not seem to under
stand this, and labOring to create great gulf
| between their leader and the Head of the State.
| The last work of NJ. de Goncourt is a novel with
| key" 1t has, therefore, taken the town by storm.
People are all fond of knowing how their distin-
guished and celebrated neighbors live, and like to
see them in their dressing and slippers almost
better than in their robes of state 1t pleasant
| to discover that social idols nothing bu human
| after all aud to seek out and find in what special
points theyrsc little good deal above the crowd.
Never this pleasure SO keenly felt as at the
| present time For this reason the novel
with key" is sure TO succeed if written fairly we'll
! II becomes a rage when it emanates from man of
talent lola in his "RougOn Macquart" SERIES
! Daudet in his - Rois Exil" ana "Numl Roumes
TAM" have the art to make the
uublic long for KEYS to these books
was the first to perceive that masked figures would
be the most inte resting if readers were persuaded
| that real dukes and duchesScs statesmen. and
other great folk, were concealed beneath the
| domino and mask. Whenever Daudet brings out
| novel curiosity is agog to ascertain what person.
| ages he had in his minds eye when skctclling the
| characters that he has brought into his work. If
| his pencil has been unchariable the excitement is
| all the greater. Those highly respectable English
physicians the late Sir Joseph Olliffe and Dr.
! Campbell, were supposed to have been the jenkins
! of lie Nabob.p Opinions were divided as to the
identity of the Due de Mora. In Les Rois en-
! Exil some readers discerned the late Duchess de
! Parma a woman Of heroic heart and fine intellect,
! but of an ugly face in the consort of the goOd-for
nothing King who lodged in the Rue dc Rivoli.
| Others saw in her the Queen of Naples. There was
something of both III the high-strung Royal lady.
| LA Faustin" of NJ. de Goncourt has very little
| Of real life in it. And yet feels that the author
had in his mind some living model when he was
! bringing into relief the chief figure in his work.
| Each time he brings her forward the reader asks:
| Can she be Rachel; is she only Sarah Bern
| harIt :" There are some details which appear to
establish identity with the former and others which
| point to Sarah But taken whole this Flower
of Evil is neither tho one nor the other. NJ. dc
GoncOurt himself questioned on this subject.
and said: :" borrowed from the two actresses
and from many other members of the theatrical
sisterhood. also read every document that could
procure about the famous tragedicnnes of the last
century. | especially studied ali that related to
Mile Clarion" And it is La Clarion who
preponderates in the composite woman in
the novel. That actress said to
have identified herself completely with rhcdrc"
and to have realized so thoroughly The of the
hcToinrs she pcrsOnatcd a. 10 become quite gray
before she was thirty. The gray hairs may have
come early. Cerebral excitement and nervous i'm
pIes,iOnability tend to whten heads early But