The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-27
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| Memoirs of the Countess Potocka:' :'
 edited by Casimer Stryienski; author
 ized translation by Lionel Strachey; it. | lustrated; Doubleday & Mcclure Co. | New York. This is an unusually viva
 cious and attractive volume in which 1 the countess, a member of the Polish l royal family and an enthusiastic pa | triot, gives her "reminiscences of people and events, and very interesting remi-
 niscences they are. Chief in interest
 are her recollections of Napoleon, whom
 she met at various receptions and dim ners; Of Maria Louisa, his second wife; and of Talleyrand and other historical characters, Apart from these recollec- tionS the countess journal reveals a
 naive, but charming personality, Gal lie in it's clever quickness and percep-
 ton, yet withal that of a nature always
 pure and womanly in spite of the times
 so adverse to her nation, and oft times
 painful surroundings to her patriotic
 heart The New York Tribune in an
 extended and very interesting review
 of this work, coupled with extracts
 from it, says: "The sprightly author
 of these memoirs was the great niece
 of Stanislaus Augustus PoniatowslSi,
 the last king of Poland; one of the viv-
 i'd memories of her childhood was of the
 monarch's noble face, his dignified
 manner, his gentle and melancholy
 gaze, his silver hair and his beautiful,
 slightly perfumed hand. Born when
 the eighteenth century was in its last
 quarter, she witnessed the dying strug
 gles of her unhappy country, and
 shared the brief moments of hope which Napoleon, for his own purposes,
 inspired in its people. Her reminis- cences, which were not published until
 thirty years after her death, are full of piquant anecdote and of characteristic strokes of description. Her comments are often shrewd and humorous, and she is as candid as most feminine dia- rists ever are. She tells us how she
 tried to awaken a vehement affection in her merely polite and amiable hus- band by casually dropping in his way an ardent love letter, which, in a dis guised hand, she had written to herself; she dwells again and again upon the platonic passion which bound her to the fascinating Count de Flahaut, pretty gentleman, who appeared to be irresistible to the fair Napoleonic era. Her sentimental passages are amusing, but she is most attractive when she deals with the notable personages who made serious history in her time"
 There are many nasty sketches in this book that are well worth remem- bering We see Talleyrand cynical, false charming, with a napkin over his arm, tray of lemonade in his hand, serving as a fiunky the ruler he toadied, used and despised. We see the plumed Murat playing prince" with tinsel manners, the studied pose of a third rate actor, and an overwhelm ing desire to talk about his own ex- ploits We see-no, the picturesque is too long; let the reader evke 1t for himself from an uncommon ly entertaining recital admirably trans ated" For sale at Judd's.
 "Through the First Antarctic Night" Doubleday, Mcclure & Co.,, New York | publishers, is a narrative of the voyage of the Belgica among newly discovered | lands and over an unknown sea about | the South Pole, by pr. Frederick A. | Cook, an American, a resident of | Brooklyn, N. .,Y.S WhoaWas surgeon=and |