A new street in Paris is to be named after Littré, the great positivist and lexicographer.
The artist Collier has just completed an excellent and life-like portrait of Charles Darwin.
The name of Thoreau has become extinct in this country, it is said, by the dead at Bangor, Me., of Miss Martha Thoreau, an aunt of the late Henry D. Thoreau. The latter was the last male descendant of a large family.
A great-great-grandson of Danton has subscribed five florins towards the monument which is to be erected to his famous ancestor. This descendant of the member of the Convention is Aloys Emile Danton, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army.
It is reported that Karl Marx is dying. His wife, whose death was chronicled in our last issue, was a woman of brilliant talents, descended from an aristocratic and extremely orthodox Prussian family, allied, it is said, to the Scottish house o Agryll.
Professor Huxley had a cook that got so drunk and raised such a row in his house that the police were called. As she was hustled through the yard she let her tongue fly, and gave the professor a blast, of which the only words that could be made out were to the effect that he was a "damn atheist."
The remarkable types of Nihilist women are well known. Vera Sassulitch, whose shot inaugurated terrorism, was the most modest of her sex. In the court-room she blushed when she perceived any one staring at her. Lydy Figner, a charming lady and an accomplished singer, got her eight years in the Siberian mines by sitting in a parlor and playing the piano for weary hours, trying to drown the noise made by the secret printing press in the next room. Anna Lebedeff, a priest's daughter, in the disguise of the wife of a switchman, lived in a watch-house on the railroad, and was found on a box filled with dynamite, chatting with the switchman. Sophy Perovskaya, the daughter of a general and senator, who declined the dignity of maid of honor to the empress and entered the Nihilist fraternity, did the Moscow mine and directed the late Czar's assassination. Sophy Bardin, who was welcomed as a shining star in the literary horizon, wrote a few poems which, though gems of Russian literature, were treasonable, and the singing of them is a State crime.
It was generally supposed that the charges made by Henri Rochefort against M. Roustan in regard to Tunisian affairs had got the famous radical into trouble, but to Tunisian affairs had got the famous radical into trouble, but on the contrary he, alone of those involved, has come out with flying colors. In the suit brought by Roustan, Rochefort was acquitted on every point. The New York "Tribune" thus describes the defendant's appearance in court: "Rochefort's boldness in refusing to challenge the jury told in his favor. His attitude in court was also prepossessing. Spectators, and one may surmise jurymen as well, observed that his air was distingué. He was dressed by a fashionable English tailor, and did not look in any wise foppish. There was frankness in his manner, in his answers, explanations, and observations. He might have been mistaken, he might have been unfairly violent; but his good fail was patent. Gatineau, his counsel, made a point by alluding to all the misery that Rochefort's intrepidity as a journalist had brought upon him. He had never used his pen to accomplish mercenary ends, and went into the war against finacio-politicians with perfectly clean hands. Rochelfort's face is not nearly so fat as it was when he came back from exile. It now looks like a skill carved in old yellow ivory, with two coals of fire to serve as eyes. The flash of the coals appears to light up the caverns at the remote ends of which they are placed. Thick, frizzly, pepper-and-salt hair covers the head, and is arranged in a curious tuft at the coronal region. Rochefort showed presence of mind. His questions were full of meaning, and opened wide vistas which the presiding judge wished to keep shut to the jury. The Lanternier occasionally let fall a droll observation, which, in every case, had the effect of throwing a strange light upon the case. His voice is as peculiar as his head and face. It is singularly distinct. The chin acts with a chopping motion when he speaks. Gleams and glances of the flashing eyes italicize. As his chest is of enormous girth, what he says is heard a long way off. Clemenceau says that Rochefort is wider around the shoulders than any other Frenchman that he knows."
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8/5/13
About Progressive People.
Frederick Douglass is writing the reminiscence of his life since he became a free man.
Professor Haeckel, the eminent evolutionist, has arrived at Vienna on his way to Ceylon.
Casabianca, a prominent French anarchist, committed suicide recently at Marseilles.
George Jacob Holyoak is soon to publish the "Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens, Preacher and Political Orator."
Gov. Robert of Texas, declares that "the civilization capable of republican local self-government begins and ends with the plough."
M. Jules Valles, the former communist, is putting the finishing touch to a five-act play, the title of which will be "La Barque."
Prince Kropotkine's wife, who has just passed an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science at Geneva, intends to graduate in medicine at University College, London.
Mr. Zola has no patience with his critics, and incessantly chafes under their strictures. He declares that he is going to gather all the abuse heaped on him in print, and publish it in one volume, entitled, "Their Insults." This, he says, will be his apology.
In accordance with direction given before his death by the late Professor W. Kingdon Clifford, the young English radical and scientist whose career gave so much promise, his widow has caused the following beautiful inscription to be carved upon his monument: "I was not, and was conceived. I loved, and did a little work. I am not, and grieve not."
Rich men read Henry George's books, which are principally written to instruct the poor and show them how they are oppressed. One of these rich men told George that he much admired his writings, though directed against his interests, but feared them not. "Why so?" said George. "Because," replied the millionaire, "though I read the books you write, the people for whom they are written never look at them."
A Norwegian paper publishes a statement by the Bjoernatjerne Bjoernson, the novelist, and one of the leaders of the Radical party in Norway, in which he says that his party is composed of Republicans, and that they do not confine themselves to being Republicans in theory and in secretly cherishing hopes of establishment of the government of their choice. They are, he says, working to bring about Republic, and they do all they can to forward the cause of national sovereignty against regal authority.
Cipriani, an Italian anarchist, who was expelled from France a few months ago and arrested and imprisoned on proceeding to Italy, has made a daring attempt to escape from the fortress of Millan, in which he is confined. He endeavored to escape from the fortress of Milan, in which he is confined. He endeavored to escape from the window, the bars of which he had industriously filed through, but his design was frustrated at the last moment. The files of which he made use were small ones, furnished by the prisoner's friends, who concealed them inside some cigars they brought to him as a present.
M. Louis Blanc is not only a great orator, but he has charm of manner, is exquisitely courteous, and has a delicate social conscience. He is not wealthy, having only enough to keep up in Paris a modest establishment furnished in this massive English style. The dead wife he loved so much was attached to her lares and penates, and took to France the furniture of the London home where she and M. Blanc passed the happiest years of their married life. For her sake he clings to the heavy mahogany chairs and tables, and spacious bookcases and sideboards, which they brought with them from England.
Ruskin, in his latest book, "The Bible of Amiens," writing on the homage paid to the Virgin Mary, says: "Neither Madonna worship, nor lady worship of any sort, whether of dead ladies living ones, ever did any human creature any harm; but that money worship, wig worship, cocked-hat-and-feather worship, plate worship, pot worship, and pipe worship, have done and are doing a great deal; and that any of these and all are quite million-fold more offensive to the God of heaven and earth and the stars than all the absurdest and loving mistakes made by any generation of His simple children show what the Virgin Mother could or would or might do for them.
Professor Haeckel, the eminent evolutionist, has arrived at Vienna on his way to Ceylon.
Casabianca, a prominent French anarchist, committed suicide recently at Marseilles.
George Jacob Holyoak is soon to publish the "Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens, Preacher and Political Orator."
Gov. Robert of Texas, declares that "the civilization capable of republican local self-government begins and ends with the plough."
M. Jules Valles, the former communist, is putting the finishing touch to a five-act play, the title of which will be "La Barque."
Prince Kropotkine's wife, who has just passed an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science at Geneva, intends to graduate in medicine at University College, London.
Mr. Zola has no patience with his critics, and incessantly chafes under their strictures. He declares that he is going to gather all the abuse heaped on him in print, and publish it in one volume, entitled, "Their Insults." This, he says, will be his apology.
In accordance with direction given before his death by the late Professor W. Kingdon Clifford, the young English radical and scientist whose career gave so much promise, his widow has caused the following beautiful inscription to be carved upon his monument: "I was not, and was conceived. I loved, and did a little work. I am not, and grieve not."
Rich men read Henry George's books, which are principally written to instruct the poor and show them how they are oppressed. One of these rich men told George that he much admired his writings, though directed against his interests, but feared them not. "Why so?" said George. "Because," replied the millionaire, "though I read the books you write, the people for whom they are written never look at them."
A Norwegian paper publishes a statement by the Bjoernatjerne Bjoernson, the novelist, and one of the leaders of the Radical party in Norway, in which he says that his party is composed of Republicans, and that they do not confine themselves to being Republicans in theory and in secretly cherishing hopes of establishment of the government of their choice. They are, he says, working to bring about Republic, and they do all they can to forward the cause of national sovereignty against regal authority.
Cipriani, an Italian anarchist, who was expelled from France a few months ago and arrested and imprisoned on proceeding to Italy, has made a daring attempt to escape from the fortress of Millan, in which he is confined. He endeavored to escape from the fortress of Milan, in which he is confined. He endeavored to escape from the window, the bars of which he had industriously filed through, but his design was frustrated at the last moment. The files of which he made use were small ones, furnished by the prisoner's friends, who concealed them inside some cigars they brought to him as a present.
M. Louis Blanc is not only a great orator, but he has charm of manner, is exquisitely courteous, and has a delicate social conscience. He is not wealthy, having only enough to keep up in Paris a modest establishment furnished in this massive English style. The dead wife he loved so much was attached to her lares and penates, and took to France the furniture of the London home where she and M. Blanc passed the happiest years of their married life. For her sake he clings to the heavy mahogany chairs and tables, and spacious bookcases and sideboards, which they brought with them from England.
Ruskin, in his latest book, "The Bible of Amiens," writing on the homage paid to the Virgin Mary, says: "Neither Madonna worship, nor lady worship of any sort, whether of dead ladies living ones, ever did any human creature any harm; but that money worship, wig worship, cocked-hat-and-feather worship, plate worship, pot worship, and pipe worship, have done and are doing a great deal; and that any of these and all are quite million-fold more offensive to the God of heaven and earth and the stars than all the absurdest and loving mistakes made by any generation of His simple children show what the Virgin Mother could or would or might do for them.
4/9/12
About Progressive People.
Leo Hartmann , the Russian nihilist, sailed for Europe from New York on the 6th inst.
Geribaldi, who is now a constant sufferer from illness, is looking for a warm place wherein to spend the winter, Capri being too bleak.
Carlo Cafiero, one of the most active Italian revolutionists, has been thrown into prison at Lugano, in company with several fellow agitators. The arrest took place at midnight, and for no assigned cause.
The president of the French republic has issued a decree authorizing the city of Guise to establish a national subscription for a monument to the memory of Camille Desmoulins, the first prominent instigator of the French Revolution, born at Guise, March 2, 1760.
On accusations preferred by B. Malon and supported by Lissagaray, the historian of the Commune of Paris, before a large meeting of the radicals of the French capital, Charles Lullier was expelled recently from the radical party for having betrayed the Commune in 1871.
Michael Morphy, who, some months after imprisonment for participation in a Socialist demonstration, was expelled from France, lately returned, and started a newspaper , styled "La Republique Sociale," in which he signed himself, "Redacteur en Chef Delegue, Michael Morphy, expulse de France." He was arrested while leaving M. Rochefort's house, and will be prosecuted for returning without permission.
Mrs. Besant delivered a lecture on "The Rights of Constituencies," in Bishop Auckland, England, lately. On the lecturer's appearance she was greeted with howls and hisses. Some of the more noisy were with great difficulty expelled by the police, but the disturbance was renewed, chairs and tables being broken, and about a dozen persons more or less seriously injured. The room was ultimately cleared, and Mrs. Besant delivered her lecture.
Rarely has any literary undertaking been pursued with such perseverance and industry as were bestowed by Littre upon his great dictionary of the French language. He is said to have worked upon it every night for years until 3 o'clock in the morning. The printing began in 1859, six years before the work was completed, and lasted until 1872, with two interruptions occasioned by the outbreak of the war between France and Germany and by the Commune in Paris, the one lasting about seven months and the other two. The printing was resumed before the reign of the Commune was over, and the proof-sheets were allowed to pass through the German lines from Paris to Versaille, where Littre was staying, and back. Littre was a member of the chamber of deputies, and is described as working placidly at his proof-sheets in his seat in the chamber amid the most violent and exciting scenes and debates. During the war with Germany he deemed it prudent to make a hasty retreat from the country house where he lived, upon the approach of the hostile army. During his absence the German troops entered the house, but upon his return he found that nothing had been taken away, and that his fine library was uninjured.
Victor Hugo lately went through a pretty scene at an asylum in Paris for the orphan children of actors. It was established by members of the profession, and is still poor; and the founders, therefore, appealed for help to the poet, whose fondness for children has earned for him the title of "Grandpere de la France." The poet responded to the call, and paid what may be called an official visit to the institution. He was received by the little inmates with acclamations of joy. One of them, a charming girl of eight years, presented him with a handsome bouquet, and said: "Maitre, you have come to visit children, you the Grandpere who loves the children so deeply, and who sings their praises so divinely, and these children belong to that artistic family of which you are the most glorious and striking profession. Permit us to tell you how profoundly grateful we feel, and to offer you this bouquet, the flowers of which say - 'Forget us not; we shall never forget this memorable day when the poet of genius designs to come and see little children.' " M. Victory Hugo, who, in the presence of children, is tenderness itself, literally wept as he took the little orphans up in his arms and kissed them. He promised to do all he could do for the orphanage.
Geribaldi, who is now a constant sufferer from illness, is looking for a warm place wherein to spend the winter, Capri being too bleak.
Carlo Cafiero, one of the most active Italian revolutionists, has been thrown into prison at Lugano, in company with several fellow agitators. The arrest took place at midnight, and for no assigned cause.
The president of the French republic has issued a decree authorizing the city of Guise to establish a national subscription for a monument to the memory of Camille Desmoulins, the first prominent instigator of the French Revolution, born at Guise, March 2, 1760.
On accusations preferred by B. Malon and supported by Lissagaray, the historian of the Commune of Paris, before a large meeting of the radicals of the French capital, Charles Lullier was expelled recently from the radical party for having betrayed the Commune in 1871.
Michael Morphy, who, some months after imprisonment for participation in a Socialist demonstration, was expelled from France, lately returned, and started a newspaper , styled "La Republique Sociale," in which he signed himself, "Redacteur en Chef Delegue, Michael Morphy, expulse de France." He was arrested while leaving M. Rochefort's house, and will be prosecuted for returning without permission.
Mrs. Besant delivered a lecture on "The Rights of Constituencies," in Bishop Auckland, England, lately. On the lecturer's appearance she was greeted with howls and hisses. Some of the more noisy were with great difficulty expelled by the police, but the disturbance was renewed, chairs and tables being broken, and about a dozen persons more or less seriously injured. The room was ultimately cleared, and Mrs. Besant delivered her lecture.
Rarely has any literary undertaking been pursued with such perseverance and industry as were bestowed by Littre upon his great dictionary of the French language. He is said to have worked upon it every night for years until 3 o'clock in the morning. The printing began in 1859, six years before the work was completed, and lasted until 1872, with two interruptions occasioned by the outbreak of the war between France and Germany and by the Commune in Paris, the one lasting about seven months and the other two. The printing was resumed before the reign of the Commune was over, and the proof-sheets were allowed to pass through the German lines from Paris to Versaille, where Littre was staying, and back. Littre was a member of the chamber of deputies, and is described as working placidly at his proof-sheets in his seat in the chamber amid the most violent and exciting scenes and debates. During the war with Germany he deemed it prudent to make a hasty retreat from the country house where he lived, upon the approach of the hostile army. During his absence the German troops entered the house, but upon his return he found that nothing had been taken away, and that his fine library was uninjured.
Victor Hugo lately went through a pretty scene at an asylum in Paris for the orphan children of actors. It was established by members of the profession, and is still poor; and the founders, therefore, appealed for help to the poet, whose fondness for children has earned for him the title of "Grandpere de la France." The poet responded to the call, and paid what may be called an official visit to the institution. He was received by the little inmates with acclamations of joy. One of them, a charming girl of eight years, presented him with a handsome bouquet, and said: "Maitre, you have come to visit children, you the Grandpere who loves the children so deeply, and who sings their praises so divinely, and these children belong to that artistic family of which you are the most glorious and striking profession. Permit us to tell you how profoundly grateful we feel, and to offer you this bouquet, the flowers of which say - 'Forget us not; we shall never forget this memorable day when the poet of genius designs to come and see little children.' " M. Victory Hugo, who, in the presence of children, is tenderness itself, literally wept as he took the little orphans up in his arms and kissed them. He promised to do all he could do for the orphanage.
4/2/12
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.
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.
3/26/12
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.
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.
3/19/12
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.
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.
3/11/12
About Progressive People.
M. Jules Valles, of Communist renown, has written a four act comdy entitled "Les Reguliers."
Mr. E. L. Youmans, editor of the "Popular Science Monthy," and his family are summering at Saratoga.
Algernon Charles Swinburne has written a poem called "The Statue of Victor Hugo," which will appear in "The Gentleman's Magazine."
Mr. Karl Blind has written an essay on recently discovered Shetlandie folk-lore, the first part of which appears in the "Contemporary Review" for August, under the title of "Germanic Water Deities."
Mrs. Annie Besant has passed in the first class at the preliminary examination for the degree of B. Sc. in the University of Loudon, her tutor being Dr. E. B. Aveling. Mrs. Besant has also passed in the advanced classes in seven subjects at South Kensington.
Henri Rochefort refused to be a candidate in the coming French elections, saying: "I have no desire to enter that hospital where, the 363 [the number of Gambetta's followers in the chamber of deputies have been exhibition their plague-spots and deformities."
At the recent burial in Halle, Germany, of Anlauff, the German socialist, the followers in the funeral wore red flowers in their button holes. Ceremonies at the grave were prevented by the police. Anlauff was banished from Berlin at the time that city was declared under state of siege, and later from Leipzig when that city was included with Berlin under that condition.
The radicals of Belleville, the communist quarter of Paris, who elected Gambetta to represent them in the chamber of deputies before that time-server adopted his policy of opportunism, have pitted against him in two arrondissements for the coming election Sigismund Lacroix, a member of the commune of 1871, and Tony Revillon, and are giving these candidates a strength of support unexpectedly formidable.
The Marquis of Queensbury, at a conference of the British Secular Union held at Leicester recently, read a paper in which he said the Secularists, who were strongly bound together in common enthusiasm for the elevation of mankind to its ideal state, and who had no dogmas respecting the Unknowable to quarrel about, justly claimed to possess a great and ennobling religion, and their possession would ultimately have to be recognized by those who apparently desired to ignore their existence as a religious body altogether.
The first subscription list for a statue of Victor Hugo amount to 7,078 fr. The president of the French Republic contributes 200 fr.; the president of the senate and chamber 150 fr. each; the ministers each 100 fr. A journalist of Paris, having had occasion lately to drive to Victor Hugo's residence, on arriving at the door, got out and tendered the cabman his fare and pourboire. The latter, however, on noticing where he had come, refused to take the money - 2 fr. 50 c. - and requested his passenger to add the "little sum towards the subscription for Victor Hugo's statue." This was done, and the 2 fr. 50 c. may be seen on one of the lists to the credit of "Cocher No. 11,492," in the service of the Compagnie Parisieune de Voitures, a proof of the poet's popularity among the masses.
Kossuth is in mourning for the death of his friend and constant companion, General Ihass. His life at Barraccone, near Turin, is most retired and uneventful. There are few persons whom he will see, and these are chiefly Americans, whom he will always see. At present he is engaged in preparation of the third volume of his memoirs, and this, he says, will be the last volume, although, did strength permit, he would gladly write a fourth. Recently, when visited by a friend, he pointed to his secretary and said he had materials there for twenty volumes, none of which would go into the grave with him, as all would be left to his sons for them to deal with as they should think best. Kossuth finds that his income is not sufficient to maintain his quarters in Turin, as well as the villa at Barraccone, and has accordingly determined to give up the villa. It has been suggested that it would be a graceful thing for the Hungarian nation to purchase the villa and make him a present of it.
Mr. E. L. Youmans, editor of the "Popular Science Monthy," and his family are summering at Saratoga.
Algernon Charles Swinburne has written a poem called "The Statue of Victor Hugo," which will appear in "The Gentleman's Magazine."
Mr. Karl Blind has written an essay on recently discovered Shetlandie folk-lore, the first part of which appears in the "Contemporary Review" for August, under the title of "Germanic Water Deities."
Mrs. Annie Besant has passed in the first class at the preliminary examination for the degree of B. Sc. in the University of Loudon, her tutor being Dr. E. B. Aveling. Mrs. Besant has also passed in the advanced classes in seven subjects at South Kensington.
Henri Rochefort refused to be a candidate in the coming French elections, saying: "I have no desire to enter that hospital where, the 363 [the number of Gambetta's followers in the chamber of deputies have been exhibition their plague-spots and deformities."
At the recent burial in Halle, Germany, of Anlauff, the German socialist, the followers in the funeral wore red flowers in their button holes. Ceremonies at the grave were prevented by the police. Anlauff was banished from Berlin at the time that city was declared under state of siege, and later from Leipzig when that city was included with Berlin under that condition.
The radicals of Belleville, the communist quarter of Paris, who elected Gambetta to represent them in the chamber of deputies before that time-server adopted his policy of opportunism, have pitted against him in two arrondissements for the coming election Sigismund Lacroix, a member of the commune of 1871, and Tony Revillon, and are giving these candidates a strength of support unexpectedly formidable.
The Marquis of Queensbury, at a conference of the British Secular Union held at Leicester recently, read a paper in which he said the Secularists, who were strongly bound together in common enthusiasm for the elevation of mankind to its ideal state, and who had no dogmas respecting the Unknowable to quarrel about, justly claimed to possess a great and ennobling religion, and their possession would ultimately have to be recognized by those who apparently desired to ignore their existence as a religious body altogether.
The first subscription list for a statue of Victor Hugo amount to 7,078 fr. The president of the French Republic contributes 200 fr.; the president of the senate and chamber 150 fr. each; the ministers each 100 fr. A journalist of Paris, having had occasion lately to drive to Victor Hugo's residence, on arriving at the door, got out and tendered the cabman his fare and pourboire. The latter, however, on noticing where he had come, refused to take the money - 2 fr. 50 c. - and requested his passenger to add the "little sum towards the subscription for Victor Hugo's statue." This was done, and the 2 fr. 50 c. may be seen on one of the lists to the credit of "Cocher No. 11,492," in the service of the Compagnie Parisieune de Voitures, a proof of the poet's popularity among the masses.
Kossuth is in mourning for the death of his friend and constant companion, General Ihass. His life at Barraccone, near Turin, is most retired and uneventful. There are few persons whom he will see, and these are chiefly Americans, whom he will always see. At present he is engaged in preparation of the third volume of his memoirs, and this, he says, will be the last volume, although, did strength permit, he would gladly write a fourth. Recently, when visited by a friend, he pointed to his secretary and said he had materials there for twenty volumes, none of which would go into the grave with him, as all would be left to his sons for them to deal with as they should think best. Kossuth finds that his income is not sufficient to maintain his quarters in Turin, as well as the villa at Barraccone, and has accordingly determined to give up the villa. It has been suggested that it would be a graceful thing for the Hungarian nation to purchase the villa and make him a present of it.
3/4/12
About Progressive People.
Henry George, the author of "Progress and Poverty," has returned to San Francisco.
With the death of his son, Sir Percy Shelley, the poet will, in common with Byron, hare no descendant of his name.
Jefferson Davis denies that he ever uttered or indorsed the sentiment that "slavery is the corner-stone of the Confederacy."
Wendell Phillips is called by the "Boston Post" "the white- haired instigator of assassination, who preaches anarchy even at a literary feast."
Mr. Patrick Egan has purchased the "Dublin Irishman," thus placing all the national journals in Ireland under the control of the Land League.
Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell has two brothers, one of whom is a cotton planter in Georgia and a Land Leaguer, while the other, who owns an estate in Kilkenny, Ireland, is a strong Conservative.
A life-size marble bust of Gerrit Smith has been presented to the Oneida Historical Society of Utica, the late philanthropist's birthplace, by his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Miller of Geneva, N. Y.
General Garibaldi has accepted the honorary presidency of the Cincinnati Unione e Fratellanza Italiana. He is eager for a world's fair in Rome, and almost daily writes a letter urging the project on influential friends.
Jefferson Davis is certainly under obligation to Mr. James C. j Derby of Brooklyn. who suggested his history and went to New Orleans, for the house of D. Appleton & Co., to negotiate with him for it. He will make out of it $100,000
A movement is on foot in England to raise a fund by which Johann Most may be compensated for his imprisonment. The testimonial is to be presented at a banquet on the day the prisoner leaves jail. A portrait of Most was one of the prizes offered for competition by a Chicago shooting club on the 31st ult.
Theodore F. Cuno, a prominent Brooklyn Socialist, member of the Spread-the-Light Club, and attache of the "New York Stoats Zeitung," was assaulted recently in Brooklyn, but only slightly injured, by a German beer-seller, Louis Froelich, one of whose quarrels Mr. Cuno, in his capacity of reporter, was engaged in investigating.
Lord Kimberley has been converted to Land Reform. Speaking recently at Wymondham, he advocated the abolition of all laws impeding the free distribution of landed property, the repeal of the law of primogeniture, and - although on this point he was not very sanguine - additional security for the capital which tenants invest in their holdings.
The Russian ambassador at Berne lately paid a high compliment to Prince Kropotkine in telling an interviewer that he considered him the most dangerous man in Switzerland, adding that he had spent a large fortune in fomenting revolution, and that his sincerity and ability render it highly desirable that he should be closely watched. Prince Kropotkine is one of the editors of "Le Révolté," quoted from in another column.
The first number of a weekly journal called "Victor-Hugo" recently appeared in Paris. To the application of the editors for permission to use his name as a title, the great poet responded as follows :-
Dear Colleague,— Say every day to the fine youth of which you are a part all that you have in your souls — Duty, Conscience, Liberty, desire for the good, love of the beautiful; and if yon think my name a good standard, take it: I give it to you and thank you.
Your friend, Victor Hugo.
In France the expulsion law hangs, like the sword of Damocles, over the heads of foreign agitators. Paule Minck, a Polish lady resident in France, and one of Louise Michel's nearest friends, who spends the major part of her time in socialistic agitation, and recently served a short term in a Marseilles prison for participating in a meeting to protest against the execution of Hessy Helfmann, lately received a polite intimation from the police of Paris, that, if she did not cease disturbing the public order, the law of expulsion would be enforced upon her. Nothing daunted, she has sent a letter to M. Constans, the minister of the interior, announcing that, to baffle her unchivalrous persecutors, she has determined to change her nationality by marrying a Frenchman.
With the death of his son, Sir Percy Shelley, the poet will, in common with Byron, hare no descendant of his name.
Jefferson Davis denies that he ever uttered or indorsed the sentiment that "slavery is the corner-stone of the Confederacy."
Wendell Phillips is called by the "Boston Post" "the white- haired instigator of assassination, who preaches anarchy even at a literary feast."
Mr. Patrick Egan has purchased the "Dublin Irishman," thus placing all the national journals in Ireland under the control of the Land League.
Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell has two brothers, one of whom is a cotton planter in Georgia and a Land Leaguer, while the other, who owns an estate in Kilkenny, Ireland, is a strong Conservative.
A life-size marble bust of Gerrit Smith has been presented to the Oneida Historical Society of Utica, the late philanthropist's birthplace, by his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Miller of Geneva, N. Y.
General Garibaldi has accepted the honorary presidency of the Cincinnati Unione e Fratellanza Italiana. He is eager for a world's fair in Rome, and almost daily writes a letter urging the project on influential friends.
Jefferson Davis is certainly under obligation to Mr. James C. j Derby of Brooklyn. who suggested his history and went to New Orleans, for the house of D. Appleton & Co., to negotiate with him for it. He will make out of it $100,000
A movement is on foot in England to raise a fund by which Johann Most may be compensated for his imprisonment. The testimonial is to be presented at a banquet on the day the prisoner leaves jail. A portrait of Most was one of the prizes offered for competition by a Chicago shooting club on the 31st ult.
Theodore F. Cuno, a prominent Brooklyn Socialist, member of the Spread-the-Light Club, and attache of the "New York Stoats Zeitung," was assaulted recently in Brooklyn, but only slightly injured, by a German beer-seller, Louis Froelich, one of whose quarrels Mr. Cuno, in his capacity of reporter, was engaged in investigating.
Lord Kimberley has been converted to Land Reform. Speaking recently at Wymondham, he advocated the abolition of all laws impeding the free distribution of landed property, the repeal of the law of primogeniture, and - although on this point he was not very sanguine - additional security for the capital which tenants invest in their holdings.
The Russian ambassador at Berne lately paid a high compliment to Prince Kropotkine in telling an interviewer that he considered him the most dangerous man in Switzerland, adding that he had spent a large fortune in fomenting revolution, and that his sincerity and ability render it highly desirable that he should be closely watched. Prince Kropotkine is one of the editors of "Le Révolté," quoted from in another column.
The first number of a weekly journal called "Victor-Hugo" recently appeared in Paris. To the application of the editors for permission to use his name as a title, the great poet responded as follows :-
Dear Colleague,— Say every day to the fine youth of which you are a part all that you have in your souls — Duty, Conscience, Liberty, desire for the good, love of the beautiful; and if yon think my name a good standard, take it: I give it to you and thank you.
Your friend, Victor Hugo.
In France the expulsion law hangs, like the sword of Damocles, over the heads of foreign agitators. Paule Minck, a Polish lady resident in France, and one of Louise Michel's nearest friends, who spends the major part of her time in socialistic agitation, and recently served a short term in a Marseilles prison for participating in a meeting to protest against the execution of Hessy Helfmann, lately received a polite intimation from the police of Paris, that, if she did not cease disturbing the public order, the law of expulsion would be enforced upon her. Nothing daunted, she has sent a letter to M. Constans, the minister of the interior, announcing that, to baffle her unchivalrous persecutors, she has determined to change her nationality by marrying a Frenchman.
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