, 1876-11-12

PERSONAL.

n,,,. t;.1c Of Victoria Woodhulls new lecture is:
..rho Garden of Eden the Euman Eody; or, The
Paradise Lust anu round
charles Hale. OF Boston, is to hive IN article in
AIN 4,,ont;c for December on Municipal Indebt-
~tness in the United s1ates-''
rew edition Of King!akcs s'1listory Of the In
u.s;on of the Crimca has been called out By the
.-c;,cmcnt on the Eastern question.
IN 1;ppincofrs for November, Prof. !. II. Hart
es fault with our higher education, as being based
~ The English rather than on the German model.
Tbe Rcv. Dr.. Henry N. Fields, OF the New York
t,,onofl;sf, was married to Miss Dwight, Of Stock
1,r:,,ae. Thursday afternoon. Dr.. Hopkins, Of
williams College, otliciated.
Walter Scott wrote his name in French in the
rcgi.;e. Of the Hotel du GRIND Cert, Village Of
trstjys. Normandy. On Jan. -, 1927. The name
snpears there as '.Gauthier Eccussais.''
There is = religious jonr1al somewhere in the
Fast which fully indorses the recent sentence Of
1-;,e.acbters in New Jersey, +.because in this
r.se al the rules Of the ring were set at naught"
rbe November number Of the Contemporary Re-
x;-M contains an article by Mr. Gladstone On the
Eastern question: and another by Mr. Hallnn Ten
nrson son Of the Poet-Laureate, on q subject not
announced
Joseph Mas. the tenor, recently had stolen dia-
7nond uiu that cost him $500, On general priuci-
n1es. men who lose diamond pins get very little
sympathy; and perhaps there is no reason why an
e,csDtion should be made In the case Of Mr.
Mass.
correspondent has met Mr. Heneage, OF the
English diplomatic service, who has juat married
1he Princess Saln- -Sa1m, and asked him where he
vas going to settle. t'Oh" said he, 'twe don't
know ret. Ny wife is living at Petersburg and
IN London till we see how we suit each other.'
Has 1t been sufficiently noticed that the word
..culture'' is acquiring bad, as well as good,
siruiication: So many persons have been pre-
tending to it who have it not, and 60 many others
have used it extensively md snobbishly that liter
ary men Of downright honesty hesitate to claim it
for themselves.
Mr. Diszacli-he will excuse us plain Americans
70. forgetting his titesays that the easiest way to
dispose Of clersymen dangerous to the Church s to
make Bishops Of them. "'Look," said he, 'tat
Bishop Temple. When he WAS plain DR.. Temple,
he was model OF heterodoxy. Now that he is
Bishop Temple, there is no more harmlessly Or
thodox man in the Church" q"
The Chaucer Society OF England has published
IN essay to prove that the poet was Wicslifdite
instead Of goou Catholic The grounds for the
argument are found in the Parsons tale, which the
present critic declares was, as Chaucer left it,
consistent Wicklid3te tract On penitcnce, and was
interpolated and extended by some monk, after
the poets death, into Romlsh treatise.
Prof. r. D. Whitney has an article in the Amer
ican Nationalist for November in which he shows
that the prarie is product not Of temperature but
OF the soil, which may be described exceedingly
finely communitcd earth, u6fayorable to the
growth Of trees. He calls attention to the fact
is trees do not grow spontaneously in prairie SOIL
%harr v1,nr ta1 rhara
Qreen Victoria wrote to her Uncle Leopold in
February. 1852: 'Albert grows daily fonder Of
business and politics, and grow daily to dislike
them both more and more. We women are not
1osdc for governing; and, If we are good women,
wemust dislike these masculine occupations" The
full text of the letter is given In the second vol
nme Of the Life OF the Prince Consort ~ recently
published
Neither Erckmann nor Chatrian was an Alsatian,
although they have together created an Alsatian
literature. They we're both born In Lorraine
Edmond About says that the method Of their
curious literary partnership is for both to elabo-
rate the plan and then for Erckmann to write the
book md for Chatran to correct it put 1t In the
1rc-. 4 certain feuilleton destined for the KLINE
Steele. is now being written for the third time in
this manner.
The San Francisco Engineer-which is disposed
1o 4ano tne ococtactons OF Mf' Janea LICK TO SCI
encc-cannot believe that 80 gigantic soul ~
could have 1egiGmate'y given to the world son
who would dispute his will On the ground OF in
ean1tJ; VINO would say that his 1ather was mot
crest man, but q poor 1901, not noble bene-
factor, but an errntic dunce,-not gigantic soul,
but sinlplct0n,-not q ferreut lover OF positive
science, but IN absolute idiot"
Stronsberg, the European railway swind1cr, has
Undertaken TO v:ndlcate h'mself oy publishing
book. II Is cal1eo Ooetor stronsoess I'm sem
"ifken, anu 1s accompanied Win MS photo-
G7apn anu map o1 tae Fali"ass winch ne mas con-
safncteu anu pfojecseo. oatafday-feSe"er
1ucses 1ha1 Inc lh1enuon o1 Tue antnot mas oeen'
"h'le a'o1o'ns an oses-nlce e3Pos'1lon oi en-
oas'assin. aeta:ls, u c.eaie saSue general i'1-
Psess'on 'nat lie Is an III useo 'naal'
Miss Adelaide Nelson played Isabella in
Measure for Measure at Philadelphia last
"Wednesday night aud the Times OF that city says
she was ''aluost great" in the part Next Feb
rusry she is to play in ''Cymbelinc at the same
Place. The management OF Havcrly's Theatre, IN
ths city, where Miss Nelson plays, should see to
II that she produces one or both OF these seldom
represented plays OF Shakespeare during her Chlca-
:" engagement. ine fesul. a. tne poa-olace u
Nae'' piouus'4on 'oo'o HUI 1A41 " oe s'a'''s"
Mr. William Black promises to use in his forth
coming novel some OF his experience III Idaho, ac-
Cuired dnrirr his rrcenr riat The ac1ueYU G1VS