New-York tribune., 1880-02-15
BOSTON TOPICS.
,rpp,pv AND Personal GOSSIP.


r,sr or mr. BowDITCH-THE ART CLUB VOTES
ro pruD NEW HoUsE-EXHIBITIoN IN
STUDIO BUILDING.
fyRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE fhiboNhi
RosToN. Feb. 12.-Some people were put ouo
hooo,se the first notice OF the proposed Memo
rial History of Boston appeared IN lHE ikiboHh ~.
through the medium of this correspondence Va
course il was an improper proceeding 10 pr'h' su'"
n niece of news in q Ncw-York paper before u oe-
care public here! The persons interested nave
inst now made the formal announcement OF their
plans in our local journals. As has already peen
STATED. the work is to make four Volumes OF WHICH
tic intended the first shall be published early ne
Fall. Mr.. Justin Winsor, the librarian OF Harvard
90 tho resnonsible editor with the Kew. MI hale'
Dr Samuel A. Green and Charles Deane as an EA-
ecutiye or Advisory Committee. Ihe taDie Vi oon-
tents as at present arranged numbers ABOUT eighty
tonics or chapters and the names oil s&ty-'reo Poi
,ons are given who have agreed TO iurlsh ,he MAJ
tcr While the list includes some gentlemen "no'o
,necial fitness for the work they have undertaken
Is not particularly apparent, as whoie IL Is io
markaby strong. and one is not ht'le suIPii'o
that the editor and publisher have peen
oble. n secure so strikingly competent
hodv of assistants in their great undertaking.
Among them are Charles Francis Adams. ROBERT
q Winthrop. Dr. George Ripley. Marshall T. VIII
der The Rev. Dr. Ellis the Rev. DR.. Peabody ITO
fessor Asa GRAY, Professor Joseph Lowering Auu'-
ra, George H. Preble, General Francis W. falireS'
Colonel T. w. Hignnson, the Rev. Dr' fhiiilps
Rrooks James Freeman Clarke. John = Dwight
Henry p Kdder, c. +. Adams. jr.. EDWARD AtAin
son. Carroll d. Wright, Josiah r. quincy, Ut, o'
". Holmes the Rev. Henry W. Foote, the heV' Di'
,,;n.r ax -Mavor Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge
Fa;tor Goddard. Judge Chamberlain, Frederick ID.
perk;ns Horace L. Scudder, Mrs. h. d. Cheney
hat
Fditor his task of bringing the mass OF materaI
that these writers will furnish into the form ana
dimensions it should have as part OF consecutive
story. There is not the least reason however 10
donbt that the History will prove vauaole au-
dition TO the literature relating to Boston "hie
4 sbould not prevent anybody from seeing tna'
what we really want for the coming generation Is
concise and animated History in couple OF me-
SU".,0i 49, o;,ad 20 mo volumes. x1ssv
THE MARCH ATLANTIC.
The March atlantic will be published on Iuesday
next. 1t contains twenty articles besides the Con
tr,bptor,s Club Among the poets are Mrs. max
49, Hf;as Ievett Mrs. Moulton, and Mr.. Aldrich.
"pspitap is what the ast-named christens his SIX
+oon four-lipe stanzas-a maiden whom he saw
for q moment ON balcony in the old Spanish city
~ Seville. Mrs. Thaxter gives US New Years
sonov of a dozen resonant lines. Half dozen OF
the prose articles are really book reviews tnousn
Mr. Upderwood's Egypt under the Fharaous 10
- sonetbing more than that. Charles Dudley
Wor,er,s ESSAY on Washington Irving is sensible
on1 we'll nut. without being in any way specially
characteristic of its author. The secohd Oh MaJo'
poore,s e" "reminiscences of Washington Is very
readable though not quite so gosslppy IN ceNer
,ro,, q. the frat paper was. Horace Scudders New
York love story is light and pleasant reauins
enoueh. but this can hardly be said OF the con-
ualp n q
noor-vbite Virginia baby and It's mother Nothing
In tho number is more interesting than Mrs. Ed
ward Walkers " Intimations of Early ChlldhOod
IN which she confesses. and. what Is still worse
straightway proceeds to prove py huhpeliess
examples. that scarcely anything In human
exnerience makes so possible the doctrine OF IN.
hrcnt denrayity as the prayers of little children
Mr Aldrichs new story is to begin in the April
number of the magazine. He hnaiiy oecldeS 70
call il 1.-THE saltwater Tragedy" which doesn't
soor so Good as the title he mentioned to me three
sonths 400 when he had just finished writing.
u The tale is nearly twice the leBgthoi Ah0 <"00
= ShebaD his last serial story
GOVERNOR LONG AND HIS PUBLISHER
Governor Long has done very handsome thing
in appointing John S. Lockwood as one OF the meul
hers of his personal staff. He entered the army IN
1861. "a a private. and came out III loo4 WITHOUT
shoulder-straps Yet he was under fire III several
battles had charge of corps OF nurses III one OF
the Washington hospitals for time. and was AS
sstaut SUPERINTENDENT of the Old Capitol fflsoh Ior
the hest mart of year. Governors have frequently
given staff positions to gentlemen VINO sef'eu "'
nAicers durng the war; but. far as recall this
:; ,bo ,;rat case in our State in which high private
hoe been TINS bonored Mr.. Lockwood has for some
wears been the head of the publishing and bookse-
limo house of Lockwood, Brooks d Co. The char-
acter of the man is in part Indicated by the 1ac'
that all sorts of charitable affairs make his store
kind of headquarters for the sale OF tickets ano
the transaction of business One does IKE u
see such modest and helpful and obliginf
fellows get recognition occasionally from t'
o,a tbat be Tho recognition in the present in
psoncn ;s nerhaps due to the pleasant relation
growing offt of the publication eight or ten mOntn
ago by Mr. LOckwoods house OF the Goverhor ain.'
Translation of the Kneid of Virgil Though he chos
to have his work brought out in the very dulles
season of the publishers year. the reception anc
sale of the book have been quite satlsLtctodS M In'
first edition. a large one for publication OF thiS
class beipp about exhausted. OF course a second
edition will be issued if there is call ior 1t. Mr.
Lakewood will soon bring out new edltlon oil the
Gttla volume on the POnca Indian question:
work which has made something Oi sensation ana
is having an UNEXPECTEDLY large sale
Two or three weeks ago gave you taste or inc
criticism indulged by DR.. H. l. B0wdltch on the
Workings of our new state Board OF Health i1unacy
and Charity, mentioning that he was president OF
Tie old Health Board for ten years. and chairman o
tIe so-called Health Department IN the new board
The ousOlldatiOn OF the DOaIub Iltdibh Nidl
ty was carried through the Legislature OF last yea
against the sober Judgment of three fourths OF th
ncrsons who really knew anything about the woTi
tbese organizations were required to perform. q
coarse there was deal OF talk abon
;Dcreased efficiency and greater econ
omv but close at hand stake,
the ghost of Buffers raid on our commissions ~ ms
and moi far away were two or three men eager 10 ge
into snug Official berths. Against influence OF TIN
sort the protests Of Dr. Bowdteh and Others sySie
nothing Six months of labor IN the new o9atd nay
satisfied him that it cannot promote the puDli
health interests Which he has at heart. Accordingly
he enohasizas his protest of year ago by reslgnln