The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-17
Men and Woman

1t is limited that Mr.. II. w Emerson's dauoh-
ter, Miss Ellen Emerson, will some time write
her fathers biography. This young lady Ia
said by Mrs. Mary Clemmer to be 'the incar-
nation of common sense"
Concerning the foreign noselists who write
with American references the Chicago Tribune
gravely says: "The time may come when
local color will be put up in jars and sent
across the ocean to save gentlen Ell Of elegant
leisure in England the trouble of going abroad
for it,
Col John Winthrop is not, as reported, the
only surviving descendant of the stout old
Massachusetts, Governor He is simply the
only living descendant of the Governor by his
third wife. Margaret Tyndall The Hon. Rob.
ert e. Winthrop is descendant from the Gov
ernor's first wife, Mary Forth.
Mr.. Henry Irving, the actor, is one of the
few very distinguished and refined looking
men on the stage. He is 1.-THE, agile and
sinewy, and with this has great dignity of
bearing. Mr.. Whistler, the clever American
artist resident in London, has painted him in
the character of Tennyson's Philip II.
Miss Mary Anderson, the IS year old Cali
fornian who aspires to play tragedy parts. is
going upon the stage simply because she likes
it, and not because she's poor, Her friends
describe her as a person of dazzling beauty,
whose wardrobe is more beautiful still and
who belongs to what the ancient colored lady
called the "fustest families
Great musicians have all been men with
stro1gly-marked features and generally shaggy
appearance Wagner is as unconventional
looking as the rest. with his square face, his
piercing eyes, his tossing, abundant dark hair,
and his coats. about which there is great deal
Of velvet. Madame Wagner has the finest type
of German face, at once winning and intellec-
tual.
Mr.. Matthew Arnold is a man of striking
appearance-an iEch or two over six feet In
height, broad shouldered, large boned and
large iointed. His head is fine, his eyes are
large and gray in color, and his thick side
whiskers and his hair are dark brown. There
is. in fact, little of the pure Saxon about him;
his physique is rather that of the Anglo-Nor-
man.
George Eliot is, on the whole, snubbed by
the Edinburgh Review. 1t says of ''Deronda"
"Perhaps it is true that only George Eliot could
have written this book but George Eliot fooled
snd f1attered, led to believe that her sayings
are valuable as those of any sage, that her re.
flections are wiser than those of Solomon, that
even the headings of her chapters are objects
of alteration to throng of readers on their
knees"
According to Mr.. Albert Rhodes, our diplo-
mats abroad are not so overworked as they
might be. He says in Scribner that while in
charge of the legation at the Hague as charge
d qfaires he found difficulty in getting sufi-
lent material to make two dispatches-diplo-
matically known as notes-a month, and even
these were hardly of character to interest
the American government. Indeed, there was
nothing to be done at this post but social and
official visiting and dining.
John Stevenson writes to the Glasgow news
that his grand-uncle, Robert Fulton, instead of
being born in Pennsylvania of Irish parents, as
his Ameri san biographers say, was Scotch, and
was born in Beth in Ayrshire. Mr.. Stevenson
says that in consequence of having offered o
torpedo invention to the French, he concealed
the fact of his Scottish origin as much as possi-
BILE, and when last in Scotland only visited his
relatives By stealth, being afraid that proceed
ings would be taken against him by the British
Government
Col. T. W. Higginson somewhat oddly says
that, dwelling as he does just at the edge of
what claims at least to be in the summer the
most tastidious of American social circles, he Is
constantly struck with the limitations of its in
fluence, and with the little power exerted by its
members as compared with that which may
easily belwielded by tongue and pen. He adds:
"To be at the head of a Normal school, or to be
professor in college where co-education pre-
walls, is to have sway over the destinies of
America which reduces all mere social posi-.
ton to matter of cards and compliments and
pages buttons"