Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-15

Epouses" C'Little wives'). dealing with the
native morganatic spouses of French Of
f1cers and colonsts in -China-"on the,
road to Mandalay!"
5 When she returned to Paris she met and
loved the sculptor Perrault.
n.y. MY BOOKS ss., are from me- ETY., s re saaa;
of Jerusalem" has been, indeed, summed
up as showing pictorially the forces of life
in struggle with the spirit of discipline, with
fear and with restriction. MY books are from
life she repeated. They are not written
particularly for young persons; and II pa
rents and guardians wish to prevent them
from knowing life they should not let them
read my books. Yet there is nothing In
them to trouble an Anglo-Saxon public.
the Westminster Gazette translated pages
and pages of them.
Review of the Book.
The local setting of THE Conquest OF
Jerusalem is the blue sky and the infinite
perspective of the desert against hoary
ruins-'ta Pagan hymn to the free squirt of
lffe, another French critic has summed
the books up. The scene at Jerusalem
opens with the arrival of two principal
characters, the deaconess and the explorer
recently married-and evident reminiS-
ceness of the writer's father and mother.
They dream OF penetrating mysteries Of
forgotten ages; and the forgotten ages so
weigh on the one-time deaconess that her
VIEWS CiidHSe Oh IldIy SupJSCls. - uau6 IL
ter, Siona, is born to them-and the
romance Is the romance of Siona.
Before she gets to romance, however
there are charming desert descriptions, as
when Helie, the explorer, gallops over the
sands at sunset with his little daughter in
front of him in the saddle, her little fists
clenched with fear. yet too proud 20 cry
out You are courageous her father
praised her, &" you will see how beautiful life
Is for those who dare to live it,"
Daring to live it is the keynote of the
book; and there are English admirers
who have been SO impressed by the lengths
to which the principle is carried in certain
of Myram Harrys writings that not even
q personal interview with the gifted author
was sufficient to bring to their apprecia-
tions of her the notifications that are
necessary to bring them really up to date
Thus a writer in the King describes her
as beautiful and talented young woman
who has seen everything done everything
and has remained pure-which is true; but
to represent the Myriam Harry of today
advocate of free love-, married only
to please her husbands parents, is an
error
She talked to me of life and love; and the
subject was made delicate only by the
natural difference felt to showing her that
English clipping
She had seen it--a:4d laughed gaily.
1T struck me as extraordinary" l said,
"to represent the newly-married, happy
wife as free-love advocate ="
ooh, but I'm not she exclaimed in
genuously. "All that is changed! l wrote
those things when l was young.
When one is young one has naturally ex-
IRENE ideas about freedom and independ-
ence. But now 1 am all for marriage"
"Good"' 1 said-one must say something.
At this moment l am very happy in mar
riage. Therefore l believe only in mar
riage 1t is because 1 am happy in mar
riage don't you see? Why, at this mo-
ment 1 am marrying all my friends!'
Personal characteristics.
Myriam Harry is blonde, slight slender,
of delicate features and complexion. Her
face is mobile and ANNA ted-so much so
that she complains that no two photo
graphs of her look alike. This fact 1
verified myself. 1t is very curious. She
laughs often, speaks with vivacity, and is
frankness and unpretentiousness itself. She
uses very few cant literary phrases-per-
haps she would have used none had she not
been speaking English. She is high-spirit
ed and enthusiastic, obviously delighted
with her double success as famous French
writer and newly married wife.
My husband and l have ended by finding
1t beautiful, she concluded. But we are
very fortunately situated. We are even for
tunate in money matters You know my
husband is a celebrated sculptor? He does
animals"
I told her 1 knew the sculptor Perault's
Danish Dog in the Petit Palais. 1t is
in black granite and strikes every visitor
remembered his bronze in the Luxembourg.
She showed me the photograph of a bronze
dog of which sixteen copies have been or
dered from England. Also, l had heard Of
his originality in choosing all kinds of ma
terials to work on-marble, granite, basalt
wood, tin and gold. He has even made
monumental chimney pieces for great
French chateauX. Like Michael Angelo.
When 1 told her she cooed with content
ment.
Money" she said, money is nothing
To content ones self is everything. 1 love
to travel, yes. We going off on trip
soon, to Algiers, Tunis and Morocco-my
husband on a travelling prize and l on a
mission for the French government, thanks
to my knowledge of the oriental languages.
l like that better than wearing gowns by
Paquin and hats by Lewis-though 1 have
had them and can have them again.
TO content ones self is everything" she
repeated. 1T is of my ideas that L
took in something of the Arab soul with
the milk of my native nurse; and the in
terror content of the orient has always en-
abled me to limit my needs to my re-
sources. What L delight in above all is
peace-in the society of Perrault."
STERLING HELLO.
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