The San Francisco call., 1896-06-07

Nonconformist allies are aghast, and
Guinness Rogers. DR.. Clifford and the rest
are already denouncing him as "a senile,
childish Puseyite." Inside the Estab-
Hshed church the excitement is even
greater, but it is tempered there by an
anxious suspicion that the manifesto
covers more than meets the eye. The
Archbishop of York, who is regarded as
Gladstone's real hacker in the matter, is a
stronger man than his rival of Canter-
bury, and the whole tone of the letter
suggests that there is vastly more pow
erful body of English clerics prepared for
an arrangement with Rome than was here
tofore suspected.
Very possibly Gladstone did not mean
to convey the impression that the doc
trinal differences between the Roman and
the Anglican churches are of next to no
importance, or that the real obstacle in
the path toward reunion is the technical
question of the validity of the Anglican
orders. and, generally speaking, of the
apostolic succession; but that is the Ell
feet he produces. I do not believe any
considerable number of English church
men will take this view, and much less
ment as a whole; but the manner of its
presentation and the weight of its sponsors
naturally provoked lively commotion.
A few days ago the papers took note OF
a slight fire out at Brentford, in club
house that used to be the residence of Nell
Gwynn. Yesterday there came to the club
letter offering the services of firm OF
London insurance-valuers and addressed
to "Miss Gwynn."
The famous Guides band at Brussels,
which for years has ranked among the
four or five best bands in the world, with
the Marine band of Washington, the
Garde RepubIicaine of Paris and perhaps
the Vienna military band, is to pass out of
existence. King Leopold is so i'm
poverished by Congo and other losses that
he is no longer able to afford personal
subsidy of $4,000, and the Minister of War
has no power to make an extra grant, and
so the Guides band will be reduced to the
forty-two musicians OF an ordinary regi-
mental band.
There are stories to-day of fierce out
break of choleraic disease in the French
military camp at Chalons on Thursday,
which closely resem bles the Asiatia reality,
and at least not up TO the present has it
been decided to be something else.
There is still cholera in South Russia,
but otherwise June finds Europe free from
the epidemic for the first time practically
in a dozen years. The disease is much
worse than usual in Egypt, however and
the English officials are finding the task of
forcing the populace to take the most
rudimentary precautions against its spread
more arduous than all their other hard
jobs in the Nile Valley put together.
So far as is known here Paul Bourgeois
victory in the Paris civic tribunal over his
publisher has never been matched IN the
English-speaking courts. The decision is
that the publisher is bound to bring all his
books and vouchers before an arbitrator
named by the Court, and to let the ques-
ton of royalties due OF sales be thus pub
licly determined. There is talk of testing
the opinion OF an English court on the
same point, and from ali 1 hear the ex-
pertinent might not be wholly without in
terest in America, TOO.
l am afraid It must be admitted that
Mrs. Patrick Campbell has not triumphed
in 'tMagda"; the part is too broad and ro-
bust for her delicate handling and 1t is,
moreover, loaded with a heavy hand of
humor, for which she has no genius what
ever. Appearances are all against her be-
ing seen long in this misfit role.
HAROLD FREDERIC.