The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-08
Newspaper Clippings Represent
Him as Sort of MephistOph
eles, Entrapping the Singer.
He PROTESTS WITH WGoR.
Student of Occultism, but Denies
That Any Influence Other Than
Mutual Attraction Brought
Them Together.

HERALD AND THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC .
Paris. March 7.-Copyright. 1SS0-M,
Jules Bois since the announcement of his
enga cement with Mime. Emma Calve. las
been the victim of a process which has
caused him considerable suffering.
Everp post brings him newspaper clip
pings in which the daring nature of the let
ter press is only excelled by the extraor-
binary Illustrations.
Figures of Mephistopheles holding drip
ping daggers. black bearded Cagl!ostros
sending out foods of electric fluid in the
direction of their possible victims. filled
the pages, while the wild. weird headlines.
Gothic black letter of medieval design
were scattered throughout the letter press
to give 1t the air of the mysticism OF the
Middle Ages.
In a word. nothing was left undone 10
create the idea that NJ. Jules Bots is sort
OF Twentieth Century Nostradamus.
CASE GROWS WORSE.
At first NJ. Jules Bots supported this with
a certain amount OF philosophy. He re-
membered I'll faut tout prendre au serieux
mais rien au tragique'' But when the le-
gend kept on growing he desired to take
some steps to put a stop to 1t.
II paid but little attention to 1t at first,
he said to a correspondent yesterday at his
house in the Rue de rAdmiral Couroet'
but I finally saw that IL nothing was done
to stop II my reputation as literary man
and as a gentleman must suffer was
represented as a sort of chariatan OF the
Black Art, who had used my magic IN
fiuence to ensnare Mime. Calve In tne toiis.
The great singer was represented as raining
a victim to an 'envoutement exercised py
me against her wit. 81,
"As YOU know such a description Is rldlc-
ulous In the extreme. am still what az
ways was. journalist. lecturer ana maj
of letters. whose only ambition is to make
what reputation I may by good work in the
domain of letters. Ny engagement with
Mime. Calve has changed nothing in the
simplicity of my life. 1 have as little desire
for wealth and luxury as ever had. The
life of a literary man requires calm re-
treat. regularity of work and seriousness in
all his actions l will continue my literary
labors and she her career of a great singer.
My only ambition is to bring to her repu-
tation as a man Of letters and philosopher
when our marriage takes place-and this
is an hour which l never hoped and which
will be decided by Nine. Calve-it will be
one Of love and affection, and will take
place under the regime of separation Ge
biens.' as 1t is known in French law. This
condition was insisted on by me.
What certainly concerns me about the
extraordinary stories set afioat on the other
winter to make lecturing tour in the
United States. 1 do not, therefore, wish to
be regarded sort of modern Cagliostro."
WORKS OF oCCULTISM.
NJ. Jules Bots. 1t is true has investigated
and written upon occultism, but in the
spirit of pure research, from a purely philo-
sophical standpoint. NJ. Jules Bois's work
did not meet with the approval of the lead
ers Of occultism, and he even fought two
dilnlq with Of tho -
them.
He also placed himself in the front rank
of the feminist movement in France by his
book. Live Nouvelle" and one Of the rea-
sons he desires so much to visit the United
States is to study that movement in a coun-
try in which so much has been done for the
emancipation Of women
The services he has rendered to the cause
have been placed on record by NJ Marcel
Provost. In the preface he wrote to his
book. Live Nouveile," that author says:
People will give You credit for having
been one of the foreruuners of the society
OF the future. Your book. Live NouveIle,'
which has not, to my knowledge, its equal
in any country. and many chapters of
which evoke the recollection of Michelet Is
the more surprising when one knows at
what epoch YOU wrote 1t. You could only
'Une Nouvelle Douleur,' like its predecessor.
Will remain the favorite work of the femin-
lists
Under these circumstances YOU can i'm,
agfne how unpleasant it is to me to be
represented sort of professional me-
dunn. charlatan Of the black art, espe-
into connection with lady / respect as /
do Nine. Calve. Our story is romantic
enough. 1 admit; but there is nothing in it
of magic Of any kind. unless 1t Is the magic
exercised by great and generous artist
such as Nine. Calve.
THEIR LOVE IDYLL.
And in truth. the story of the love idyll
of NJ. Jules Bots and the great singer is
Herald-Republic correspondent by one of
the party on the journey to the East, when
'.The first meeting of NJ Jules Bots with
Nine. Calve," he said was some years ago
at the now dead and gone Bodiniere In the
Rue Saint Lazzare, when she attended one
of his lectures. Some time after he again
met her at the house of an officer of the
Ecole Polytechnidue. who was also an in
ings, though they served to make NJ. Jules
Bots and Nine. Calve acquainted. were only
of the ordinary kind of people moving in
the same social circle.
THE means by which they were brought
closer together were such as would induce
the most skeptical to believe in predestina-
fakir. Swami Vivekananda, came to Paris.
family of New York: Swami Vivekananda
sought out NJ. Jules Bots. and the two he
came such excellent friends that the Hindoo
asked permission to come and share his
apartment in Mont Rouge, the simple FASH
ion in which 1t was Installed suitine better
his somewhat eccentric nature than The
luxurious home OF his American friends.
Through Swami Vivekananda, NJ Jules
Bots became acquainted with his American
friends. and at their house he had FREQUENT
occasions Of meeting Nine. Calve. The in
timacy grew. and when the American fam
lily proposed to make tour of the East
NJ. Jules Bots was invited to form one Of
the party.
Its composition made 1t one of the most
extraordinary and interesting formed 1t
consisted of the American family. a Rus
sian Princess. Swami Vivekananda. the
Hindoo fakir. NJ. Loyson Gather Hya-
cinthel. and Mime. Loyson. N. Jules Bots
and Nine Calve.
THE, first halting place of the travellers
was at Constantinop1e. Thence they pro-
ceeded to Athens. 1t was here. on the oc-
casion of a. visit to the Parthenon, that NJ.
Jules Bois's ever-growing sympathy for
Nina Galve first became a deeper feeling.