About Progressive People.

Mr. A. C. Swinburne writes the article on Walter Savage Landor in the "Encyclopedia Britannica."

The numerous friends of Rev. O. B. Frothingham are urging him to reconsider his decision not to resume his pulpit labor. Their solicitations will probably be unsuccessful.

F. W. Gunn, the head of the "Gunnery School," at Washington, Conn., one of the earliest and most active abolitionists of that state, died recently. He was the original of Mr. Bird in Dr. J. G. Holland's novel, "Arthur Bonnycastle."

Mr. Swinburne writes to the "Rappel:" "England has just lost her last Republican and free-thinking patriarch. My old friend Trelawney is gone, at the great age of eighty-eight, to meet the friends and emulators of his errant and war-like youth - Shelley, Byron, and Canaris.

A monument to Victor Hugo is to be erected in his island home of Guernsey by the inhabitants, who are much attached to him. It was Guernsey that the novelist dedicated his "Toilers of the Sea" - "that small portion of Normon ground, severe yet kind, my present asylum, perhaps my tomb."

Garibaldi's face is described by a recent visitor as absolutely livid, the yellow-white of a corpse, and his hair is perfectly white. His eyes, however, retain fire and move about from side to side, following people around the room, even though he does not change his attitude in the slightest degree.

John Bright's two brothers-in-law, the Lucases, were originally Quakers. One joined the Roman Catholic Church, established "The Tablet" newspaper, and represented an Irish constituency in parliament; the other became a Radical of Radicals. Of the brothers Harcourt, now in parliament, one is a Tory, the other a Liberal, and a Newman, of the Roman Church, has a brother, Francis W., who is a Deist.

Governor Roberts of Texas, who called down on his head unlimited abuse by refusing to join in Governor Foster's project f, or a day of thanksgiving, is accustomed to give his personal supervision to the prisoners in the State penitentiary. Most of them, he says, are young men from the Northwest, East, and North, who, having strayed from home restraints, have fallen into bad company and got into trouble. He tells them that good conduct will shorten their terms, and, if they behave themselves, pardons them out.

Herr Most, the imprisoned editors of the London "Freiheit," will be put up in the Socialist interest for a Berlin constituency at the coming elections. He refused to apply for release from Clerkenwell prison where, although treated as a common criminal, he is exempted from some of the more rigorous conditions attached to that grade. In addition to ordinary prison fare he has two pints of milk daily and is employed at tailoring instead of more laborious work. Most is comparatively cheerful and in fairly good health. He complains of having no books allowed for reading except religious tracts, and being denied the use of pen and paper.

Gen. Garibaldi recently completed his seventy-forth year, and many telegraphs of congratulations were received by him on that day, which was July 4. He was especially pleased by a deputation sent to him in the evening of July 3 by the simple folk of the islet of Maddalena, near whom, on his Caprera rock, he has, in latter years, made his fixed abode. The leader of the deputation made a short address to the hero of Italian unity, who, in reply, thanked them for their good wishes, and disclaimer the tribute as paid to his own person, it being, he said, rather to the sentiment he had always manifested: his person "was worth no more than any other."

The expulsion of Prince Kropotkin from Switzerland will not cause a suspension of "Le Révolté" His friends will superintend its production as Geneva. The prince is still in Switzerland, and will not go to England, until his wife, who is taking the medical course at the University of Geneva, has finished her work, and passed her examinations. In England he will give a course of lectures on the internal conditions of Russia, besides contributing to the columns of the journal published at Newcastle-on-Tyne by Joseph Cowen, M. P., whose guest he is to be. The prince has been a constant visitor to London during the last two years, and formerly resided among the Socialists in Camden Town. He is no longer a young man, but the advance in years has not a whit diminished his revolutionary ardor.