New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-11
NOTES FROM LONDON.
pol ITICAL-ACADENIICA NAL-LIT-
ERARY,

the furious mOuthlngs OF Ollon9s -" r +be r1dic-
reference to O'Donnes "martyrdom or tue Tbo
ulous resolution of Congressman an Torcress
among other things intends 10 sn,, in dollars
IN tbe genuine opinion of sensible America rarely
reaehes us Few English readers, Tor lhS'ahce; ue
aware that THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, III spcaklhg
nnF6'Donnell as 1.-THE miscreant who was hanged
and no sensible man doubts that ne OBSERVER ms
fate really expresses the OPINION Oh eN1iy @ -;
can whose opinion has any value at all, even Ill
New-Iork.
These NAV be said to be the words of truth and
.oborness. They are one Of those notes BY the
WavD which are often among the most pungent OF
The comments 10 be found in the daily press.
Mr.. Richard Power, who was formerly whip to
the Irish party has been letting in little light
upOn the secrets of the Parnellite prson-house
IL has been supposed that Mr.. Parnel selected all
candidates for Home Rule constituencies MI
Power says this is not so. The constituency may
in certain cases, be allowed voice in the matter
The only thing that Mr. Parnell, moderate soui
that he is really insists upon is that the candlda.c
when selected and elected shall do as he is o'u
He must subscribe in advance four pledges-'na'
he will sit with the Pamellites vote WIN 'he"'
he bonnd nv the decisions of the party ana never
ask a favor from the English government on
these easy terms he may have Mr. Parnelfs support
.yen tbongb he be not Mr.. Parnels original choice
There are plenty of candidates, ever on these
terms.
Mr.. Gibson has again been beaten for the lord
R.ctorship of tho University of St. Andrews, and
Lord Reay is elected by majority OF eight votes.
This time the contest was mainly political LORD
Reay may have got few votes as a Scot from
those of his Young countrymen who prefer Scot TO
nm Irisbman for head of a Scottish University
And Mr. Malloch's appearance as Tory candidate
for the Parliamentary representation OF the burghs
of ST. AndJ ews ought TO have been worth something
10 a Liberal candidate for the Lord hectorsmp
Lord Reay is one of those young nobemen OF whom
Scotland has at this moment six or seven OF more
whose abilities and character support ana enhance
the accidental distinction of peerage lie Is OF
an old family, the fourteenth holder of the titlc
a Dutchman by birth. o Scot by descent
an Englishman by naturalization, and an
English Peer by the grace Mr.. Gladstone and Her
Majesty the Queen. The English peerage was con-
ferred on him in order that he night sit in the House
Of Lords. TO which, being Liberal, he had no pos
sibe chance Of being sent what is called repre-
sentative peer for Scotland. There are peers rom
Scotland who sit In the House OF Lords, but the
only thing they represent is the will of the Duke OF
Bucceuch
Mr.. Lowcll's resignation l may add, docs not
cancel his election. He was duly chosen LORD
Rector. and Lord Rector he was until he ceased to
be so by his own act. Everybody is sorry for his
withdrawal. and nobody outside of Scotland can DC
expected to understand tho technical difficulties
which formed Ito the mind of Principal Tulloch an
obstacle to his retention Of the Office for the usual
period. Ii would require O Scottish court to say
whether these difficulties had had not in the last
resort legal existence or whether they constituted
valid objection to the holding of the office by the
envoy of a foreign State. Mr.. Lowell however,
acted wisely and gracefully in resgning. Neither
for him, nor for his country, nor yet for the Uni
versity would legal controversy on such point
have been desirable thing,
Lord TennysOn, il is now announced, Is In the
Lord Chamberlain's Department. The statement is
as mysterious as it is authoritative. The Lord
Chamberlain we have all heard Of He is great
officer Of the Royal Household and of State. He
has precedence almost everybody. lie has
jurisdiction over some of the London theatres,
licenses plays and prescrbes certain rules for the
protection of the public from fire which, it is sad
are sometimes obeyed by managers In the person
of Lord Kenmare, he is popular official. But
what has he to do with Lord TennysOn Lord
Tennyson with himG Is ii as Poet Laureate that
the new ornament of the House of Lords comes
under the Lord Chamberlain's control Ands there,
ON the whole any conceivable use or beauty in this
new title of Englands greatest poet which can
repay him for being in anybody's department.
The election of NJ Edmond About as one of the
Forty of the French Academy gives rise TO com
ments in the English press some of which are more
curious than judiclous. That great journal over
which Mr.. Chenery presides declares in its usual
thuuder-tones that among those things which are
wholly admirable in NJ. Edmond Abouts novels is
their morality Their morality is to be extOlled,
their tone sminently healthy. Has Mr. Chenery,
one must ask ever read Madclon," and, if he has,
does he consider the morality Of that very clever
novel worthy of pauegyricg Would he recommend
il for Sunday-school library or even for the draw
~ Ill
French critics have thought NJ. About's style de-
fcient in charm and in that finish which the canOns
of literary art in France demand. But if Mr. Chen
cry is satisfied there is no moro to be said. So
when he anirms that NJ. Edmond About has
no equals among the rising school Of French novel
lists; we may well as he says, wonder why this is
80. Perhaps we should do still better by wonder
ing whether it is So NJ. Edmund About is really
brilliant and accomplished man Of letters, who de-
serves the honor done him by the Academy. But
he has never had very high rank In France as a
novelist If he has no equals among rising French
novelists, he has superiors. l apprehend no critic
familiar with modern French fiction would put
About on a level with NJ. Alphonse Daudet, much
younger man. But it is useless to argue with a
writer who brackets lola Dumas the younger, and
Octave Feullet aud deals with all three as offend
ors in the same kind
The controversy about Mr. Barnum's slate-coored
white elephant with fesh-cOlored patches, contin-
ues, and apparently will continue, but the public
has perhaps had enough of it. One great journal
deyotes leading article to-day to Toung, and the
illustrated papers give portraits of him in every
hue and shade Of notified blackness, save one,
which is really white. Toung having his great
coat" on Biographies and portraits of Mr.. Bar
mum are published, apropOs of his newest specula-
ton. i read in one of them that he is strict
teetotaller. great moralist, and has lectured TO
seven hundred audiences upon the conduct of life
And of such, suppose are the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mr.. Marriott's pamphlet on Mr.. Chamberlain has