The Critic and record., 1891-04-16
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland's stepfather,
Henry u. Perrine one of the best known
men in Buffalo, is seriously ill.,
Colonel de Janon, U. S. A., who was
professor of Spanish at West Point for
thirty'iiye years, but now resides in Wash
ington. is tall and energetic, and wears
long, thin beard.
Mrs. Annie Besant is a sister-in-law of
Walter Besant, having married lin 1867,
when she was 20 years old brother of
the novelist.
Ex-senator Ingalls, of Kansas has been
asked to give a memorial address on GEN
eral Sherman before the New York Legis-
lature.
The Maryland Historical Society has
adorned its walls with a fine half-length
portrait of John ii. b. Latrobe, its presi-
dent. He is son of the b. II. Latrobe,
author of Virginia from June 10 to July
2i, 1876, and who had the honor OF meet
ing Lafayette as Washington's guest at
Mt. Vernon.
Jason Brown, the second son of the
only John Brown, resides in California,
but is on a pleasure trip to Kansas. He is
patriarchal in manner, gray-haired and
gray bearded, closely resembles his father,
and declares that he does not harbor one
thought OF ill.will toward the people Of
the South.
DIR. Saunders of St. Louis has been called
upon to treat three well defined cases of
religious mania produced by the revival
services. conducted by Mrs. Woodworth,
the professional evangelist. Her congre-
cations have dwindled down and she will
leave st. Louis because the people will not
erect her faith cure temple.
NM. Bouguereau and Gerome, the cele-
bratod French painters will shortly leave
Paris for st, Petersburg. The Russian
artists intend to give their French col
leagues n very cordial reception. A grand
dinner will be given in their honor by the
distinguished artistic population of st..
Petersburg. These courtesies will be the
more noticeable because Of the very gen
eral decision of French artists not to send
any paintings to the Berlin Salon.
Mr.. Whistler's portrait of Thomas
Carlyle, painted about twenty years ago,
has been purchased by the Corporation of
Glasgow, The London Standard observes:
The only counterfeit presentment of
Carlyle with which il can be i'm any degree
compared is the statue of the historian
executed by the late Sir Edgar Boehm
But while hardly less masculine than that
digniiied and worthy record, IL is, per-
haps, in its very reticence, infinitely more
pathetic. 1t is less likeness of feature
than the sympathetic Interpretation Of q
peculiar temperament"
The chateau and demesne of Nohant.
where George Sand spent the greater part
of her life and where she died in the sum
mer Of 1876, was to be sold at auction a
fortnight ago. The place is described by
the author in her "COnsueo" and the
"Comtesse de Rudolstadt.n Nohant is a
hamlet near La Chatre, in the department
of llndre. A statue has been set up there
to the memory Of George Sand
Sir John Millais has sent to the Royal
Academy portrait of Mrs. Joseph Cham
berlain, formerly Miss Endcott of Salem
and Washington, ID. G. She sits by a tea
table holding a cup of tea in her hand.
The fun blue eyes, remarks the Lon
don may Nt~l "loOk sympathetic and
trustfnl; the head is small and exquisitely
set. There is an indelinabe distinction
about the portrait a refinement of beauty
i'm the selection of color scheme and the
arrangement and with it a certain happi-
ness OF the pose as If the artist were in
perfect sympathy with his subject" Il
is a half length, the lady wearing a gray
dress.