The sea coast echo., 1895-10-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARx

Richard lie Gallienne, the Young
est of the London poets, intends 70
visit this country next winter. DR..
Conan Doyle is coming back some
time during the year for a season In
Colorado, not, however. to lecture, for
he found lccturing here Improbable.
---Descartea' works are to be pub
Iishcd in complete edition for the
first time by COMMITTEES OF French
scholars, aided by the government.
Printing will begin next year, and, 1T
is hoped, will be finished by 1900. The
committee asks for help in collecting
copies Of letters and manuscripts pre-
served In public libraries and private
collections.
Among the treasures In Lord Rose.
bery's house are mantel-piece from
Rubens' house, the chandeliers from
the Dogcs' palace and tapestries that
belonged To Cardinal Mazarin. These
were Rothschild treasures, and on the
death of Baron Meyer de Rothschild,
in 1874. they came into the possession
OF Hannah dc Rothschild, Lord Rose
bery's wife.
The expression in the prayer book,
''kindly fruits of the earth, has for
most persons no definite meaning on
account of the difference in significance
now attached to the word kindly from
that used when the expression was
first written. The word kindly in that
connection meant as nearly as possible
''of its kind" and the expression
'kindly fruits of the earth" meant "the
fruits Of the earth each after It's kind. "
A work containing all known docu-
ments concerning the life and family
of Dante, corrected by new researches
in the various Italian archives, 10 soon
to be published in Rome in forty num-
bers, under the title of 1.-The Diplomatic
Dante Codex." Each. number will have
five phototype plates, and it is expect
ed the work win be issued at the rate
of ten numbers a year. The edition
will be limited TO three hundred mum.
bcred copies.
Mime. Ponisi, whose stage old
women were beloved by all who saw
them, has concluded her life in New
York by the gift Of all her stage cos
tunes to Aunt Louisa" Eldridge. In
the forty.fve years she has been on
the stage in this country she has
played many roles, and the contents of
her wardrobe ranged from the robe OF
the grande dame to the cheap frock OF
the village matron. When Mime.
Ponisi began her career she went twen-
ty-five miles on foot to secure her first
engagement. This was in England,
and it was nothing unusual In those
dayS for her to walk from town to
town to keep her engagements. IL
time she won fame, and she has sup.
ported Macready, Forrest, Charlotte
Cushman. Lester Wallack, and others.
She expects to end her days in Wash.
ington, at the home of q step-daugh.
ter.
direct male line are extinct, hut he is
the lineal ancestor through females
of numerous progeny. Among the
peers who descend from Cromwell are
Lords Ripon, Chichester, Clarendon,
Cowper, Morley, Lytton, Walsingham
and Ampthill; and among the eldest
sons of peers who so descend are Lord
Courtenay (heir to the earldom of
Devon), Lord Stanley (heir to the earl
dom of Derby and Lord Clifton (heir
to the earldom of Darnley). Lady
Devon, Lady Derby, Lady Darnley,
Lady Bathurst. Lady Rosslyn, Lady
Lyttop, Lady Lathom, Lady Isabella
Whitbread, Lady Amphill and Lady
Borthwick are likewise his descend
ants. So are Sir John Lubbock and
half dozen other baronets. Mr.. Chas.
Villiers, the father OF the house of
commons, and Mr.. Montagu Villiers,
the vicar of st. Paul's Knightsbridge.