New-York tribune., 1903-03-07
THE TWO JULES.
Ma. Worfs Nesr NoUel and Its
Source IN History.

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tits 4 little mora than two years since Mrs
Ward published Eleanor" and left: her reaoef
with the impression that while she found
difficult to break with the didactic methods Oh
the books which had earlier gained her "'ce
repute she was willing, and even anxlous' u
ten q love story, II she could, for It's own s~Ae'
Lady Roses Daughter" deepens TINS lInpreS
sfon. II Is q love story; it possesses as eucu'
c.-4.Jn highly interesting elements. and, up 70
n certain point It is we'll told. Never mas
Mrs. Ward shown more effectively her command
os the narrative form This novel moves win
ease and rapidity; 1t has dramatic torce.
flows induhitably from the natures OF hs Wv
,dIv realized characters who move through lts
pa<es Yet, while give full weight 10 ~N
this we arc constrained to return TO tnat Fete-
tion between Lady Roses Daughter ana 'ne
Nfe history of Mile. de LespinaSse WHICH was
AZ. exhIbited tn The Tribune Of January ..
and which Mrs Ward has since acknowledges
IN q letter which we printed on FT1naS' rep
rusry 81 It Is a relation so signihcant tnat
n is impossible to place 1t anywhere save III
the immediate foreground. How close IL Is may
best be shown by & condensation OF the paraHeh
mentioned above, which We have slreaoS
printed.
Julie lie Breton the heroine Of Lady Roses
Dauxbter" resembles Julie de Lespinasse' TO
woman of rank, left at her mothers oeatn Win
a character of great potentialities. and sn1ah
fncome Like her French prototype. VINO was
q Roveruess when Nine. du Oeffand discoVereo
her and engaged her companion ana reao-
er On condition that she would make no clallh
1,pon her mothers family, she is discovered IN
q similar position by Lady Henry ana engaeeu
for the same purposes on the same terms. LaoE
Henry is herself the double OF Nine du Denano
Nile de LespInasse brilliant, nearly blino.
trnperfous and tyrannicaL She. also, is PROUD
of her salon and, as the Frenchwoman was
sIad of her sway over her distinguished fr1enos'
especiaIIy Turgot the noted statesman anu
D'Alembert she rejoices for precisely the same
reasons; she has her noted statesman IN Noh-
tresor and in place of DAlemoert she has
Jacob Delaheld, a young hnsman upon "hoin
she feels that she has laid special claim
through having given him help in his career
She begins like Nine. du Deffand. with graf
ftude for the assistance rendered to her 0y heF
oomusnion in the entertainment Of her circle
h.,t when Mile LIE Breton follows the example
~ Mile de Iespinasse by fascinating and Win
ming to herself her patronesss haoltues' even
receiving them unknown to the mistress OF Ihe
house Lady Henry repeats her predecessor
cry OF treachery, and disnisses the TRAITOR
The habitues in the case as in the otner'
stand by the expelled rival. Sainte-beuVe tens
how the friends of Mile de Lespinasse, notably
D'Alembert and the Duchesse de LuxemOouFe'
s,cIubbed together to give her a home in which
she reIgned over a salon Of her own. Nile LIE
Breton has the same good fortune, Jacob ana
tha others remain faithful, and the Duchess OF
Crowborough provides house for the rejected
Young woman to transform into a place OF Pill
Erimaze for celebrities Jacob. like D'Alem-
bert is at the feet of his Julie. but the latter Is
true to the precedent supplied by history. Mile
de Iespinasse, who by the way, had still another
lover, NJ de Mora, insisted upon falling in love
with a military man. NJ. de Guibert: she USED
the power and influence she had acquired In
Nine du Deffand's salon to get an essay Of his
accepted br the French Academy, and she went
on loving him with intense passion, in spite or
the fact that he, loving her incompletely had
secretly wooed and won heiress. Julie LIE
Breton insists upon falling in love with a mil
itary man, Captain Warkworth: she uses all
the power and influence she has acquired in
Lady Henry's salon to get him appointed to an
important African mission, and she goes on
loving him with intense passion In spite of the
fact that he loving her incompletely. has Sc
cretIy wooed and won an heiress.
At this point must note passage in
which Mrs. Ward brings in, without naming
her, the model upon which she has formed her
heroine 'She resembled,' she says Of her
Julie zone OF the famous GmOUreHSeS Of the
eighteenth century who in writing to the man
she loved but could not marry, advises him to
take a wife to mend his fortune, and proposes
TO him various tempting morsels." Two or three
sentences from the Lespinasse letters then
ouoted but with no mention of her name.
We must also touch upon the parallel she
supplies to that mysterious incident which
Sainte-Beuve found II impossible to ignore, but
which he characterized "a moment We must
veil" It may be inferred that in that decisive
moment in the career Of Mile de Lespinasse
her passion got the better hand of discretion.
Nile. lie Breton is involved in similar situa-
tion She consents to keep an appointment in
France with Warkworth, before they part for
ever, but when she arrives in Paris she is saved
from herself and Warkworth as Diana is saved
from herself and Dacier in Diana Of the Cross
ways" Jacob appears upon the scene, in the
manner Of Mr. Meredith's Redworth. whom in
certain ways he strongly resembles. and takes
her back 10 London where her grandfather,
Lord Lackington. is dying and demands her
presence With this stage Of the comparison
we come to the end Of the eighteenth chapter
Of Lady Roses Daughter Six more complete
the book In the first of these nothing is added
TO differentiate the career Of the English Julie
from the French one. but in the next Mrs.
Ward, rather late In the day, We must confess.
ventures upon new ground, and represents her
heroine as promising to her grandfather upon
his deathbed that she will marry Jacob. The
departure is decisive. Mile. de Lespinasse died
of her love for N. de Guibert: Mile. LIE Breton
rrlerries Jacob in the twenty-second chapter,
and In the tWenty-fourth they settle down to
the dukedom which the latter has inherited
But Mrs. Ward is not by any means through
with her eighteenth century history.
We have mentioned N. de Mora The devoted