New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-22
PERSONAL.

The wi low Of CAPTAIN Marryat the novelist, died
last month at the age OF ninety years
Mr.. Edward Atkinson OF Boston. will GO to Eu
rope next month and speed the summer there.
Mrs Astor Brist ell. n<e Sedge wick Is entertaining
ia Rome this winter. She joined the Roman Catho-
lie Church after her husbands death.
Lord AsLburnham. owner of the famous MSS. is
first consiu TO Mr.. Swinburne. the pOet. and to
MIR. b. Milford. whv wrote Tales of Old japan"
rhe Rog. Edward f. Hale will soon make an ex-
tepded tour through Mexico IL IL said that book
on Mexico as it Is will be the result ol his visit
Mr. Henry Irving the eminent English actor, has
one thousand wigs no two of Inch are exactly the
same shade.
The death at eIghty-iour of Lady johnson. widow
! Of Sir Henry and daughter OF Frederick Phpse,
of Philipsburg n. T.. occurred last month at Edln-
DUrgh.
IL is stated that Paul Tulane of New-Jersey, Will
add 1925 900 10 his previous large gift 90 the city
of New Orleans for educational purposes on ccudl-
ton that his former donations shall DO Tree IRON
taxation.
Senator Cameron will go to Harrisburg
be can travel 10 see his father lie is sufficiently
improved to De able to dictate a few letters each
day and may possibly DO AJle TO leave the house
next week.
Mr. Oliver H. Nortbcste. a son OF Sir Stafford
Northcote, the leader of the Opposition in the
tionse of Commons. is epgaged To Miss Edith Fish,
! daughter of the Hon. Hamilton lsh, late Secre-
tary ol State OF the United States
General Nathaniel Greene has monument in Sa-
yanpab but strange ~ say there In nothing on the
shu(t to tell in whose honor 1t erected. Ii is sug
rested by the Georgia Historical Society that al
prUprate inscription DO engraved upon IL.
Count Duchdte who resigned the French En-
bassy at Vienna because OF the expulsion from the
army OF tho Orleans princes. received, as n parting
testimonial OF imperial regard, the Grand Cross OF
tho Order OF ST. Etc me.
IL is said that the Crown Princess of Prussia
ognizes the fact that liberalism Is of the signs
of the times which even sovereigns must take note
Of She said re Gently to her sons tntor: In these
days princes must be taught 10 be liberal. otherwise
thuy have no chance"
Lord Granville recently apologized to Mr.. Lowell
for short dinner notice TO the most engaged man
las diner-out) Ia England" sir. Lowell very neatly
replied that no notice could be too short which
came to the most engaged from the most engaging
man."
In n recent lecture Professor Huxley said: "Ifa
man cannot get literary culture of the highest kind
out of HIS Bible, aud Chaucer, aud Shakespeare.
and Milton ard Hobbs. aud Bishop Berkeley. Co
mention only "a few of our illustcious wuters-I say
II he cannot get it OF those writers. he cannot
get it out OF anything; and would s,suredly de-
vote very largo OF tho time Of every English
child to the careful study of she models ot English
writing OF such varied and wonderful Kind as we pos
sess aud. what is still more important and stll more
neglect ell. the habit oil using that language with
precision and with iorco AID with art. | fancy We
are almost the ouy nation IN the world no 10
think that oompo,ltion comes by nature. The
French attend to their own Language, the Germans
study theirs; but Englishmen do not seem W think
IL worth their whlle.'