New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-24
PERSONAL.

Mr. Lawrence Hutton sailed for England yester-
day aboard the Parthia and will remain in London
during the next SIX months.
bust of Samuel TAYLOR Coleridge, the gift of an
American admrer OF the poet, Is to be placed IN
Westminster Abbey.
The Rev. w. T. Tilden, pastor of the New SOuth
Free Church of Boston has just resigned his posi-
ton account of the ing feebleness OF old age.
John Dillon, the noted Irish agitator, has arrived
in England from italy, where his health was much
improved His return TO Parliament is now urged
by his friends.
Edwin Booth, who intended to arrive in London
from the Continent OH Sunday last, plans to sail
from Liverpool for this country on June g. 1t Is
said that be will spend tho summer at Newport.
John Bright i'll be presented with dessert ser
vice and his own portrait at n celebration In Bir-
mingham on Juno 49, OF the fortieth anniversary of
mis- election to Parliament
Seymour Haden is yet keenly interested in the
question Of tho relative claims of etching and
engraving TO rank as fine arts. He will deliver
lecture the subject before the Society OF Arts OF
London on May 80.
The suggestion is made in Paris that it would be
an appropriate act to elect novelist to the French
Academy as successor to the late Jules Sandeau.
Friends of NJ. Alphonse Daudet pressing his
election but it likely if novelist is chosen,
that NJ. Edmond About will be the man.
Madame Drouhet. at time fine actress and
for many years the housekeeper of Victor Hugo.
Just died In Paris. Since Madame Hugos death
Madame Drouhet has acted Victor uugos secre-
tary She is said to have copied every work he has
written for forty years past in order that the risk
should not he run of its being lost at the printers.
II is also said that she has written diary about
Victor Hugo taking BoswelPs on johnson as her
model.
The following episode of President Arthurs re-
cent trip to Florida has just to light through
The Wasding'on Critic While in the quaint old
town OF St Augustine, the President and Secretary
Chandler arranged TO attend service m Sunday
morning at a colorcd church When the deacOns of
tho church became aware that such distinguished
people wero to be present the front row OF seats
| was reserved for them to which they were escorted
| with due form and ceremony. The minister threw
all of his available muscular oloquence and earnest
ness into the prayer with which he opened the ser
vice and then and announced that " dis con-
gregashun will jine in sugin' dc gud ole hymn,
| Bring forth dat ryal dadem!" The congregation
arose, led by the Presidents party, and the gray
| topped preacher, after ncrvously adjusting his
| spectaclcs. repeated from the hymn-book IN a
| clear voice:
Bring forth dat royIAdiadem
| And crown Him Lord of all"
| Each couplet was repeated by the divine and then
snng by the congregation until the entire hymn had
| been completed. ana those who were present De-
| clartd that President ArthuTs voice vas heard
above all the congregation ringing out the insplr
| ing words of Dat gud ole hymn"
| short time ago a statement appeared in the
newspapers that Oliver Wendell Holmes was about
| to visit England. Mr.. Lawson TAFT therefore wrote
| to him, asking him to visit Birmingham Offering
HIM hospitality and proposing to arrange a suitable
reception by the members OF the medical profession
| In reply Mr.. TAFT received from Dr Holmes a letter
saying: 81 ain very sorry to say that the story Of
| my intended visit TO England is pure invention.
| should find great deal to enjoy am sure III our
old home, but hardly expect to see it again being
myself poor traveller, and having learned, by
troublesome experience that am safest hen let
| my children do the travelling for me- thank you
most cordially for your very kind invitation to visit
| birmingham. 1t is Il source of great pleasure to
| me TO feel that have many good friends in Eng
| land-friends on whose faces have never looked,
| and probably never shall. but those whose warm
| heart-beats reach Inc through the oldest of tele-
| phones-the ono that Watts sigh from Indus to
| the Pole"
General Ienatef lves1n small. quiet-looking
mansion, close by the Cars winter palace, and
himself occupies only two rooms of it. In one of
them no receives his guests, while the other is a
| library or u den where his real work is done. The
| reception-room is luxurious in its appointments.
1t is, in fact, a vertabe museum of Eastern curl
| ositles Japanese stufs, curtains and hangings