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Southern California, she there developed under the An 

 tutelage of her gifted mother a power of charming ""''^''^'^"« 

 impersonation, with the rare traits of voice and 

 talent shared in a degree also by her three sisters. 

 When we made her acquaintance she was, I believe, 

 the only English-speaking actress who had ever 

 studied at the Conservatoire and appeared with a 

 French company on the Comedie stage, the most 

 exacting in the world. It was in London, however, 

 that she achieved theatrical success and after- 

 ward made a romantic marriage with the brilliant 

 expatriated Serb, Bouk Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, 

 ranking lineal descendant of the last Serbian em- 

 peror, Tsar Lazar Hrebelianovich, who was over- 

 thrown by the Turks in 1389 on the famous field 

 of Kossovo, and promptly beheaded by them. 



Lazarovich and his wife are joint authors of an 

 elaborate and interesting work entitled **The Ser- 

 vian People." In "Pleasures and Palaces," Madame 

 Lazarovich has written charmingly of her early 

 experiences. 



In the fall of 1894 came Professor Karl Lam- a Bis- 

 precht, the noted historical scholar, who was mak- ""^'^^^^'^« 

 ing an extended American tour. But I felt that he 

 had utterly failed to grasp the spirit and tendencies 

 of our democracy. In its individualism and free- 

 dom from official discipline this diverges widely 

 from Bismarckian ideals, the subservience of the 

 individual to the nation, which to him represented 

 the acme of social development. Afterward I had 

 reason to believe that his attitude was largely de- 

 termined by too great reliance on the point of view 

 of certain unassimilated "German-Americans." His 

 diary, "Americana," published in 1906, contains 



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