The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-16
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.

NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
1t was while staying at the late
Matthew Arnold's house at Harrow.
England, that Prince Thomas, Of Savoy,
Duke of Genoa, received and declined
the offer of the crown of Spain.
while Mr.. Rider Haggard contin-
ues to diffuse his literary presence he
betakes his body to the cool region of
Iceland for season of cunning and fish
ing. Perhaps he will regale his admir-
ers with romance of the early Vikings
by and by.
A statue OF the poet Theodor Kor.
ner will soon be unveiled at Carlsbad,
where two years ago q monument of
Goethe was erected. DR.. Emil Peschel,
director OF the Korner Museum at Dres-
den, will deliver the principal address at
the unwilling.
Mr.. Edwards Pierrepont says that
there is no foundation whatever for
the current report that his wife is the
giver of the S125,000 to be used in build
ing new recitation hall at Yale. Mr..
Pierrepont does not know who did give
the money, but he does know that Mrs.
Pierrepont did not give it.
PorrI IN II, ko1 -
York for five days and he may stay five
more. He has been for eight years work.
ing on his new book, the Viking Age"
and he has come from London merely
for rest, he having lately suffered from
severe attack of bronchitis. The book
will be his largest and most important,
and will be published about October.
Count TolstoI Is the title and name
of two distinguished Russians, and it is
well to know that fact in view OF suspic-
ions Of attempted violence to one of
them. The confusion between Count
l.. N. Tolstoi, the novelist and philan-
thropist, and his cousin, Count Tolstoi,
the bigoted and narrow minded minister
of education, is very commonly made.
The name OF Tolstoi is found more than
once in the history of Russian literature.
"A lady who was frequent visitor
in the family of Ralph Waldo Emerson
tells the following anecdote: Gan old
washerwoman in Concord, at work one
day, as it began to grow dark unrolled
her sleeves, and said she must go home
and get ready for Mr.. Emerson's lecture.
why, are you not too tired to gop she
was asked. oh, no, indeed; it always
rests me, was the reply. But do you
understand what the lecture is about?'
continued her questioner. sWell-no,'
was the answer; but it does me good to
see him stand up there, looking SO beau
tiful, and telling us all we are just as
good as he ISL"
Miss Maud Howe says of her moth
er's summer home: "Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe lives and has lived for more than
thirty years, in quiet part OF the island,
some five miles from the town of New
port. Oak Glen owes its name to the
cluster of oak trees which makes the
slope behind the house cool and shady.
A little brook runs murmuring through
their midst. and an old gray ruin of
stone mill stands on the further side of
the stream. Under these trees Mrs
Howe passes many hours of those pleas
ant summer days, with her books or writ
ing beside her, and here she reads in the
great book of nature and hears the wise
talk of the singing birds, with which the
green branches are alive. These hours
are the happiest in her busy life.
LADY Buchsn, whose death is re-
corded at the age of ninety one years,
was one of the last surviving persons who
had distinct recollection of Napoleon
the Great" says the Pail Mall Gazette.
"Her father, Col. Wilks, was governor of
st. Helena in 1916, at the time of Bona
parties Punishment, and, on the term of
his governorship expiring, Miss Wilks
was DESTROYS of being introduced to the
ex-emperor. Il have long heard from
various quarters of the superior elo-
quence and beauty of Miss Wilks, but
now am convinced from my own eyes
that report has scarcely done her suffi-
Gent justice said Napoleon to her. You
must be very glad to leave the island
he said. 'Oh, no, sire was the answer,
Il am very sorry to go away 'Ohl
mademoiselle, L wish 1 could change
places with YOU Napoleon presented
her with bracelet in memory OF this
visit. Several further particulars of the
interview are given in Blacktcood's Mag
aSine for January, 1884, from the pen of
an eyewitness. Miss Wilks subsequent
ly married the late Gen. Sir John Blu
chan. G. O. B., the younger brother of
MIR. Buchan, of Kelloe, whom she long