The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-31
Gossip
About Men and Women.

The Emperor of Japan is SLENDER Of medium
height, with an olive complexion, small hands
and feet and dark eyes of piercing brilliancy.
He is the representative of the party of prog
ress and civilization, and is a person of strong
and determined character.
NJ. Leon Say, now President of the French
Senate, is not a brilliant speaker, although i'm
posing in manner, but is painstaking and
thoroughly trustworthy public minister. He is
conciliatory in appearance and manner, ALWAYS
having an air OF sincerity; is something like
Gambetta in social life as well as in figure.
mas black moustache, just tinged with gray,
and does not look as old as he is-I Like
M: Waddington, he is Protestant deep
thinker, and possessing qualities in sympathy
with the English, which enable him to adapt
himself readily TO them.
Ernest Renan is fat Frenchman; with a
round good-natured face, gray hair brushed
oddly across his forehead and large bushy eye
brows, which would do good service ie Carl
cature- His delivery is not without its i'm
pressive character, but merely in the scholastic
not the poetic sense. I mean in respect to
manner. His phraseology is exquisite-as far
above the usual spoken language of Paris
drawing rooms as Tennysons poetry is above
York. There were shades of expression such
as am sure could not have been otherwise
than beneficial as instruction even to the best
French (English) scholars. For instance, in
speaking OF the founders ofChristianity, mar
tyrs who had died for the enlightenment of hu-
manlty, he calculated, "Quel beau de suieti''
Now appeal to your most fluent French speak
ers, whether they would not, like myself, if
called upon to use this exclamation, have said,
"Quel beau sujet!' Yet the other is immeas
Oranfpr wJIpr nd tha iptpo g
the de In a..serious sense, is one which to me
at least is unfamiliar though in the
grotesque form, such as guile drole de
femme, "quel garnement d'enfant!" | know
1t, OF course, very well.- Olive Logan.
Mile. Croisette, who has taken Sarah Bern
hardt'splace at the Theatre Francais, is an
artist OF robust rather than delicate intelli-
gence. Her physique as q woman seems to be
reveal her temperament as an artist. Whether
In the smoothest passages or in the difficult
moments that mark the crisis of drama, her
intelligence is to be counted on; but YOU can
not count as surely on her sympathetic power;
not surely on her aptitude to win laughter:
still less surely on capacity to provoke tears.
But she can plant her dialogue brilliantly
She can be always audacious or goodnatured
If not often refined nor distinguished. Her
individuality is not wholly French.
Bancroft, the historian, has in his house at
Washington fine painting of the emperor of
Germany, presented to him by Emperor Will
liam himself. Bancroft will in October be
eighty years old. He is tall, thin and slightly
bent, and his weight is not above 100 pounds.
His long, thin face, with its firm mouth, youth
full eye and full, long beard, is surmounted by
snowy hair, which covers rather ;small head
His habits are regular, and he works early and
hard until three o'clock in the afternoon,
when he rides horseback thirty miles and a
scramble on foot over rocks not being too much
for him. He used to love to ride among the
woods outside of Berlin. His companion on
horseback on Sunday afternoon is Spofford
goes TO the Unitarian Church. One of his sons
lives in France; the other in Massachusetts