New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-21
"N ABBESSE DE JOUARRE.r
NINE. REMAIN APPROVES OF HER HIS
BANDS SCANDALOUS Work

BANDS SCANDALOllS WORK
from TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE rp,prxv
Pairs, October ~.
Admirers of NJ Rcnan sorry that he has pnb
listed EAbbesse de Jouarre.D 1t is a proclsmato,
OF the power If carnal love made with the trumpet
bust of mocern publicity and puaery, by man who il
at time OF lite when early pressions rise up more
wildly than those of yesterday in the memory After
spending calmly moro than quarter of a century in
tina green pastures OF matrmony the author OF The
Life OF Jesus has been seized with frenzed Ion ying
probably inspired by young face-to treat of
| SUBJECTS thin the domain of Aphrodite and Eros
There is not glimmer of idenity IN the book beyond
what is shown in taste for artistic form or nothing
that shows light from spirit word to be stealing in
on the authors soul and lumining il as he draws
nigh to the tomb NJ Renan is too strong for the
| Boulevard gazettes one of which," lie Gauois -
has for its ed tor Arihnr Meyer the whom secretary
OF Blanche dAntigny. the original of Zoas Mana chief
character in a novel of the same name
The critical faculty which Renan used to exercise in
his works has been stihed by an admirng public and
he does not mind how the Catholics abuse him. The
louder they rail the greater will be the applause of the
iIee-tninkers and the studious youth OF the Latin
Quarter No fool. they saw s as bad as an old fool |
don't believe there is hof-blooded youth in the
QUARTER Latin who. had he written the book which ~
kenan has just brought out would have sent 1t back
through
In the course of tine week met Nine. kenan at a
quiet lunch III the house of a common friend The row
about her husbands book, which seems 10 be rising to
a storm. had just begun But she did not seem
disturbed by it She as much A. ever the
wOrshipper Of the lusrious author sat after lunch
Tor perhaps about three quarters of hour with Nine
Renan IA singuarly clever little WITH were it
moi for her quick, shrewd eyes, placid Dutch |
ply siognomy. She has also dump Dutch figure
dily dressed in rich black stuff "A figure SO plump
that there is for meek between the shoulders
and too strongly rounded checks Seeing her nm
accompanied by her husband asked whether he were
still ID Brittany at the seaside place where they have
been passing the summer and autumn. She laughed
from sheer establishment at the question and said that
since he and she married they were never whole
day apart NJ. Renan would be utterly helpless and
miserable without her
Nine Renan has since " L'Abbesse de Jouarre ~ caua
mt defended the course NJ. Reuan took in publishing
t. lie anted in unhackneyed manner to show the
'anity OF those vows imposed Catholic priests and
nuns. and also to make evident the bondage in which
hey hello the feminine conscience while the masculine
conscience threw them aside VI. henan did not
ccept the Christian ideal believe that the worli
a. to he always vale OF tears lie often struck
N tue shores OF the Mediterranean With the beauty OF
he pagan concert OF Nenrs and her train Of graccs
nd of winged Eros and his tricks and childish
ogueIes. Ihey were IN perfect harmony with the
cenery along the blue of Southern Europe Love
D that happy region was purely earthly. because it
as let alone and not frowned at il not degrading
hen kenHn was consulting with his wife az to
bether he should say out all be wished to utter she
epled BE above all things frank. You we're frank Y
La Vie de Jesus you frank in your lectures
Westminster Marcus Aurelius and his mil
sophlcal agnOsticism; and you how well IL q
icceeded BE also perfectly sincere now IN writing I
prose hymn in the form OF IA romance in honor of !,
ve Perfect sincerity is all that the world has right
ask of You" v
Nine. kenan is of Dutch descent Her father was n
carr Schcfer whose painting OF Charlotte Corday
ing led prisoner TO the concergerie has been re- .
oduced BY the engraver wherever French art has A.
;netrated. Her unoie The more celebra ed b
nttr AIRY Schefer whom the spiritual sense was AZ
strong as in any English Puritan of the Cronl- !,
Gillian time. Heaven had come down TO dwell in the "
arts OF all the saints that 10 painted The Scheers
IRE Proesants and doubt not thai the Protestant be
"a of Nine. kenan greatly conducive to the
'eration OF NJ henan from the bonds in which his .
nd kept at st. Supice's Seminary HIS III
pacy Tor quiet combat OF the pen and ink kind may III
Iso doubt not be in some ascrbed 10 her oil
passion tor sincerity. | sorry, how
or, that she thinks him competent 10 give the world
ragca and entirely French sequel to the Song OF lei
omon. Eros. Voltaire judiciously remarked is til
cry different being III the Isles OF Greece from what AN
~ IN raw northern climates. ] don't think there -
that Lucretus should be here TO new tune or De
It the Virgin Mary should be removed to make way mi
Anhrodite tin,