New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20

Will begin the publication Of a fun translation
OF the memoirs Of Alexandra Dumas. IL is good
news. for the work will provide much amusing
material unfamiliar 10 most American readers
The latter have had glimpscs Of Dumas in his
more personal mood in the delightful "Spero-
nara" translated 10y Miss Wormelev. and I'm the
two biographies published a few years ago but
these win only have whetted the appetite for
more. The Macmillan translation is To be COM
poted in six volumes the first of which will ap-
pear October !
Marie Bashhlrtseff rs she appeared in her
painting days In the studio Of NJ. Julian, is the
subject Of an article in THE Nineteenth Cen
tury" The little Russian is brought before Us
by one OF her comrades, clad in soft black
clnEing Grapcries. with white bilIoWy fr!ils
curving from throat 10 waist and falling IN cas-
cades over her wrists and fingers" The sketch
continues In this wise:
All. those frills! for we know even chfons and
friIls have their value, despised though they be
by short-sighted. serious ones who cannot see
deeper. Those fIllls. indeed. Were az much part
of Marie her dimre-shc almost always wore
them Designed by herself I'm the quaint fashion
Of some ancestral portrait N mans I believe for
with all their charm there masculine cut
about them, they ware the admiration of the
feminine world inside and outside the studio.
myself had been impiored ~ a fashionable but
initiative Bostonan mIllionaress IN the outer worl
OF society to purgcia or borrow on her account one
OF the celebrated fri,led camsoles of the Rus
sian" Poor BostonIan she thought the whole
secret OF chic. style was concealed 10 those
much discussed frirs Of the Bashkirtsen She
would cut her own the same pattern!
But above the white lawn Of the Russian there
rose delicate face Of complexion quite infantlle
in It's pink and white bloom, and a little head
whereof all the capricious fancias and deep rea-
sorines we're crowned with waving knot If al
most iaxen. soft and shiny baby hair. That was,
indeed. the color, despite the red gold or Miss
Binds version Of the Diary,
Put in the catalogue OF Maric's charms an Item
omitted in that Diary was her dimple. Her eyes
acre gray in color and small. her nose was short,
and IN snte again of the naive egoism Of her jour
49, charrning that single, most unautici-
rs,ad and irresistible dlmple, high check,
in quite the wrong place AS judged by natAe-
matIcal or anatomical standards
M Julian had the happy idea of encouraging
Marie and her rival in the studio a Spanish girl.
10 paint each huge picture or their fellow stu
dents at work. The author of these recoliections
describes the young artists working on OPP
nosite sides OF the room and driving their six
teen victims TO distraction.
We were measured with mahlsticks and plumbed
,tttb lead We were threatened with long handled
brushes and sharp. dagger-h like "scraperS from
either end OF the room. If an obligins girl bent
nov head at an acutely painful angle in compli-
80 With the request of Marie, IL was immedi-
oteIv pulled up sharp to order by contrary direo-
ton from Amelle We were puppets in their hands.
T,tav noured forth Voleys of vituperation at each
other over heads, and when they had dono
Shouting In truce, the rivals amused themselves
by singing gay french enansDm wt'n I'm IN
req haired Amelie's a shrill ear-splitting treble
Tn sn,te Of the discomforts she caused us. think
We ali loved Marie Bashkirtseff, as one loves a
charming wiIfuI child. Indeed. the Marie 1 knew
80 y ,n',ch more charming person than the writer
~ the Diary though that writer was herself
She was of much more original individuality than
tbo nalnter OF her pictures though these were
oaI,te6 nv her own pink fingers. Although very
clever and capable performances In handling and
brushwork. they were merely reneCton OF tne
Thare was no feeling for beauty of line. no charm
of the true designer, and although at times par
..Iar,,, IN the drawing OF heads. she was rapid
go accurate in her figure groups. she was not
always gutless of solecisms in the matter Of pro
| nortion The studio picture was hung, as she
tS a, the SALON. remember seeing II there;
M tbose vast walls Il appeared quite small. only
obont one-sxteenth IN proportion OF what IL looked
in the studio. What ultimately became OF II do
not know.
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