The critic., 1891-01-05
PERSONAL.

General Cassius NJ Clay, who has been
seriously i'll for some time at his home at
White Hall, Ky, is convalescing. This is
his first sickness in forty years,
Brigadier General Stanley believes there
will be a general Indian war "As soon
as the troops begin TO disarm the hostiles,"
he says, they will fight, for 1t is worse
than death to an Indian to be deprived of
his weapons"
VIII Carleton, whose poems have done
so much to right the wrongs of domestic
and social life, rs did those of Whittier
and Lowell to right the political wrongs Of
an earlier generation, is meeting with
great success upon the lecture platform by
weaving his most popular poems with bits
of advice and counsel.
Henry Clews, the banker, is known on
the Stock Exchange rs Louis Quinze.
He got this name since he attended the
Vanderbilt ball number of years ago in
the costume of that mighty monarch.
In fact, his associates on the Exchange do
not speak to him as Mr., Clews; they want
to know how Louis Quinze is to-day and
so on. Recently with the admission of
John Henry Clews, the funny fellows of
the Exchange have dubbed Mr.. Foster,
Mr.. Clews' partner, as "The Dauphin,"
and of John Henry Clews they speak as
the Half Sovereign"
The Hon. Daniel Clarke, Judge of the
United States District Court of New
Hampshire, ex-United States Senator,
and prominent in the political history of
the State for more than half n century,
died unexpectedly yesterday at his resi-
dence in Manchester of pneumonia.
The library of Millard Fillmore, ex-
President of the United States is being
sold at auction in Buffalo. 1t contains
about 5000 volumes, largely law books.
The sales are bringing very low figures.
For instance. ninety-nine volumes Of the
North dmericdn Rc0iew, from its founding
in 1915 to 1864, brought but 50 cents each.
Our diplomatic corps in foreign parts
has caught the literary fever in earnest.
Foremost of all there is the Hon. White
law Reid, who is engaged at translating
the memoirs of Talleyrand. Next comes
the Hon. Charles Emory Smith, who is
doing into English the Cars personal
recollections of q busy life, which work
when published will be adorned with
illustrations by Petrovtch Shkinskon, the
greatest of Russian illustrators. The Hon.
William Walter Phelps is preparing
compendious critical review OF the public
life of Otto Won Bismarck, which will be
annotated by no less a parsonage than the
Kaiser himself. The Hon. Clark Il. Carr
has nearly completed his popular cpl
tomization of famous Norsesagas, and the
Hon. John c. New is hard at work upon a
treatise which is to be entitled "The
| Physical and Moral Condition Of Woman
kind in Great Britain"
Lady Frederick Cavendish, wife of the
| English nobleman who was stabbed to
death in May, 1882 in Phoenix Park,
Dublin, has engaged zealously in works of
| philanthropy Recently she gave de-
| lightful lecture upon her travels in South
Africa at the Finsbury Polytechnic. One
| of her best anecdotes was worthy of Rider
Haggard. Two old chiefs of Matabele-
land were sent over to England to bring
their king irrefutable proof Of the exist
ence Of a great white queen who could be-
friend them. Partly through Lady Fred
erick Cavendish's good offices the visit to
Windsor was accomplished. The old men
were struck dumb with the sight of the
| Life Guards, who were paraded for their
benefit in st. Georges Hall, and at first
nothing could persuade them that the
soldiers We're not stuffed figures. Lady
Frederick gave some humorous descrip-
tions of her life in her brothers four
roomed parsonage at Kimberley, and her
active share in sweeping and garnishing
his bachelor domain assisted, not by resi-
dent servants but by the morning vista
| tions of black.