Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1886, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1886-~TWELVE PAGES, THE CAMPBELLS COMING DOWY | A Leeoherous Lord Brings a Famous | Scotch Family into Dierepute. A TITLED HOUSE OF ARGYLL. | Friends of America and Americans - —~General Grant's Visit to the Lodge on Loch Fyne-Adam Badeau's Reminiscences, New York, Dec, 9.—[Corvespondence | of the Bee.]—The story of the Colin Campbells fills the newspavers of two- continents to-day and is talked of in half the houscholds of New York. Every one must regret 1o a respectable nam dragged in the mire of scandal, and the Campbells have always been one of the most respectable families in Great Brit ain; not only long descended and of the highest rank below royalty, but as well behaved as any in the kingdom of any degree. They have been earls of Argyll for 430 years and dukes since 1700, and are closely connected with the North- umberlands and Sutherlands and Devon- shires and Westminsters—all — ducal houses—to say nothing of earls and bar- ons by the score. They have married time after ime the sons and daughters of sovercigns, and the Marquis of Lorne, the cldest son of the present duke, has kept up the custom in our day. The head of the family is chicf of & clan as well as keeper of t Seal in Scotland; and the loftiness of his connections and ad herents, to say nothing of his own, is something preposterons even toan Eng lishman. When Lord Lorne was married 1o Princess Louise the London Punch de- clared that one of the Campbells ex- elaimed, *Tis o proud woman the queen will be this day.” Itissafe to say that her majesty is not proud of her connee: tion now. Americans may well feel a special pity for the great Scottish chief, for THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, the MacCallum More,was almost the only well wisher this union had in the time of its peril among the high British aristoe- racy. He was not only staunch through- out all our troubles, but has been the constant triend of America and Ameri- cans ever since. He was intimate with Mr. Motley, long before Motley dreamed of being minister to England, and was one of the earliest to grect the historian on his arrival in London as envoy. Sa also, he was ready o weleome Motley suceessor. This recalls seldom been told about MRS, ADSTONE, repowned in her own country for her for- getfulness of ctiquette. When General Schenck arrived in London after the ne- otiation of the treaty of Waslhington, the government wished to sive him with peculiar cordiality. and Mr, Glaa- stone, then prime minister, at once in- vited the new-comer to meet the Argylls for the duke wuas In the cabinet. ~The only evening, however, that Gladstone hud unengaged was Saturday; the house of commons requires the presence of its important members on so many nights in the week that the leader is unable to dine out or to receive at dinner excepton Wednesdays and Saturdays. But General Schenck had a reception at his own house tor Saturday. Still, it wis very de- sirable that he should met the Argylls, and he agreed to delay his presence at his own reception for an hour in order to dine with the prime minister. He left two of his unmarried daughfers fo ceive for him home, departing thus from English custom, and took the thivd with him to Mr. Gladstone’s house, ta meet the Argylls, When he arrived it was discovered that Mrs. Gladstone had forgot to invite the Argylls. owever, his acquaintane was made with this and every subsequent minister of the United States, and not only with inisters. Many are the representatives au literature, politics, science and society who have been weicomed at Argyll Lodge in London orat INVERARY CASTLE, on Loch Fyne. When the widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne made the English eapital her home, 1 persuaded a friend to ask the duchess tocall on Mrs. Haw- thorne, and the fi important English- woman the strange ved s mother of the present Lord Colin Camp- pell. Mrs. Hawthorne was living more than simply at the time, almost obscurely, but the ducal ze was often at her door, und when the American lady sud- denly died, leaving two daughters, young and unused to the world, without ‘a pro- tector, in a foreign land, for their brother ‘was a boy, the good-hearted duchess was a friend, and said and did many kind things for them, more, perhaps than they ever heard of, hile RAL GRANT was in London. he and Mrs, G asked to a garden party at Argyll Lodge but were unable to attend. I was pres- ent, however, and made their excuses, and the Duke then asked me to be sure to let him know when General Grant wvisited Scotland, so that he might receiv the ex-president at Inverary, A month or two later Greneral Grant was at Dun- robin, and 1 wrote from there to the Duke of Argyll, and the visit w: ranged, The general always declared it wag one of the most agreeable that he made in England. The unaffected and comparatively simple hospitality of In- verary pleased him better than the more elaborate coremony with which he was sometimes entertain There was no one invited to meet him but the famly and he really made the acquaintance of his, host. There was a dircetness and lninncls: about |Ii»-‘ duke with whicn Goneral Grant could sympathize. The duiglioss died suddenly at a a few months s d, | Grant. did not forget the courtesies he had reccived, but wrote at once to the dujse from the Continent, though he sel- dom olfery: ndolences. ‘Lhe duke visited the United States duping the presidency of Mr. ilayes, and the American minister of that day in on, Mr. Welsh, offered him a letter to.the president, but he declined tie civil- u‘cfv, remaining only a fow days in Now ‘ork, and passing direct to Canada his son was then goyernor general Fn pitish nobleman ever visited Amer o‘r. who deserved or would have re- ceived a warmer welcome from our citi- it were A8, Lhe family, however, is not popular in Eoglish socloty. Thoy are not rieh. as dugal fortunesgo, and seldom entertain @ plain little Argyll Lodge, their res o) in the outskirts of London, is eclipsed by the ,fi-amh-ur of many a eity merehant’s establishment. The duke haa eleven children, and two or three of bis.sons have been in trade, one of them America, and though one daughter is magried to the future duke of Northum- land, and one son to the duughter of the i apuu, two at least of lus other children F ade matches with people of far mlor grade in British eyes. 4 connection c of the Camp- with the royal family was en- disayproved by the Englishnobility did not like that one of themselyes ld become even in this left-handed ay & relative of the queen. The duke not affable in manners, but what the sh call “cocky;'” he is short and and strats about like : A LITTLE BANTAM COCK who thinks very well of himseif; one al- # expects to hear him erow; and h the first duchcss was gracious " noucof her children inberit their moth- er’s charm. " Phe duke was once a liberal; he has B —— been 4 member of several of Gladstone’s governments, but he deserted the great | champion of the people on the question of Irish land, and became the avowed enemy of his former chief when home rule was the ery. Yet I heard him make a violent speech in favor of the disest lishment of the Irish charch about teen years ago. 1 remember the ves sion because of the faux pas of my own, I was on the diplomatic vm-r at the time as secretary of legation, and stood on THE STEPS OF THE THRONE, listening to the debate: but the discussion was long, and I left the chamber for a while to dine with Dean Stanley, whose hall. Daring our absenée the duke made another speech, as vehement, [ was af- terward told, a8 any ever heard in the house of lords. After our return he came up to the railing that encloses the throne to thank me foran American book [ had sent him, and I_made some remark on the acrimony of the discussion. said had never witnessed greater exeitement in the American senate. The duke looked surprised at the eriticism, and af ter he had left me, some one remarked that his own speech had been more intol erant than any dehvered that night, But this 1 had not known His opposition to the church of Treland may have been heartier beeause he was a Presbyterian. His ancestor was the first great personage in Scotland who ac- cepted the doctrines of the reformation, and the mily ever since been staunch followers of John Knox. Itis not altogether unfair to suppose that re- ligious prejudice aflected his grace in this instance, for his political tencts certainly have been changed by his interests. The descendant of a Highland chief had fol- lowed Gladstone through a score of re forms, but stopped short when_liberalism reached to lordly rents and assailed aristoeratic rights of property in land, Ite is as bitter now as any conscrvative of them all, in defense of his order, and in keeping the people in their place when they strive to rise too near equality with the herr of a hundred barons.” This may be natural, but it is also signifieant. it acy cannot be Iy religious, scientifie, liter- ary, reforming pecr, who was in favor of <0 many changes, dFaws the line at land ive y 120 the son of the duke was arried to Miss Blood, whose story as Lady Colin Campbell the ;whole world is blushing at to-day. For whatever else is proven, itis plain that a woman of in ferior grade was wilhing to stoop very low tosenter so grand a famnly; and the English regard for aristoeracy could hardly go further than the lengths v ported in this trial. Seldom indced have the miserable results of the institution been more plainly st before the world; for the degradation of high and low comes irom one cause. The high would never be so openly dissolute if they were not so high, nor the low so shamelessly mean if the ¢ not so low. Asatis, THE PROUDEST NAMES IN ENGLAND are subjected to the. eriticism of the crowd, Campbell and Churchill, the dukedoms of Marlborough and Argyll, historic both,are dragged into the courts The quecn is'said to be angry with hey conncetion for allowing his'son, who is her daughter’s brother-in- to thrust this scandal pefore the nation; and one of the London journals dec ‘that two or three more such cases will provoke a revalution, This language may be too strong, but the late Siv Charles Trevyl- lian once said to me that the English na- tion would never stand another George IV. ‘I'here are newspapers of ernomus crculation in Great Britain, supvorted hf the humbler cluss, whose pages are filled with every story, true and false, disereditable to” royalty or aristocracy. And this glaring” show of immorality among the so-called great is dangerou: Not by any means that all the racy lead lives like those exposed in th t reports; at le: a third of them as correct and virtuous as uny sim number of people in the world; not that the wealth and luxury, and even idleness of the upper class ssarily breed dis- content in_their iuferiors; but the f: that no disclosures of 1mmorality affect the rank of the nobility: that a man guilty of crime mny be a legislator still; that a noble woman™ who sins remains a noble woman; and that both are often received m_‘“good’ society—this is the mischief, this the wrong, while the high place in which the oflenders sit makes the offense the more conspicaous. To see them going comparatively unpun- ished winle the poor suffer for the same sins; 1o see vice literally rewarded. THE BASTARDS OF KIN the mistresses of lords made the common peopie of to-day did before. nd more than this, it offends the reli gious and moral sense of the English nnddle elass, whichisavirtuous, if some- times narrow and prejudiced, as pure in morals and manners as any cluss in any people on earth. ‘This elass will one day repudiate an aristocracy that is not clean, ‘The stories of this trial, however, it is plain, are not all to be believed, The evidence of the servants of the aristoc: is not the most credible imaginable. Those ants lead as idle and tampered a life almost as their betters; they are fod high; they dance ance at dinners and balls; are witnesses of splendor, sociates, after a fashion, in luxury. They vetted sometimes, but oftener offen- sively treated, a; of unother sort than their n , and incapable of appreciating the sentiments of those they serve. Yet they have keen eyes and sometimes brains, and are the greatest GOSSIP AND SCANDAL MONGERS in England. Scores of fine ladies have to'd me stories of their neighbors which they heard from their maids; and half the tittle-tattle and back biting in London so- ciety originates or is earried from one house to another in this y. At gr country house party the talk of the ser- vants' hallMinds its way up to the dressing rooms, and thence to the dinner table o the guests; and reputations are marred, characters blasted, because of wl learned or reported from sources no- body would name. It one of these servants is malicious, purchasable, false in tongue, and hap- pens to be discharged as he thinks un- , to haye been insulted, or wounded, or wronged, as often doubtless happens the testimony ot such an one should hardly be allowed to blast a woman's reputation or determine a gentleman’ cter, Some of them indeed are different from what I have d scribed; and [ would rather take the fa ble testimony of a loyal servant as convincing, than accept the assertions of a revengeful one to prove the guiit or deerde the fate of one who had “injured him. But the servants of the aristocracy are what the anstocracy have made them; they have the faults which the in- stitution engenders on them; for it acts unfavorably not only in those who are we the rest of mankind that they can sin and not be ashamed, —but on those who look upon themselves as i ferior to the upper class, and thercfore not expected to be honorable or truthful in their relations with them, A few years ago o duchess, not now living, was brought into court. The maid of the Duchess of Westminister sued her mistress for money which it was elaiimed was not her due. She thought that rather than be brought into & petty trial the great lady would pay the demand. But the S, stings if it never DUCHESS and went on the witne and, the maid showed a which her grace bad given her. But the duchess proved that she bad quahfied the “character” in a letter to the Duch ess of Argyll, who hud thought ot engag ing the maid. One ducal personage wrote to another warning her against the servant whom yet she recommended to the rest of the world. It was fair to put the woman off on persons = of less - esulted rank, but when eigh- | fwuh,-m-\- was next door to Westminster | recomiendation | il ducheesee they must warned. The frankness with which this was acknowledged was delightful. But, when duchesses do such things, and ser vants know of them, which is the injured? So to-day the disclosures of the Camp- bells and "Churchilis about themselve ottend not only their own class, but th common people of England. Yet the common people <ee this apparently more plainly than the aristoeracy. Apay Bapeav, it CONNUBIALITIES, came to Albert Champion, of Livingston county, Kentucky, stole John Mitchell's best team and eloped with Mrs, Mitehell, The man who dug the grave for three hus bands of Mrs, Foster, of Green Kay, became her fourth husband last week, Leonard . Montey and Isabella A, Ron- dina_were married in a show window at Providence, R. L, for the purpose of advers tising a furniture store. Mrs. Ferry, daughter of Millionaire Banker Farwell, of Chicago, wants a_divorce from her husband on the ground of abuse. They have been wedded but a few years. A Missouri girl secured an offer of mar- riaze by vutting her name in the bottom of a strawberry box. A woman who will endor: the bottoriiof & strawberry box docsn't de- serve much of a husband. At the age of ten, Mary Yore, whom Mi- chael Davitt is to marry, narrowly escaped being drowned, as the result of an accident on abridge. She was precipitated, with her mother, into a Calitornia river, twenty feet below, and when rescued by a passer-by was unconscious. ‘The Philadelphia bride who was married on the day she was seized with scarlet fever, is rapidly recovering. It seems that her wost peeriliar performance was the result « superstition. She thought that it isa thing to put off a wedding, and that wi dings postponed seldom take plac A French journal gives the curious details of the marriage of M. Nicolini registered a rench vice consulate at Swansea, in . Mie, Patti bringsadot of 4,300,548 @', M. Nicolint registered his Tortune at 1,106,446 {15, 66 ¢, to st up housekeeping with, ‘They had o pay a tax of 13,000 {rs., but do not mention any eentimes. nuel Barrient and his wife Maria ted the other day, at Matamoras, eightieth anniv of their —mir The huspand is one liundred and two of age and his wife ninety-=six. A great throng of offspring, comprising ~ grand- children, — great-grandehildren and great-grandehildren, crowded their home all day long. This_is the first celebration of the kind known in Mexico. At the wedding of Mr. Samuel Townsena and Mrs. Julia’ Gillespie, at Middl Conn., in_view of the fact that Mr, T s Mr, Bryant’s unele, and_his bride yant’s mother, the question of_the complex ” relationshins that My. and M Townsend sustained toward Mr. and Mr: Bryant and their children was diseussed ur Al those participating in the discussion ne hopelessly entangled, ‘Lhe other day & young man and a young woman applied to Rev. George 8. Bell, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Wrightsville, Pa., to be made man and wife. They pre- sented a legal certiticate from the clerk ot the Lancaster county court, under the marriaze license act. But as Mr. Bell lives in Wrights- yilley York county, @ 'Lancaster county cer. tifieate could not be recognized. "The “next best thing to do was to go on the long bridge I spans the Susquehanna river between Wrightsville and Columbia, far enough to get ster county. Tliey started for the , foliowed by a crowd of witnesses,and, ving entered far enough, the martiage ceremony was performed. - DUCATIONAL, Princeton will have an art museum. Harvard has just had a bequest of $300,000. Cornell is more prosperous than she has been for year: The public schools of this country now em- ploy over 500,000 teachers and pay them 92,000,000, an average of a little more than 200 each. The German government has offered a bonus of 81,000 to any teacher who will open a sehool at the Cameroons for the instruction of tho nativ A speclal course in assyriology will begin attheJohn Hopkins university, January continuing through the month under the d rection of Professor Paupt, ¥h. D, ‘The committee of the school museum at Berlin proposes to celebrate in 1500 the cen- tenary of the birth of Diesterweg by found- ing a Diesterweg pedagogical museuin. The Jaw by which it is forbidden in Ger many to give instruction inany subject with- out & proper certiticate or other qualidcation. has lately been extended to cover the case of private teachers, In Oxford, England, there a ty-eight lecture ships, in whicl are given annually 3,159 lectures, to which_are attached an ag- gregate salary of 150,000, with attend ances varying e to’ lifty, and giving a total average of twenty-eight. ‘The number of children under twenty-one and overs vears in the city of New York i mated at 415,000 There are 102 publie nd 225 private ‘schools, not including cols lezes or business schools, In private schools there are 43,000 pupils, and the average daily attendance’ in the public and ~corporate schools for the year was 152936, ‘The total number who attended school at some portion of the. year was i, In the public schools thero are employed 513 male teachers and 3,552 female teachiers, a total of 4,005, “The sehool buildings number 132, of which all but eight are buildings of brick and stone. “The value of the land they oceupy i3 placed at §4,420,515, and of the buildings $5,016,600, Out of 27,061 public sehool children in Buf- falo, only 7,195 are of American parentage, Sixty-eight tribes have no religions teacl & whal and 17,000 heathen Indians are in Wyoming Territory alone. There are now nineteen churches in in Persia, mostly self-supporting; a college for boys and a girls’ seminary, he Methodist sion society raised last year including a balance of $50,000 left over from the previous year Wisconsin needs thirty- isters at once, and fifteen home missionary ehurches are waiting anxionsly for the coming men. The C qua Lite ary soclety, which was started recently in Osaka, Japan, with a membership of 700, has nearly doubled its numbers, A portion of the new synagogue edifice at St, Potersburg has been consecrated. The entire building when finished will cost one willion roubles, A Foreign Missionary society has been or wanized in Bavaria for” the purpose of estab lishing wissions m the new territories o Germany and East Afriea, The proposed union of the Waldensian chureh and the Free ehurch of Italy has been postponed by the refusal of the former to give uv its distinetive name, The first Protestant mission in Guatemala was opened by the Presbyterians two years ago. The country has a population of 1,200-, 000, of which 150,000 are white. Keeent news of a powerful revival comes from the Congo mission of the Baptists, at which the converts and candidates for bap- ism number between 700 and 500, Recent news of a powertul revival comes from theyCongo mission of the Baptists, at which the converts and ewndidates ‘for bap- tism numbered betwoen 700 and 500, An anti-atheistical society has been or- ganized among the young men of the French universities, founded on the broadest basis, 80 as to include Catholic sand Protestants, ‘T'ime works wounderful changes. The fam- ous sermon that John Knox preached in Fd- inburg in 1505, “for the which he was inhib- ited preaching for a seeason,” was sold not long since for $2,075, & ‘The Methodist church in Canada has a per- manently-invested superannuated fund of §160,000, a permanently-invested educational fund of the same amoint, and a missionary income of $180,000 u year. The reformed Episcopal ehureh has now eight parishes in Chicago, all worshipping in Sl an Prilldlngs. Aot a8 aunnilon b permanent rectors. Eleven clergymen are actually at work, and church property is valued at $223,000, ‘The arrival at Bombay of Rev. Henry Fair bank, sou of Rev, Dr, Fairbank of the Mara tha misson of the American board in Wes ern India, makes the seventeenth child of & wissionary of that mission who has joined | the father's ficid of labor. - Iv you sufler pricking puins on moving the eyes, or cannot bear Lright light, and find your sight weak and failing, you shoufd promptly use Dr. J. H. MeLéin’s Strengtaening Dye Sulve. 95 cents a box. T be | more | | THINLY-DISGUIS ED FRENCH BOOKS AND DRAMA. | The Changes of a Quarter of a Century Scarcely Noticeable, INDECENCY The Absolute Absenee of Morals in Old and Naw Books and Operas ~Novels velists— The Era of Mealism. Panis, Nov. 26, 1886,~[Corrospondence of the Bee. | It far ery from 1864, when the second empire still scemed to France as moveless and almost as well rooted as the Alps, to this year of grace, when the republic is triumphant; yet the changes in the intervening quarter of a century have in many things been less than might with reason have been ex- pected Was it not last week, with smiles upon their lips and satisfaction in their eyes, that the members of the real- istic school of Parisian hterature met around the supver board at Odeon to celebrate, as if it were a great event, the production of a drama drawn from the De Goneourts’ — strange novel called Remee Mauperin? And was it not on Saturday evening last that the Belle Helene, of Offenbach seaveely heard of in Pavis since the w reappeared upon the stage and was welcomed as an old friend? “There have been times in these recent years when it scomed as if Paris- vast and imposing literary center, capital of profound and i||~"»i|‘|ug mfluences—had at last rid it- self of the passion for realism carried to extremes, and from that ridiculous ma querading of all things human and re- spectable, which the German Jew Offen- bach had made the rage. But here we are inanother generation, and the De Goncourts are as gre ever, if they be no greater thanofold. The true real- ists like Flaubert, are thrust aside, while the false ones, who pander toa depraved taste and to the original conventional notion of things, get on in the world socially and financially. For it 1s not presumptuous to say that the pretended realism of the De Gon- courts is a humbug and a snare. Exqui- site style, delicacy and refinement of ex- pression cannot compensate for thinly disguised Philistinism in thought and ab- solute absence of morals, When the brothers De Goneonrt brought forth their novel of “Renee Mauperin,” in 1864, a clever eritic of the period spoke thu: is one of the mistakes of realistic writers to suppose that & work of art 1s justitied beeause they may have seen the mod2l of it, although” more or 1ess unnatural, in thereality of life. Thereare in the studios of anatomists hundreds of plas s taken trom nature and moulded from life; but the minutest exactitude of their re- semblance with the subject reproduced does not make objects of art of them. We should not forbid the imitation of de- formity by the novelist and the poet, but we do not like to see them :devote them- selves exclusively to it.””! Thus the eritic: yet all those whom he enlled the impeni- tent realists, even in his day, have gone on sinning, and have madethemselves popu- lar by mere force of persistence. The “Renee Mauperin’ that the DeGoneourts sketched, and that thewr adapting dra matist has presented to the Paris public at the Odeon, 15 a nervous unconven- tional girl, whose nature and character- istics would be delightfuland altogether lovely it she were nat placed in such hideous surroundings. ‘Fhe De Gonceourt brethren could not conteat themselyes with painting an uncomventional girl. ‘They must smirch her with the inevitable smirch of the French realistic drama, and so they place her in a tzagic situation. She discovers that sheshas wedded the man who had been her mothe faithful and devoted lover. Indignant that she has been led into this action, in which she sees a kind of incest, ‘‘'she becomes the instrument of the justice of the gois, who intervenc in a series of catastrophes which end with her own death from a broken heart.” 'This is very pathetic and moving when played by a’ brilliant ac- tress ke Mlle. Cerny, but the spectator cannot help the constant feeling that realism is adopted merely as a pretext for license, and that the play would hxve been a thousand times more bewitching and charming if the villainous part of it had been expunged altogether A word here about the moral whieh the conservatives draw_from the play of Rence Mauperin. They point to the un- fortunate “Renee”’—who is, after all, an innocent being, cursed by’ the wicked actions of those whom she” coald not re- strain—as the type of Freneh girl which may be vxpm-tms when fenmmine educa tion has been carried to the high stand- ard the republic has chosen forit. To an impartial observer, it looks as though the conservative conclusion were th wrong one, and that girls like *‘Renee will be rendered impossible by the repub- lican scheme of education, just as in- trigues which precipitated poor*‘Rence’s’ acath will be less frequent, in conse quence of the many social reforms intro- duced m France in the last quarter of « century As for myself, I confess that haying, on rainy nights, when there was nothing better to do, droned through the pages of the Do Goneourt brethren's novels, I brought away little from them, save the same impression that you get from somany Balzac's tales—thai of being shut up in'a close room with a num- her of wicked and atrocious people, among whom you could dimly discern here and there a touching and ~ beautiful figure like that of “Rence,” or like the still more exquisite one of *‘Eugenic Grandet,” in Balzac’s immortal novel of the same name, To go back for a_moment to the Belle Helene, which mn 1864 was called L'En levement de la Belle Helone; its music has stood the test of time, but its subject matter, 8o to speak, has auite gone out of fashion. Take down a book of engrav. ings of 1864, and turn over the leaves, See how ridiculous and absurd seem, to your eyes of 1886, the costumes of the past generation, 8o it is with the literary fashions. There is the smart cut of the paletot into which,in the sparkling words of the now departed Jouvin, Offenbach montded the gods and goddesses of k mythology; but there is old-fashioned at- mosphere and color to the thing which will not let it be lasting. Poer old Often- bach—his final days were! fall of gloom. He was forever burning with a desire to do immortal work, yet forever writing the “pot boi which made the heathen laugh. ~ Perhaps his happiest moment was when he first seized with the comical notion that it woulll be a fine thing to make French t edy dance a jig. - His sense of the ridieulous was sharpencd by his frequent visits to the tragic theaters, where |fm henoes of Cor- neille and Pacine convarse in periods roundly turned and nicely polished, but in Janguage such us no human being ever yetenjoyed. Offenbach laughed at the ‘rench,” but the giddy French of that period Jaughed with him In one respeet Paris has improved in a quarter of a century, as I said above; all society will flock to the Odeon to see a beantiful actress jump upon her tabl swing her feet like a boy, lie upon he stomuch with her heels in the air, and do a thousand tom-boy tricks which in re French life would condemn a young girl in less than a year to perpetual seeluision behind the eanvent walls; but the Tout- Paris would not sanction it dia sane. tion under the empire, the scandels and indecent conduct of 'an actress in the Belle Helene whose amours and contempt for the public were alike legendar Auother old acquamtance has seen the light within the last few days; that is our isa ancient friend, (e motley spectacular picce of Round the World in 80 Days. tere we come down tom the cloudly heights of pretended realism o the sunny plains of the incoherent spectacie, He 18 no waste of realism. Here we find the stage what M. Sarcey in a burst of frank- ness once declared it shonld be—de- voted to a series of pleasing and startling surprises, with nothing inhar- monious, but without much care for the exact fruth, If we were to judge M. Jules Verne'svealizm by the way he put upon the stage a San Francisco bar or a trans-continential train of ears,we should perk:ap, be inclined to doubt the authen ticity of the splendid scenes in India ana in other parts of this planet visited by “Phileas Fogg" in his w :\||\|l'li|l%fi‘ What A crazy piece is this *“Round the World in 80 Days” yet not more crazy than the new ballet wroduced at the grand opera, where certuinly we have the right to ex- peet harmony of score and story. The authors of the “Two Pigeons™ have suc ceeded in doing nothing better than stringing upon an unattractive thread the searls of Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Roumanian musie. The cye is dazzled with too much color. The ear 1s sated with too great variety. The general im Pression is dull and vague. At the opera there is nothing ~ really worthy of mention, save the debut of Mlle. d*Alvar in La Juive, which noble opera has now passed beyond its 500th performance, Madame Ristori 1s here on her annual visit, but has no intention of appearing before the publie, contrary to the general announcements, either in Marie Antoinette or any other play. 1 shall never play again, I shall never play again, " suys she, “unless for char ity:" and she is giving her whole atten- tion to the publication of her memoirs, and to a critical analysis of her princi- pal creations. ‘This book is to be pub- lished simultancously in French, f,u;,v- lish and Italian in the month of Februury of next year. I ¢ that the veteran impresatio 1s also writing memoirs of his long and fruitfal career, and when these are given to the world they will certainly be entertaning and instruetive. I have left myself but little room to speak of this week's books, It seems o reneral opinion t M. Ludovie Ialevy has made a failure with Princesse, which, m told, he intended for his crowning work, The subject is old, the treatment 15 mengre, and the lightness of touch so noted in the earlier works 1s missing. A at book—1 wish 1 could say a good e—is M. Octave Mirbeau's Le Calvaire; and ther: y little doubt that it will be suppressed in Germany, for the author has allowed his patriotism to run riot. or this we have no canse to blame him. Both Mirbeau and Richepin are feeling their way blindly through a host of mis: kes into a field where they will achieve distinetion. 1f only they would consent to draw fresh and idyllie figures of pure men, women and childven, rather than paint with pre-Raphaelite minuteness nasty or eccentric types, how thoroughl we could sympatiise and rejoice with them! Wh contrast is offered by turning from these records of passion and nev- pse to the noble and peaceful “Sou nirs” of Comte Leon Tolstoi, the great Russian novelist. These *“‘Souvenirs” are now published 1 French for the firs time, and have been carefully translated by Arvide Barine, with the author’s per- mission. They comprise the |n-|'|.u] of childhood, adolescence and youth, and form a delightful picture of Russian life n the past generation. TA certain quaint and delicate humor pervades each page of this volume, which is quite as conelu- sive a proof of Comte ‘lolstoi’s genius ag “War and Peace.”” The pen portraits of his father and mother are equal to any- thing in Tourgeneft’s gallery of character sketches. The author ceased to record his remembrances of his *‘Youth” just as he wasabout to analyze his *moral de- velopment.” May we not regard his book alied “My Religion™ as thie sequel to these “Souvenirs’ which were inter- rupted as long ago as 1830°? Epwarp KiNG. S MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Signor Campobello has joined the Duff Opera company. Colonel Haverly wants to get a theater in New York again. Richard Mansfield will have a repertoire of four plays next season, Mile. Rhiea has made a_hit_in Peggy in ““The Country Girl.” The year 155 is now fixed by Patti and Nicolini for their final retizement from the stage, Osmund Tearle was a failure in California, Boston as and Manager Haynian is said to be $5,00 out of pocket. Muy lodjeska’s latest new play, “The Chouans,” is gloomy and welancholy, vet it draws well. Stuart Robson’s Tony Lumpkins is said to be an entirely original‘and execedingly ludi- erous creation, Rose Coghlan intends to have some real live deer onthe stage when she produces *As You Kike It.” Lilian Lewis is nesotiating for a new play entitled *“The Brazilan,” 'The author is Miss Fanny Aymar Mathews, Miss Van Zondt is yet in Paris, slight’ symptoms of ‘paralysis of th but hier voice is im good condition. ‘The monument to Weber will be inaugu- rated at Eutin, his birthplace, on_the 15t of December next, the centenary of his birtl, Four of Ada Rehan’s sisters are called re- speetively” Hattie O'Neil, Dridzet Sulli Madame’ Ninon 1'Encloss and Kate I3y Mary Dickens, a granddauzhter of the novelist, will joih Barry Sullivan’s company in London at Christmas as leading juvenile, The statements that Coquelin contemplates an early visit to the United States, and that Le willuet Tartufie here, are reiterated trom Paris The Kiralfy brothers state that they have not dissolved partnership, and that the firm will remain the same as 10r the past eighteen years. Ltobe 1o his repertoire, tony. The mounting of the pl niticent. Mine. J men thie most be will make her a prine but how about Oshlos! nor Galassi Is singing as splendidly Some years ago his friend Cany- panini was deploring the violence of Galassi’s Style, fearing it would affect his voice; but, as yet there 1% no sign of decay. Only ““property Kisses” are permitted by Liss Zelie De Lussan of the Boston Ideals, when on the stage. Tie tenor Williams says that an embrace of the heroine is like proaching a refrigerator filled with sausage, Cheese and macaroni. Kate Forsyth 15 credited cored a decided suceess in_the new play, Faithful Hearts,” written for lier by Clin- ton Stuart. The piece is of the distinctly- emotional, or what the dime novels call Ssoul inspiring” character “The Crown Prince of Sweden and his sister recently appeaved let and Oplielia in an improvised She has s limbs, t Downing will add “Julins Caesar” Ite will star as Mare An y 18 to be mug- anish considers the Baltimore atiful in the world. This vorite in Baltimore, with having “Hamlet” in the Pal- theatre. The play was altered at the de- sire of the prince, snd Ophelia was ed Trom the waves.and Hamlet was only slightly wounded, the curtain falling after” the mar riage, Le Menestrel says that enormous suc- 55 of the comie opera, “I'ne Trumpeter of Sakkingen,” is due neither to its wouds nor | its music, but to the fact that it embodiesa | zend which has for centuries been popilar in all the Khin tries. The author lis already made £5,000 and the composer £5,000 by the opera Colonel Henry Mapleson says that Mue Marie Rose wiil, at the conelusion of her present engazement with Mr Carl Jt wake & wour through the United States, then 10 Australia, returning to Europe via Ching and India, and then to 1’aris, where she wiil resume her former position at tie Grand opera house, Paris. Buffalo Bill has added another his Wild West show whieh light by the great audiences at Square garden, New York. It realistie cyclone. ‘The wonster the tents at the close of the show, aud b thew into smitherecns, | areh Lrom tho scene by the territe wind blasis, sud hailed with de Madison is a b tori s | Before youw make your purchas s's., Opera House Drug Store, Prices as Low as the Lowest: rom £1 to $30 s, Cobb’s Goods a speeialty. from §2 to § axe's Beautiful Display OF HOLIDAY GOODS, Cor, 15th and Farnam 50 designs in Manicure Sets, The celebrated M, 100 designs in Dressing case: Beautiful Odor and Jewell Cases in plush and leather The latest designs out, in Card Cases, Purses and Port= y with coin silver trimmings. Gentlemen's Smoling Sets, Traveling Companions, Cigar We handle nothing but the best quality and owr prices are as low as any house in the city for the same class of goods. - Prang’s X-Mas Cards a Specialty. Cases, ete, ete, - HINTS FOR THE THOLIDAYS. Seal Caps, Seal Gauntlets, Seal Walking Gloves, Seal Turban Caps. $6 and $10. Special Bavgains. Celebrated Selvern Silk Mufilers, i Silk Suspenders, 1k Handkerchiefs 1y Neckwear, Gloves and Ho- A full line of the “Seal’ Caps_and_Gloves, | Noveltics in Holid Knit C | Jersey Caps, Toboggan Caps. Good Warm Knit Caps, 40c¢, 7oe and $1. ————YOUMAN H. B. HUDSCN, Agent. Millard Hotel Bloek, 1222 Douglas st. ting a seat, exclaimed: in"a_heap on the floor. gentleman at once arose and the lady was seated as publish men and women disappenr as if sent hi lone by an irreststable power. combined _etfect of s thousands of dollars, it d blows with res anvas with bona fide re- nes costing many aid, and_the foree against think s0 now, but by the time she gets all the jet trimming'and stufl for the overskirt, she will find that about ten dollars more are nec v, not includiug Ton dollars are enough for the ma and makizg cost ke sixty. OWN s cut in princess form, It immering blue Japanese sitk, daintily_embroidered with hawthorne blo soms, with here and there golde amid the flowers with Tont it opens over i e HONEY FOR THE LADIES. aftan is the newest turban. trims petticoats, the dressmak the trimming Dolls are prettier, finer and cheaper withal No feathiers are used on the newest bonnet and turbans. charming e amy lace petticout, Vi ds of gold, and at the sides the sKirt is eut 50 as to show folds of the lace. At the back the drape t in two tonc un with thre ceedingly rich, Isyown in light shades is the tavorite eolor for boucle jackets. lhas a gown which cost $4,000, Mume. Patti_is to be paid §150,000 for ber six months’ singing. will probably be dressed high for this and another seasoi. v vet is appropriately with bands of chinehilla, Black furs are becoming to all pale and sallow women. Cirele cloaks are worn only by elderly wo- men of conservative tastes. Bar pins with pendants of onyx, moon- tite are worn. Blue fox boas are pretiy but trying to the complexion. Silk and beaver hats are the popular dressy for young girls, esigns oceupy a brics for evening we; Is are growing in fayor. n are tempted by them. Brooches have the cre in diamonds supor Queen chains ave of cold finish and of onyx with hoop earrings New designs are 10ops get with dinmonds Solid gold buttons fastening the is tull and st rincess of Wales lately got from Jaris a winter costume trimmed with o fine, made by Worth 1 greatly adinived y fur, which a_ sportsman, remarked to Kind of fur this is and miee,” ho replied, laughing that sport to the sewe princess doesn’t like. the husband: “tell me 1 don’thunt rats And now th costume as well a L — A REMARKBLE SEPARATION. Voluntary Pa Years of Happy Marricd Life, ch of December1 to One of the Sensations ¢ A Hartford dis) the New York T most extraordi known m Halifax stone or heni fashionable, woman to whom he rs, because he did not belicve in the sight of Sumichrast e literate and_ linguist leading place | ated from the nt and star desizn rofessor of modern languiges in King's aceted oval links I ; ey I newspaper, ar years he has been pring the sous y of Halifax finish their ed- ol is_ supported by Bishop Binney and the leading men i his s the latest faney for bodies of dresses of rich fab- velvets have not been a suceess this season in spite of the attempts to popularize Mr. Sumichr: in love with'the hindsome young widow Princess Beatrice’s son as ¢ infant teft on Britunia’s doorstep. Jet nets over velvet and much in favor, plush bonnets “The plush and velyet white, black, red or any other preferred ‘Turbans are tho correct w bonnets for afternoon and evening, big hats ad out of own wear. When M. B. son’s widow the engagement Sumi- youth he had French girl Seotinn politician Almon died ar for morning, an unhappy one he had never e believed she diivorce was perfectly le: Years ugo Prof. H. Y Brit:shh expert witness before the fishery a4 professors chair in a long waist obtains favor on the other side. Astrakhan plaid plush, in g and two tones of brown, has effeet, the light-toned plush bedng in high re- if alive the Mrs. Almon Faille Francaise in all the new colors, ser- commission King's colloge. Sumichrast mousse green, has floxal designs in ck velvel evening dress, eut en prin- white crepe de Dodics is also trimmed with gold embividered sprang up b Professors Sum ' ch Iy had warbled: “Would I were a Bird,” was catised by winer in the audie B and Hind employed an were & gun ! ot out the history of came to Canala, bouts of his fir burgh Inwyer to fo Sumichrast and the where was found that she had married a Fr lizabeth Cleveland’s 1 Dilemina of the Ninte 1t doubtless refers o th of trying to IMALAZINE I b town like Cliic cd a circuiar clergymen of the ing that Bishop Binney Licking up Professor Sunichra man whom he knew for vears With & woman not his wife in produced pes on ottonn Then Professor Hind addr 1 ground are shown in combi Toon ground green has brown and green stripes, and blue 165 of brown, leads a Wyoming man ing notice th wife again he had better him, for my shotgun i hesitate to use it.”" A dinner dress of s skirt of rieh Burgune it the sherifl come bring a posse witl Wi |, When Bishop Biuney ueknowledged t Lis first wife Ihe vest and the velvet, embroidered with beads of the same tint, over-dress ar ranged in jabot folds at the bac Lady Randolph still living, in 1l wus unlawi rmined to separate from Thir drapery immediately A dress recentiy worn by 1 wiats & combination of tintsof helio cmbroidered with ull happily for The draperies were of black hodice wis of Tich of purple with a reddish tinge, Somehow or other it shoks a young man's agirl 1o have he the theater when she we, » Lanztry the ler young man who fiex there that 3 box of caramels way 10 the show Au evening dres: esse hias the draperies o ered with roses and 1o entered a eiowded | gentleimen wud