New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-29
PERSONAL.

| Cromwell la Petit" is what English Conserva-
| tiyes now derisively dub Mr. Bradlaugh.
Mr.. B. p, Shillaber has in great measure reganed
bis health, which last spring was seriously I'M.
| paired.
| NJ Worth, the Partisan fashion king, is ffty.fve
years old. fat pleasant looking and most Impress
| ivoly bald-headed.
! Mr. George Bancroft will lebrate his eighty
third birthday at his Newport home next week,
| and will then 60 with Mrs. Bancroft to'Washington
| for The winter. Mrs. Bancr0fts health has greatly
( improved.
| Edwin Booth will have some important changes
made this fall and winter at his Newport residence
including the building of a massive sea-wall and
stone boat and bath houses. A large conservatory
will be added to his villa, and stone archway will
be erected at the entrance to the grounds.
The reception to the Hon. George d. Robinson
| at Chicopee, Mass, last week, held, oddly
enough, on the twenty-seventh anniversary of
the day on which he first set foot in that town, a
candldate-and successful one, too-fOr the posi-
ton of teacher Of the district school.
Among the places where Governor Ben " Butler
is particularly unpopular IS the little town of Hart
laud Maine. He was up there in 1880, stamping
for tho Greenbackers. After his Hartland speech
he, with his travelling companions, took his
rage to drive on to the next town some miles away.
Now says The Boston Post, 1.-THE young men of
the town had organized a military band, and were
not little proud OF their skill musicians. To do
honor to their guest they turned out IN full num-
bers and in q wagon drove ahead of Buffers car
rage to escort him out Of town to the rains of
martial music. They had proceeded but a short
distance when Butler poked his head out of his
rage and called TO the driver of the wagon ahead
OF him to stop. and the musicians to cease playing.
When quiet was secured he coOlly asked the driver
of the wagon to turn out on one side and give him
room to pass. he was in ~ hurry and could not
stop. The request came like wet blanket upon the
enthusiasm OF the young men, They let him pass
on but to this day they have not recovered from
the modification wi b which this lack of appreca-
ton of their courteous intentions overwhelmed
them.D
Everybody Ss5,J "he ST. James's Gazette, "will
be glad to hear that Cuthbert Bede' (the Reverend
f. Bradley has been appointed to one of the good
things of the Church--the vicarage of Lenton. Linz
colushire, to wit which is said to DO worth goo
year. One wonders. by the way, how many of
those who have laughed over the honest fun of
'Verdant Green are aware that the author WAS
not educated at Oxford Mr. Bradley graduated at
Durham where he was Thorp Scholar and Founda-
ton Scholar lat University COllege). 'Verdant
Green may not be perfectly faithful reproduce
ton of the Oxford life of even thirty years ago;
but for a non Oxonian to have made the BOOK
fayorie with Oxonans mo inconsiderable achieve
ment Such literary feats. however, are far from
being unparalleled. Charles Lamp was u0uDtless
right in wagering that Millions Morning hymn OF
Adam aud Eve was peuned at midnight; anu the
Germans description OF the Gamer III tho popuIhai
story was very likely as interesting as that OF the
Engshman or the Frenchman. There ~ tradi-
ton that Scott had never seen Melrose Abbey when
he wrote the famous description In the Lay OF tho