The Portland daily press., 1878-05-25
Men and Women.


and che said good-naturedly, "Ah js lie sails
bien! Nous sommes une vrae salade de Rois
ct de Reines espagnols; sept lei Paris, sans
compter mon fils ct sa femme Madrid" Aud
she checked them off on her fingers: Qaeen
Christina, her mother, herself, her hasband,
Don Carlos, who considers himself the only
legitimate King of Spain, his wife, Donna
Margherita, his father, Amadeus, Duke of
Aosta; and the reigning pair Don Aifonzo
and his Queen, at Madrid.
There is pleasant story related of meeting
between the Chinese Minister in England, who
is himself poet, and Mr.. Robert Browning.
'Af!er the mutual oourtesies, Mr.. Browning,
having learned that his excellency was also q
poet, expressed desire to know how much he
had published. Only two or three volumes
was the reply through the interpreter. 'rhsn,'
said Mr.. Browning, Il am greater offender
than his excellency and unequal to him in self
restraint. What kind of poetry does his ex-
cellency write-pastoral, humorous. epic, or
what?' There was pause for a short time.
AT length the interpreter said that his excel
lency thought the poetry would be better de-
scribed as 'enigmatic.' Surely replied Mr..
Browning, there ought, then, to be the deep.
est sympathy between US, for that is Just the
criticism which is brought against my own
works, and believe it to be just one."
Mr. Conway mentions in the Commercial of
Cincinnati "a very remarkable achievement of
Mr.. Francis GatoD, the distinguished author of
Hereditary Genius aud other works. He can
take the likeness of family or even tribel
have just interviewed Mr.. Gallon about 1t
and q oh 70 aE, ur.kt, Al.A x,Ok
only is he successful, but his method is perfect
ly simple. He takes an album of photographs
containing the entire family and all their con-
nections. The apparatus being arranged as IL
would be for taking copy of a photograph,
the time for copying one is equally distributed
to all. The cap is quickly put on and taken off
as leaf after leaf of the album is opened. Each
photograph is slightly taken, and on top of the
previous one and in the end all of the family
have been brought into single picture. This
one picture looks like living person. 1t is
somewhat like each, but still distinct. 1t is the
avarage family type"
The Wells of Turkish women-Sucb Is the
art with which they adjust the jasmec that the
pretty seem beautiful and the ugly passabls.
One cannot describe what they do with their
two wells; with what elegance they trim them
like crowns and turbans-with what luxuri-
ance and wealth of folds they twist them
aro2nd-with what lightness and carelessness
they loosen them and let them fall-how they
use them to discover, to hide, to promote, to
propose enigmas, to reveal unexpectedly little
surprises. Some seem as if they had around
their heads white transparent cloud that
could bs dispersed with the slightest breeze.
Others appear to be garlsnded with lilies and
jessamine; they seem to have whts skins that
prohacted By their wells, acquire an enchanting
soituess and freshness. 'Tis a hsad-gear at
once severe and pleasing, ans has something
sacerdotal and virginia. about it, under which
there should rise nought but gentle thoughts
and innocent caprices; instead there arises
little of everything. -" C0nstdntin0pte, E" by
Edmondo de Anaicis
Professor Fl. H. Boyesen will be married on
June "a, to Miss Elizabeth NJ Keen, daughter
of a wealthy New York banker. The professor
sails with his bride for Europe In the steamer
Mosel, July 13, and expects to be gone year,
strip to be equally divided between Germany,
Italy and France. He will probably not visit
Norway, as in recent years his relatives have
come to this country. His principal object in
going abroad is to gain leisure for literary
work, and he is especially anxious to write
novel (which" he says, 'has been haunting
me for the last three years." He has gath
cred for it volumnious notes, and its scene
will be laid In New York, with perhaps occa-
sional dgressions to Europe The future Mrs
Boyessn is said to bs brunette of remarkable
beauty Professor Boyesen's book on Goethe
aad Schiller is nearly flashed, and will be
in San ahar Tt Ia q aou1n Ia.
ton, but this frui of six years constant critical
study of these authors. About one-t third of
the volume is devoted to commentary on Faust.
1t is to be published uniformly with Stedman's
"Victorian Poets''
A materislzed spirit turned red in the face
last Saturday evening, In an obscure town
in Missouri. A medium named Mott has
dwelt at Memphis for many years and has
assumed to hold communications from disem-
bodied spirits. An ingenious skeptic named
Pattee after attending several ssances in which
departed spirits were materializsd much to the
ediication of the company, resolved to expose
the trickster He procured hollow ring with
a small oIiice in front and tube on one side
connecting with a rubber ball that was filed
with an alcoholic solution of aniline. When
the curtain parted and spirit face appeared in
the gap about sixteen inches from his hand, he
compressed the rubber ball and squirted the
aniline dye with such precsisn that the un.
earthly visitor ducked its head and ran behind
the door. In few minutes the mediums wife
was summoned to a council in the cabinet, and
then the announcement was made that some
one had been injecting chemicals into the
spirits face and destroying the conditions"
A light was brought aud long haired gentle
man opened the cabinet door. Then the won-
der grew, for Motifs face was daubed with
scarlet. "His face is covered with bloodp
some one exclaimed, and then the light was
exinguished. Although the medium was OBJ
viously wounded, he did not say dye.
Mr. Lsurens Alma Tsdema, the distinguished
artist, is Frieslander. 1t is said, however,
that no born Brton is more hearty and down.
right in work and manner than the Dutch gen.
tleman who has made his home in England;
who has married an accomplished English
lady, herself an admirable artist, who speaks
| English correctly and flusntly, and who pre-
fers the honest English chop to the continental
outlet. BE is very painstaking painter. He
| is constantly lengthening ont or cutting down
his pictures painting in and painting out his fig
| ure5. When picture Is nnlsneu IL frequently
occurs to the ist that he has for neglected
the saying of one of the greatest painters in
Europe, who, when asked his opinion Of some
early works, said, drawing deep breath,
Admirably painted. but there is something
which oppresses me. Frankly, 1 cannot breathe
in your pictures" No sooner does suspicion
cross Mr.. Tameda's mind that there is not
enough breathing space in picture than he
proceeds to let in light and air in manner
which would afford infinite delight to Mr.
Gladstone. Trees, exquisitely finished in
every detail, and blocks of marble-painted
with the extraordinary skill for which Mr..
Tameda is famous-are cut down and broken
through to let in glimpse of the sky beyond,
shining on sumptuous palace or stately colon
made; to get air, sunshine and space into the
picture.
1.-THE New York Nation,l
Few Points Regarding progress"
1t must not be forgotten, too, though 1t per-
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