The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-02
orrERsoNlLI NrEKESr.

Theodore Munsen of the Span of
Life" company, whose home is in this
city. is spending few days here.
John Browning, one of the oldest rail-
way engineers in the country, died on
Tuesday at West Hampton, l.. /, He
formerly resided in this city, and ran
from here on the express. He was
railroader contemporaneous with the
late Vice President e. M. Reed, when
the latter ran an engine. The funeral
will take place Friday afternoon at l
o'clock.
Miss Hattie Turbert of 1870 Foster
street has jointed the Sisters of Mercy
at Mount st. Joseph, Hartford.
The following are the patronesses at
dance to be given at the Hotel Majes-
tic on Wednesday evening, April s, from
$50 to IL: Mrs. J. Gardiner Clark, Mrs.
5. M. Cook, Miss Emma Dickerman,
Miss Marion Dickerman. Mrs. e. Shell
ton Cornell, Mrs. II, F. Hall, Mrs. Rus
sell Hotchkiss, Mrs. Charles Kimberly,
Mrs. e. A. Parsons, Mrs. NJ. C. Frazer,
Mrs. w. J. Clark, Mrs. f. D. Meigs,
Mrs. S. B. Shoninger, Mrs. M. a. Shum-
way, Mrs. George Gardiner and Mrs. j.
p. Goodhart, s---.
Mrs. James Devine, sister of John j.
Splain, has arrived from California,
where she has lived since her marriage.
1t is thirty-one years since she left New
Haven and this is her first visit to her
home during that time. Mrs. Devinc
was called east by the serious sickness
of her mother, as was mentioned yes
terday
INTERESTS NEW HAVEN FRIENDS
New Haven friends rejoice among the
many other personal friends of the
young in question over the distinct and
brilliant literary success which has
been achieved by a your American girl
in England, whose maiden effort has
ELECTED decided praise and encomiums
from the greatest of the English news
papers, a tribute all the more crafty
ing as her book is upon a purely Eng
fish historical subject. The British
mind has been charmed by the purity
and felicity of the young lady's liter
airy style and her fidelity to the color
ing which pertains to the surroundings
of her subject. The book was written
simply as Dastime, without thought
of winning distinction and it's reception
can but have been highly gratifying
to her. and an incentive, it is to be
hoped, to further literary effort The
young lady possessing much leisure and
being resident for years in England
became deeply interested in the life of
the great minister of Charles l., the
It~i11 j1,n l,,t f.,
ford, and her book is a faithful and de-
lightful picture, simply gracefully and
charmingly presented of the career of
that dignitary and the life and times
of the stormy period in which he cut SO
large a figure and whose sad fate in
vests him with a touching and melan-
choly interest.
The book is entitled kathleen
Glare; Her Book 1637-1641 edited by
Dora Greenwich McChesney' 1t is
from the press of lockwood & Sons,
Edinburg and London. The accept
ance of the book by lockwood without
charge and without erasion or change
was of itself a tribute to the work of
the then young and unknown American
authoress, and very f1attering is the
u luuLG VI LIE Jcilelcil lHieS, WHICH
said of it: Narrated with admirable
raalism;" as is also that of the London
Telegraph, Told throughout with no
less power than simplicity and sinceri-
ty"
Interspersed through this volume of
some 900 pages are admirable illustra-
lions. the productions of Mr.. James A.
Sherman of England. who was for
merly with the American Bank Note
company of New York, and who is
brother of Thomas G. Shearman, the
noted Brooklyn lawyer, who had a son
at Yale who graduated not long ago
and is now a clergyman in New Jer-
sey. The young authoress and her
highly cultivated and gifted mother,
Mrs. McChesney, We're formerly of
Brooklyn, N. Y. They have resided
abroad for the last ten years or more,
either IN London or on the continent,
a considerable portion of the time hav-
ing been spent in Italy among its treas
llres Of art. The authoress father, who
died some years ago, was United States
consul under Lincoln at Newcastle on
Tyne England, and for years was a
college professor The book has met
with a fine reception in Boston and
other places In this country 1t is to be
hoped the young authoress will ere long
be heard from again in the field of
literary effort.