The record-union., 1898-09-18

j. Fl. Watt sends to ''Good Words"
some interesting letters addressed to
Ueffrey when he was editing the Ed
anburgh Review There is an appeal
1rom HaZlitt for a notice of his
shakespeare Characters and another
an which he suggests writing a review
or the Sketch Book There is one
from poor Hayden, who declares his
life to have been "a whirlwind of brill
liant victory and bitter defeat" Macau
day sends an offer to write on Catholic
emancipation, and chuckles over Emp
sons attack on the Benthamites. There
as also letter from Maria EdgeWorth
addressed to Mrs. Hamilton, who sent
IL on to her. 1t contains an account
or the offense given by passage in
patronage" which was enormously
supposed to be an attack on the man.
agement of the London hospitals. Miss
Edgeworth of course disavows this,
and gives details of what was to be
done to appease the angry feeling
aroused by this misapprehenson.
New York Tribune: A Muller-Ury,
the young Bavaran portrait painter,
who has been in New York during the
past four or five winters, is now in
London engaged in painting portraits
Of several of the nobility. His success
there has been so good that it is prob
able that he will remain there for a
year or two, but he may come to
Newport on avisit this month Mr.
Muller-Ury has been asked to paint
the portrait of the New York beauty
Miss Marie Churchill, who has recently
become engaged to Harold Barring Of
n Of haY
and who is now in London. If the
artist paints Miss Churchill it is prob
able that he will have her pose in the
costume Of a Venetian Princes, which
she wore at the Bradley Martin ball,
and in which she made a remarkably
effective picture.
1t is said of the late w G. Willis, the
playwright, that though lavish of
money when he had it, he hated part
ing with it in any formal way When
a friend, to whom he owed f5, took
advantage of his just having received
a check for a play to ask for payment,
the debtor declined on account of the
claims" upon him. The friend, who
knew his ways. came back few hours
later and asked him for Is to help him
out of a difficulty. Certainly, my
boy" said Willis, entirely forgetting
what had gone before. Take what
you want" And he offered him a
handful Of sovereigns.
G. w Cable when he visited the
shrine Of Burns the other day, wrote
in the visitors book what, even for an
impromptu, is a rather weak bit of
rhyme:
OF heavenly stature, but most humble
Gyved with our faults he stands,
Truths white and Loves red roses rem
Whose thorns are in his hands.
Three stories by the late Mrs. Oil
phant are to be brought out soon. They
are entitled THAT Little Guilty." lisa
bel Dysart'' and DIR Bairrere," and
they will be included in one volume.
The late Aubrey Beardsey left a
number of illustrations for Ben JON
sons "Volpone," and an edition with
these decorations win soon be issued in
London.
The family portraits Of Billion Hall.
which once belonged to Joseph Addison
and the Countess of Warwick. have
been sold. In the Billion Hall collection
there were thirty-five portraits. The
most remarkable were a portrait OF +.
de Champagne, Anne of Austria, wife
of Louis XIII, in light blue dress, TO
guineas; Dobson, James third Marquis
of Hamilton, in black silk dress whole
length, so guineas; Sir B. Gerber,
George Villiers, first Duke of Bucking-
ham, whole length, in brown dress, 20o
guineas: Mark Gerard, James l., in
gray dress. signed, $50 guineas; Sir
G.. Kneller, an interesting portrait or
Joseph Addison, three-quarter length
81 guineas; Sir r. Lely. portraits of
Lucy, Countess of Carlisle. in white
dress, and Dorothy, Countess of Leices-
ter, in blue dress, 142 guineas; d. My
tens, Sir William Crofts, in white and
yellow dress. white ruff, standing IN
landscape, 400 guineas; three by Van
dvck-Prince Rupert, in leather coat
and red slashed sleeves, high boots,
lace collar, standing in a landscape,
72O glineas; Prince Maurice in brown
and yellow jacket, white sloshed
sleeves. white lace collar and gorget,
whole length, $50 guineas, and Henry
Rich, Earl of Holland, in leather jack
ct with white slashed sleeves, holding
hat in his left hand, whole length 14o
guineas. and Vandyck and Stone.
charles T., on horseback. and his equer-
ry. 139 by SO inches, 30 guineas.
New York Times: We have no min
iature painters nowadays who produce
works Of art to be compared to some
OF those of eighty or a hundred years
ago Strong talents find other lines
more profitable in which there is
much more liberal room for variety