The critic., 1891-01-22


The Chicago Ne,rs says: Major Handy,
chief of the Worlds Fair Bureau of Pub
licity, returned to Chicago last Saturday
morning and attended the banquet of the
local Typothetp in the evening. Tonight
he will be the ornament, pride and life
Of another banquet, but he has no en-
gagement for Tuesday evening; would
prefer game dinner. The Major is sim.
ply a marvel in the way of digestive ca
pacity; he must have a midriff like the
head of u snare drum"
The Right Hon. James Augustus Sim
clair, +. Il. S., sixteenth Earl of Cath
ness, died January 20. He was born in
1877, and was for many years Il banker in
Aberdeen, Scotland. The fifteenth Earl
died unmarried in 1880, and in January,
1850, the Sheriff of the Chancery Court
of Scotland adiudged James Augustus
Sinclair to be the heir of the earldom.
Lieutenant-C Commander Charles II.
Black, L. $. n. (retired), died at Hot
Springs, Ark. January 20. He was ap-
pointed acting mlidshipman from Della
July, 1862; was graduated in 1865; served
in the Chattanooga, home station and in
the Mohican, Pacific station, 1868; pro-
NOTED to ensign, December !, 1906 master.
March ~, 1868; transferred to the Mo
hongo, 1859; lieutenant, March 20, 1860;
served in the Brooklyn, 1901; in the
Saco, 1918; in the Lancaster, 1915; in
Hartford, 1903; promoted to Lieutenant
commander, February 5, 1879; served in
the Miantouonah, f91:-3, retired, No
yember o. 1888.
The library left by the late George Ban
croft is reputed to be one of the best pri-
vate collections of books in the country.
1t contains about 1900 volumes, among
which are many works in foreign lam
guages, and every book in the collection
has q value apart from its selling price.
rooms that comprised Mr.. Bancroft's 8
literary workshop, and there was never
any attempt made to display them.
Helen Gardener, author of as This
Your Son, My Lord?" the novel which is
creating such furore in the East, is
about thirty years old. She is a really
beautiful woman, q little above medium
height, of well-rounded proportions, with
an intellectual face, deep brown eyes, full
| red lips and high, broad forehead. She
| possesses radical views and is terse,
strong writer.
William Westale, the novelist, lives at
| High Standing, LOughton, and is Lam
cashire man. He was born in 1885. In
appearance he is slight and slim, about
five feet five inches high, with grayish
hair, much bewrinkled forehead, bright
blue eyes, straight nose, a soft, silky gray
ish beard which would delight an Eastern
Cadi: He speaks very clearly and en-
phatically, and it is evident that he has
good deal of reserve force. When de-
scribing a scene his eyes light up, and you
cannot fail to feel that he is seeing the
whole thing as he speaks. He has great
| fund of humor, and every now and then
some quaint little story comes out. He
practically began to write stories when he
was in his teens. Then he contributed &c
the local papers.
| The correspondent of the Chicago Herald
says: A dark, sinister-looking man, with
sharp eyes and fnrtivc glance, may be
seen any day lettering about the Senate
wing of the Capitol, now In secret consul
tation with some Republican Senator, and
again whispering word of advice or in
formation to Granny Hoar. He is John
]. Davenport of New York, the man who
expects, II the Force bill becomes law, tC
be appointed grand mogul of elections
and at one leap to gain possession of {
dictatOr's power over the composition o
the popular branch of the national legis
lature.
Joseph Aikens of Mount Union, Ohio
died the other day at the age of 90 years
He served under the first Napoleon bu
unlike most of the veterans who hav,
died since that memorable 18th of June
1915, he did not take part in the battle o
Waterloo, his regiment being one o.
Grouchy's command, whose failure to ar
rive in time for Napoleon's last battle
probably changed the face of Europe anC
the destiny of France The soldiers o
the American revolution are all dead, bu
the death-roll of Napoleon's veterans i
not yet complete.