Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-28
Princess Beatrice and Henry.


 The Princess Beatrice is tall, ,ight-haired much prettier than the other royal children. She has (as many people have said), Gan American look" small, delicate features, 6 nose trif1e tftip-tilted like a fower," and very fine brown eyes, sweet red lips and lux urious brown hair. Although I thought her adorable, as the pretty young woman stepped out on the balcony, I thought as she bowed, repeatedly pressing her hand to her heart, as these enthusiastic Frenchmen cheered her, what fine thing it was to be princess Prince Henry, of Battenberg, was expected on the evening of the birthday, and we all hoped to see bit of royal courtship. Whether or not Cupid in a crown and hold ing scepter, instead of bow and arrows, could be another than our old immamorial gay little god, we did not know. The oppor- tunity of this ecstatic decision was not af- forded us, as he came not like Conrad. "No, he came not-the night wore on alone" It is said the Prince of Wales does not like the match at all, and that it is the Queens we'll known obstinacy which prevails in permit ting her youngest and favorite daughter to make love match, which is by no means an ambitious one. The Grown Prince of Prussia does not like it, as it
 ndkoS HlIn DrOtn0r-ln-laW to a very H. ferior little German princeling, who will be his subject one day. However, royal alli- ances are getting scarce. Beatrice cannot marry her brother-in-law because he has be- haved so badly (the husband of the late Princess Alice, to whom she is said to have been attached). Marriages with subjects are thought to be out of favor, for, as a royal Engiishman said to me, aYou know the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise have not hit it off very well, and so unless the royal Beatrice was to be left the 'last un- gathered rose to meet the winters snows ot cold celibacy," there seemed to be none other than Prince Henry of Battenberg. Why ht did not come we shall never know. Proba ply the queen forbade it.
 Homer's Perception of Color.
 Philip Gilbert Hamerton in the New York Even ing Post.l
 Your review of my book is so cordial ane appreciative that it would appear ungratefu ! in me to reply to any part of it in a contro versial spirit, and I have no wish to do so but should like to point out that the differ | ence of opinion between your critic and my self on the subject of Homer's perception o ! color is not so great as he seems to believe l Toward the close of my chapter on "Lant and Sea in the Odyssey" have been carefu to observe that the u1HlUat1on or Homer color vocabulary may have been due to tn narrowness of that vocabulary in his time \ and that when such vocabulary was nar ! row, Ia man of genius might be unable t | express the variety of his own sensations. | My conclusion was that Homer's perception | of color were primitive and often indetermi | nate, but that "the exact degree of a poet
 sensitiveness can hardly be ascertained whe
 we have only his writings, and he himsel had no terms of his disposal outside tn meagre nomenc clature of his time" This,
 think, is much nearer to your reviewers ow
 opinion than to the theory of Magnus. Whe | I say that Homer's perceptions were primi tive and often indeterminate, I mean no nor | than they have resembled the perceptions o
 people in our own time who have not be-
 trained to distinguish tints by the practice c
 some color art. I imagine him to have bee
 very much in the position of some Gaeli
 bard in the Highlands of Scotland, using th
 word ''blacl1" from any dark shade of any
 thing, but still probably able to distinguis
 better if he were put to it, without howeve
 approaching the delicate distinctions (
 painters. I myself had instaneed, as exam
 pies of inadequately distinctive languag
 the use of 'black wine" for red wine by u
 Italians, and of ''white wine'' for sherry
 the English. Undoubtedly the Italians ar
 English are able to see that these wines a | not black like coal, and white milk l white. In word I am not conscious of al l important difference of opinion between n l and your reviewer on the subject.