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SARAH BERNHARDT, AT THE AGE OF TWELVE, AND HER MOTHER.From an Unpublished Photograph by C. Robert, Paris.
The Strand Magazine.
Vol. xxvii. APRIL, 1904. No. 160.
Contents
The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt.
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes.
The Romance of the Bronze Duke.
Two and a Tiger.
The Best Comic Pictures.
The Country of the Blind.
Off the Track in London.
Artists and Musicians.
The Owner of the "Patriarch".
Detectives at School.
Dialstone Lane
The Atlantic River
The Phoenix and the Carpet.
The Making of a Lily.
Curiosities.
The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt.
Copyright, 1904, by George Newnes, Limited.
[These Memoirs, written by the greatest actress of ourtime, will give not only the story of her career in thetheatrical world, but also in social life, in which shehas, of course, met nearly all the celebrated people ofthe day, from Royalties downwards, and will be foundthroughout of the most striking interest to all classesof readers.]
CHAPTER I.—CHILDHOOD.
My mother was fond of travelling: she would go from Spain to England, fromLondon to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, and from there to Christiania; thenshe would come back, embrace me, and set out again for Holland, her nativecountry. She used to send my nurse clothing for herself and cakes for me.To one of my aunts she would write: "Look after little Sarah; I shallreturn in a month's time." A month later she would write to another of hersisters: "Go and see the child at her nurse's; I shall be back in a coupleof weeks."
MME. SARAH BERNHARDT'S DEDICATORY LETTER.SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THIS MAGAZINE.