New-York tribune., 1902-07-19

the first nights of the leading theatres. From
the age Of ten Juliette Lamber has been con-
stantly in touch with the intellectual movement
of Paris.
She was born October 4, 1896 at the little
village of Verberie on the Disc. Her father was
a country physician and socialist, devoted to
his little daughter. She educated herself and
collected her knowledge more from observation
than from books. She keenly watched every
body and everything, comparing notes with her
socialist father and with her practical, thrifty
mother. From the age of ten she had it all her
own way in the Lamber household, whether in
the large room at Chauny. where there was al
ways a log fire burning" or at the "stuffy little
chamber in the inn" of the "Trois Monarques';
in the fields at Caumenchon, or at ChiVres'
where she used to pass few weeks each spring
in company with her two aunts. and play with
Rousset, their frisky gray donkey. When only
nine years old she often aided her grandfather
who a surgeon. in bleeding his patients
Her father imbued her with a radical republi-
catechism that still serves as political
chart. Julette has physical as we'll as moral
courage and was never afraid of spiders, ana
used to jump the horses in the field and
galIop about on them without saddle or bride.
She participated in stirring scenes during the
revolution of 1913, when she pinned a tricolored
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streets haranguing the people, and went with
her father and planted a tree of liberty"
These political experiences somewhat interfered
with her classical studies. and she became an
ardent cheyenne, burning with deep passion for
liberty, fraternity and equality. and above all
for humanity There are some bright pages or
history to be found in the plucky httie eni .
diary, and her thoughts and impressions are all
the more piquant because each OF the members
of her family was of a different political creed.
Her grandfather was a Bonapartist, her grand
mother was an Orleanist and her iather
was wideawake radical socialist One day
II was arranged that Juliette should marry
steady, thrifty commonplace tradesman. She
revoIted at this and for week there were lively
times in the Lamber household but at last
Juliette carried the day. and her suitor was sent
away broken hearted. Lamber and his daughter
were perfectly delighted with the revolution OF
1s4s. and the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon
came TO them as personal affront
Talking with Nine. Adam the other day ABOUT
her memoirs. she said that as she got oloer her
recoIIections of what happened in early slrlhooo
became more and more vivid Asked II she mad
not unconsciously charged the little Juhette
Iamber with maturity of thought and comph-
Gated sentiments more appropriate to Nine
Adam. she replied: NO indeed. There are no
words that l nave alIrlDulSu W iSoSAA "i'~-'
child that were not genuine reflections at the
time 1 put myself back in the skin OF my
youth as it WERE and with the aid of notes have
reproduced my impressions with scrupulous ac-
curacy" Nine. Adams romance of her child
hood presents a delightful picture OF trench
family life and is already highly popular with
women readers. It is simply the narrative OF
her youthful days 1t is her intention to follow
it with other volumes approaching more to the
level Of history, mingled with light gossip and
character studies, of which the versatile au-
thoress produced such happy examples in the
remarkable series of sketches or monographs
of society in Berlin, Paris, St Petersburg,
Vienna, Rome and London which caused some
thing approaching a sensation at the time or
their publication in 1885. by their startling ac-
curacy and their piquant audacity, tempered
with good nature. 1t not until recently
that it became known that the mysterious
Count Paul Vasili' who signed them was in
reality Mime. Edmond Adam. c. l. b.