About Progressive People.

One of the forthcoming volumes in the Epochs of Modern History is Mr. Justin McCarthy's monograph on "The Epoch of Reform," from 1830 to 1850.

Professor John Fiske, of Harvard, is to be one of the essayists at the third biennial session of the Ministers' Institute, to be held in Princeton, Mass., in October.

Mr. John Morley's "Life of Cobden" is so near completion that its publication within three months of the present time is confidently anticipated. One volume is already in type.

The cost of erecting Voltaire's statue on the open square bearing his name and that of Etienne Marcel, on the Place de l'Hotel-de Ville , will be defrayed by the Paris municipality.

The Nihilist journal, "The Will of the People" makes known for the first time that the man who the bomb which caused the death of the czar and himself was named Grenevistky.

Castelar, the champion of Republicanism is Spain, declares that both the Carlist and the Christine factors in Spanish politics are daily losing ground, and gives it as his opinion that the dawn of another republic in his country is not far distant.

Walt Whitman, the poet, has been visiting the scenes of his early life, on Long Island, in a company with Dr. R. M. Bucke, of Ontario, who is writing a life of Whitman. The title of the book will be "Walt Whitman: a Study." It will be illustrated with a picture of the poet's birthplace, and an etched portrait. The book will be divided into two parts, one biographical, the other critical, and will be published next spring.

M. Clémenceau, the French Radical leader, has a benevolent habit which no other politician ever possessed - he gives medical advice gratis to his constituents in Montmartre every morning between 8 and 10. M Clémenceau has mobile features, with deep-set, dark, and most expressive eyes. His mouth is curved by a constant smile, in which sarcasm and good humor are ever struggling for, and above it grows a short-clipped black moustache which corresponds with his hair. He is a man short in stature and of nervous, muscular frame.

Arrangements for the enlargement of Mr. Ruskin's St. George's Museum at Walkley, near Sheffeld, Eng., which were interrupted by My. Ruskin's recent illness, have been resumed again since his health was restored. An architect is already engaged in preparing the plans for the gallerias, one of which will be two hundred feet long. The present building in country beyond it. When Mr. Ruskin purchased the land there was not a house upon it, but it is now almost surrounded. Mr Ruskin, who was again suffering a short time ago, has been well enough to offer the hospitalities of Coniston to several friends at the beginning of the country-house season. He will very shortly resume at Amiens those studies which produced the exquisitely beautiful essay, "Our Fathers have told us," published in the spring.

At the recent anti-clerical congress in Paris, Mlle. Maria Doraisme was the lioness of the platform. In argumentative power there is no orator in French chamber the superior of this lady. There is a tinge of acrimony in her style, and a subacidity which gives it zest. Her fingers are slightly awry, her face is long and pointed, and her forehead wide, high, prominent, and very smooth. It rises above penciled eyebrows and bright and feverish hazel eyes. Mlle. Doraisme is a woman of some fortune, keeps a carriage, has a town and country house, and will never marry as long as the status of the married woman is based on Orientalism of the Christian religion St. Paul, who was the exponent to the Greek and Roman churches of the Oriental ideas on woman, is the pet hatred of Mlle. Doraisme. There is not a grain of eccentricity in the manner or method of this oratress when she is on the platform or on her feet at a banquet. She dresses richly and in excellent taste, wears sparkling rings on her slender fingers, flirts a fan worthy to figure in an art museum, gesticulates with ease and sobriety, and astonishes by her intellectual force. If she only sacrificed to the Graces - but that she will never do, - she would be a peerless speaker.