New-York tribune., 1877-05-18
PERSONAL.

Gen. Grant will occupy Gen Adam Badeau's
house while he London but he insists upon paying
his own expenses.
Ex-senator J. w. Patterson will be the REL
cree at the Spring contests OF the Athletic Association OF
Dartmouth College, which begin next Wednesday
Wagner has journeyed to England to vile
out Of musc-Oying Brons the sum OF S2oOoO 'haI De
ing the deficit left by last years performances III TIE
Nlbcungan treasury.
President Bartlett of Dartmouth College ar
rived at Hanover on Wednesday afternoon lie VIII enter
Immediately upon his new duties, but VIII not pe lor-
ally lbau guratrd until Commencement week
Mr.. Valentine w. Bromley, the interesting
and handsome young artist who Travelled and hunted III
the West with Lord Dunrayen and illustrated MS COM
panion'5 book, has just died In England after avery
short illness lie was Of the most rising ana success
ful Of the young British artists .
Mr.. Duyeneck the American painter in Mu-
nirb is al work upon portrait of the late ChiefJdSuce
chase lie paints, OF course from photographs aud
dosrrIntions The Chefustce stands beside tabc WIN
nj. r,I hand resting on it, while his left lie holds
roll Of manuscript. He wears gentle ana tHouBn'iu
expression.
HIS Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro wore
black crayat ut an Imperial reception in Berlin Ihe
chamberains ushers doorkeepcrs lords-inwatng' ana
masters OF ceremonies struck aghast at TINS Demo
cratic innovation, but II. l. NJ. did not appear to care TWO
sraws for their CONSERVATION noi for the ieaus al @
upon the subject which appeared In the court
Judge Crawford of Georgia declares that when
in Washington at the beginning OF the civil war, anu
trying To obtain peaceful recognition Of the southern
Conederacy found Secretary Seward opposed 10 nos
,ilities and fayorng the plan allowing the secenns
states to depart in peace, though unwilling 10 ackho"F
edc the lndcpeudepcc of the COniederacy. He openly
exoressed The opinion also that all that remained TO he
done IN the promises to wait quietly ana IN hree
wears even South Carolina would be knocking again at
The door OF the Union for adln!ttance
Mr. Frederick Leighton has won in this year S
Royal Academy Exhibition almost as much distinction
as sculptor IA painter. His statue OF An Athete
Wrestling with Python" is esteemed so good that 1t has
been bought by the administrators OF the Chantrcy
Fund to become part Of a public national cOhecuon
The price paid $4,000. In money point OF Vle"
however Mr.. Leighton is anything but gamer by dis
success This figure has occupied large part oi more
than three years, during which he could have earned
much more money by painting pictures. 1t Is SAID mat
merits are great enough to make any fair critic ignore
Is shortcomings. 1t is understood that Mr. leighton
las already been questioned by natura,ts ABOUT tnc
oIcr and class of the sake-"hethcf II pe poa' " 1
rock,erpcnt or what These questions the art
list cOufrsses himself unable TO answer anu ho soo"o
strangely Indifferent to the sugect.
In connection with the recent sale OF some
pictures b Adrian Van de Velde, the Flemish painter
he Journal Anrers relates how he became possessed OF
his ceun ~ house Antwerp. Ihls house peohSeu
70 the great Lord Clarendon, and Van de Nede happen
ing to pass by it day was 80 much STUCK oy te
beou of the site aud of the gardens that be determined
a nrignnoring village and after completing the pic
fire went with 10 London where he put 1t into public
sale with a heavy reserve upon IT, Lord Clarendon who
wLs in London at the time, happened To attend the
sAe and recognizing his own house, bid for the picture
There were several other offers, and Lord Clarendon
after having been Outbid several times, said. VIII
,ive the original for this copy" AT the word copy
the paint r. who in the rOom apostrophized Lord
Clarendon in measured terms ana asked MN What ne
meant 10y suggesting thai the picture was copy. I0ru
a lIf. ..fi.r Ytl .
de Vcde is the painter, and VIII give him inc original
Tor the copy" There msaklng what this meant
The picture withdrawn
What farce is literary success The name
Of DE Foe will live while the world has books ana he
has three descendants living in such penury
that public appeal has been made for their relief These
are three Observation-Disclosures who, with the eX-
ccptiGn of their brother aud his children are the only
known living descendants hearing De Foes name. or
these sisters who all unmarried and over 30 years OF
e and in their early days had experience Of poverty
two are living in lodging in lambeth and through no
au Of their own are dependent the earnings OF one
OF them at buttOnhOC making, her WAGES averaging less
than seven shllings week. the eldest, who has also
worked hard with her needle for many years. being now
disabled by rheumatism and general Ill health Mt.
Charles Knight the publisher aud Mr. john Forster, the
blographcr Goldsmith and Dickens we're KIND friends
10 Them and the latter ON two occasions obtained a
small grant to them from the queens bounty The other
Miss De Foe is teacher OF English III France ana
during the chief part Of the Winter has paid ner sisters
rent OF four shllngs week, but Is now compelled by
want Of means 10 discontinue this assistance. ana
in consequence OF failing health and advancing years
Will before long b. obliged to abandon her precarous en-
ployment altogether. Their brother, who has large
family, is unable TO help hcm except TO very made
quate extent and they have no other near relations
Their case which is a most deserving One has been
thoroughly investigated, and being cmporarly assisted
by n committee Of the Charity Organization Society
and in order provide permanently for them the commit
Tee propose To rNpend the money now collected III tner-
chase o an annuity, which will enable them 10 live IN
Ocrablc for the rest Of their lives and Will at
the same time tribute of respect 10 their dis
tngshcd ancessOr monument 10 De roe j. now IN
course erection, but # It Is desirable as II undoubtedly
that his memory should DC r'spectel III us way his
deserving and helpless descendants Ought not To DC lett
To the workhouse.
Fernan Caballero, the great woman novel
s of spain, her fathers side German by BIRTH
Toward the end OF the last century the son of Ham
burg merchant to Cidiz to learn business
IN his fathers bankinghOuse in that town He took root
there became Catholic. and after marrying Spanish
lady Of high birth made himself known in other countries
as learned and devoted student of the early literature
of the Peninsula lie became member Of the Spanish
Academy, while stl retaining close relations with
Germany and German scholars. His wife was,
says report. author in her youth. but mainly
remarkable after her marriage FOR her unbending
Catholicism. Their daughter, Cecilia BOhl de Faber.
born in 1897, inherited her parents gifts and ways
thinking in intenser degree Spain and Catholicism
have been throughout the ruling passions Of her life.
Her iist novel, The Ayareda Family" written in
German andj,hown TO Washington Irving. then travelling
In Spain. IN manuscript He was struck with the story,
and warmly advised the author to 20 writing, and to
write in Spanish. Her next effort the GayiOta"
published IN the EpdGd newspaper in 1851, her first
published novel; and unquestionaby her greatest book.
1t brought her at into immense repue with ma
tonal and orthodox Spain As was the case with
Trucba, her later books published at the
Queens expense she at time goyerness TO the
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