New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-23
PERSONAL.

Gustave Dore is at work upon the statue of Alex
andre Dumas which is intended for the Place
Malesherhes. in Paris.
NJ Roustan lately French Consul at Tuns. who
is to replace NJ. 0utrey as Minister of France at
Washington, is, like Mr. West, widower.
Henry A. Hurlbut, who elected president of
the Emigration Board on Tuesday, has been Com
missioner since 1873 and has served three terms as
president
Dr. Brown-Seqnard has received from the Paris
Academic dies Sciences the Grand Prix Lecaze, which
is given only in cogni ion of lifelong devotion to
physiological scicuce which has resulted in i'm
portant discoveries. The Lancet says of DR.. Brown
Sconard /: Loving science for it's own sake
tent TO relinqush the highest professional success
that he might research unfettered by the ties
of practice it is meet that he should receive in the
land of his adoption the highest honor that science
can beStOW"
BENJAMIN r. Curtis says concerning the late Hro-
lessor Ko Coming once to my house, in all the
splendOr of his Oriental habit, to dine with some
gentlemen who had travelled IN China, he was soon
conversing delightfully."- about his country. When
one of the guests inquired what he had seen in our
country that pleased him most, in contrast to the
mode Of life at home, he promptly replied horse
cars Anyone who has seen or ridden in the terrible
Chinese carts will say that this reply from one of
his race indicated progressive spirit as rare as it
frankly confessed"
The German wife of the Grand Duke Vladimir has
a will of her own, and is not disposed to submit to
the peculiar regulations of the Russian Government
She discovered not long ago that letter which she
had written to her family, and i'll which it is said
that she complained of the dulness and insecurity
of life at the Russian Court had been opened by her
own personal aide-de-camp before delivery 10 the
post The angry Grand Duchess complained to the
Emperor but to her astonishment met wi h no SYM
pa hy from him. still more cnra ged, ShO delivered
her emphatic decision that if the offender was not
Immediately dismissed she would make public
scandal and quit the country. The alde-de-camp was
dismissed, but only 10 receive much more lucrative
appointment
Mr. James, the novelist, is usually called Harry
James " by his Boston friends who remember him as
Icing in his early daysa delicate-ooling young man
handsome and remarkably refined in appearance
lie is now, The Boston Herald says, full in figure
but not at all stout and is Of medium height. He
has rather uddy complexion and dark brown hair
and eyes and he wears his beard closc-cropped He
IS slightly bald aud closely resembles the Prince OF
Wales in face and figure. He has an appearance of
excellent health but this is far from being the fact
for he is much OF an invalid, and often suffers in
tensey. In his youth he had an impediment Of
speech, with tendency toward stammerDg, but
wi ia tie greatest pains he has succeeded in over
coming This entirely. He is thoroughly gentleman
I'm the truest SENSE and is distinguished by innate
modesty and kindness, being entnel y removed from
the least suspicion Of snobblsIness-a fault which IL
has been taken for granted he possessed by those
who have denounced his Anglicisin."
Wendell Phillips's voice is still clear and mellow.
but his figure, once so erect is becoming bent. As
time goes his pen is forced to trace many laments
over The dead he has loved. OF Robert Apthorp
that most courteous and charming of gentlemen,
MIR. Phillips tells thus story Before the rebellion
contempt for the negro was bitter throughout New