Chapter D: Appleton and Company, New York

THE GREATEST LIVING ACTRESS.

Memories of My Life.

By SARAH BERNHARDT. Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Ornamental cloth, $4.00 net; postage 30 cents additional.

The most famous of living actresses, Sarah Bernhardt has lived life to the full as a builder and manager of theatres, author, painter and sculptor. She turned her theatre into a hospital during the Siege of Paris. She played French classics in a tent in Texas. She wrote “Memories of My Life” with her own hand, and with her own inimitable verve.

“Great is Bernhardt, and great is any true description of her
life, for nothing more fascinatingly brilliant could have
come from the mind of the most daring of fictionists. The
autobiography is as interesting to those who care nothing for
the theatre as to those devoted to it.”—_Baltimore Sun._

“It is the work of a genius which feels and sees with
instinctive insight and understanding, and puts into words such
a bright and varied panorama of life as it has been given to
few authors to portray.”—_Cleveland Plain Dealer._

“Out of an overflowing reservoir of reminiscence the author
pours out a flood of anecdote and of dramatic story, and she
always gives the idea that she is only skimming the surface
and that other treasures lie always below.”—_San Francisco
Argonaut._

“The book is interesting and entertaining from cover to cover,
and is related with a vivacity that is engaging.”—_Toledo
Blade._

“The eventful life lived by Madame Bernhardt both on and off
the stage is told with great charm. Not only has the greatest
actress of her generation more to tell than the majority of
persons who write memoirs, but she has the gift of recounting
the things that have befallen her with a real literary
skill.”—_Publishers’ Weekly._