New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-09

that pervadcs It, The scene is laid the Breton coss
and the time at which the tale opens Is after Napoecu
retreat from MOSCOW.
George Eliot works very hard says a Lon.
don correspondent OF The Boston Herqi-harder tia.
her rather delicate health warrantsocn writing sevs.
or eight hours day. Before sho be gins novel shs ma
only outlines and arranges 1t, she fixes In her nina
that MS is often merely transcript OF her elaborate
mental preparation. Very far from handsome she hss
an intellectual and striking face, too long angus,
for symmctry soft abundant hair. streaked with gray
low sweet voice, remarkably quiet, somewhat pen
sye and decidedly winning manner. Some persons d.
not like her NJ first though all her friends despite he,
unquestoned planness, regard her as charming woman
The Empress Of Austria organized a stag.
hunt the other day Pesth, and the maddened am
nal, swimming through pond made its way into tbs
city. The Empress, accompanied by Baroness walerses
Baroness Edesheim-Gyulai, and Princess Rosa Hoheu-
lohe took part the chase with fierce delight and WA
at the DEATH when the poor creature broke down on
the Hunyady place AIargc number OF people, attracted
by Gathering noise OF tho large and splendid caya
cade which carccrcd along with its yelpng pack OF
hounds had assembled in the streets in utter astons
ment at such extraordinary spectacle. On the ap-
what terrified by the furious charge IL yas a mar.
chance that some OF the numerous children just gong 70
school were not ridden down.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ia spite OF
her profor nd and wide knowledge OF Creek Hebrew.
ture-whch knowledge might well have made her most
deeply pedantic-wr0te simple, gay, sweet grish
letters to X II. Horne. These have just been printed
but not even would Mr.. Horne have permitted tho
public to share the treasures OF his correspondence had
1t been that the extreme mnuteness Of the poetess
handwriting, and the fading OF the ink, threatened to
render her letters very entirely ilegible. Mr.
Horne after making noticeable success with hts poem
OF "OriOn" in lS43, printed iDjudcious volume Of
contemporary criticism, which mixed him in vexaous
mbrogOs and he disappeared from view for nearly 20
years In the golddigeiOgs OF Australia.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is gravely reported
tc noursh her voice upon soup made by her ad
miring mother from beef, potatoes. little rice and
many onions The singer observed to a correspondent
OF Ths.M,tuaukee Sentinel that she had so
many young girls who think themselves born prina
donnas as Chicago Squeak they little they
confident Of shining upon the world as an operate
star but" she added, %" think 1t the fault Of
teachers who, 1t pays them, encourage the dea
and while they cannot create voice In their
scholars unfit them for anything else" Mrs. Kellogg
said correspondent that her daughter sang several
airs when nine months old and played the piano at three
years; tnat oatmeal made bilious that she Injured
her heel wearing highheeled boots that Patti was the
hat to; that pestered with suitOrs who would
throw themselves at her feet write her frantic letters
crazy and make fools OF themselves generally.
Our towDswoman Mrs. Florence Rice Knox
has made her debut in opera at Malta under the stage
OF Rcca, and me Mdfd oSTtics
Gazette gives the following chronicle OF her success the
opera was " Ii Trovatore:" Madame Rcca as A.lrena
who had before appeared any stage, enchanted
the audience. Her fine clear notes. HIGH middle and low
but particularly the latter such have been rarely
uttered in theatcr Since the time OF Slgnora Borg
do not remember having listened to voice that viii
bear be confronted with that OF Madame Ricca. Hcf
first song was rapturousy applaudcd; her duet with
Mdnrico, which follows wassplendidlysung and acted;
In the third act when arrested and brought before the
Count her exculpatOry notes highly sympathetic
and her defiant still more admirably effective. In
the prison her dulcet strains were really enehan
ing and produced III the audience q sensation the ex
preston OF which IL Is impossible To describe BrGrG
B,ara was heard from every quarter aud Madame Biccs
may Justly congratulate herself on having achieved
triumph greater than that which report had induced
the public to expect"
OGDENsDURG, N. Y, Jan. S.-A funeral
sermon in commence alton Of the death OF the Rev.
Father John F. OHairc Chancellor and Secretary OF the
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Ogdensburg, was preached
Yesterday by the Righ. Rev. Bishop Wadhams at tho
Cathedral in this city 1t was also the farewell sermon
Bishop Wadhams prior to his departure To Fss tLe
Pope Rome.