Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

Adams salon that Gambetta and the Chief
Republican leaders used to meet, argue,
plan and grid for hattie.
Then it was that Nine. Adam founded
The NouUelle ReUue, which was to be the
republican rival of the old fogy, conserva-
tive ReUue des Deu1 Mondes, and ever
since she has remained at its head. Al
though this periodical cannot 6e said to be
a very brilliant success either financially,
politically or from literary point of view,
it is unquestionably the best review in
France after the famous creation of N.
Buloz, the Revue deS DeuI Nondes.
But if Nine. Adams role is not quite so
important or brilliant to-day as it was 10 or
Is years ago, the reason is not to be found
In any falling off in herself, but rather in
the changes that have taken place in French
politics. In Nine. Adams drawing room
the politicians have been supplanted by the
authors; you hear less about the Chamber
of Deputies and more about the salon;
Gounod, or Daudet, or Bouguereau are the
cynosures of all ewes and not some Senator,
or Deputy, or ex-Minister.
HANDSOME AT FIFTY.
Nine. Adams soirees used to be given
in a suit of spacious apartments far down
the boulevards. But now she resides in a
house, or hotel, as they say in French, on a
street that bears her own name, the Rue
Juliette Lamber, Lamber being one of
Nine. Adams noms de plume and also
her maiden name. The house is hand
somely furnished, cozy and artistic.
Nine. Adam herself, though now over 80.
is still a handsome woman, dressing
with great taste and possessing the easy,
elegant manners Of a true lady of the
world. She converses glibly on art, let
ters, politics, sociology, philosophy and busi-
ness, and is the soul of her drawing room.
To the hostess, more than to any OF her dis
tinguished guests, is due the wide reputa-
tion which this salon ENJOYS in Paris and
throughout liberal Europe.
In direct contrast with Nine. Adam, in
many ways, is Nine. Henry Greville. Nine.
Greville is perhaps the ablest and most
prolific of living French female novelists.
Although each new book created more of a
sensation at her start on her literary career,
some 10 or 15 years ago, Nine. Greville's
stories are still very popular with refined
readers, and especially with the girls and
young women of France who are not allowed
70 open nine-tenths of the new French
novels. Nine. Greville visited America a
few years ago, and so is particularly inter-
esting on your side of the Atlantic. Nor is
she less interested in you than you are in her,
ss is attested by beautiful photographs OF
Niagara, American lamps, books and pri-
vate letters which adorn her parlors or are
pigeon-holed in her writing desk.
THREE ATTRACTIVE HOMES.
Nine. Henry Greville has occupied three
different Paris homes since knew her. The
first time met her il was In charming lit
tie parlor whose floor was covered with big
bear skins brought from Russia, where
Nine. Greville lived for many years, and
where the scenes of her best novels are laid.
The room, furthermore, looked like hot
house, but not because it was especially
warm, a condition seldom experienced in a
Paris home, but because of the many besuti-
full plants scattered everywhere, on tables,
brackets and on the floor. Next she took a