New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-15

he writes no letters. Every morning be sperds (,
bis study. for reading Is his chief pleasure ana
every afternoon ne walks in spite Of his dislike -,
cold weather. Only his wife and mis- eldest dauob-
ter are now with him. His son and his younessi
daughter are married and have homes of their OWE
Once in while the venerable man goes to hear.
some friend give an evening lecture.
The Senatorial "reminiscences of T. L. Clngmao
of North Carolina, naturally not fatterinr Ia
two great Republicans. The tCoarer-JoHrnal quotes
the Southerner saying that Seward. when Ne
tried to be eloquent, adopted an unnatural sne.
song tOne very monotonousi and disagreeable, Ia
mindlng me of some harda,hel Baptist preacher.
who seemed to think that What was an unnatural
style OF speaking must be einduence. Mr. Sumner
occasionally assumed l0uJ and bosferous tone
but was always unnatural and unpleasant In man.
ner." go
Carlyle once asked an Edinburgh stndent--vho
tells the story in The MilWaakee SeRtinel-what he
was studying for. The youth replied that be had
not quite made up his mind. There was o sudden
lightning flash OF the old Scotchman's eye, a sudden
pulling do wn of the shaggy eyebrows, and the stern
face grew sterner as he SAID: THE man without
purpose is like slip without rudder wait
nothing. a no man. Have a purpose in life il IL h
only to kill and divide ana sell oxen we'll, but have
purpose; and having it throw such strength Of
mind and muscle into your work as God has given
yOu."
Fraulein Eugene Marlitt. the author of Gisela.o
The Moorland Princess" etc. has kind and sen.
sibe but not pretty face. and her head is covered
with quantity Of short rnglets. She is the daugh-
ter of an artist, and had at sixteen so beautiful
voice that she attracted and was adopted by Prin-
cess Schwarzburg-Sondershaus lady devoted TO
art. The Princess educated the young girl. who was
preparing for career the lyric stage, when sud-
den trouble If the aura nerves brought on acute
deafness and put an end forever to her musical
hopes. She returned TO the court OF the Princess
where some literary competitions OF her school DAYS
so pleased divers friends and critics to whom they
were shown that they advised her to devote herself
TO literature. She took this advice withdrew from
court and returned to her early home In the Thur
ingian Forest, whore she has since written her
interesting and successful novels
George Eliot first went to school at Nuneatoa
when she was thirteen years old She was then Of
moderate height. neither stout nor thin, with fair
hair and complexion. She was decidedly not o
pretty girl but she had beautiful set Of white
even teeth. An old schoolellow says Of her: "SoOn
after her arrival was attracted toward the draw
ing-room, where she was practising. by the air of
Bishops Bid me DISCOURSE which then heard for
the first time and which. child as l was knew
was being played with the greatest taste and feel
ing Bur what called forth my childish admiration
and wonder the most was the amazing rapidly
with which she mastered all her lessons, the con-
tents OF pages being made her own by simply read
ing them once or twice over. She was ever AZ tue
head of her class, and certainly loved learning io
learning's sake 80 devoted, indeed, was she TO "
that, to the establishment and perhaps disgust OF
her schOOfell0 she always cried when the nolf
days came. She learned. beside Engl,sh ana music
dancing and French and was considered good
French scholar. She was OF qnlet. studOus naolts.
and, though generally preferrng books 10 play, was
nevertheless iavorlte among u.s."