Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Longfellow has declined three times foreign / missions offered him by the Government. "Archibald Forbes, the English wat correspondent, expects to visit America in the autumn, to deliver a hundred lectures. John Tenniel, the celebrated cartoon artist of London Punch, is sixty years old. He created his own style, and is considered self-educated. Ouida is no longer young, is growing stout, dresses neatly, loves luxury, has been in love, talks little, and is constantly growing more and more sarcastic about women of society. Longfellow’s "Evangeline” has been translated into Portuguese by tL lawyer and man of letters living at Lisbon. It is prefaced by a short dissertation on American literature. Hannibal Hamlin is seventy-one years old. He still wears his old clawhammer dress coat, and in the coolest days of winter he walks down Pennsylvania avenue without an overcoat. General J. Meredith Read is-busy with a book on the life and times of Gibbon, the historian, for which he has been making very extensive researches among the documentary treasures of Switzerland. t Joaquin Miller, the poet, was married in New Y ork recently to Mias Abbie Leland, third daughter of the late Major Leland, of General Grant's staff. Cards were not issued. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are making arrangements to visit England. Secretary Schukz is well known as one of the best amateur pianists in the country. A few evenings since, in Washington, Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, gave a musical party, at which Mr. Schurz played the piano, and Mrs. Pendleton and her daughter the harp. Twenty years ago Jay Gould was jobbing sole leather, and had a tannery in the Pennsylvania woods, the place being called Goulds borough. He is now making money faster than anybody in the country. He has just erected a handsome monument to his parents. Y Mr. W. H. Mallock. the author of "The New Republic” and "Is Life Worth Living?” is a sallow, darkhaired man of thirty-five. He has retiring manners, and is a sort of recluse, devoting himself to reading and study, He does not look robust, having the stoop of excessive application. Canon Farrar, the distinguished author and clergyman, is a man under forty-five years of age, ot florid comSlexion and sanguine temperament. [e is compactly built and under the medium height. He has a good voice, but reads like an untrained school-boy. As a preacher the Canon is somewhat verbose, bat fall of fascinating imagery.