The critic., 1891-02-03
PERSONAL.

Messrs. George II. Emmons and Charles
w. King, accompanied by their wives,
left here last week for Florida and Cuba,
intending to be absent for several weeks.
Colonel Jack Brown and wife left for
the South to-day. Colonel Brown has an
important legal case in Charleston, and
after this is disposed of he and his wife
will visit relatives in Georgia.
Rudyard Kipling was but 20 December
80, last.
General Sherman the other evening at
the Yale alumni dinner in New York,
having been welcomed as, usual by
Marching Through Georgia. remarked
feelingly in his little speech; 81 have
often thought that when | was marching
to the sea it would have been well had !
marched on into it,"
Mr.. Mansfield, in several cities which
he has recently visited, has been known
among the scenc-shifters rs "Mr. Brum-
nell, ~ and has been generally addressed
in that manner as If IL were his real name.
Hamilton Aide, adapter of OR Bill"
and author of various other plays, is in
New York. Mr.. Aide looks the typical
literary Briton. Mnsically, he is known
as the author of "Blue Alsatian Noun
tansn and other ballads.
One of the Congressmen-elect of North
Carolina, w. 7. Crawford, is preparing
himself for his new duties by studying
law in the University of North Carolina,
General Longstreet is still hard at work
on his history of the war, and hopes to
have it finished this year.
In the early death of Winifred Howells,
the eldest child of William Dean and
Eleanor Mead Howells, there is dis
tinct loss to literature as well as life. She
was girl of exquisite gifts, of the most
spiritual and poetic temperament, capable
of intense feeling and always having
about her something of that transiigura-
ton of loveliness caught from the Venc-
tian skies under which she first opened
her eyes on earth.
Mr.. Edward NJ. Alfriend has written a
play called "The Louisianian,n which is
TO be produced at a special matinee at the
Madison Square Theatre about the middle
Of March. The period of the story Is
from 1S07-lSl5, and the characters will
appear in the costumes of the First En-
pire. The first and fourth acts take place
in New Orleans, while the second and the
third acts are located in Paris. The part
of the hero, Henry st. Armand, is to be
played by Il. ]. Henley, and Mary Hamp-
ion will be seen in the principal female
character. Other characters will be as
sumed by members of Mr.. Palmer's stock
company .--DTdgdtic Mirror.
MISSIONER could never nave complained
of lack of appreciation on the part of the
various governments of France during
the greater part of this century. He re-
ceivcd the third medal in 1910, the second
in 1S4l and the first in 1913. The year
1s46 saw him in the ranks of the Legion
Of Honor, the year 1913 brought another
first medal, and in 1855 the Grand Medal
Of Honor. He became officer of the Le-
gion the following year and member of
| the Institute in 1861. The ranks of com.
mander of the Legion in 1867 and grand
officer in 1878 prepared him for the Grand
| Cross in 1880. The Institute elected him
last year ITS presiding officer, and one of
| his paintings attained the highest mark
when NJ. Chaucard of the Louvre Stores
paid 100000 for the military picture
called "1Sli"
! Mrs. Davis, the widow of the ex-presi-
dent of the Confederacy, since she cam,
to New York about u month ago, ha.
been living very quietly at the New Yorl
Hotel. As she is not overstrong, she has
had TO decline the many social courtesies
offered her, and she sees only few init
mate friends. All her time has been de
voted to experimenting the memoir ol
her husband, which will be published
about the first week in February. 1t will
be in two volumes, the first containing
about $50 pages and the other about /, 900
altogether about 100000 words. Mrs
Davis does not intend to return to the ole
place at Beauvoir, nor to raise anything
on that farm next summer. She will &,
to Colorado Springs, where her eldes
daughter lives. and spend the summe
there.-N. Y Letter.
The grave of Henry Clay's daughter a
Lebanon, Ohio, is said to have been desc
Grated by relic-hunters. She was a girl o
~ and died while Mr.. Clay and his famil,
were on their way to Washington in
stage coach. Her death was sad blow t,
messed ner with TS business as cares that Se
compelled to bury the body and go OH t;
Washington, intending some day to re
turn and remove it to Lexington, XIV
But he never did so, and the grave ma
be seen yet in the old battle-ground, sur
rounded by wire fence.