The Washington times., 1894-08-12

Sir Edwin Arnold will publish In the au-
tumn volume of his contributions TO Ameri>
can newspapers and magazines, under the
title Wandering Words"
"De Meneval.' Napoleon's private secre-
tary's book on the great general, has been
translated into English by Robert h. sherard
for early publication.
Miss Edna Dean Proctor. poetess. wants 70
be known as the apostle of maize as the ma
tional flower She considers Indian corn the
distinctively American product.
A Scotch gentlemen has written letter to
Lord Rosebery making application for the
vacant post of poe. laureate. In addition to
being devotee of the muses. he is a clerk in
an Edinburgh office.
George Manville Fem, the novelist of ad-
venture, is now sixty-four years old. He does
not look his age. however, for he has q tall,
light. active figure. thick, fair hair and beard,
and keen blue eyes.
Paolo Mantegazza, the italian scientist and
sociologist whose Art of Taking Wife, has
Just been published by the Dillinghams, in
addition to books already printed, has writ
ten forty-six large volumes not yet pub
lished.
Thomas Stinson Jarvis contributes an ar
ticle entitled Feminine Phases to the Au-
gust Lippincott's in which he says: ''Innum-
cradle fogs would lift if men would seek to
understand women as creatures to whom
changes are as natural as the so-called
changes of the moon. The different phases
do not seem TO be very numerous, and each
one of them apparently produces very similar
outcomes in mentalities. actions. and speech,
in all women; so that if a man could once as
certain the phase a woman was in, he could
be prepared for the inevitable results of it,
and have better chance so to fashion his
own demeanor as to make it more accept
able
Readers of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen's de-
liShtful stories may be interested in knowing
that according to his own confession, he has
been giving them "a weak lemonade mix
ture. harmless and mildly exhilarating,
adapted for the palates of ingenues." In his
literary and social silhouettes he deplores the
fact that he lis obliged to repress that which
is of slight consequence" in order that he may
find reader in the novelists public, the
young American girl.
Marion Crawford has a paper in the
August number OF the Century on Washing
ton as Spectacle" With all of his expert
ences in the capitals of the Old World he
thinks Washington has many charms and
attractions that they lack. Mr.. Crawford
reads lesson to the American Partisan and
the British-New Yorker who continually de-
cry the city and its society. The illustrations
to the article are by Andre Castaigne.
The marble portrait bust of Harriet Beecher
Stowe was Unveiled at the Wadsworth Athe-
neum. Hartford, Conn. the afternoon of
May "a. by Hilda Stowe, one of the authors
grandchildren. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hook
ar CtsfH mad hn nd
The bust is the work of Anne Whitney. OF
Boston, and was purchased with the sub
scriptions of Connecticut women.
An anecdote relating to the Greek transla-
tion which Mr.. Gladstone once made of the
'Rock of Ages" is told in the British
Weekly. A young man whose religious con-
dtion had been a cause of anxiety to his
friends heard some fellow-students discussing
the merits of Mr.. Gladstone's translation.
This prompted MIN to read the translation,
which made a deep impression on his mind,
and from that hour he became a decided
Christian
The TIMES mentioned few weeks ago q
dramatic poem, The Princess Adelaide" to
be published shortly by Moulton. OF Buffalo,
the publisher of the Magazine of Poetry. The
writer of this has had a keen and unusual
pleasure in reading the proofs of this poem.
One hestates predicting of any poetic work
that it will be successful. but "The Princess
Adelaide has n startling originality of plot
and of treatment combined with poetic ex-
preston that is always finely artistic and
sometimes beautiful.
Miss Helen Corinne Bergen is the author Of
.'The Princess Adelaide" Her work has
always had a great promise in it to those who
hope for something new and good.
The following passage is quoted from the
lament of the hero over the dead body of his
bride. the Princess Adelaide, where he cries
to her to return to him. To him in his
frenzy the moon is like his bride. The whole
lament is a strangely passionate scene:
The wind doth drag her from
The mad seas breast, who crieth to the moon,
And sends the winged spray to WOO her un-
To him. Her silver brow has paled to white,
She trembles where she stands, then, coyly
sweet,
Doth, with a GENTLE lingering tread, glide down
The violet grooves OF sky, mid nodding stars,
Into his waiting arms.
Expectantly and with hope one may look
for the reception Of this book. It is promised
by the author in September,