New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-10
PERSONAL.
Ex-Governor Rice will preside at the banquet to
be given to President Arthur in !Boston on Friday

Ex-Governor Rice will preside at the banquet to
be given to President Arthur in lBoston on Friday
evening.
Governor Colqultt of Georgia, accompanied by
several prominent business men of tic South, will
visit Boston and the industrial centres of New
England sometime this month
Colonel Elliott F. Shepard. of this city, spent last
Sunday in Philadelphia, as the guest of Mr.. John
Wanamakcr. and made an interesting address to
the boys or Glrard College.
A static has been erected at Folk to the memory
of Lakanal. who created in France the system of
primary education, organized secondary and techni
cal schools and founded the great public schools
and the Institute
John Gilbert, tho veteran actor moved last
week from his summer home at Manchester by the
Sea to his sisters house in Boston. His health is
steadily improving, and he. hopes to be able to come
to this city III a few days.
Dr. J. p Wickersbam, United States Minister to
Denmark who arrived from that country with his
family on the Red star steamship Rhynland on
Thursday left this city for his home i'll Lancaster,
Penn, on Friday.
Miss Kate Hillard. known to magazine readers as
Lucy Fountain" whose Essays ON English Litera-
ture have delighted many audiences, sailed Sat
urday on the Italian steamship Archimede for Mar
selles intending to spend the winter in Rome.
Wendell Phillips leads quiet, retired life in his
new house on COmmon-st Boston where he has
succeeded in making his immediate surroundings
resemble very closely those of the old Essex st.
home. He has declined all lecture engagements,
and will probably be seldom seen or heard in public
this winter.
In purchasing and presenting to the University OF
Vermont the library of the late Ion. George p.
Marsh United States Minister to Italy, Mr. Billings
has carried 10 fulflment old desire of the de-
ceased scholar and diplomat. Years ago Mr.. Marsh
made will leaving his library to the Uni yersty,
but later was forced to change IL, on account of the
impairment lis means suffered IN the public service.
Pierre Laiitte, the French POsitiyist, lis organIz
ing monster celebration to be held at the end of
this year in honor of Louis XI., the found of
French unity, as a demonstration against tho pro-
grammes of national ACKNOWLEDGMENT being
brought forw ard. IA ~ Lahtte thinks, under cover
of principles OF decentralization and communal
liberty
Mrs. Amanda Smith, who was once q slave in
Delaware, and who is well known in many churches
in this city and Brooklyn, has reached Monrovla,
Liberia, after three years of successful evangestic
work in Great Britain and the East Indies. She is
working diligently among the Liberian colouists,
but ilndS herself hampered by lack OF temperance
and religious publications..
At the brilliant dinner party given few weeks
ago in London by Mr. J. X. OsQood, the converse
ton was for time about the Bayreuth festival,
and some lavish praise bestowed upon Wagner,
both as u poet and a composer. Finally the
opinion expressed that in coming time Wagner
will DO ranked far above either Beethoven or
Schiller. There was moments silence, one
seeming to be inclined to reply to this; and then
Mr. Alma Tadema brought the subject to close by
remarking quietly quite agree with that be-
lief; for certainly Wagner Is a much hner musician
than Schiller, and a greater poet than Beethoven"