New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-08
4 LUCKY LADY.
THE HEROINE OF REVOLUTIONARI
ROMANCE
ROMANCE

THE MEMOIRS OF THE BARONESS CECIL
DE COURTOT LADY-IN- WAITING TO TIA
PRINCES DE LANBALLE PRINCES Of
SANOY-CARIGNAN- Compiled from The Lsr
OF the Baroness 10 Frau Won a 'v-nssbel,
nee Baroness LOe. ana the Diary q the L1--sr.
BY Her eTreat-sr2ncSOn, M'ri-z Won A2ssn-
berg tNoritz Won Berg Translated frol ,ss
German b. Jessie Haynes Octave. PIP XIV -
Henry Holt * Co.
This book has q somewhat p7rtent0us uls
page. II gives Us, among other things. the chlcs
OF two names for the compiler. But We wish Ws
had some more explicit informatl5a about In
than is to be cleaned from either title pass
or preface. The book is one Of the strangss,
and most amusing, ever produced in the depart
ment of revolutionary Literature The story /
tells is in itself amazing. and every chaptr
bears SO apt relation 10 the next one that RI
reader is constantly rubbing his eyes and ASA
ing in bewnderment. What nexte" It is al =
circumstantial, the romance is So compact 8
dramatic-at just the right meu=nts-that Es
feel inclined to pay Herr MoriJz Won Kaisenbers
or Won Berg. the tribute that IS usually reserved
for a writer of fiction.
Nothing could be more "novelis-icr than ne
arrangement of the narrative. In the frs;
chapter we are introduced to the AIvenslsbsn4
and especially TO that "Annalieoe with Whaz
the Baroness Cecile de Courrot S 10 become
friends under the most romantic Of cireuz-
stances The German lady marries and goes o
live in an old fashioned manor house Sh7s
the noise of the French Revolution is dinI
heard. Suddenly cousin who has gone to tas
wars writes begging Werner Won AlvensleSs'
and his wife to give sanctuary 10 oeaupl-
young French woman OF noble birth who ns
escaped the guillotine as by miracle. We nl~
pause upon the miracle. which is, BY the way
curiously unworthy Of such a gentleman as ~
author Of it is supposed 10 be. This person n'
Vicomte de Trellissac. is engaged 10 be MAJ
ried to the Baroness. When that unfOriuna'
lady follows her mistress. the Princess De LAa'
,alle. to prison. and is finally placed in 'ulI
bril- with many others 70 so to the place .
execution her lover blocks the road az coz
venient point with internal machine. WIZ
explodes and causes dreadful damage l'
houses rocked. shutters were loosened ana "
Gathering to the ground and the air WIS DARK
ened by thick cloud OF smoke and dust ShA'
from hundred voices came shrieks Of pam Z"
the groans Of the dying II might have 0''
the end Of the world" II ought 10 have ."
CURED TO the VicOmte that it might also na''
been the end of his sweetheart. but though y,
found herself half buried under a neAD
struggling. grooming people" her preserve,
to be in the way would at least De rewarded y
the preservation Of his little Baroness
quickly proved My CeciIe. rouse yourseA'
is T. comes an imprisoned whisper ana ~
looks up into pair % tender blue eyes =
heavens-these We're Hector's dear eyes
read and presently the escape is made th'-s
the gentleman who had planned II Win 81
solicltude for the woman he loved that ne rsN-
blowing her 10 pieces is cut down oy
darme. and the Baroness swoOns IN AM
mans arms. This friend Of the Nicomtes -
his charge TO Holland. where the SnsihA -.
the AlvensIebens aforesaid makes her aet--,
ance and starts her on her journey 10 ths s''
manor house. al
The transition Is delightful The InoS' q
romancer could not have devised m'''
fective contrast than that which IS d'As 80.
this book between the Paris Of the he'-- -ss
and the peaceful German retreat IA "a
everybody is saturated in sentmen'aHH. "a
Baroness falls III. OF course after al her -.
adventures on her recovery she tens "a
Hebe'' how It all happened BY anu 80
shakes herself free from the Iethargy iA'' :,
she has been plunged by her sunerlnss' = ~
peclally by the bloody fall % the Nic'r'.s 4
foro her very eyes. and she begins 10 >, no
Paris Napoleon is nearly on the eIs'' :, D,
wave that - 10 carry him TO the 1hl'A'