MARION SAMBOURNE’S DIARY 1902 Notes on front pages:
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Read Jany “Tribulations of a Princess” V. interesting “Memoirs & letters of Balzac” by his sister Madame Bourget “Cruelle Enigme” Bouget, french! “War notes” Col. de Villebois Mareuil(?) “Her Royal Highness Woman” Max O’Rell, sad. “The theatre, its Greek & Latin origins” by C. Hastings Joseph McCabe, Peter Abelard V. badly written but interesting “A woman of thirty” Balzac, v. clever “Some great Battles” abominably written “Memoirs of Napoleon” Constant “The Diamond Necklace” by Franz French Branferro(?) badly told “Tante Aurelie” “Walpole Letters” “The House with the Green Shutters” by G. Douglas, horrid book. “A Gateless Barrier” Lucas Malet. Weird. “Memoirs of the Baroness de Courtrol” by Mauritz von Kreisenberg “France since 1814” by de Courbetin
From April “History of the Spanish People” by Hume “Tales of my Father” V interesting, well written “Memoirs of Chateaubriand” most interesting. Vain conceited man, lofty opinion of himself “Sa Magicien d’Amour” Max O’Rell “La Coeur de Louise” H. Greville “Memoirs of Fénélon” “The Problem of Asia” by Cap. Mahon 1