Show A MUCH y A fitial UK I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 madame sarah grand not english but an irish woman NEIL HER I 1 lm OIT THE IRISH COAST AS A CHILD AND HER EARLY MARRIED LIFE IN IM CHINA taran JAPAN AND THE STRAITS settlements A NEW AND THE FIRST comprehensive LIFE or OF BY HIS granddaughter A NEW AUTHOR IN SHORT STORIES 13 AN indianapolis ZDI EDITOR au 0 S 1 BOOK IS JUST OUT correspondence tribune I 1 now new york dec IS 15 it la Is rather pin ln gular cular that madame sarah grands audacious books are being so i widely discussed so little Is known of 0 the author herself tills this Is 1 doubtless 03 3 she and mot writers would wish it 11 to he be and emAn the disposition to pry fry into the private vaita lives of 0 those w mho ho havo have become in tiny any vay nar conspicuous Is one ofie of ft uw tho crying evils of 0 tho age yet there may bo be 9 natural and not indecorous deco poua wish rish R ish to know something of 0 the personality of 0 the man or woman who sud deiLly focus eft tho the eyes 0 of tho the world by out of oc tm the mazz mab of 0 naturally Naturi Llly them was much curiosity the courageous enough to clodo such a bomb am m the th heavenly Het ITeL venly twins am as th the a recent public publication atlon of 0 tho the still more daring ath beth BOW book stimulated uie the interest intact yet SH so no tw fax us as I 1 am wore araxe nothing like sketch ketch ot of Ida dmm has ham beon beer published in this country and what la 19 known ot of her has accordingly been rL from items appearing lo 10 the forel git n press it tp pear from these that she nhe Is net nf ta has had been popularly supposed wi an englishwoman glish woman having been bom in ireland at Demag hadee ifer HOT father ter Bril oilen clarke of Bally cutlo castlo county clayo antas a commander in the t he navy aad icil during hor her childhood ald a pot at a coast fouard station affo that rha had an early avith the th men iler her father died when she was only 7 years of 0 aire ace but jio in 0 these mesa years on the irich coast t wem seem to have left a lasting effect you tou knew she sh said not long OBO ago to re terranc to her childhood in ireland that the jesuits say bay give us a child until it Is 6 years ot of age ae and then wo w to do not mind who has hafl it afterward erward att and I 1 certainly have found in my own car ra that those early years yeara in ireland have mud made the most lasting impression eponine upon inc although not strictly sti icily of irish birth I 1 love the country and indeed think that no one can pass a length 0 of time there coming under 1 its lo mantlo spell wo had servants nanta te and rauch much ot of my time lime was passed sed IT in the th cottage ot of the peasantry listening to tho the legends and folklore folk lore or of the people I 1 was vas I 1 believe continued madama Girr grand uld laughing a very tire amov chud child and not net like my studious atud toua elder flutter to rule and discipline I 1 could not see ece the tha tun run of reading when I 1 had so many interesting people to talk to and I 1 was forever helne being picked out of 0 the lower regions re slon from among uw the ter or out of 0 rome borne poor ro rons hut where inhere my greatest delight was to sit bit donn don and share their menal meal of potatoes and salt palt I 1 ain berald 11 aha continued that I 1 exhibit something of 0 tho the same I 1 low etes today for I 1 would ram rattier it er lt it about with tho the old women I 1 in n provence listening lizt enIng to their quaint stories mid and L unsophisticated n talk than bo be in a whirl hirl of social garet garelles Ray etlea les studying alto 1 f 0 has a greater fascination for or mo me today than reading rc adini books society Is tho the simo same all ver ever the he world but every toa town n and villaro furnishes among lia its ru rural ral peru lation deeply interesting type X with the death of the father the tha fam lly fly removed moed re to england Cn cland making their home in a little seaport village near scarborough si tho the mother li fill said to have been art an accomplished woman woran xi fond of uie the best books of art and all the refinements of life tho the eldest daughter inherited most ot of these tastes ta itea but sarah sarab had no liking tor for things of 0 i the kind preferring outdoor out door son orts artl A I 1 riding rowin rowing ind and reaming the helda there Is however a faintly trad lilon I 1 that she cho wrote a song and set bet it to music during theme harum barum branim years year although she sha knew nothing of 0 musto music as a eo sc lence and picked out the notes on tho the clano without any other guide culdo than an I 1 a perception of harmony unfortunately this infant effort has disappeared os a the intent infant et f fort forts i of genius usually do and only the tha family trad tradition lUon remains it la Is also told that the trend of hw her mind revealed itself in telling stories to her blister after they thea had cone I 1 lo 10 tied bed in speaking of this during a 0 recent interview badam grand graild ald my lly sister elster says rays that her nevis suffered buffered for years after and shi she has hardly overcome the effect yet of the horrors which v aich I 1 crammed into that tory story a sort of ghastly trial rial that nent ment on without imitation from night to night to week and month to raci month nth 1 I cerLa certainly went in tor for drai matlo effects in most daye day in n a man tir ner ti r which in atch I 1 have never dona don a since rin 7 and I 1 ast ak jl remember how I 1 used us to ponder during the day over the portion r 0 tho story to ill he related in the i s and and what trantle frantic efforts I 1 made to cram it I 1 with horrors I 1 there seems beems to have been no attempt I 1 to curb this riotous and rather morbid I 1 imagination by any regular educational routine until badamo bla darne grand was waa 14 and she had had only two years ot of F T r T li ra alc 1 school training when ih she was wag married iter her husband an lit in the iho arms arrn held lt at the time or tile the marriage a 0 post in china 8 and nd the first five years of her ier marriage marria gc life mere arc spent in chino china in jar japan it and abild in the file strolls bettl emonts caring little tor for sor lety her attention became directed toward medical sui but joints toward the philip sophy of too rather alan i ILI ila aide I 1 madame grands critics might pay any that hat I 1 S sho I 1 ch clemns tom ard I 1 alic lie rather that than tile th pa side of almott almost I 1 edoo thing than at t all event a she alif never practiced med medicine lelito and ilie lir salt said speaking of these ermily stu ilus it I 1 must I 1 tw be remembered that at that time I 1 was waa but a mere earl gi r I 1 and took alth out question tile reiterated prophecy nelch alch still leads a hailing maimed instilled existence to this day that it if a woman be camo 1 a I doctor or did it anything ot at an intellectual and cip alfe kind or made f n L c r per for herself abc he must become hideously h I 1 asly ugly and ant hard and utterly horrid and like alk a man so 80 they suld eadd just like a man ali and I 1 t wont want to be jut just like it n man and all the other dreadful thin they prophesied and I 1 nas IS and I 1 believed 1 I 1 road read in p print r int ln in fact I 1 was very very young and I 1 liked being youngs young by tile the way lioa has it ever struck you how many of the worst enemies to the th theory of tho the making of FL a career by women omen are arc women who have modo mado such a career themselves and who would bo ba unable to stall their tellow fellow wornon in tho the back ir if they had not tile standing and the authority of 0 that career to rive give then jhc thc m the weapon which they so BO treacherously usel UTO the readers of the both book ok ro calling the hard things aall by tho the auth auldor v abilia women hlll ill think of the old saw about those who live lit in glass houses houses it was ITU during her ufa in the th strata strait settlements that Ala madam darne grand b began egara to write stories tile the scenes or 0 which itch werft aers mostly laid in tho the vicinity none nona of 0 thos these writings we were re published and in 4 when nhen her first novel lawla ideala was finished no publisher could bo be found and it 11 1 ins as finally brought out rt attan tile authora own expense this like all the work was a protest protect aaen comans womans wOl nanA but seems to have haro attracted attra ried little attention and the author iret farat became widely known through the th publication li ot of the th heavenly twins she Is said to in bei be at present upon another novel dealing dealina with her ter early arly experiences lit in ireland it la Is sald said to he moro more 0 of f a s I 1 adv of 0 liro life and to contala two about social problems thail any of 0 her former works during tho the creader part of 0 the time madame grand lives in rural france havlic with her maid rooms in art an old fashioned inn on the ho ledge of forest orant she arises at 7 lit in the iho morning ind and alfter tho usual breakfast of 0 rolls and co bouw ff the she writes M steadily until 12 11 ock after deli dejeu eunce ncr taken under the tao trees when the weather meather li Is warm enough eno uh there are two tn o more hours of work thaia reading walking and such simple recreation as ho he quiet place at a fords iler her london home Is lit at kensington tut but she bho Is looking for a place in it the h 0 on country antry RI asi she eho the high p reso ulle ot of town life I 1 I 1 fx avy f IK V 44 0 9 fa 3 sf aa UV 1 1 sarah grands motto blotto reproduced in forc fac simile i A NEW LIFE or OP AUDUBON it will be tho the first really beally comprehensive work A very I 1 important work to be published this week by scribner Is 13 a new life of 0 audubon the great naturalist perhaps it would not be too much to say that this work nork en fitl d audubon and his journal and written by miss aliss marla maria A audubon his granddaughter erand daughter to Is the first really comprehensive account of the treat great mans life and services to science 1 that has ever been published the I 1 lite life 0 of audubon edited by robert bechajian Buc hajian from material supplied by the widow adow of 0 the naturalist has hag generally been accepted as official though most unsatisfactory of 0 this book miss A audubon lu d bon says gays in an unpublished letter t to the publishers of 0 her work in 1866 6 67 my grandmother M mrs john james audubon then it a very agad lady prepared from many journals let letter tern etc in her possession the book now known as audubon tire the naturalist I 1 she was assisted in this work by rn an old id gentleman who was in no way fitted I 1 for such nn an under undertaking 9 a and n d it alic result I 1 evirs ans so 1 am told tell tor for I 1 never ever saw lt rrt the e manuscript an anim immense rine mass literally I 1 copied from the material in hand this I 1 11 v was fie unit t t to nn J 1 is I 1 publisher who he rally fa artil lituri naturally al I 1 found 11 P ada rda to put pu 1 1 it 1 in I 1 bo book 0 k form fo ail a it I 1 then 1 I too 1 a and 1 it I 1 11 aa a d I 1 n the hand of an ed editor aitor AN alio to whatever i h a bever his ine merits rits ap p peara ile arm to havo have a rooted objection to t 0 all lit nature natural I 1 a and d especially birds for a all 11 that en to in hope a was aasc either 1 po 10 0 all ai to be borth orth less leaa or wholly left if rt 0 ul bein X ment kent forth under my erb signature the look book hil bait lt a large sale pale and ili H today the irio only one of any inoria to 10 it found tire onile slon ot of tile ical feat of Au dullon hon the book if 14 not really coherent coli rant there appears to b bo 0 no lie way of oc finding where tile lh lias HII HI I at any time of big lift life except hv by leading through letters let leri and inn I very often fali untrue comments of 0 the editor anil and tills volume brought in a pretty income of ft lottero ilter front from nearly ever verlin fiody fly fill questions to lip be fin all still and date dots to be coi collected I 1 acted al ad ln lit lim yet et it looked for a long lonar time ax am if this ill attempt had hopelessly wasted all available material and as aa if no liot lir account of audubon life and labom could boum ever bo be elv given to 10 ll 11 tire 1 nt ill ft a series of lucky accidents ima has opened the way may to tills this liters taking tile the task alli she lias bas at UPI last accent plin tind with brilliant success to he with tho the of tile fortunate no ac it II aill 11 bo be ramt inhered that in ili 18 15 ilip flip now boik aca lemil of decided in erect a m anin rit oer the th lart as t pla of ll 11 tire richt natural ast 1st st in it adf and it U wn lit in conn tion billi ich this onta c I 1 that lint miss audubon Au lulon fart hear dicarl i amort of one existence of lir lot note book a 0 rumer that she did not net credit until proved it to be t arm 1 I afar A ator considerable lh the manuscript m arlu was restored to 0 o Ks fig lawful onera 11 twill guined out to he it a dairy kept luring during III missouri I 1 trip r I 1 p ard velch lit 0 it had never apen lie en pulli lh 4 in id n tile P ris session of the anti 1 r apro r als also 0 found it a labrador Labrad nr houi joui journal fl luio pian pearl journals journ alg find and many in carlers making a Ite gother a tind nf ln and value vor lor l or the iho first time it seemed to in bla its ter noall noM ll lo in do justice to in his memo mcilory Y in these newly discovered direct from tho the popat naturalists natura lists own hand nir tire ease an aej facility 0 of f which audubon had in po 0 o marked a debroe BH all big nil all hla his orazi orl naulty balits she found the living man not lint the death mask only one 0 difficulty lay jay in the of a now new life of at audubon An dubon 7 here IN a braak lit in the journal Jo front from august 16 H there mas aa air unfilled gal of nv mev plo rul dut undeterred lilla mla audubon set about hr her tak ask by bv wilting willing to every one whom she sh thought likely to have letters father and to every place in n here traces trace of him be found and at last in the summer of 1195 the missing journal which made nil all complete was nas found its finding as old oh by miss alas aud audubon ab in sounds like an old fashioned romance while going tro liis through the letters land nd papers belonging to my illy cousin miss M elixir audubon Au duhon something seemed to catch in the draper of tile the old sec free where inhere audubon arte ar te for so no many years we rafel pair tin no heed for 1 I time the driver had always caught tny illy cousin said when suddenly I 1 knew the obstruction it mas as canil caused red by ill ft hot hat it we e sought a little leather bound pocketbook filled with willi PC net sketch d and en trios blurred and faint tho the fait entry dated dat rt august 16 W and on nil tire ny loaf this in inscription eruption in 14 th the riling of I 1 tho he donar born gideon aidon 1 n smith to lit 11 friend john J audubon Auf lubon march larch 13 ISO there in thit that little book atwil lay th completion of th that at journal oui nal for ihli ii two generations tlona had searched wo we did no more borit ork that day nc m e simply rejoiced anil and 8 it happens thit this life ot of audubon Is essentially now new tho the greater part of tho the work lias has never been published before rod v theire here there Is 1 repetition tho the words are arc now ills his own n and not those of another ainther person jt it rip pears that himself did dh not know the late of him hl birth rt I 1 Is q A 0 n rally approximated as N may lay uh or 5 hut but bliss alss audubon sayi he may mav have hav been h born tn anyn lire here between 1773 1772 and and cin in tho the fare face 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