Evening star., 1907-10-26


by Sarah Rernhardt. New York: d.
Appleton * Co.
The violation Of personality is al
ways an interesting matter, but the self
revelation Of great personality by a
great artist is an event. That Sarah Bern
hardt is AN artist with The written word
as well as I'D the utterauCes Of her golden
voice and the inpIoducJs oT paint tube
or of clay IS evidenced 10y this publication
Of her memoirs.
Tine author begins her story with the
earliest recollections OF an unusual child
hood in the midst of an erratic family cir
Gle. She ends it win the record of the
triumph Of her first American tour And
through every pagr OF the text runs the
thread of her dominant personality. In
the beginning il is the story of an undis-
cIpl;n.d gusty emotional temperament,
vibrating painfully To all the incidents
of convent or home life: in the end il is
the record OF a passionately aive woman,
making of herself a harp on which TO
sound jue Eamut OF human emotions
transmitted through the medium Of her
susc. pt ble nature. neither the incidents
chroucl.d are as trey appeared TO the
other actors concerned O. not, they are
undoubtedly as they appeared To the wom-
an who writes as sne has interpre ted
herself To hvrself-for it is the necessity
of such Il he uS To be conscious of hel
own personality And thus the Memories
Of MY LIte L. OF Importance as a piece
of interpretive literature, rather than as
d human document. which is what IL
would have b,cn in the hands of Cruder.
less artistic egOtISm.
Even without this interest Mime. Barn
hardJs book would claim the attention
of the Trauvr- 1t IS teeming with Incl
dent. with observation. with allusIon 20
the men ana women who have made ms
k.4 1lG ~ a
century. The storms and rlvallies OF her
earlier years give place to the assurance
OF prr-emineuce of the later period
Through all the various phases the read
er If ne finds little analysis of the pro-
cess by which techniqu" Is acquired, the
hard work which finally achieves master
ship OF a medium. Is dbundantIy reward
ed by the impression OF the e1notlonal ell
feet upon both actress and public which
Is the reward of the effort. II Is the CO.
quetry of the natural woman who hides
the secrets of her art as she would OF
her toilet. For the rest. Mme, Bernhardts
memoirs are intensely feminine. intensely
artist and intensely Gallo.
PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS. BY Ken
yon Cox. New York; Duffield & Co.
This is one of a second series Of old
Masters and New in which one of the
foremost of modern artists gives the bene-
ft of his knowledge of art 10 the criti-
cism of many phases of art, mediaevai
and modern. The opening essay, The
Education of an Artist is helpful and
suggestive in its comparison of modern
methods of art education in the studios
with that formerly found of the shop, the
bOttega. While entirely fair to the
many advantages of the modern system,
Mr.. Cox is quite unprejudiced in pointing
out certain features Of the former method
which might be introduced with advan-
modern
ers OF the Mode" the author shows how
the passing fashion of dress and adorn-
ment has been caught and perpetuated by
such artists as Leonardo, Vatican, David
Stevens, until their work has come to
b. an expression of the civilization of
which they were d part. The analysis of
the qualities of Rembrandt In The Rem
brandt Tercentenary' is peculiarly illumi-
mating 10 those who have been puzzled
by certain aspects OF that masters work
The value Of these criticisms from the
point Of view of the artist is manifest.
Mr.. Cox is master Of an admirable liter
AIRY ST. le.
ARETHUSA. BY F. Marion Crawford,
author Of 'Saracinesca." With il
lustrations by Gertrude Demain
Hammond. New York: The Nacmil-
Ian Company.
There VIII be many who will be glad to
hail the fact that Mr. Crawford has re-
turned from the region of psychological
anaylS.s to that OF pure fiction. and there
will certainly be more who will be de-
lighted at tLas new evidence of the extra
ordinary fertility OF his work. Are
tnuSa'. is a story based upon the life of
ClustautiuopIe of the fourteenth century.
and has its motive power in the attempt
20 exp.l the usIrpar AndroDic1Is from the
throne and T, tore mis- father Johannes
The, cHaract ,riZation of tho hero Carlo
Zrra "a. gentleman OF Venice ex-cIerk
..,-rarst,Iar .-x-soi,ifar of rorfuue evLav
l,r,-r,.lJ.try Of Pafras ex-dIIaIist and ex
GI,aE general - while n cnnvevs adrni-
rallv an ides of the adventIJroiIsness of
fI-- ,.,.l-,.- man 7f fvyan+v-ufra d0es not
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