This greatest of violinists heard the American girl when she studied in Berlin for some months recently, and became so deeply interested as to offer to give her lessons should she return. Under such a master Leonora Jack son should go far and fulfill the hopes of her benefactors, among whom are Mrs. George M. Pullman and Captain Lemon. Speaking of Col. Henry L. Higginson, founder of the Symphony Orchestra, a musician exclaimed recently: "He is an angel. He is one man in all the world. has done for music what no one person has ever done, and what in New York many men are trying to do." He Six months after the death of Leland Stanford, eulogies are pronounced upon him in Congress. What lack of sense! When will legislators do the right thing at the right time? "I have lost my last old friend," were Mrs. Grant's words on hearing of George W. Childs's death. Mrs. Grant has chosen San Diego for a winter home and could not have made a better selection. Congressman Wilson has gone to Mexico for six weeks to recover from the effects of the tariff bill. Wicked Republicans say it will take the country longer than that to recover. They admit, however, that Chairman Wilson is a very agreeable foe, and they don't want him to die of his own medicine. The San Francisco Press Club lately gave a very successful entertainment for the joint benefit of the Club and the Actors' Fund of America. The Club's portion of the profits will be used in defraying the expenses of "Press Day" at the Midwinter Fair. Visiting journalists make this Club their headquarters. Colonel Irish, Collector of the Port of San Francisco, was given a reception at the Palace Hotel not long ago. The Colonel is Irish in facility of speech as well as in name, but Mr. W. H. Mills is said to have carried off the honors of the evening. Mr. Mills combines more knowledge of railroads with more knowledge of literature than perhaps any man on the Pacific Slope. George W. Childs has shown his regard for his wife by willing all his property to her with disposition of the estate after her death. French Ambassador. They have gone to Thomasville, Georgia, for some days, but expect to return to the Capital. Mr. Patenôtre's present guest is Mr. Benjamin Constant, the French painter, who is no less agreeable in society than distinguished in art. No lecturer now visiting Washington deserves a heartier welcome than Miss Jane Meade Welch, who has done more to interest women in the history of this country than all the rest of their sex put together. During the past summer Miss Welch prepared six new lectures, to-wit: "A Plucky Little Colony," "New York Under British Rule," "William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania," "A Great Proprietary," "Virginia and Captain John Smith," "The Pilgrims and the Puritans." It is this interesting series that Washington now has an opportunity to hear at the Builders' Exchange Hall on Saturdays and Wednesdays at 11 o'clock A. M. The first lecture was well attended last Saturday and universally commended. The second lecture will be given to-day and should be exceptionally attractive. That New York should ever have been under British rule seems incredible to those who have felt the more recent rule of Ireland. What would George the Third say to the amazing transfer? Professor and Mrs. Emmons's reception on Friday night to Miss Ellen Terry was a very pleasant way of meeting a very charming woman. Miss Terry's nature is so full of cheer that she takes sunshine with her wherever she goes-even to a midnight assembly. The pen with which President Cleveland signed the bill repealing the Federal Election law is now the property of the Hon. Randolph Tucker of Virginia. Miss Eliza D. Keith has taken charge of the woman's page of the Traveller, an inviting illustrated monthly published in San Francisco. The Future State is the name of a weekly periodical published in Kansas City and devoted to the interests of the negro in America. The journeymen tailors of New York want to publicly blacklist Americans who bring home foreign-made clothes. Is this a free country? To-day there will be unveiled at the Church of Our Father and in the presence of the Third Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Daniel Huntington's portrait of Mrs. Harrison which is to be hung in the White House. When commissioning Mr. Huntington to paint the portrait of their first President, the D. A. R. little dreamed that the angel of death would throw so tender and melancholy an interest around it. OLLA. CONFECTIONS MISS JANE MEADE WELCH We can recommend. CANDIES from fine Bonbons and Chocolates at IN CAKES we have Angel, Sunshine, to fifty different kinds of small SALTED Almon s, Pecans, Filberts and ICE CREAM. We always have fifteen fifty more to order, at a few hours' Delivered every day in the week, all the JACOB FUSSELL COMPANY, MY STUDY AND MY BOOKS. SOME HELPS TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND ART. THE HE "Standard Dictionary of the English Language,' lately published by Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls meets a real need in many small libraries. It does not encroach upon the province of the great work issued by the Century Company, which for carefulness of detail, liberality of plan and perfection of mechanical work will stand alone. for many years, but it furnishes to that large class which cannot afford the more expensive book a thoroughly modern dictionary of convenient size and moderate cost. It is richly and-what is much better-intelligently illustrated with excellent woodcuts and a few choice colored plates. It is issued in two volumes, and the first one-from A to L-has already been delivered. The whole history of English literature furnishes no more interesting life than that of Charles Lamb, whose pathetic career offers such voluminous testimony to the apparent truth that the men and women who make most fun for others seldom get any for themselves. Alice E. Lord calls her book, "The Days of Lamb and Coleridge," an "historical romance. This it hardly is in the strictest sense, the adjective being far more applicable than the noun. It represents careful study of two notable figures in English letters, and supplements very satisfactorily the mere textbook acquaintance which too often stands for our entire knowledge of the makers of our classics. Mr. Hubert Howe Bancroft has given in his "Literary Industries" a detailed account of his life-work in the collection and classification of the materials out of which the literature of the Great West will yet be made. It is no disparagement to Mr. Bancroft to say that he appeals to one rather as a great librarian than an author. Good authors are plentiful enough, and have been for ages, but the world has rarely seen such a broad-minded, careful and liberal collector of the raw materials of history as STANDARD DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Funk & Wagnalls Company. THE DAYS OF LAMB AND COLERIDGE, by Alice E. Lord. Henry Holt & Co. Bon Mots OF CHARLES LAMB AND DOUglass JerroLD. J. M. Dent & Co. [London.] THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC MONUMENT, by William Lyon Phelps. Ginn & Co. this energetic Californian. That his rare business instinct should have made his literary labors very profitable adds to, rather than detracts from, the service he has done to his country, since there is no lesson we need to learn more than that devotion to the amenities does not necessarily mean financial ruin. "The Classic Myths of English Literature," edited by Professor Charles Mills Gayley, contains a good deal of that kind of knowledge which we all have acquired and forgotten, but which it is sometimes handy to recall at a moment's notice. The author did not, however, design his book primarily for this use, but as a textbook, pure and simple, for the use of the students of the University of California, where he occupies the chair of English Literature. He gives credit to Bulfinch's "Age of Fable," as the basis of his work, and explains that he has made his selections with a view to their usefulness in the understanding of English poetry. Parts Five, Six and Seven of "The Book of the Fair" have been delivered to subscribers. The first of these is entirely occupied with special exhibits in the Manufactures Building, the gem of the illustrations being a beautiful full-page cut of the entrance to the French section. A notable feature of volume six is the illustrations of the various church and college exhibits-which, unfortunately, so few people saw on account of their being in the gallery. Volume seven completes the Manufactures Building and begins on the exhibits of the Woman's Building. It cannot be repeated too often that the point in which "The Book of the Fair" excels all other literature on the subject is in its avoidance of glittering generalities, and its explicit and detailed descriptions of the White City as it was. Mr. Aubrey Beardsley has drawn some highly original grotesques" to illustrate a tiny collection of the "Bon Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglass Jerrold." Their application to the text is sometimes a little obscure, but who would quarrel with such amusing pictures by the side of such amusing jokes simply because the connection sometimes failed to be obvious? Dr. William L. Phelps of Yale College has published a small volume on "The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement." It is an interesting study in eighteenth-century literature, but of more interest to the specialist than to the general reader. Palmetto Hall, the Indian What It Is. River Sanatorium. The Indian River Sanatorium (Palmetto Hall) is a comfortable home where the wants and needs of the invalid will be studied. It is finished and furnished in the style of an old-fashioned Southern mansion, has broad galleries, open fireplaces, and glorious river views from three sides of the house. Each inmate will have the personal supervision of Dr. CHARLOTTE M. NORTON, the resident physician. Baths—hot, cold, salt, sulphur, electrical and vapor—will be furnished, as the case requires. Where It Is. On the Atlantic coast of Florida, a hundred miles south of St. Augustine, near Cape Canaveral. It stands upon the pine lands of Merritt Island, in the Indian River, and faces the towns of Cocoa and Rockledge on the mainland. The Indian River is a sea inlet-salt, phosphorescent and abounding in fish and water-fowl, while but a narrow sandbar separates it from a magnificent beach and the surf of the Atlantic. Hedges of oleander, bowers of jasmine, myrtle and by, clumps of graceful palmettoes, groves of oranges, the song of the mocking-bird, are some of the semi-tropical features of the island. The soil is sandy-no dust, no mud. How to Reach It. If travel by water is preferred, the Clyde Line of steamers, from New York to Jacksonville, makes connection with steamboat lines on the St. John's River. At Titusville the Indian River steamer can be taken and will land passengers at the Sanatorium on Merritt Island. More direct and comfortable are through trains from New York to Jacksonville, and via St. Augustine to Cocoa in 44 hours. At Cocoa the visitor will be met by the boat in waiting, and quickly conveyed to the Sanatorium directly opposite. Climate Variation. In no part of our country does the temperature of so many days range between 60° and 850. Average day and night variation of temperature, 14°. Mean humidity for five coldest months of the year, 72.7. Average rainfall for December, January and February, during eleven years, two inches and a fraction. About five foggy mornings in the course of the year. Average temperature record during June, July, August: At sunrise 680, at noon 860, at sunset 78°. Average for December, 1892: Highest temperature was 82° on the 17th; lowest temperature was 33° on the 29th; average temperature was 70° and above on 18 days. Terms. The charges for board vary according to location and size of rooms, from $12.00 to $35.00 per week for one in a room; and from $20.00 to $45.00 for two. Treatment usually adds about $5.00 per week, and includes all ordinary professional attendance. Payment for reserved rooms to begin at time specified, whether occupied or not. 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