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THE SUNDAY CALL. RLES JOSSELYN, a d prominent emian Club £ »w appears author. Mr. t years of his on and h he might acquire ty by the general, see on the te the typogrs vle to wspaper the 1 excellently well in the book vided with th and paper proves both n states the 6t my pur- »oleon; this of anec- mself and the I believe given to any matter from ard authori- s to Na- re and a is sub- fied -it, author the of the in the the life of one of the the world has ever through you should s eve “The True Napo- the volume are of so many dif- oris that the mental pictu clos . he man as he ac- t s e book is of use 1. te those who on some for- mind co atter of us the greatest in a as it were, rather dic- m cover to is considerable repe- for the good of work where the incident same as one and n in this title of cyclo- intended his 1an for general be blamed or his has ference he re book shows the greatest work on the part of the ke as smooth reading as e is bound to seem constantly chang- one author to or a different t author. You no ested along one line some other se may be. al and dates which divide the cyclo- r parts or periods, any rticular point a perusal of the the precise matter that a future edition with an index; which r more handy than obtaining formation by the above pro- the o point lacking to book one most desir- reference. A cyclopedia racter, or a dictionary, 1 ¥ reason of its alpha- ngement; Lut a3 search through slow at best and in - Fine Library Editions of St Y, Works, Perlect Condilion, Large Colleclion. Elder & Shepard, 238 Pos! Streel, San Francisco, Writer i ? writing stories and _articles. booklet WHAT WRITERS summer offer, -Manuscripts r publication. The Writers' Ald Association, 150T Nassau st., New York. there days when indexes are E ally found it is a matter for surprise that cellent and carefully executed a rk as t Mr. Jc yn should not have been provided with one. As it however, this work well de- serv place in the library of ever student or reader of histery French Memoirs. Four more volumes have just been add- ed te the excellent Cour de France Edi- tion, pub! d by Hardy, Pratt & Co., Boston. This makes a total of twelv vclumes in t es up to date. ver- by umbers 9 10 are the journal apnd memoirs of the M d’Arge , put lished from the autograph m; cript in the library of the Louv by J. B. Rathery ven and twelve contain the memoirs letters. of the Cardinal de Bern| ntroductions to both sets are b A. Sainte-Beuve, while the slating has been excellently done by rine Prescott Wormeley. All of the led with portraits from the They have been reproduced in 2. re fine examples of up-to- date process work. The former volumes of t ered the period of the reigns of Lou XIJIT ané Louis XIV very thoroughl, "The letters of Madame de Mottville, com- three volumes, gave us court of Louis c life of Anne of Austria. Then books devoted to the memoirs Saint-Simon, the matter having been from twenty volum in the His careful record covers sixty he series c of abridged original. CHARLES 1OSSELYN. e study on the inen «nd topies his mind.” a rian in that filled b Natura in the original there was much repetition and uninteresting mate- rial; this has been eliminated, and the lation as it now stands in its orm presents all that readers 2 e for. These notes and reflections will give the reader a capital p of the first forty years.in the reign of Louis XV and well illustrate the political and social cor- ruption that ultimately brought about the horrors of revolution and the downfall of royalty in France. Rene-Louis, Marquis d’Argenson, was the eldest son of Marc-Rene, the celebrat- ed lieuten 1 of police during the last eighteen of Louis XIV and keeper of the under the regency. He was born in October, 1634, and died in 175i. His brother, the favorite son, was lcng Minister of War under Louis XV and a® very popular man. The Marquis did not share to any jgreat extent the pop- ularity of his brother at that time, but he has come to be highly esteemed as a fair- minded man and one who had the inter- egts of his country at heart. He held im- portant positions during his life and was peculiarly well situated to truthfully chronicle the happenings from the minis- try of the Duc de Bourbon throughout ion of that of Cardinal de d beyond it mewhat later period is Cardinal rnis, who resided in Rome as Em- ador of France from 1769, and where he died in 179. His was one of the most graceful and polished minds of the last NAPOLEON’S LAST DAY. From a sculpture by Vela. years’ Intimate knowledge of court life and personal acquaintance with Louis X1V, Madame de Maintenon, Philippe d'Orleans, and the Regent, Philippe de Chartres, Duc a'Orleans. The eighth book in the series, contain- ing letters of ‘““Madame,” second wife of Philippe d'Orleans; of Madame de Main- tenon, and of Adelaide, wife of the Duc de Bourgogne, proved a good supplement to the memoirs of Saint-Simon, for it presented to us in a different light the important personages we had already met through his introduction. Volumes nine and ten, two of the four tooks that have just been published, con- cern themselves with the ‘““Journal and Memoirs of the Marquis d'Argenson,” a title that gives rather an Incorrect idea of the work, for, as Miss Wormeley ex- plains: “It is a collection of notes and mem- orenda, written down oceasionally in con- nection with the events of the date given, but more frequently as the reflections of 3 century. Sainte-Beuve has this to say of “‘the more frivolous Abbe de Bernis,” from whom we shall see the serious man insen- sibly emerging: “He was born at Saint-Marcel d’'Ar- dech, in Vivarais, May 22, 1715, of an an- cient race of high nobility. As a younger son he was destined for the church. He came to Paris for his first studies at the Jesuit College (Louls Le Grand) and he did his philosophy and his theology at the seminary of Saint-Sulpice and the Sor- bonne. We find him successively canon and Comte de Brionde, canon and Comte de Lyon, that is to say, a member of chapters for which he was required to give proofs of very ancient nobility; these positions were for him merely honorary. ‘While awaiting benefices that did not come the Abbe-Comte de Bernis entered soclety, for which he was made, especial- 1y that portion of it which is called the great world, but in it he lived as poor as the poorest of new-comers. For years Bernis supported gayly and with indiffer- ence this cramped condition, this contrast between his tastes and his situation, be- tween all that he saw and did not have. That rotund and ample figure, that hand- scme rounded face and triple chin which strike us in the portraits of Bernis as an old man, came to him rather early in life; but at first something childlike and deli- cate mingled with them, and always, even to the last, his people kept its distinction and elegance; the forehead and eyes were very fine. “He began by making verses to his ‘Dieux Penates’ (1736), as Gresset did upon his ‘Chartreuse.” These verses of Bern done at 21 years of age, have all Gresset's defects; they have also his facility and his flow of language. .* * * This pro- nounced literary taste, which as it were, the advertisement of a careless and worldly life, did Bernis much harm in his career. Cardinal de Fleury, a friend of his family, sent for him and told him that if he continued in that course he must expect nothing so long as he (Cardinal de Fleury) lived. On which Bernis bowed humbly and made his well-known speech: ‘Monsignor, I will wait.’ “Bernis, man of socicty, of agreeable -cenversation and of safe and brilliant in- tercourse, to which his ambition seemed limited, was early known to Mme. de Pompadour: he was in favor with her as well as with the King, but he had never as yet obtained anything toward making his fortune. It was the French Academy that opened his way to it. He was elect- ed a member at the close of 1744, that is to when he was 29 years of He succeeded the Abbe Gedoyn and W ceived on the same day as the Abbe ard, the grammarian. * * * In the that followed his reception Bernis figure: more than once at the head of the acad- emy on the solemn occasions when it was required to appear at Versailles. * * * “Finally Louis XV gave him a pension of 1500 francs a year.and a lodging under the eaves of the Tuileries: up to this time Bernis had lived in the house of one of his relatives, the Baron de Montmorency. * * * Impatience came to him at last, and, seeing that he had so much trouble in making a small fortune, he resolved on attempting to make a large one; it proved much easier to do. He began by being & a re- Q sent as Embassador to Venice in 17:2. * ¥ * The inaction which he felt from the first was to grow more and more into a burden upon him; and it was thus that ennui ended, little by little, by inoculating him with ambition. * * * Bernis never became a great directing Minister. Fate did not give him time to repair his mis- takes or correct his hazardous undertak- ings; but Bernis was always an excellent Embassador; he had insinuation, coneili- ation, courtesy; he represented his posi- tion ®ith taste and magnificence; he will always be the model of a French Embas- sador in Rome, such as he was for twenty years.” His intimate friendship with Mme. de Pompadour makes the memoirs of Cardi- nal de Bernis one of the most interesting writings on this period of history. The Earth’s Beginning. A book that will be found admirable reading for persons of any age is the re- cent work from the pen of Sir Robert Stawell Ball, LL.D., F. R. 8., called “The Earth’s Beginning. Others of this author’s books that will be favorably re- membered are “The Story of the Sun,” “An Atlas of Astronomy,” *“Star Land,” etc. Sir Robert is Lowndean professor of astronomy ana geometry in the Univer- ity of Cambridge, director of the Univer- ty Observatory, ete. “The” Earth’s Beginning” is illustrated with four colored plates and numerous il- lustrations, The purpose of the book is to give as clearly as possible a popular explanation of the great problem ex- pressed in the titlel Sir Robert presents in a simple yet comprehensive manner an Xposition of the nebular theory and de- scribes the marvelous processes by which our globe was evolved from chaos. He also applies the nebular theory to ac- count for the sun itself, giving its history, its heat and its present influence over the system of planets of which it is the cen- ter. 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