The Critic and record., 1891-05-12
INDIVIDUAL MENTION.

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Hoffman House, New York.
General Il. P. Alexander of Georgia,
prominent Southern railroad man, is at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland will be one of
the honored guests at the New England
Woman's Club dinner on June 5.
Henry Watterson of Louisville is at the
Everett House New York.
Mrs. Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin and
her husband are off for Europe.
The Earl of Dysart is at the Hotel I'M
perial New York.
Mrs. Langtry will not visit this country
this fall, as was expected.
Albert Bierstadt, the artist, is going to
Europe to make studies for the picture of
the Landing of Columbus on which
he has been engaged for some time, and
which he intends to exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
MN. Bouguereau and Jerome, the cele-
brated French painters, will shortly leave
Paris for st. Petersburg. The Russian ar
tists intend to give their French colleagues
a very cordial reception.
Miss Bessie Fauntleroy of Richmond
will attend the commandments at Wash
ington and Lee and Virginia Military In
stitute in June. She will open the ball at
the Washington and Lee.
Rev. Father Doucet, S. j., who died
lately at st. Johns College, Fordham, was
one of the few men with whom Edgar
Allen Poe was intimate. Father Doucet
left number of manuscript reminis-
cences of his intercourse with Poe, and an
effort is being made to have the college
authorities allow them to be printed in
book form.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Mahal Marpnan1 M nnI
braith Ward of Philadelphia. Miss Mar
quand is the daughter of Mr.. Henry G..
Marquand, president of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
The father of Rudyard Kipling is about
to publish a book entitled Beast and
Man in India IL will contain nearly
$50 illustrations. Mr.. Kipling has trav-
eled and sketched in nearly every part of
India.
ship in the United States District Court at
Boston. Fifty.one years of continuous
service have earned him the rest he needs,
and the faithfulness with which he has
performed his duties was acknowledged
in March, 1890, when the Bar presented
him an elegant silver pitcher and salvor
Three ladies' the Misses Hodkin, edit
and publish a monthly magazine in raised
type for the use of the blind. Mrs. Bur-
nett's Fair Barbarian" is running
through it.
By an act of the Congress of the United
States of Venezuela passed in April, 1891,
the Government was ordered TO buy the
house in which the Liberator, Simon
Bolivar, was born, to preserve it in the
proper way as national monument and
to establish in ita museum of Venezuelan
antiquities for which purpose the proper
appropriation was made.
Alma Tadema's studio is reached by a
flight of golden stairs, the steps being en-.
tirely covered with plates of polished
brass. 1t is a great contrast to go from
this room so entirely Greek in its cbarac-
ter, to the studio of Mrs. Alma Tadema
which is a Dutch interior, with quantity
carved oak walls and little diamond paned
windows brought from Holland.
When Alexander Pope visited the
Orient nearly two centuries ago, he OBJ
tanned slip from one of the willows be-
side the waters of Babylon, whereon the
the children of Israel hung their harps in
the days Of captivity. Planting the
wand upon his return to England he Sc
cured a thrifty tree in time. From this
latter Martha Washington procured a
twig, which it is said she brought to Ar
| lngton Heights with the same result.
| And now tree grown from a slip taken
| from hers has just been planted in the
indiana State House grounds.
Those who know Edmund Russell the
aesthetic poet and exponent of the Del
| Sartian system, will appreciate the follow
| ing; The other day he got out Of the Gle
yator of a Buffalo hotel as a lady entered
il. Say, Miss, remarked the elevator
| boy, Can you tell me what Mr.. Russell
doesY' After the business of the apostle
of culture was explained to him the
youngster remarked somewhat contempt
uously. "Oh, is that all? | fought he
wt2 a snake-charmer."