New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-31
wives do as they like. get along quite wen anu
have nothing to complain Of
PERSONAL.

Governor Pingree OF Michigan Will soon WISH
Maine. and several towns will attempt 10 secure
from him a talk on Politics. PATRIOTISM an" ~
tatocs.
NJ Ferdinand Brrnetiare the French critic IS inc
recipient OF many social attentions III i'a.''"'',
He delivered the first OF the course OF 'urhp"''
lectures at Johns Hopkins University last lh"'S
dav lie has taken French poetry for his gem
eral topic The lectureship was endowed zen yehrs
ago with $4,000 by Mr. and Mrs Lawrence '","
bull OF Baltimore. in memory OF sol" ~ ''
tingulshed scholar Is invited to deliver cou's' u
lectures poetry every year ana ,e and de-
thus far been arranged In chronologcn, anu
vclopng order. Edmund Clarence oi tinr,s %
Poetrv." Then Professor Richard G. Jebb OF thc
University Of Cambridge. ectured on ripI,N
Poetry Professor Rc5er, y p Tyfry' Professor
Charles Eliot Norton OF Hafvatu G ~ Iniver-
Professor George Adam Sinth Oh "'"'so"
sity. Hebrew Poetry.
Henry blackburn. whose death Is reported from
Rordlebera. Italy. did great deal TO famiarzc the
British public with the English art exhibtlons-'he
Academy. the Grosvenor, the New 'allefy cue
Several years ago he conceived the idca OF puoHsh
ing CHEAP illustrated handbooks Of the annual pct
ure shows and the first issue OF Academy Notes
proved 50 successful that they have been continued
annually ever since. The artists contribute thf
sketches of their pictures themselves and the OPP
porunty OF publishing drawing in the Notes -
eagerly grasped by such exhibitors as are invited 70
send sketches Even the late president Lord Leigh
ton willingly his pencil drawings: The critiques
accompanying the sketches. by Mr. Blackburn,
though of course brief, written with dscrmi-
ma ion and embodied the good features OF each pct-
ure in a few words Mr.. Blackburn was born In
1880 lie was Editor of London Society for two
years and had written and Illustrated large rum
Der Of books art and travel, including Artists
and Arabs" GS6s), picturesque Normandy fNto
Breton Folk $3.50. Memoir OF Randolph Calde-
cott' 0Ss7) and The Art Of Illustration 0N9D. lie
was also n well-known lecturer on art
Canon cott-Robertson. of Canterbury whose
death announced the other day. knew the his
tory OF Canterbury Cathedral better than any one
else In Great Britain, AMI was never 40 happy as
when conducting visitors through IT.
As a contribution TO the revived controversy over
the authorship OF the song "Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground" correspondent Of The Boston
Transcript" claims the honor for Mr. kltredge
who is now living in Reeds Ferry. y. II.
Colonel 4. * Mcclure. the Editor OF THE Phila-
delphia Times" who has been spending some time
I'm Florida IL to visit Charleston. s. g.. the latter
mart OF This week on MS way home and will de-
of that city.
Or Comtcgcan the eminent French physician who
was M the head of the Pasteur Institute and Of the
Museum OF Natural History nj Belgrade. has just
met With shocking death. Under tho belief that ne
VS. taking blcarbonae of soda. ne swallowed In the
dark an entire package of corrosive suDlimate
which ne had dissolved in water.
tho commencement OF the University OF Chicago.