Show PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE Dr Elliott Coues has lately been elected honorary member of the Minnesota His tg fr bj lt oh1sH torical society in recognition of his ex tensive original researches in Misslsslp pIn history in connection with lIslsslp l Pikes expedition to the sources of that river People who have met Mr Gladstone say I that his pictures give his face the appearance appear-ance of a ruggedness which is foreign to I it He really looks feeble but his clear complexion and the color in his cheeks indicate that his health Is i good His hair is white and a stranger unfamiliar with his portrait would class him at first sight as a type of the fine old English gentleman gentle-man II The claims and disabilities of a high i position were never more strongly shown I than in the case of the Prince of Naples who has just been appointed commander I of the army of Florence The young i prince is by inclination an earnest anxious anxi-ous scientific investigator with a taste for mechanics He is also very fond of amateur photography To this and to the study of the classics he would rather devote himself than to state functions or military displays Fate however has made him the heir to a military throne has given him commands both in the Italian and the German armies has made him knight of the order of the gartar and of the golden fleece and may require him some day to act as commanderlnchief in a great war Mr James Payn has retired from tne position of manuscript reader for the London publishing firm of Smith Elder Co In so doing he gives up a salary of O a year which is considered very fair pay for a position of this kind It is stated however by men who ought to know that no sum would compensate a man of his literary calibre for the mental misery of studying the manuscripts of the amateur novelist It is said that Ouida iever shakes hands She declares it to be the most vulgar form of salutation As soon as she enters a room she makes f rsa seat Once seated she will not budge a she takes her leave Anyone who wishes to meet her must play Mahomet to her mountain No mater who he be she never rises or changes her position Writing of Oliver Wendell Holmes Mr Edmund Gosse the English critic said recently I do not think that the influence in-fluence of Dr Holmes as an exponent of what was reasonable urbane and graceful grace-ful in literary life of what was dignified and wholesome in literary character could be exaggerated Like Garriclc he was an abridgment of all that is delightful delight-ful in man and a perfect example of the type that grows rarer and rarer as the world grows older |