New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-24
PERSONAL.

Sir Baitle Frere is to be raised to the peer
Mr.. Horace White sails for home from Eu-
rope on Dee 4.
Senator Booth of California is spending
Thanksgiving week in Springfield, Mass.
Gov CASTOR will return to the practice OF
law in Boston on the expiration of his term in Deem
Der.
The Rev. DR.. McLaren will be cOnsecrated
Bishop OF Illinois at Chicago on Dec. g. He VIII make
his home in that city.
The Empress of Austria has sent to Mrs.
Burton fine gold locket with the royal monogram and
imperial in diamonds as mark OF her apprecia-
ton Of the latters book on The Inner Life OF SYRIA
The hour of Mr.. Jeferson's great triumph
in England is cloudcd with great grief. His youngest
child boy just years old died in London two weeks
AGO. after an illness OF four days. This child-arry the
pet the househodwas born in Chicago on the night
MANIFEST homes on earth. BY peremptOry command OF
physicians Mr.. Jefferson continued to act.
Ex-President Theirs expresses his sympathy
in the for prison reform in this letter to Dr.
Wines published in The Erening Post: 81 thank you,
dear sir for your excellent and cordial letter. and offer
my best wishes for your wise and humane work, In
which all civilized nations have interest To punish men
in order To correct them Is the best OF social aDos ana
the one whose most TO be desired. Accept the
assurance of my esteem and my affection"
Prof. David Mason appeals in The London
Times for the preservation OF the house in which Milton
lived ana III WHICH nc btRdu LOST Dt say .
of the present appearance Of the building 1.-THE house.
ever since have known has been poor looking enough
the lower story turned kind of shop GENERALLY
vacant and the upper floors let out in separate apart
ments accessible by dark and narrow staircase. But
the deceneracy has been gradual From ISL onward
the house inhabited by william HaZIt VINO rented
il from Jeremy Bentham. While Bentham was the pro
prietor he set up tablet to Mltons memory Of
the upper back windows but he also annexed what had
been Millions garden TO the grounds Of his own ada
cent residence in leaving only strip
OF sOnepayed area al the back OF the hokst house 70
suggest where the garden had begun II Is from this
bit Of waedn yard AT the back that one can see
tine house now something like its original aspect The
memorial tablet to Milton can be dsceIned on looking up
but cannot be read"
Mr.. Arthur Gilman writes to The Boston
transcript this description OF book which the WOmens
Centennial Committee OF Cambridge, Mass proposes to
publish soon: "The object OF the book is to put the
reader as nearly possible in the place of resident Of
Cambridge in 1915. To accomplish this the history Of
the town and its college viii be given in outline from the
beginning of both the year mentioned. The houses
then existing which still remain. will be described and
Illustrated The men and women OF 177G will he pre-
scented in lively skctchcsthc officers the inhabitants Of
Tory Row. the cOmmandeI-iuchcf and the guests at
Headquarters. diary will give a correct idea of the
lively town from the battle OF Lexington To the
Declaration OF Independence This VIII be found eX-
trrmely entertaining for il contains record OF many
events Importance ike the story OF fowl din
ucr given TO the students by Dr. Appleton that have
been omitted by stad historians. Besides the
tribuiOnS and prose By prominent writers
living In Cambridge. the volume will contain original
letters before published from Washington Edmund
Quincy father OF Dorothy o., the traitor Benjamin
Church aud furnished BY Mrs. Sparks, describing
the battle of Lexington from British point Of view"