New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-02

when this singularly appealing gentle woman ask.
in her low moduloted voice, !" Tell me the a,e.,
Gensss n3yG a0 that has not been
ing some ten years, but has not followed il seri.
ously until within the last five years. Her trnns-
lations appear as feuiletons in Paris and proyin-
translation Of Katharine Green's LeavenwortS
Case" IL ran sixty-six days in the Republic
Francaise,' the Independence Beige and the
cessful was Miss Green's Strange DisappcarancsS
which, under the title lie Crime din tinquierne
Avenue" ran in lie Journal DIES Debats," in which
Bishops Golden Justice" and Edgar Fawoetts
" Confessions Of Claude" are among her Later
TRANSACTIONS.
Countess Dillon works rapidly. She reads the
work to he translated through once, marking
striking parts, eliminating that which would moi
appeal to Parisians or fall fiat in translation
Then she lays the original aside and begins tie
translation, as she would a story OF her own cres,
ton. IL takes her from three 10 four months "a
make good translation of a book. TRANSLATION
1 sb PAYS pays wnen published as serial Most Of
line. " lie Temps and " lie journal DIES Debats'
pay from three TO four sous line. The remuncra-
ton Is much higher for translation in France
than in America or England. There is a greater
demand for that class Of work, especially OF the
sensational kind, and many clever women find Ia
IL agreeable and lucrative employment
Women as newsgatherers in Paris are n foreign
innovation. Now, as In the days Of Madame De
Steel, however, many. Of the brightest, ablest con
JrlDutOIS I'D Une press are women. Ihelf
identity is concealed under pseudonyms, and after
the manner Of their masculine competitors, they
rarely venture beyond the subjects Of which they
have made especial study. The standard OF French
journalism is quite apart from that of England
or the United States. The first requisite is literary
merit; men and women meet common ground
and are recompensed accordingly; To have achieved
notorety in any other field, happily is not a
requisite to journalistic or literary recognition In
France. Nine. Adam lJulette Lamber is faml
lar 10 American readers. Her journal, La Nou-
IL rr-Iaa q
des Deuy Mondes," is the medium through which
younger writer's are gaining recognition, and
it often sci scintll 2, with talent Of grea!
has for it's editor a once famous beauty. Madame
de Rute granddaughter of Lucien Bonafarte and
the widow of three husbands Of French, Spanish
and Italian eXtractiOns respectively. Versatile
and eccentric every salon has its anecdote Of this
clever woman of the world Found weeping over
the Paris directory one day. she explained her tears
by confeSsing that she had found therein the
name of one man who had not been in love with
Readers of Marie Bashkrtsef's Journal remem-
Der its authors Difference 10 Etincelc. Baroness
Double is this brilliant womans family name
Her notes Of O society man published IN the
Figaro some years ago were long thought 70
have been written by man.
Brilliant critiques from the pen OF Judith Can
tier daughter Of TheoDhile Gautier. Madame Al
phonse Daudet and Nine Mary Reynolds t~Gn
Bas') appear regularly in the leading journals,
while every paper has now its writer of beau
monde, which is considered the lowest order Of
writing and classed in the same category report
Ing, which is eschewed by the old regime as
foreign intruder worthy the contempt with which
they regard il. The editor Of the Monde
llustre," Emeline Raymond, is almost better
known in America than in France. For twenty.
five years she has contributed TO Harpers Bazar'
sending her manuscript in French
The newspaper woman as she is understood In
England and America. however, is still the un-
accepted in France. The frst foreign invader was
Mrs. Emily Crawford. the brilliant English jour.
nalist. Ten years later came Mrs Lucy Hooper
Paris now has many English and American women
newspaper correspondents. English journals pay
better than American, and the latter are more
liberal than the French. II is almost impossible
for an American to find work on an English
journal, while scores of French and English Jour-
nahs's earn splendid Incomes from American
OaDerS