New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
PERSONAL

at remember. says Mr.. Laboucherc, once finding
myself tho neIghbor OF gentleman at table dhots
Of ono of the hotels on the Lake OF Como We began
TO talk and after dinner We sat In the garden, and
then went out on the lake in boat. thought that
+ had never met q moro agreeable man, and wondered
who he could be- subsequently found II was Mr.
Matthew Arnold This Is proof that ho really was
agreeable for not having any Idea who he was Ger
talnly could not have been prcludced In MS ia'o' "
his nano and reputation
The venerable FIR John A. Verdin Of st. Louis. has
Just celebrated his semccntenary In the Jesuit order
Professor william r. Harper, of Yale, will hold SIX
summer schools the study OF Hebrew this year: al
Newton Centre Mass. (; at Philadelphia, Penn At tn.
University Of Virginia. at Chicago Ill ana t"'ce ~
Chautauqua, N. T.
Tho late Colonel James Mackays, whose death al
Paris has been announced, was born at Argyle, w.,
and at the age of eleven walked from there to Buffalo
~ " In order that he might there enter school ann
get education. In after years he gave 10 me Guy
church. He not pleased when his son, mr. hn;
Steele Mackaye, entered the dramatic profession Dut
he rejOiced In tho success attained BIZ him.
Colonel T. W. Hgginson will deliver the Commence
ment address at Smith College, Northampton, Mass,
in juno
The twenty years. home Of Mr. T. Adolphus Troll
lone at Florence Italy, has been transformed Into
hotel for American travellers
1.-THE German Empress says = writer In tho
journal des Debats," is the soul OF tho Imperial
household She is much better loved there than out
side, where people unjust to her. She has COM
mitted the mistake of remaining Englsh-as all tho
English do-and carry the pride OF her race Into the
middle of a people which admIres itself with naive
and enormous complaisance she brought the pride OK
her birth into family which believes itself the hrst
the world her aristocraic tastes into town whcro
art shows itself In clumsy limitations and patchwork
the independence of her views into Court whero
everything regulated and prearlangcd; and the no
erty OF her re gious and political sentiments into q
centre where religion has It's narrow for'us, as tho
politics OF which II is the servant This independence
OF tho Princess, and the wicked habit which she mao
OF thinking for herself rather ruined the OLD
Hohonzollerns. But entire harmony exists between
the Empress and her husband. She reads serious ny
erature-Adam Smith, Thornton, John Stuart Mill
Herbert Spencer and other political economists The
Emperor inquiries into the social problem ana studies
the theories OF the Socialists This accounts perhaps
for the Socialist favor Of his address to the German
people"
Mr.. Hubert Herkomer has built theatre ut his
pushey school, and It Will be opened to-day
with a musical play performed by tho students. MT
Herkomer himself has written the words ard tho
music he has designed the settlement of the play, and
has supervised the rehcarsals The young men and
women citizens of the small art republic directed Dy
Mr.. Hsrkomer lead the bright yet frugal and hard
working lives the holds must be led by those
who wish to serve art SlD2ly.