About Progressive People.

James Reopath's name has been removed from the list of members of the Cobden Club.

Felix Prat sees in the French tricolor - fragments of a blouse sewn on to a blood-stained shirt.

Prof. Huxley makes $150,000 a year from his various offices in government and educational institutions.

The late M. Littre translated Dante's "Inferno" into French verse of the thirteenth century by way of pastime.

John Ruskin's health having improved somewhat, he is now engaged on a continuation of his papers entitled "Proserpina."

John Swinton enjoys and doubtless deserves the reputation of being the best after-dinner speaker in the city of New York.

The "Femmes Du Monde" has invited Emile Zola to explain his plan for obtaining the intellectual and moral emancipation of women.

A complete edition of Walt Whitman's poems, carefully revised, but without omissions, will be issued during the autumn by James R. Cagood & Co.

Prince Kropotkin has been expelled by the authorities of Switzerland from the territory which they assume to govern. It is said he will make London his home hereafter.

The late Dean Stanley was thought to be a little too secular by his hearers. "I went to hear about the way to heaven," said one of them, "and I only heard about the way to Palestine."

A four-volume edition of Rousseau's "Confessions," preceded by an essay from the pen of Professor Marc-Monnier, and illustrated by the etchings of Hedouin, has been published by the "Librairie de Bibliophiles," Paris.

Miss Helena Taylor, a niece of John Stuart Mill, takes an active interest in the Ladies' Land League movement in Ireland and England. In company with Miss Anna Parnell she has been delivering addresses to large audiences.

Sojourner Truth has had a large quantity of cabinet photographs taken to sell upon her travels. Upon each card under the picture she has printed the characteristic sentence: "I sell the shadow to support the substance."

George Eliot in her later years always wore a characteristic costume - a long, grace, close-fitting robe. A luxuriant mass of light brown hair hung low on both sides of her head, and was draped with rich point or valenciennes lace.

It is states that the memoirs of Barns, which were the property of the late M. Hortensins de Saint-Albin, and which passed from his hands into the possession of his sister, Mme. Jubinal, will shortly be published in eight volumes.

Gustave Flaubert's villa, near Rouen, wherein he wrote his famous novel of "Madame Bovary," has just been sold for $38,000, and a distillery is to be erected upon the site of the charming mansion, which dates from the time of Louis XV.

Governor Roberts, of Texas, the gentleman distinguished for refusing to order prayers for the president, is sixty years old. He has grey hair, beard, and moustache, and very dark eye-brows. He dresses in a well-worn suit of black, and smokes a corn-cob pipe.

Midhat Pasha refuses to be banished from Turkish soil. "I prefer," he says, "to die here, in sight of the world, as a specimen of the flagrant injustice of your judgements than to perish in the remote corners where my death, like that of a barren tree, would cast no gloom and teach no lesson.

P.A. Taylor, a member of the British parliament, has given notice of his intention, early next session, to call attention to the "undoubted failure of vaccination to prevent epidemics or small-pox," and to move that "it is unjust and impolitical to enforce vaccination under penalties upon those who accord it as unadvisable and dangerous."

James Parton, although one of the most thorough Americans in all his feeling and sympathies, is by birth an English man. He was born in the old cathedral town of Canterburry, whence he was brought to this country at the tender age of four. He was a schoolteacher from nineteen to twenty-five, and began Journalism on the New York "Home Journal," under William and Morris.