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Literary J*fet&*s and Criticism
a Friend of Marie Antoinette,
Napoleon mid Washington.
Paris, September IS.
•The most interesting figure in "Esquisses et
v.tdXS," the book written iiy the Marquis de
V-pir', of the French Aoad<*rny. and just pub
' shed'by Calmann-L.<?vy, i.« Count Louis Phil
de £2gur, who was born at th« Close of the
•■ en Years' War. and diod shortly after the
Revolution of July. Count de Segur was one of
*c ro"*t picturesque and characteristic men of
that eventful period. He was colonel of
firagwns under Louis XV, Ambassador to Rus-
I under Louis XVI. Ambassador Extraordi
*n - u:] (l< the Directory. Counsellor of State
i\er the Consulate, Senator and Grand Master
c f Ceremonies undor Napoleon 1. and peer of
France during the -ration. He was a trav
eller poet, historian, dramatist and member of
the Academy. He lived on terms of familiar
intlmary with Louis XV. Louis XVI. Marie An
toinette. George Washington. Frederick the
Great, Empress Catherine II and Napoleon,
VttbOUt mentioning scores of satellites that
gravitated around those stars. He was the man
of all others who misht have written most in
teresting memoirs. His "Souvenirs and Anec
dotes" are universally known and highly r. l
is.hed. but they fir to an abrupt end with the
outbreak of the Revolution. His publisher
offered him fabulous sums if he would continue
them. He shook his head obstinately and said:
■ "Nothing can Induce me to write anything dis
paragins against Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette
or against Napoleon. I owe too much to the
truth and too much to their kindness toward
jn P( no between the two conflicting sentiments I
must remain silent." Last year the publisher of
L forthcoming edition of the "Souvenirs and
S Anecdotes" applied to the Marquis de Segur —
creat-gTaniison of Louis Philippe de Segur-
I requested him to Jill the lacune by supplying cx
! tracts from the letters, diaries and corresi>ond
ence that exist in the family archives. The
marquis seems still In doubt about the expedi-
e ncy of complying with this request, but was
prevailed upon to furnish a rough pea and ink
sketch of his fascinating and overscrupulous
incest cr.
One of the earlier anecdotes recounted by
Louis Philippe de Segur relates to Louis XV at
• supper Riven to the King in the tent of
Mar- •ha! de Segrur, Minister of War and com
mander in chief at Compiegne. who was Loui^-
Fhiiippe de Segur's father. Young Segur. when
fourteen years old, was already a captain of cav
alry and aide-de-ramp to his father. According
to etiquette, the young aide-de-camp waited
upon th« King, who was interested by his
ESrightlincss, and chatted familiarly with
him. "At the close of the repast," the story
runs, "the King asked me what time it was. I
replied that I did not know, because I had no
Midi The King turned to my father and said:
■fear, give your watch to your son at once." I
thought it would have been more natural had
the King given rae his own watch." In the
spring of 1777 the young officer married the
granddaughter of the famous Chancellor. Marie
-irfseai;, uhose beautiful features may be
seen In a portrait painted by Mme. Vigee-Le
brun. In 1752 he was at bis own request made
colonel of a regiment serving in America, and
immediately sailed in the Aigle for the mouth
of the Delaware River in company with the Prince
de Bro^lie and the Due de Lauzun. They had
frightful weather and narrowly escaped being
captured by a British frigate. The Aigle ran
ashore on the Delaware coast, arid, after varied
experiences, Segur met Washington, who made a
lasting impression upon him. Dpi n his return
to France after the war, Regur became a favor
: ite of Marie Antoinette. He abandoned the
army for diplomacy, and, after being ambassa
dor to Frederick tLe ■ treat, was sent in a similar
capacity to Russia, i«i ;i=h!ng such friendly re
lations there tnat he made a commercial treaty
between France and Russia— the first agreement
Of th kind ev«r concluded between the two coun
tries—and which, singularly enough, S»"gur drew
tip with a pen borrowed from Fitzherbert. th«s
British Ambassador, who had been doing all in
his power to prevent such a treaty from being
■ale. Iflghly amusing are the description? of
his daily life at the O>urt of Catherine 11, of the
means he employed it win the sympathy of tho
Empress an ; of h---r favorite, Potemkln. and also
cf the singular artifice that he employed to elude
the overzealoas manifestations of personal af
fection of the "Semiramis of the North."
Soon af:*-r Napoleon had become Emperor the
French Academy appointed twelve of its mem
berp to examine the address to be presented by
Ch&teaubriand upon bis admission to their as
eemL'.\- In his panegyric upon Joseph Chenier
(Ch&teaubriand'.s predecessor) Chateaubriand
praised the man of letters, but severely criti
cised the Jacobin and the regicide. Segur. who
■was Grand Master of Ceremonies, besides being
» member of Ti.<- Academy, was one of pix who
approved Chateaubriand's discourse as it stood.
Next cay at Saint-Cloud, in the presence of the
whole court, Napoleon walked straight to-ward
Begur, and said: "Monsieur, the men of letters
want to pet France on fire! How does the Acad
emy dare to speak of regicides when I, who am
crowned, and who ought to hate them more than
the Academicians do. have them to dinner? I
often sit at table next to Cambaceres. Why, you
ted Slontaine deserve to be imprisoned at Vin
oenne*!' 1 "Sire." replied Segur, "I cannot be
lieve you capable of such injustice. It seems
but natural to blame the death of Louis XVI
■without censuring the government that has Just
erected expiatory altars at Saint Denis." At
these words the Emperor burst into a passion,
and, stamping his foot, said: "I know what I
ought to do, and I also know how and when I
•should do it! It is not for you to Judge. I don't
ask for advice. You are the president
of the second class of the Institute. I
command you to tell your colleagues
that I will not permit them to meddle with poli
tics. Execute my order. Go at once. Bear in
mind that if the Academy disobeys my com
mand, I shall smash it in pieces as if it were a
seditious club:' Napoleon swept out of the
room, and every one present carefully avoided
Begur.
The next day after the levee Segur re
mained alone with the Emperor. He explained
calmly the reasons for his vote, represented the
inconvenience of "imposing too weighty chains
upon literature," and appealed to the "equity
and practical sense" of the sovereign. Napoleon
listened in silence At last, with a kind glance
end pleasant manner, he said: "I have no ill
feeling against you. This attitude simply indi
cates my policy. I told you yesterday what I
•wanted you to repeat to the members of the
Academy. If it had been any one but Chateau
briand who had written this address, I should
never have paid the slightest attention to It, and
that is the way, as a statesman, you should
have regarded it." Then in a gay. almost a
aerry, voice the Emperor added: "Besides.
«.fter all. don't you think, as a man of good
taste, that Chateaubriand showed lack of tact?
It one is intrusted with the task of praising a
**'oman with only one eye, the proper thing to
do la to make pleasant allusions to all her feat
ures with the exception or her lost eye This
made Segur, who had lost an eye during his
campaign In America, smile. The Emperor
*»urst out laughing. When the reception doors
■*"ere reopened the courtiers MUM amazed at
finding the Emperor seated in a chair beside
*^cur, and both were chatting, laughing, and in
"|th glee.. This time. When the grand master of
ce *«oonieß withdrew, he was surrounded by
froupa murmuring obsequious compliments and
inanities. One day Napoicon suddenly asked
Segur: "What will people say about me after
my death?" S^gur began to speak of regrets of
the nation, etc. Napoleon interrupted him with
a brupqw: "Not at all. They will say, <>uf:'"
and a high!;/ expressive gesture emphasized this
exclamation.
Count Louis Philippe de Segur lived in the
Rue de Bourgogne, just opposite the Palais
Bourbon, the present Chamber of Deputies. His
son was th« first of the young men of aristo
cratic birth to enter the military service of Na
poleon, and the Emperor always remembered
this fact with gratitude. Young Philippe de
Segur, when chef d'esradron of cavalry, had
been severely wounded, and as a reward had
been pent by the Emperor with a dozen captured
standards to be presented to the Corps Legislatif.
The young officer arrived in Paris, and as soon
as lie regained sufficient strength be carried
the flags to the palace, where, by the Emperor's
order, his father. Count Louis Philippe de Segur,
had been designated to receive them. It was
a touching sight to see the father accepting the
standards in behalf of the nation from his own
sc.-n. The scene was commemorated by Impe
rial command on a large marble slab, placed en
the outside wall of the Palais Bom One
fine morning Count I>ouls Philippe de Segur
opened his window — it was after the downfall
of Napoleon — and saw workmen hammering
away with huge mallets at the marble slab,
which they broke into fragments and removed.
This was done by order of Louis XVIII, who
deemed It a "seditious monument." In his old
age Count Lou's Philippe de Segur had a pretty
hard time of It. Be earned his living as a Jour
nalist when over sixty years old. Shortly be
fore his death he became blind, and, unable to
afford a secretary, sat in bed dictating his
reminiscences to his devoted wife, who wrote
them down on green paper, that tint having
been selected because It was. less strain upon
the ••yes of lime, de Segur, whose sight was also
failing. C. I. B.
HISTORICAL SHRINKS.
Ancestral Homes of Britons Who
Made Our Country.
AMERICAN SHRINES IX ENGLAND. By Alfred
T. Story. Illustrated. l"p. -* s - The MacmUlan
Company.
The places described in this pleasant volume
are those associated with the ancestry or the
early careers of those men of English blood who.
on this side of the Atlantic In the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, bore a strenuous part
in the making of a new nation. The author has
been conscientiously at pains In the gathering
of material frorii all available sources. Six
< hapters are devoted to the Washlngtons and
their homes chapters which are Interesting In
spite of the fact that they show anew how
scanty and fragmentary at best Is all the in
formation that can be collected concerning that
sturdy race. Speculation as to the probable o r
the possible helps to fill up the picture, but it
Is only speculation, after all. What we may ac
cept as certain is that the Washlngtons were
ii.. n of substantial character and of education.
p. .0.l citizens and honored officials. The traces
of them remaining at Bulgrare and Brington
are comparatively few, yet they may well in
terest the American pilgrim and he could not
have a m-:re careful ruH.- than Mr Story. The
ancient Sulgrave manor house, changi d as It i*
since Lawrence Washington lived in it. is worth
seeing; even If we do not credit the picturesque
story that in a closet still in existence Prlnoess
Elizabeth once hid when an agent of her bloody
minded sovereign. Sister Mary, arrived In search
of her. Worth seeing, too. la the old church
wherein lie Lawrence Washington. Gentleman,
a:id his wife. Ames, though parts of their me
morial brasses were carried away, some years
ago. by "two well dressed Individuals." i»-t us
that these were not souvenir bunting
Americans. Bulgrave, like most venerable Eng-
Hsfa villages l:as Its legends which old folk love
to tell, and here is one which has for scene the
i 2 tfghboring Barrow HIII:
On the top of it used to stand an ancient ash
tree so withered and scarred that the v : i:a«.-r«
cot th* idea that It was the haunt of witches and
a pcen* of their unholy rites and revelries. \\ here
foreat was decided th»t 11 should be cut down, and
-i miss** men proceeded, axe in ha., .io effect
■m
immmm
the "unked" ash of Barrow Hill.
A chapter on the home of the Franklins.
blacksmiths and yeomen, with a patrimony of
hWv acres, takes us to the quiet little village
of Ecton. where there remain some records of
the family, though their old stone house ha
disappeared. WHen the great Benjamin visited
the birthplace of his father in 1758. the house
was still standing and the philosopher as we
know, felt the appropriate thrill. Another at
tractive haunt of the American traveller is
E£s. in Nottinghamshire, where William
pr^pr was bom and wherein was framed
Se Sd adventure of the Plymouth colony.
Brewster'n home was In the manor house for
merly the old archieplscopal palace, and of this
Sere is nothing left but its site. The house of
his companion of the Mayflower. William Brad
ford is still in existence in the little ham.et of
AusierflHd. near Scrooby. Did the hearts of
the Pilgrims still cling In the New World to
that which they had left In sorrow and in dan
cer? It would seem so, since they .gave to the
chief city they founded here the name of the
Lincolnshire town whose magistrates had impris
oned and grievously mistreated them on their
first attempt to steal away to Holland. That
notable captain. Miles Standish. was one of the
Plymouth party whose birthplace may still be
visited— that is. If he were really born at Dux
bury Hall in Lancashire. It Is not a certainty.
John Wlnthrop came into the world at Groton
Manor in Suffolk, and there are Winthrops liv
ing there still, though the present Hall is not
the one in which he spent half his days.
Little is left of the places in England wherein
once walked that fine old Quaker. William Perm.
There is a small meeting house at Coolham
which he built not far from the site of the house
where he lived with his Gullelma— a house which
early in the last century a Duke of Norfolk
pulled down. This little building bears the ex
traordinary name of the Blue whence It
was derived we are not told. It is still used as
a meeting house, and In its graveyard lies one
of Perms children. The Quaker cemetery of
Jordans holds the graves of Perm and his two
■wives, and Mr. Story gives us to understand
that the American project of buying and trans
ferring Perm's bones to these shores is one
which it is useless to moot before the Quaker
authorities. Another shrine often visited by
Americans is the old manor house in North
Wales which was the seat of many generations
of Vales. though Elihu. of New Haven, was bo. -it
on this side of the ocean. Mr. Story devotes
an agreeable chapter to this worthy, and an
other to the beneficent son of the Southwark
butcher, Master Harvard. We may take pride
in the fact that the sons of our two great uni
versities have done their best to honor their
benefactors by the erection of fitting memorials
In the land of their fathers. The author, indeed,
notes many admirable tokens of International
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1908.
amity In this direction. Must we attribute to
fofgetfulnpss of his, by the way. the curious
blunder in the inscription on the Lowell tablet
set by the poet's English friends at Westmin
ster: "This tablet and the -window above were
placed here in memory of William Russell
Lowell," etc.? And how did Colonel Chester be
come an LL.. D. of "Cambridge College, New
York City"?
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
Little, Brown & Co. will publish before long
a book of travel by Mr. Georgre Wharton James
of which we have pleasant anticipations. It
oommemoratos journeys made "Through Ra
mona's Country," which is to pay that It deals
tvith the ropion used by the late Helen Hunt
Jackson as a pettinp for her very popular novel.
It will be, iif course, generously illustrated.
Seven hundred Englishmen signed the me
morial which was bound in white leather and
sent to Count Tolstoy on his eightieth birthday.
Mr. Edmund Gosse. as chairman, headed the
list, and his signature was followed by those
of George Meredith, Thomas Hardy and Henry
James. Mr. Swinburne did not sign. Mean
while some eminent Frenchmen have been pay-
Ing their compliments to Tolstoy in the "Temps."
M. Anatole Franco, for example, has this to
say about him: "What ancient Greece con
fHved and realized by the concourse of the
cities and the harmonious evolution of the cen
turies — namely. Homer — nature produced all at
once in Russia by creating Tolstoy, who Is the
soul and voice of an immense people, the river
where for centuries to come the sons of men
and the leaders of men will go to quench their
thirst." That is a tribute as is a tribute!
Mr. Aylmer Maude's life of Tolstoy, which
we recently announced, is to be completed in
two volumes. The fust, which has just ap
peared, covers only the first fifty years of the
Russian author's life. It is composed, to a
certain extent, of his own words. Here is a
passage from his diary written in 1853, when he
was serving on the staff of Prince Gortchakoff :
I am ugly, awkward, uncleanly, and lack society
education. ' I am Irritable, a bore to others, not
modest, Intolerant, ami as shamefaced as a child.
I am almost an ignoramus. What I do know I
have learned anyhow, by myself, in snatches, with
out sequence, without a plan, and it amounts to
very HttlA. I Bin Incontinent, undecided, incon
stant and stupidly vain and vehement, like nil char
acterless people. I ana not brave. I am not
methodical In life, and am so lazy thnt idleness*
has become an almost unconquerable habit of mine.
I «m clever, but my cleverness has as yet not been
thoroughly tested on anvthlng; 1 have neither prac
tical nor social nor business ability. lam honest,
that Is to My, 1 love goodness, and have formed a
habit of loving it. and when I swerve from it I am
dissatisfied with myself and return to it gladly:
but there Is a thing I love more than goodness, and
that Is fame. lam so ambitious, and so little has
this feeling been srf-itlflM thnt. should I have to
choose hot ween fame and goodness, 1 fear I may
often choose the former Yes, I am not modest,
and therefore I am proud at heart, though shame
faced and shy hi society.
Fiction, as we have often noted. is no longer
the sole staple offered by the publishers. The
book of more serious purpose Is now placed In
the foreground. Nevertheless, new novels and
short stories almost without number are prom
ised for the fall and winter. Mrs. Gertrude
Atherlon has a new story in press. "Th« Dooms
woman." Conan Doyle is publishing. In "Round-
-Fire Stories," a collection of 6tudles In the
grotesque and the terrible. From Joseph Con
rad we will have "The Point of Honor," the
curious story of a long-drawn-out duel which
has been running through the pages of an Eng
lish magazine. Stanley Weyman'a contribution
la The Wild Geese," which, as we stated not
long ago. is put forth as the author's last novel.
The new novel by Mr. John Galsworthy which
is soon to appear Is called "Shadows." Mrs.
Dudeney has written a tale entitled "Two To
gether," Mrs. Steel one called "Th« Prlnr*. of
Dreamers." and Miss V. I- Sllberrad on* called
simply "Desire." The latest novel by Leonard
Merrlck is "Lynch** Daughter." Miss May Sin
clair's new story Is entitled "Th« Immortal Mo
ment. Wo are also to have another transla
tion from liene Basin, The Call of the City."
Finally, that Sheer fun may not be lacking. Mr.
W. W. Jacobs will publish his ••Sulthaven" In
book form.
The Bcribners will publish In book form next
month the novel by Mr. John Fox. Jr.. which
1,- s been running through their magazine. This
Is the romantic story of life in the Kentucky
mountains called "The Trail of the lonesome
Pine "
Th" Carnegie Institution has recently added to
Its series of scholarly publications an Interesting
work by Mr. O. P. Hay. of the Smithsonian
Institution. OH "The Fossil Turtles of North
America." The author is of the opinion that
the creatures forming the subject of his study
appeared In Europe at an earlier stage of geo
logical history than on this continent. Speci
mens have been found in England and Germany
in Triassic rocks, while the oldest yet discovered
In America date from the Upper Jurassic period,
and thes« are extremely rare. The puzzling foot
prints left in the Triassic sandstone of the Con
necticut Valley have been ascribed to turtles by
Dr Edward Hitchcock. Mr. Hay admits that
there may have been turtles at that time, but he
regards the matter as uncertain. In the search
for the ancestors of the turtle among other and
older reptileß. Professors Cope. Osborn and
Baur have been led to advance different opin
ions. Mr Hay reviews all of them !n turn He
believes that there has been some approach to
a solution of the genealogical problem, but that
the task has not yet been satisfactorily per
formed.
In the preparation of this work the author
examined most of the collections In the country
containing fossil remains of turtles. The larg
est and most Important are those in the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History in New York,
the National Museum at Washington, and Yale
University. Th- greater portion of Mr. Hay's
■tout volume is devoted to technical description
of the 266 speclps which have rewarded his
investigations, of these he regards seventy-six
as hitherto unknown to science. A large num
ber of illustrations, most of them from photo
graphs, add to the value of the text.
In a review of Dr. Emil Reich's "General His
tory Of Western Nations," contributed to The
Tribune on August 8, the following quotation
was made: "Is it unmethodic to assume that if
a state is given the incontestable power of un
doing the state, another magistracy may be
credited with having founded the state?" Dr.
Reich writes complaining that this is inaccu
rate, and stating that the quotation should have
run as follows: "Is it uhmethodic to assume that
In a State, In which one annual magistracy is
given the incontestable power of undoing th«
State, another magistracy may be credited with
having founded the State?" We regret the mis
quotation, made in a manuscript which was edit
ed on the natural assumption that the writer
had verified his references.
Mr. George P- Upton, whose handbooks on
music have been popular for many years, has
been on very friendly terms with the prominent
figures In the operatic and concert develop
ments of his time. He is making a book on his
relations with these artiste, and A. C. McClurg
& Co., of Chicago, will publish it next month
under the title of "Musical Memories: My Rec
ollections of Famous Celebrities, 1850-1900."
< mly the other day, by the way, the same firm
Of publishers brought out Mr. Upton's "Standard
Concert Guide," a work combining in more con
venient form the materials In his useful books
on the symphonies, oratorios and cantatas. In
this he condenses his earlier text and adds new
matter, bringing the whole subject down to
date. Mr. Upton's pages have long been valued
by a large public, and in this volume he places
his reefers even more In his debt.
Still another poetical anthology has got Itself
compiled. This is a "Pageant of Elizabethan
Poetry," which Mr. Arthur Symons has put to
gether. The H. M. Caldwell Company will bring
It out this fall.
Mr. Robert Ross was intimately acquainted
with the late Aubrey Beardsley, and he is pres
ently going to publish a study of that remark
able young draftsman. The book is to be
illustrated, and presumably will give us some
new drawings.
Miss Katherine E. Con way's 'In the Foot
prints of the Good Shepherd," a book issued
from the Convent of the Good Shepherd, tells
an encouraging story of reformatory work
among women by the nuns of that institution.
During fifty years some thirteen thousand girls
have been received at the convent, and of these
a large number have been permanently restored
to a self-respecting life. The Order of the Good
Shepherd began its efforts in New York with
only a grudging approval from Archbishop
Hughes. The workers lived in a poor little
house in 14th street. The good work done there,
however, not only conquered the Archbishop's
reluctance, but led to the purchase of the Prime
estate, on the East River, opposite the pretty
village of Astoria. How much was thenceforth
accomplished is well illustrated by the narrative
which Miss Conway bases on the convent
annals.
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LORD NORTHCOTE AT MANILA.
Manila. Sept. 25.— Lord Hottfatsva governor Gen
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his way from Sydney to China, arrived at Manila
to-day with his party. Governor General Smith
greeted the head of the Australian government and
entertained the visitors at luncheon at Malaca.
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urbs. The tender Yankton was placed at the dis
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around the bay. but the visitors wer« unabU to
avail tii«mselves of tlw courteay.
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