New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-22

| to be published in London Mr.. Lowells Poiti-
| cal Essays stands first. Most OF them, say
| Messrs Macmillan who issue the volume, deal
| with incidents and phases of the American Civil
War. but Mr. Lowell has included the address
! on The Place Of the independent in Politics
which he delivered this year in New-York. This
| he might perhaps have omitted. 1t seems TO be
| ill-ada pied to the British market.
| Mr.. Bret Harte is writing new story for
| Macmilan's Magazine and Mr.. Henry James
another for The English illustrated Magazine,
and still another for Mr.. Harry Cutters exceed
| ingly ambitious Universal Review This Pc
| riodical, whatever may be said OF it's contents,
has an undenably brilliant cover. Mr.. Qultcr
has already contrived to quarrel with a greater
number of contributors than any editor on record.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine and party left Cluny
Castle on Thursday, saying goodbye reluctantly
TO Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie and their friends
They will arrive to-day in London, and will re-
main full week before sailing, as already an
nounced. on August on the Inman Line
steamer City OF New-York on which they have
taken passage This largest liner af1oat left the
Clyde this morning on her trial trip around Ire
land and is expected to arrive at Liverpool on
Monday. She has two or three hundred guests
on board
relaxation by accepting three invitations day
and refusing as many more. The dinner given
TO him and Mrs. Depcw on Thursday by the
American Minister was banquet of twenty, in
Guiding the Master Of the Rolls and Lady Eshcr
Lord and Lady Lymington and Sir Julian and
Lady Godsmd This was followed by dinner
last evening at Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whites in
Grosvenor Crescent, among whose other guests
were MIR. Gladstone, Mrs. Phelps. Bishop Doanc.
Bishop Potter-no dinner party in London is now
complete without BisLop-Mrs Peel the wife
Of the Speaker; Lady Elcho, Lady Itibblesdale,
the Austrian Charge d'Aflaires and the Earl of
Aberdeen; altogether most brilliant company.
The American Minister was prevented from at
tending by long standing engagement elsewhere.
Invitations from Lord Rosebery, Lord Cork. Mr..
Chamberlain, Mrs. Adair, Mrs. Jeune, Lady Borth-
wick and many others have been sent TO Mr..
Depew, who would be more than human il he
managed to accept them all.
London, and more Londons than one, arc re-
gretting the departure of Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, who sail to-day from Liverpool for
New-Yorl the Cunard Line steamer Etruria.
imagine that astutc dealers in pictures and brio
a-brac regret it. They announced TO some Of their
regular clients that their had been put
up for the benefit of Mr. Vanderbilt, and would
stay up long nc stayed. They will now have
an opportunity TO Put them down again, richer
only in the knowledge they have gained that even
Vanderbilt does not always care 10 pay two
prices for picture. Charitable enterprises,
however. have profited as much dealers enter
prises have failed to profit. Mr. and Mrs Wander
bits purchases at the various bazaars so frequent
this have been on the most liberal scale.
Their tenure of Herbert House has added much to
the interest of the season already almost at its end
They early became known to many of the best
people in London society, and their appearances at
the best houses have been constant. They had, OF
course the advantage of introductions from some
of those Americans to whom all doors are OPEN but
they entered thom under conditions peculiar that
by little want of tact good sense they might
easily have made shipwreck of their social career
This they have omitted TO do. Their London eX
periences have been an unbrokcn series of social
successes. They have won the goodwill of ;hose
whose goodwill is best worth having, and cannot
hear that from the beginning to the eni Of their
London summer they have made single mistake.