The critic., 1891-01-03
PERSONAL.

Grant Allen, Canadian by birth, has
won the prize of El 900 for the bestnovel
in the composition recently announced by
member of Parliament, George Newnes.
Several hundred novels We're in competi-
tion. Mr. Aliens whats Bred in the
Bone" won. 1t is doubtless only q coinci-
dencc that its title suggests Mr.. James
Payn's famous novel of twenty years ago.
William II. Hayne of Augusta, son of
the late Paul Hamilton Hayne, read the
principal poem at the unveiling, in Ma
con, recently, of the bust of Sidney
Lanier, u memorial gift to the city library
from Charles Lanier, the New York
banker.
Lieutenant William Hem is being so
royalty entertained in New York that he
has postponed his trip to Florida until
Monday, when he aud Mrs. Hem will sail
for Jacksonville, and thence to other
places on the scacoast They will fish and
shoot from ccntrcboard sloop, which the
lieutenant bought when last here.
A French journalist recently had CON
versation with. the Duc dc Broglie ia,
gard 10 the Tallcyrand memoirs. The
Duke gave 1t to be understood that the
long-eypected work will disappoint those
who looked forward for more or less
piyuant revelations respecting the remark
able men and women with whom Talley-
dotes will, IL seems be conspicuous by
their absence, and the volumes will he in
tcresting solely to exclusively political
readers.
Andrew Calhoun, n veteran of the battle
of Waterloo and member of the guard
stationed at st. Helena at Napoleon's ban
ishment, died in Rochester on Tuesday,
aged % years. After leaving st. Helena
he received commission and went with
the British army to India. lie partici-
pated in many of the Indian wars, and
was in the second advance against the
Afghans. lie remained in the English
service until thirty years ago, when he
was retired on half pay and came to this
country, taking up his residence at
Rochester
The death of the Pope is expected 10
precipitate great effort to elect one of the
French Cardinals, of whom there are
ten--more than are in any other country
except Italy. Those regarded as "Papableh
are Mgr Lavigerie, Mgr Zigliara and
Cardinal Oreglia, whom the Italians are
strongly against The Dominicans are
for Mgr. Zagliara, a Corsican, and the
youngest member of the Sacred College.
The Spanish Cardinals are expected to aid
the French against the expected opposi-
tiOn of the Italians Germans and Aus
trians.
Rhoda Broughton lives at Oxford, where
she took up her abode Just ten years ago.
In all she has written about thirty books,
but she has allowed only half of them to
be published.
Sonora Mendonca, wife of the new
Brazilian Envoy to the United States, Is
an American woman, the daughter of n
Down East sea captain-Captain Redman
Of Thomaston, Me. When her father
sailed for Rio Janeiro, twenty-five years
ago, he took his daughter with him to
keep him company on board his schooner.
Senor Mendonca was then young editor
in the Brazilian port and a chance intro
duction of the young people ripened into
a romantic cOurtship that led to marriage.
Nine. Mendonca has son % years old
and four daughters ranging from Is to y
years in age.
A New York World special from Phila-
delphia, January !, says: The quaint old
Friends Westinghouse at Fifth and Arch
streets, surrounded by high brick wall
and severely plain in architecture, had at
tractod little or no attention for decade or
more until to-day, when large assembly
of Philadelphia's orthodox society
gathered within the historic pile to wit
ness the marriage of Miss Mary Elllinton,
the daughter of Joseph $. Elkinton, and
descendant Of one of Philadelphia oldest
and most respected Quaker families, to
lnazo Nitobe, aJapanose student of prom
inence, who had become n member of the
Society of Friends in order to be in accord
with the sentiments of his affianced.