The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-02
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.


University of Paris for travelling scholar
ships for students of history.
1t is somewhat astonishing to find
an English newspaper solemnly assert
ing that Queen Victorias physician has
been urging her to learn to ride bicy-
Gle.
Professor Theodore Mommsen of the
Berlin University, at the special recon-
mendation Of the Italian minister of pub
lie instruction, has had the freedom of
the eternal city conferred upon him.
William L. Adams OLIVER Optic.
who is seventy.six years old, has just re-.
turned from three months foreign tour
during which he visited China. japan.
Egypt, Gibraltar and other places of in
terest,
Joseph Jefferson defines himself
happily on the subject of inspiration in
acting. Il like to feel my part little"
he saye, land also like to have my art
we'll in hand-my heart warm and my
head COOL"
Mime. Melba, the celebrated singer,
lives at Paris in beautiful mansion in
the Rue de Prony. The house is fur
nished with exquisite COZ les of the fur
nishings with which the Trianon was
fitted for Marie Antoinette.
Leo XIII. is the doyen of the Cath
Ollie episcopate. He received his episco.
pal conservation is 1843, and there is no
bishop living whose conservation is so
old. 1t has rarely happened that the
Pope was the oldest Bishop in the Cath
Ollie world.
In the newly published autobio-
graphical Condolences of the la te
Frederick Locker-Lampson, the poet
says his uncle used to gay that you
could not widen the mouth of Locker
without injury to his ears One day at
Malta this frank old gentleman asked a
stranger who had just landed to take
wine with him. and expressed his obli-
cation for the favor by saying: "Yester.
terday, sir, l was the ugliest man in all
Malta"
jacques LIE Lorrain, the Paris poet,
novelist, playwright and ex-professor,
has turned cobbler and opened little
shop in the Latin quarter, where he ad-
vertises to mend the shoes of students
and others. He has addressed his pro.
spective customers in poem in which
he cites the example OF Hans Sachs in
defense of his new line of work. His
venture is for money making rather than
sentiment. for his published works have
brought him scant returns.
Thomas Hardy the novelist, is thus
described by writer who has recently
met him: "His cheeks are slightly sunken
and his skin is eallow. speaking of sed.
entary habits,the midnight lamp and of a
constitution that could not support the
sustained strain of an arduous task. Yet
his eyes tell another tale, and possess
that phosphorescent light that indicates
energy" The solution of these contradic.
tory remarks must be that he is mentally
as robust as he is physically delicate.
There seems to be no doubt as to
the authenticity of certain portrait of
Shakespeare which was added to the
Memorial gallery at Stratford on. Avon
about three years ago. A short time
ago the picture. which bears the date
1909, was exhibited at London. and sue.
cessfully withstood all critical tests
Among those who concur in the belief
that the picture was painted from life
are Lionel Cort, director of the National
Portrait Gallery; Sidney Colvin, keeper
Of the prints in the British Museum;
Mr.. Poynter, R. A., director of the Ma
tional Gallery; and Mr. Oulers, leading
portrait painter.
OF Walter Savage Landor's face,
Friedrich Locker. Lampson says that sit
put me in mind of the portraits of Ho-
garth. He had a diabolical laugh-a
prolonged mockery, with apparently no
heart or happiness in it, and when you
thought he had done, he went on and on;
perhaps his extreme age was the cause
of its prolongation, but not of its timber"
Locker passes on from Tennyson story
of Lander. which pictures the latter as
reciting some poetry in John Forsters
chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, when
a member Of the company tumbled
downstairs and broke his leg. "Landor
the while went on spouting, without
showing any special concern"
When Mr.. Justin Mccarthy retired
from Parliament not long ago there was
much discussion in the English prints
as to how he would employ his leisure,
and on both sides of the Atlantic it was
surmised that he would probably spend
some of his time in extending his His
tory of Our Own Times" 1t now ap.
pears that he is to do at least one i'm
portant piece of work for an American
periodical, He is to write for 1.-THE
Outlook" of this city, popular" life OF
Gladstone. Popular biographies are
not always the best in the world, but in
this case the work ought to prove salts
factory. 1t is to be richly illustrated.
Publication will be begun next year.
This story of the late Sir Andrew