New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-06
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Gladstone will not visit Scotland this
Fall to deliver an address before Glasgow University or
TO make political speeches.
Mr.. L. A. Bond, now keeper of the MSS. in
the British Museum will probably succeed to the post OF
Chief Librarian OF that institution
Governor Wade Hampton has experienced
little benefit from his trip TO the mountains. He is stu
too unwell to resume his official duties.
The admirers of the late Pierre Lanfrey,
the historian Napoleon l.. propose to erect bust in
his memory Chambery in Savoy, his native town
Mr.. Murat Halstead, of The Cincinnati Com
gereqI Is now the happy father OF round dozen OF
children His youngest heir born few weeks since
in PARIS.
The interest in Mr.. Beechcr's lectures shows
no sign OF Abatement in san Francisco The audience
at Iii. third lecture WAS than the two previous
occasions.
Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, has
started on Western tour and will probably 60 far
California lie will not return before the meeting OF
Congress IN December.
Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, gave
pair OF shoes to a tramp the other day. and
after solicited by the individual for twenty cents
to pay for mending them.
Mr.. Irving, the actor is greatly admired by
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. When he plays az the
yceum Theatre she takes box for the season, and she
invites him to her entertainments.
The statue to Lamartine recently erected Mt
Macon France. Is not the statue for which Emile de
Girnrdin got up a subscription several ago That
will DO erected Paris the scheme Is ever carried
out.
OF John Ruskin's tastes as a small boy, he
himself gives this glimpse in writing OF Turner'S draw
ing Of Yesuyius Angry" "The engraving from it
the first piece OF Turner's ever II published
by Smith Elder In their annual Friendships Offering
when was q mere boy; and what between my love of
volcanoes and geology, my delight I'm Miss Edgeworths
story of The Little Merchants and my unconscious
sense of real art used 10 feast on engraving every
evening months aud return 10 IL again and again Tor
years, before knew anything either about drawing or
Turner, or myself"
King Humbert's arms, insignia and banner,
az Knight the Garter have beou hung in the choir Of
ST. Georges Chapel at Winds T. The banner, white
cross crimson ground hangs above the stalls the
PiInces' side between the flags OF the Shah OF Persia
and the Duke OF Meckenburg. An ormou plate bear
ing the arms of the new Knight Is affixed the back of
the stall, the engraved inscription being as follows:
"Dn tIe, haut tres pussan tr6s excellent MOnarque
Huulbert ROl PItae Cheyulier u tres noble Orte dc
la Jarrcti6re, Dispense des ceremonies d. Installation
par lettres paentes dateos du &Nlme Jour dc Mars,
MDCCCLNNYlll"
An etching of Thomas Carlyle by the artist
Ration is thus criticised by Tie London Academy: NJ
Rsons latest considerable etching Of the portrait Of
Thomas Carlyle, though already sufficiently popular In
of tho venerable fame Of the person repre-
seucd cannot DO doomed among the worthiest of the
etcher's works. NJ Rajon has done much work in
etching second to that has been done in gen.
GRAFTON in the way OF reproduction, that he should be-
ware OF Issuing anything likely diminish the general
estimation OF his accomplishments. There s OF course
nothing cOnspcuOusly bad In the portrait of Carlyle
but H does not greatly commend itself TO those who
familiar with tbe best examples OF NJ. RRions own
work."