New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-17

is a very uncommercial proceeding plainly opposed
TO the laws of political economy, and direct infrac-
ton Of those business maxims on which business
men act with the most beautiful regularity.
There are not n few Americans who will regret to
hear of the death of Mrs. Leslie Stephen, the
youngest daughter of Mr.. Thackeray, lady of many
accomplishments and graces of character. The
death is also announced, very suddenly, OF Mrs.
Chders wife of the late First Lord of the Admiralty,
whose recent visit to America il fresh in your men,
DRY. The latter was the result of chloroform, which
her physician permitted her to use In hxed
quantities from o small phial She rose i'll the
night to fill her phial from larger
bottle, took the bottle unbappily back with her to
bed holding it in her hand the heat forced ont the
glass stopper and the fumes killed her. Dr. Ellis
has sent a long account of the calamity to the
papers, from which it appears that she was one OF
large class of persons the action of whose hearts Is
too feeble 10 permit them to use chlorOform safely,
except in minute doses. The death list of the week
includes also Mr.. A. b. lloughon. promising but
eccentric young artist, known in America, which he
visited and caricatured in The Graphic; and Prof.
T. Hewitt Key, Latin scholar of celebrity. who
leaves behind him unfinished Latin Dictionary.
Like Mr.. George Long, Mr.. Key was for some time
professor in the University of Virginia. Since 1927
ne has held a chair in London University first OF
Latin and from 81 that of Comparative Phllology;
which latter was not his strongest point. lie has
published little beside his well-known Latin Gram
mar. As a critic he has claims TO rank with men
of original genius like Bentley and Munro, but he is
entitled TO All honorable place among the compare
lively few Engishmen who have done solid work IN
classical literature.
Mr. Horace White sails to-day for home; having
much abridged his intended stay in Europe. Mr.
McCulloch lately returned from Florence twhere
his family reman) and is enjoying with the rest OF
ns the blessings of a London Winter; fog, damp,
smoke mud, and all the rest of it; blessings
frightened Yesterday and to-day by something that
looks like real snOwStorm. The three inches or so
that have fallen are quite enough to embarrass the
street traffic and throw London into confusion. SO
unusual is such an event that little prepare
ton is ever made to deal with it. and the English
man, usually an energetic being coapses as he con-
from the novel enemy and his efforts to beat him
would rouse the most decorous BJstOnan to laughter
The cold meantime, of which much is sad, Is
mostly imaginary. There is simply bitter chill III
the air, which is annoying only because OF the I'M
perfect methods or want of method, IN vogue here
for heating houses. Such as the Winter IL, the
number of Americans who prefer it to the
South of Europe is still pretty large. MIR.
Motley. who has returned from America in
much better health than when he lett Will remain
in own till Easter. The truth about Cannes and
Nice and Monaco and the rest of the Mediterranean
Paradses is that if you have an active mind or love
a social life, they kill you with ennui. Now Lon
do though il is the fashion 10 say the season does
not begin til Spring, is never dull in Winter Ex-
cepting possibly during the Christmas holidays the
city is thronged with people of culture, refinement
wealth and social tastes exactly like any other
large city, and more so. THIS perhaps is why our
Consul Gen. Badeau, could not make up hrs mind to
accept mission at Brusses-itsef city of no mean
attract;ons-but holds on here for the rest of his
term. He could not sacrifice his wide acquaintance
and popularity for a circle that was all to make,
in new home. This perhaps also is why Miss Kate
Field who has been in London for some weeks,
mourns at having to quit it even temporarily. But
she, too, returns af er the holidays. G: W. S.