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{ i (Copyrtant, 1991. by Fr THE CORRESPONDENCE. ML ply Marte wrote: “Your lett does not surprise T shou! not expect what you seem to suppose, Tut I did not a ttle ume to re-read my letter you will seo that you have igned to note the tronteal and tone t respondent. I thank you for reassuring me, ut, my jealousy be pur epiritual, that matters Little, To anawe: me by confidences would be the act of B scatter-braln, seeing that know me, would it? Would it your sensibility, str, to tell yout reservedly of the death of Henry IV.? “To reply by contidences, since y have understoo! that I asked them from you by return of post, would befto ridi- cule me wittily, and 1¢ 1 had been in your place I should have done it. Iam sometimes very merry, while I am also often sad enough to dream of sharing confidences by letter with an unknown philosopher, and getting your impres- alons on the Ca 1 er good and profoundly felt, ch, the two columns of which I read threo tlines; but, in revenge, what an old etory !s that of the old mother who revenges herse the Prus ¢That must lave been the time whe: read my letter.) As to the charm th mystery may add, all depends on one’ taste. It dors not amuse you. All rig but mo {t amuses madly. I confess it in all sincerity, as I do the tnfantine Joy caused by your letter, such as {t is. © 6 © Well, If that does not amuse you ft {s becauso nono of your correspond- ents has been able to Interest you; that ts all, and {f I, no more than the others, have been able to strike the right note, I fam too sensible to bear you « grudge. No more than sixty? I should have thought you would Le more plagued, DISCUSSING DE fenius Marie Bashkirtaeff and continued to-day. letters that passed between this | Have you replied to them al? ° ¢ & My Intellecttial temperament cannot sult you? You would be very hard to pleane. In fact, I seem to think that I know you (that le the effect novelists produce on ailly little women). Bull, you must be right. As I write | to you with the greatest frankness (re- leult of the sentiment above indicated), may be that I have the afr of a sen- Hmental young person, an adventuress, ‘That would bo very vex- Ing. Do not excuse yourself, then, | your Inck of poetry, ga 4c. De- | eldedly, my letter was foolish. * * * I we then, to my very Ilvely regret. {ict the matter rest here? At least le: me express the wish to prove to you some day that I did not deserve to he treated as No, 61. As for your reasoning, it is good, but partly unjust. I pardon you or even MAUPASSANT'S LETT: f. for it, and the erasures, and the old woman, and the Prussians. Be happy! However, If a vague description only Is necessary to draw to me the beauties of your worn-out soul, one might say, for Instance: fair hair, middle hetsht, horn between the year 112 and the year 182. © © © And the moral * * * 1 should have the appearance of boasting, and you would learn at once that I am from Marseilles, “P. 3.—Pardon me the blots and era sures, &e, pled tt al Iv. “Cannes, I Rue du Redon. ES, madame, a second letter! It surprises me. I feel. perhaps, a vague desire to utter imperti- nances. That Is permissible, because I do not know you; and it fs Just aa well I do not. I write to you because I am abomInably bored. “You reproach me for having used o threadbare theme with regard to the old woman and the Prussians, But ever: thing {s threadbare; I do nothing else; I hear nothing else; all the ideas, all the phrases, all the discussions, all the creeds are commonplace. “In it not one, and an extreme one and a puerile, to write to an unknown per- son? “In brief, at heart Iam a simpleton. You understand me, more or lees. You know what you are doing and to whom lyou are addressing yourself; you ‘nave writer whose meteoric career was later checked by insani The brilliant, daring and thoroughly unique published in full, from day to day. | The correspondence between that world-famous, eccentric) 3 can Guy de Maupassant, the French mn will be strange man and wou, |been told thts or that about me, good or bad; ft) m: ers little. °° © en if you should not have met any of my relatives, who are numerous, you have read articles in the physical and moral portraits; in short you am yourself, very sure of what you do. But I? You may be, it fs true, A young and charming weman, ds 1 stall be happy one also ain ovels rtured on the You may bea young w society, and hard and a In fact, are you th eh? 1 should to have a thin spondent. 1 distrust: myself ogether with the unknown, "T have been traps. A board: carried on a c school ok andl ER. is 19009000000000900000: by the pen an ase.sta mistress They passed my r hand to nand dn class. ‘The trek was droll made me jaugh when I hear from the mist “Are you wo ir xentimental? or simply romant! merely a woman who ts bi who want distraction? I, sce y am not th man you seek “I have not I take everything with | I pass two-thirds of my found boredom. I o« the third tr writing lines that I sell as dear as pos- alble, distressing myself at being obliged to ply this abominable trade which dias brought me the honor of being dix- tingulahed—morally—by you. Here are confldences—what do you say of them, madame? You must find me very un veremontous. Pardon me, It seema t mo in writing to you that 1 am walk- ing in subterranean darkness with the fear of holes before my fect; and I strike my stick on the ground of haz- ard, to sound tt. “What perfume do you use? “Are you a gourmande? “What sort of an ear have you? “The color of your cyen? “A mustelan? “1 do not ask if you are married. If you are, you will reply ‘No." If you Are not you will reply ‘Yes, “L kins your hands, madame. “GUY DE 'MAUP. (To Be Continued.) a halfp-worth of poetry. Ufference, and time in pro- SILVER HAD HOTEL MARK. Police Find “Quantty | ff Plate in Prisoner's Room, Augustus Fearlse, who gave his ad- ress as No. 35 West7Thirty-seventh ‘stre was arrested by Detectives Hawkins and Churchill last night and held at the West Thirtieth Street Sta- tion as a suspicious character, When the detectives searched his room a num- ber of silver knives, spoons and forks, on which was engraved “Iighwood" were found, While the detectives re- fuse to make any statement regarding the arrest, tt {s belleved that the “High: wood” referred to {a the ‘Highwood Inn,” at Long Branch. $s GIVES $100,000 FOR SCHOOL Steinman Designs It na a Me- mortal to Hia Son, ‘A technical school for boys 1s to be ‘erected in this city by Abraham Stein- man In memory of his son, Lucas A. Btelnman, He has given $100,00 for its 'Thentre th Brooklyn Jost night. 1 THE BROOKLYN THEATRES. Opera and Vaudeville Among th Attractions Givem This Week. “La Boheme" was sung by the Castle Square Opera Company at the Montauk opera waa staged on the same elaborate scale that marks all productions this company. ‘‘La Boheme" will be given again on Thursday evening. To- night “Martha'’ will be presented. * La Presa, a quick-change performer, PARADISE GARDENS. Yen Hammerstein, as they did upon the whole city. Mr. Hammerstein was ready to swing ajar the gates of his gardena of beauty overhead the Vic- torla and the Republic, but the fog down the bay kept the Kalser Wilheim from reaching this port. And aboard the big steamer wero several artists rday the akles lowered upon Mr. was the star of the bill given at the Orpheum last night. Pauline Moran and her animated sqng-sheet of sixty voices inade a hit. Other acta were given by Les Belles Zouave Parker's dogs, Hughey Dougherty, Montrell, Will H. Murphy, Bertha Nichols, Mr, and Mrs. John Allison and others “We 'Uns of Tennessce’ by the Aubrey waa produced Stock Company at the Grand Opern-House last night, Sidney Toler and Eather Lyon filled the leading roles and won many marks of approval: “Camillo” will be given Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday afternoon. Haverly'n Musee continues to attract establishment. s school will be de- voted to Instruction In metal-working. Mr. Steinman wil glye $50,00) to pur- chase land on Kast Ninth street, The Fert of the money Js to be wed for the Dullding. The school will be: under the nupervision:of the Hebrew Technical In- stitute, Aust ala: < MELBOURNE, Australis, May 27, ‘The new census Se rae eat Yates t Australasia al ‘an in- oitess' 140,766; since the last enumera- crowds of amusement ecekers. The chamber of horrors open dally from 10,30 A. M. to 10.30 P. M. In the parlor hentrens Ch eet entesainment in iven bret Two Pucks, John W. arly, # favitnd, Marton ang Pearl and other, i Nee who had been engaged for Mr, Hammer- stein's opening last night. Mr, Ham- meratein has met many diMcultles and overcome them, but he quits when he meets the weather—and such weather ag New York had yesterday! But to-night Paradise Gardens will open with every attraction fis adver- tised, Oo HERE’S A 13 STORY FOR You. Now Don’t He Afraid—it’ Not the AMITYVILLE, 1. 1, May 27.—The figure thirteen was conspicuous last is papers of mine—| Lee re ‘THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1901. FOR A FRENCH ACCENT, GO TO THE ROOF GARDENS, Last Night's Damp) Openings Showed a Remarkable Array of Importations from Paris, but There Were Enough Natives to Permit Parts of the Performances to Be Understood. Why go ab ton Hammerstet: offers to-night the A boulevard Ivaggis troupe and scene, a repr ry: of the twen Par’ und ears howey fote, we nad D LEHH LESS) (___ Hernoronis > y, then, And he play cons Mr. tinder noukh to have ma > imposelty: Heraun. siti Consequently ay "IC Carson" te lesa fault More pretentious which has in New York at hi er, that | more can, WI Of course, Messrs, Si thick. And tt is to aay t ported fr wer tn put te ve would persons 1 Just per rprising an ex hero, is much more than any she haus p torelan nove ears ay dtvidual slebut "bur the Last Nights Reviva ‘ Miss Lean Les: but creditable role in aynne Metropolis Theatre, matinces this week, The popular th Jancers, trlo the heat tearful | Dumonds, Imported There w “The Rivals” the Murray Hin, Tarry Opera koat Terrice constt- Aone had The lengthy, s the opera weve nann the younger, upon whose Many: Ts the larger part of the mantle let rowiney. ax Worn by. the une ts wece fallen, “appeared green [Opera Hoa ! Imitation ih Good teen erottoes ty, # of the proses ore th adverse the } st) we: conditio frst-night audl- to audi- cicee wan exceedingly large “and. ens vaich filed. th thuataatic. Climbers.’ wt ce Ti po sso at the Ganden, Watlack C these houses will nite extra son Thursday, “KIT CARSON.” New Play at the Franklin Kyle American Last Nluht, ‘t prewe! Kit Carson... Ralph Stuart ‘The Heroine.. Latta Linthifum ‘AML the others ok sompany, About forty from the out ng “Indian comms Sena ‘Ten. horess, some machinery trom Hematning. perpen Coanty Fait. c ON) phe Brixton Burglarly,”” the latest and new musta br th: ‘The rain didn't feaze the frontier hero of Mr. Fyles, In other words, tt didn't keep people away from the American Theatre. comedy in Broadway, | at the Herald the ¢ makini Squire, In th ynpour It had another fight. fri face ot im house Horse Marines Kit Carron as he really was was tho So ee euceepecaetatne, Ca, Incarnation of the sort of play Mr.}"savnen Knighthood Was in Flower" Fylea has written, leaving out some of |pad the approval, as usual, of anvex- Saturday afternoon on a Long Island Rallroad train, ‘The train was N: It loft this village at 4.13, was-hauled by engine No, 113, the passengers num- bered 13, Conductor Wicks's punch waa No, 13,'and the amount of money car-| ried by his two brakemen was 13 cents The train reached. its destinatiton— cellent house at the Criterion. William Collier continues to draw peo- ple to the Madison Square Theatre In is merry “On the Quiet.” Mat “Plorodora” runs on with Ita tuneful | 7 Perhaps to a New York audience there might come tho thought that the altua:| Casing, eas ey comtumen eats te the sentiment which Is the playwright's Heense, But even the love story of this creation 18 not go very remote from tho truth, agement o, Ing we eal Huntington, is giv- excell vaudevile show this Among th Al Het y mus « Hrothers tn ist” night he wees Mr npany tn s and srtain rad gan their sixth w Fifty in David Li goth Interspersed + Museum this wee Thursday. Pastor's wan the show this house this s¢ was 0} _ EDEN MUSEE BIJOU | AMELIA BINGHAM COMPANY. ‘ation Day In BHT AT 8.15; Mat To-Morrom,. 3.15. » HAMMERSTEDN “PARADISE” Loe Le lereserey the iret Maxmiliian and omedians. John D. Hamitton Hl the sit han new U. Ta. 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