The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-15
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Robert Browning's new poem is entitled "Aris.
tophanes' Apology"
Ex-Governor Robert McClelland, OF Michigan, Il
staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
A translation OF sainte Beuve's "English Por.
tra,tsm Will be published by Henry Holt d Co.
Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at tho
Grand Central Hotel yesterday from Washington.
General Robert Z. Schenck's little book on tho
great game Of draw poker Is TO be printed in New
York.
Mlle Albani arrived IN this city yesterday nom
Pittsburg. and took up her residence OF the Clar
endon Hotel
or $4,000 babies born In Paris every year 10000
are 'put out to nurse"-thatts, put out to DO done
Tor by process Of slow murder.
Victor Cheroullcz's novel. "Miss Rovel." has
been translated by Francis A. Shaw, and viii DO
published by Estes & Lauriat, OF Boston.
In Paris they are talking OF Canrobert as likely
to play one Of these days Ior the Prince Imperial
the little game recently played in Madrid by Gen.
eral Primo de Riviera to the profit OF Alfonso.
sumptuous book has appeared In Paris, en-
titled Jesus Christ, par Louis veuilot." The
book is magniHcently illustrated with sixteen
acknowledgements and $50 engravings OF every
school OF Christian art
The British public ofncers now print most long
official letters, instead OF having them written.
For E1OO year, including the cost OF paper, the
work OF several copying clerks is done. 1t thus
appears that the printer Is driving out The copyis.
DR.. .Kepealy. as q candidate for Parliament.
SAYS to the voters OF his dstrIct:-'T believe that
in ten years. with the Magma Charta Association
at nv back shall make our country prosperous.
happy and free." While ne was at 1t he might a.
well have given himself eleven years.
A learned German critic. DR.. Godeke. has written
a pamphlet on the long disputed question whether
or a woman. He attempts to show that not Lord
Soutnam pton but Anne Hathaway was the ''lriend
ana lover to whom the poet addressed his i'm
FASHIONED verses
In so far as DR.. Newman's letter Is reply to
Mr. Gladstone's impeachment OF ultramontantsm
IL Is an abatement OF the extreme claims Of the
ultramontane party, ana consequently his treat
ment Of the question Is not al all relished BY tho
tnoroughgoing party In the Church, and IL only
not disavowed because they do not care to indt-
cate any want OF harmony just now
Although the editions or the Holy Bible are
reckoned by the thousands, there has never yet
been portable edition In good type until the ap-
pearance OF the new mandy volume edition OF the
Bible in London This Is in eleven little volumes,
any one OF which will 60 in the pocket the whole
text being printed in large clear type and on good
paper.
In Sicily woman VINO seemed dying from con.
sumption, but was without many Of the common
symptoms oil that disease was iound by the use
OF the Iaryngoscope, to have a leech firmly ad-
nerent by both extremltes TO the walls OF the air
passages at their upper portion and so the DIM.
Guilty OF breathing, speaking, coughing, &c. were
easily explained. He was got out py surgical
operation.
It's said In Berlin that the Vatican has asked
the Prussian bishops to declare whether there are
no means to MI up vacant ltvings In their diocescs
consistent witE canOnical law, yet compatible
with the new ecclesiastical statutes OF the king.
dom. This remarkable step OF the Papacy Is sup
posed TO nave been occasloned by the cons'a ntly
increasing number Of vacant livlngs ana the con-
stantly decreasing number OF students OF Catholic
theology
Maurice Grau has his neat perception OF the
humorous as is proper Tor manager; but ap.
parently he had less faith In the New Magdelen,
than he might have had and on the first night he
thought IL would be judcious to paper" the house
literally. But, strange TO say, the public that 70
ceives Tree tickets was, Tor the occasion, inaccess
,bIe. Tooker mad been before him. Everybody
politely declined the ''complimeDtaries," because
eve have ust received tickets for Henry W"