The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-21

6CJHAT Paris was and Is known by
II American authors is shown by the
q trails of the French capital traced
through some of the works of our novel
lists. Some of the more noteworthy ex-
amples of this fact are set forth in an
article in the New York Sun in discuss
ing the new pbook, 1.-THE Paris of the
Novelists" Doubleday Page &c Coz by
Bartlett Maurice
Washington Irving knew his Paris
we'll, living there about the time that
Hugo and Balsac and the elder Dumas
were writing their great romances. In
Paris Irving met John Howard Payne,
the author of Home, Sweet Home" and
the two worked together in the Rue
RicheIeu adapting French plays to
English representation James Feni-
more Cooper was in Paris in aproxi-
nfately the same years that Irving was,
and then laid the foundation for his en-
during French fame Though Edgar
Allan Poe never saw Paris there is a
very definite Paris in the background of
several of his stories, among them THE
Murders of the Rue Morgue."
OF later men there is the Paris of
Mark Twains "The Innocents Abroad
if that book can be regarded in the light
of fiction; and the Paris of Henry
James's 1.-THE American" and 'The Am
bassadors," and the Paris of Edith
Wharton's Madame de Treymes,,'' and
the Paris of Basin Kings 1.-THE Inner
Shrine and the Revolutionary Paris
sically in 1.-THE Adventures of Francois"
and the Paris of Booth Tarkington's
1.-THE Guest of Quesnay," ''The Beautiful
Lady, and Beauty and the Jacopin;''
and the Paris Of Richard Harding Da-
vis's sThe Princess Aline." in which
NORWAY Carlton stayed at the Hotel Con-
tinental and spent the evening in front
Of the Cafe de la Paix and dined at
Laurents in the Champs Elysees; and
the Paris of Owen Johnson's I'm the
Name of Liberty and the Paris which
Robert W. Chambers knew so well in
the days when he was studying to be a
painter and used as the background of
his first stories, THE Red Republic -
"Ashes of Empire" 1.-THE Maids of Para
disc" lorraine and the short tales of
"Tn the Quarter
Harry Leon Wilson's "Ruggles of Red
Cap begins with hilarious Paris out
ing involving Cousin Egbert. JEFF Tuttle
and the impeccable Ruggles. OF the ex-
act scenes in mind Mr.. Wilson says:
THAT Paris debauch of Ruggles ensued
from my observations and notes on the
habits of visiting Americans in Paris,
particularly Americans from west of
Pittsburg. I labored like a true scientist
| in making these observations. The meet
| ing of Cousin Egbert and JEFF Tuttle
was before the Cafe de la Paix, and their
comprehending cocher took them for
luncheon to rendezvous des cochers
fideles near the corner of Boulevard
Montparnasse and the Boulevard Ras-
pail They found their carrousel by pro-
ceeding out the Boulevard Raspail and
past the Lion de Belfort. I myself for
! get just where it lay in relation to that
! monument but not many blocks
| from It."
| Mention of Guy Wetmore Carryli
author of "Zutt," is responsible for q
pathetic little story illustrating the in
effectuality Of fame. The concierge OF
an apartment house in which Mr..
F! Carryn once went to live was much in
terested when she learned the Ameri-
cans meter 'Monsieur's name ID
Guy. and monsieur is writer. There
was another Guy who lived here many
wears ago and who also was writer
Perhaps monsieur has heard of him.
His name was Guy de Maupassant.
don't know what has become of him
Perhaps he is dead
] There was the gifted author of 'The
! PITT THE Octopus" and THE Wolf
I, who died so young. SO rich in promise
and Just as he was swinging into the
/ full stride of achievement. When II
years old Frank Norris. intending to be
an artist, went to Paris. and enrolled as
a student at the "Atelier Julien" There
he remained two years. and became alb
sorhea not IN art. but in chivalry. The
re adding - I'rrissart's Chronicles" was
his a1iiy recres ion. H ebecame so inn
bua with the spirit of mediaevalisn
the once wiff much amusement he
poixses Gun IA error in Scott's Ivan