The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-21
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
AnecdOte and "Reminiscences.

The following is told of Edmund
Clarence Stedman, the we'll known poet
and critic: A report was circulated that
Bishop Potter had suggested max
ing one of the chapels in the new
Cathedral of st. John the Divine at
New York poets corner, for the en-
tombment of Americans distinguished
in literature. Mr.. Stedman thereupon
sent word that he would like to select
the first five or six poets to kill.
The Manchester Union says: There
is considerable concern in Boston about
the future OF James Russell Lowell's
magnificent old home in Cambridge at
the gateway of Mount Auburn cemetery.
The house is the property of the poets
daughter. but the land adjoining it is in
the hands of real estate agents, and the
fine estate will soon be cut up into
building lots unless the property is res
cued. The house is an old Tory man.
sion. one Of the few still standing in
excellent condition in Cambridge"
Queen Margaret, of the Muna
Islands, in the South Pacific is dead.
or course this is of little importance
outside her small territory; but the event
has an interest of its own. She was the
granddaughter of Francis Young, an
uyhn 1ol ct IL
of Tau, fifty years ago, and married the
native queen. In 1891, through the
deaths of all the heirs apparent, Marga-
ret was called upon to rule, when she
was nineteen years old.
Chief Justice Charles Doe, of the
Supreme Court of New Hampshire, was
stricken with paralysis in the depot at
Rollinsford, March g. and died almost
Immediately. Judge Doe was sixty-six
years of age and was considered one of
the ablest jurists in the United States.
He enjoyed the distinction of having
been the only New England Judge ever
quoted by the British courts. At the
time of his death he was on his way to
Concord to attend the law term of the
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In speaking of the poet Verlaine,
who recently died in Paris, The Outlook
says: "In some respects Verlaine recalls
Villon, whose unquestioned genius was
allied to every form of moral profiigacy
nd ,h0
great poet and thief; and of whose
strangely confused character Mr.. Ste
veneon has given us such a striking
study. Verlaine had a vein Of purest
poetry in him, and has written some
things of exquisite delicacy and purity,
not to say of religious feeling. At other
times he wrote verses fit only for sat-
urnalia."
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has
succeeded in overcoming, or ignoring,
the difficulties which, he asserted, stood
in his way. and has decreed, and last
week carried out the decree, that his
son and heir, Prince Boris, should be
converted from the Roman Catholic
faith to that of the Greek church. What
the difficulties were has not until re.
Gently become known, for it has at no
time been believed that they were due
to the possession of any strong religious
convictions on the part of Prince Ferdi-
nand, or any pain the sacrifice would
give him personally.
Speaking of the lesson of patience,
helpfulness and perseverance which can
be taught only by disappointment. the
Australian Weekly tells the following
incident in the early career of Jenny
Lind: In her twenty first year she came
to Paris to take lessons from the great
maestro, Signor Garcia. She had al
ready taken high place at Stockholm,
having been made member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Music in
1910, and court singer 10 the same year.
When she waited on Signor Garcia
that he might test her voice before re-
ceiving her as a pupil, the trial was a
complete failure. 1t was indeed crush
ing blow when the maestro said; at
would be useless to teach you, mademoi-
selle; you have no voice left" She told
Mendelssohn years afterward, that the
anguish of that moment exceeded all
that she had ever suffered in her whole
life. Yet with a stout heart she deter
mined to try again. Moved by her dis
tress, Garcia said she might come to
him again after six weeks, if during that
time she gave her voice complete rest.
not singing a single note, and speaking
as little as possible. How did she spend
those weary weeksG Knowing that if
she succeeded she would have to sing
one day in Italian and French, she de-
voted herself to the thorough study of
those languages. Her next voice trial
was a success. and thenceforward she
rose rapidly into fame. That bitter dis.
appointment was perhaps one of the
most necessary parts of her training for
her subsequent Exchange.