The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06
.PON|ATOWSK|'S AMBITION,
A Magazine for American Per-
uSal to Be Written in
French.
He Wants a Correspondent In This
City-A Brilliant
Staff.

Prince Poniatowski, whose matrimonial
mission a year ago interested society, has
departed from the usual custom of Earls
Dukes and other mobiles and has resolved
to make his own living. His literary ven.
ture in New York was failure, but, moth.
ing daunted, he has mazda ARRANGEMENTS tc
take Paris by storm with publication to
be issued on grand scale. To one of his
friends in San Francisco he has given an
intimation of what the magazine is to be
ike and enclosed a paragraph from the
Paris Figaro heraldlng its advent
1t will be named the Revue Franco
Americana, and the first nun Der is out by
this time Everybody OF artistic and lit
erary fame will contribute to the Prince
magazine. The corps of writer's consists Of
Tolstoi. Goncourt, baudet, Alexandra Du-
larme, Bourget, Barres, Hervien, Marx
Twain, Alfred Capus, Hermant, Lave
dam, Mendes, Gabriel d'Annunzio
Marcel L'Heureux, Alphonse Atlas, eros
claude. Courteline, etc. The artists are
Whistler, HELEN, Forain and other names
celebrated in the Partisan artistic world.
The magazine is designed for the Ameri-
can public interested in the literary and
artistic movements OF the Old World, and
sounds odd when Mark Twain is among
the contributors. How Marks Jokes viii
read in French must certainly excite the
curiosity of the admirers of the veteran
humorist. But as no exception is to be
made the fun in getting at the point of the
story Will be tax upon the cleverness oil
even the American reader well versed in
the language of politeness and diplomacy
The articles will not be long studies and
10 81 I m
the Prince promises on his honor as a
Polish nobleman. The publication, he also
asserts, will be sort of intellectual union
between the new and the old continent. In
order to prehend all parts of the United
States, and especially California, of which
he entertains so many pleasant recollec.
tons, he is DESTROYS Of engaging a resident
correspondent from San Francisco
This is not as simple as it appears on the
surface Poniatowski does not want a
Frenchman, because he wishes California
point and having the impress of the native
son. Now there are many club men and
others who have a fair knowledge OF
French, but to come into competition with
Dumas, Ibsen and Tolstoi is enough tC
curb the ambition of the most daring
The most likely candidates for the posi-
ton of California correspondent of the Re
yue FrancO-Amerlcalne are Consul George
Hall, who was educated at pEcole des
Beaux Arts, and who speaks French like a
native; ex-senator Lynch, who learned
French in Cairo, and whose accent il
therefore tinged with shade of the Egyp
tan, and Charles Josselyn, who has
studied French at Woodside, San Matec
County, under the direction of an able
tutor.
The American colony in Paris has al
ways a big Pacific Coast contingent, who
would be much interested at the record o.
home affairs which they would receive
from the San Francisco correspondent
Affairs at Burlingame, the latest weduing.
and betrothals, the most recent murders
defalcations and scandals would be g
change from the crisp epigrams of Dumas
or the sentimental essays of Clemenceau.
Certain it is that some one of the above
mentioned gentlemen will represent the
Princes magazine on this coast Possibly
composite letter would be more &C
ceptable. The social and diplomatic by
Mr.. Hale, the political and reformatory by
Mr.. Lynch, and the sporting and artistic
by Mr.. Josselyn.
Should Prince Hatzfeldt and Prince
Colonna, stimulated by Poniatowski's
example, go into business for themselves
and earn an independent living, the Revue
Franco-Americaine will not have been pub
lished in vain.