The Critic and record., 1891-05-05
INpIyInuAL MENTION.

Miss NJ. G. McClelland has q dialect
story in the May 'Lippincotts."
The new Lord Houghton is poet, it
appears. He is about TO publish volume
entitled Stray Verses
Mrs Henry X. Updegraye of Tower
City, Pa, is but As years Of age, and is a
great grandmother. She was married at
II, her daughter at lj and her grand
daughter at l6.
An engagement of much interest has
Just been announced-that of George w.
Childs DreXel, the junior son Of A. j..
Drexel, the banker. The young lady is
Mrs. McCarter, Mr.. Child's niece, and n
most accomplished and attractive young
lady.
Lord Randolph Churchill intands to
write n book about his Journey to
Mashonaland, in South Africa. 1t will
first appear in the form of twenty letters
to the London Gydphic, for which he will
be paid $4,000, or $500 each.
The credit is in some quarters given to
Whistler for inducing Oscar Wilde to
make his first visit to America. 1t is said
that the famous impressionist planned
every detail of that tour even TO the
amusing item of that long hair with
which Oscar won half the battle
among us.
Helen Gardner whose novel, '1s This
Your Son, My Lord2" has created such
genuine sensation, reaching sale of
25,000 copies in five months, is a descend
ant of Lord Baltimore. Her mother was
a grandniecc of Sir Robert Peel. The
gifted author is native of Virginia, her
father being a well-known clergyman in
that State. She is not q daughter of Julia
Ward Howe, as was reported in the press
of the day. Miss Gardner recently cor
rccted this statement in these words "ln
justice TO Mrs. Howe and my own beloved
parents, the late Rev. A. G.. Chenoweth
and wife of Virginia permit me to say
that the Davenports and Peels of Virginia
and England and the Calverts (Lord
BALTIMORE of Maryland are responsible
for me-"
DR.. Thomas Il. Temple, a prominent
physician, died at his home, near Ellicott
City, Md, May 3, of heart failure, aged
6l years. DR.. Temple was a native of
Virginia. He served in the Confederate
Army throughout the civil war and then
settled at Ellicott City. He was highly
recommended by General Robert f. Lee.
He leaves widow and two sons.
Mary Agatha Russell, known in Cath
olic circles as Mother Agatha, one of
the founders of the Order Of the Visi-
tation, died at St. Paul, Mimi, May
3, aged so years She was born in
New York, May q, 1911. In 1910
she established a house of the order at
Kaskaskia, Ill. A few years later she
established a second house in st. Louis,
where she remained twenty-five years
She then went to St Paul, where her work
had been conducted since 1878. Last No
vember she celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of her entrance into the church.
In London recently was sold an uncut
copy of Thackeray's "Virginians" for
$3.50. 1t contained the following inscrip-
ton in the authors hand
"In the U. States and in the Queens domin-
ions
All people have q right to their opinions,
And many don't much relish 'The Virginians,'
Peruse my book, dear r.; and il youll find it
little to your taste, hope you'll bind it."
''Fetey Rackd1a, esq. riM best regards Of The
dUfhOr.n
When Bishop Brooks was asked to pre-
pare history of his life he gave it in these
words: 81 have had no wife, no children
no particular honors, no serious misfor-
tune, and no adventures worth speaking
of. 1t is shameful at such times as these
not to have history, but / have not got
ONE
A cable dispatch from London an
nounces the death of Barry Sullivan.
Though generally regarded as an Irish
representative actor, he was born in Bir-
IHIuSldlu III lo-f, anu DIOuSuI up III
England. He made his first appearance
in Cork in 1910, and after winning con-
siderable fame in Liverpool, Manchester,
Edinburgh, and Dublin, made q success
full debut at the Haymarket, London. in
Hamlet" in February, 1852. In 1857 he
appeared in this country at Burton s
Theatre and made tour of the States.
From 1850 to 1866 lie devoted himself to
| dramatic affairs in Australia, where he
was chief actor and manager os one of the
principal theatres.
Miss Bedle, daughter of Ex-Governor
| Bedle, is by long odds the handsomest
young woman in Jersey City. She is will
! low-slim and exceedingly graceful with
big, heaven-blue eyes, a mass of true
| golden hair, and features that strongly re-
call Mrs. LanGtry in those early days
when the smart set in London went wild
over her as the Jersey Lily. Miss Bedle
has lived under the care of wise parents
in home crowded with heirlooms and
redolent of refined luxury. Her bosom
friend is Miss JOY Lindsey of Tennessee
! whose dark beauty, chic and high breed
ing, took NaTagansett Pier by storm some
two years ago.-Nep York Epoch.