| Show NOT N I 1 OT commendable COMMEND ADLE enterprise excites admiration and is commendable when actuated by a worthy motive it la Is stimulating to those engaged in it and all who are af felted by it newspaper and publishing 1 ug enterprise has reached a higher standard than almost any other kind and the th public are usually lublic by it we e do not think that this will bu be the result however in tive case of u recent publication of apiece of characteristic te french literature thereby ibe reby hanga 11 in s a tale headers of accounts of parisian life have learned of a woman known as cora pearl who is said to be the daughter oi of professor Prote saor crouchoff hof baltimore and is credited with the authorship ot ol the far lamed ballad kathleen mavournee Kavour nee n 11 she was a leader in the ranks of the demimonde demi monde at the french capital aud and frinces rr inces ces aua and kukea and counts and generals are named in the list liet ot her followers and adorers ador ers she was noted lor for her extravagance trava gance and the immense sums squandered at the banquets served nerved up icher in her establishment her story has similar features to that of most of her class but with one difference she has lost caste dwindled down to poverty and obscurity but has suddenly come into new prominence in the ranks ot oi literature she has written a book it Is the story stony of her life her avowed intention is not to create scandal but to relate facts when the news leaked out there was consternation in certain circles but it was profitable to the author letters were written from respectable members of society nus husbands bands and fathers ano trembled for their good name for they knew what she could relate concer concerning nim them the letters contained substantial inducements to withhold names the book came out and sold like hot cakes and now comes in the enterprise of ye american publisher A erise house ouse la 12 the east determined to be first in the field to put it into english A copy was received from france three translators were set to work on it their copy was given to the printers as fast as transcribed most ot of it was in ir t type the next day and in forty eight hours it was printed bound and published and ready for that portion of the american public that delights in prurient literature enterprise was prostituted prostitutes to the retailing and circulation ol of scandalous stories energy money and brains perverted to the purveying of nastiness and the gratification of a depraved appetite it was casting a pearl before swine in a very diff different arent sense to 10 the meaning of the script scriptural ada adage e if the book had been of a character to renne reline and improve the mind and moras morals of tue the foremost nation on earth it is not likely that its translation and publication bli cation would have been attended with such remarkable enterprise straws show which way the wind blows the haste of supply shows the urge ao of demand and that gives evidence of the diree direction tion of the public taste in society which counts itself the embodiment of christian civilization aw |
