The San Francisco call., 1903-01-11

When Abner reached his chamber he found
hs wife sitting quietly by the table, on which
burned lamp.
g Hellor said he 1 thought you'd be abed
and asleep
. I didn't to do uny talkin' out front.
along the road I think you said this was to
be a case Of blackgum ag'in thunder
Yes ssid Abner. in somewhat uncer-
Well then said Mrs BatteraeId I'm
thunder
1T was very late when that couple went to
bed, but II was very early the next morning
when Abner rose. He split great deal OF DIRE
that meal he put his hoe on his shoulder ana
went to his cornield. He remembered that
there were three rows of corn which he had
hoed upon only one side
Romance of My Childhood and Youth
One of the most interesting women
whom French society and public life have
known since the time of Nine. de Stael is
Nine Adam, whose pen name, Juliette
Iamber is also her maiden name. The
present volume is the first of series of
photographed recoIlections which she
is writing. 1t relates to childhood
and youth that were remarkably roman
tic. She has told the story as only a
brilliant French woman can.
Nine. Adam has been a writer since
1855. At the time of the Franco German
war her husband was Prefet de Police in
that eventful period and published an
count of her experiences in 1873. Since
then she has been the author of a long
line of successful volumes in almost every
department of popular literature. More
than thirty years ago she started the
Nouvelle Revue, which she has continued
to conduct ever since with marked ability
and notable success Her fortnightly ar
ticles on foreign politics have attracted
wide attention.
Under the empire she had in Paris a
political salon which was much frequent
ed by the best men of that time and the
memory of which still survives among
the older lights of Partisan society. 1t is
understood that her memoirs have been
in process of production since 1895. They
are certain to arouse an interest to which
few books of French memoirs in late
years have been comparable
Pierre Lott has already given APP
preciative and appropriate word of well
come to her first book. In writing a re-
view of "The Romance of My Childhood
and Youth" for the Figaro he finds the
keynote to the whole book in it's first SEN
tence. "As l advance in age" says Nine
Adam, lone of the things that astonsh
me most is the singular clearness of my
recollections of my youth"
The youth of this great ardent SOUL"
as Lott calls her, was so filled with Incl
dent, thronged with beautiful deeds
and was beautifully quick and alive
that the promise of these recollections Is
singularly aluring She Is reliving her
life for a younger generation, and -.
who read may share In the delicious
freshness and purity of a spirit that was
once young but which can never grow
old. 1T is a curious thing" says Nine
Adam, 1.-The effort of aged spirit TO
bring back its earliest memories" But
Pierre Lott thinks, and all who read this
book will agree with him, that the young
fresh spirit portrayed therein was en-
dowed with so much of youth that 1t
must ever remain young.
1--WE are to have her as she was" says
Lott, her actual personality, the little
Juliette, living life so fresh. one per-
ceives. by conscientious and superior
power. and presented to us without being
retouched-exactly as she should be. And
one prefers her so, one already loves this
little girl with her open heart She i'm
presses herself upon our affections from
the day that she enters the chidren's
school and confesses to the rabbits MY
good rabbits, l have a grandmother who
no longer loves me- F." Lott sees an ex-
quisite picture, unconsciously drawn by
the writer. of her own girlhood.
THE Romance of My Childhood and
Youth is published by D. Appleton &.
Co.. New York. Price 81 40.