Mainly About People.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 475, 30 May 1891, Page 2

Mainly About People.

. Dr W. G. Grace's long expected book, "Forty Years of Cricket," will be published next month. It promises to be one of the most interesting . works ever written on our. national pastime, and will be illustrated by portraits of many" famous cricketerspast and present. Dr Grace has been engaged in the compilation of. the book for some time nasi. Besides a history of the game, it contains many reminiscences an.d anecdotes of the "Doctor's " famous career. An edition hie luxe (issued at guineas) has already secured seven hundred subscribers, amongst them the Prince of Wales. x The Marquis de Santurce, head of the Murietta family, and chief of the reconstructed financial firm of that name, cuts a big figure socially. When in town he is at home in the last house of the east division of Carlton House-terrace. Here Snyder's wolfhounds decorate the hall ; the ballroom is one of the best in London, and ;the terraced garden gives a special value to the hou_e-~ formerly Lord Granville's —for antertaining|purposes. He has also a charming place in the Tunbridge district, Wadhurstpark, resting under the shelter of Best Beach Hill, and looking across a lovely oountry towards the Sussex cosst. Cristobal de Murietta, who was first chief of the Lopdon . firm, died in 1869, having amassed & fortune of Sir James Stephen has yielded to the inevitable, and takes bis leave of the legal profession this morning. He will be missed in every way. In person he has been one of the most . conspicuous figures in the Law Courts iuring the twelve years thatPhe has be^u. on the Eepk,-* Jtig. sss ,iv^

-head, r wit-Tithe thick tnftne of hair escaping under, the judicial wig.gave a trenfehdouEf^4mpressi_n of intellectual strength. Even more wonderful was his tremendous bass voice, which in its milder moments cooed like th|,<iij^SQ^Qf^i?ig organ and in stormy seasons bellowed like that of any bull of Bashan. When he was ancry — which, as in the case of othfcr <3 judgessjv happened irathet: more\frequently ttiah was desiraJble^Sir James Stephen was simply terrible. Mr Henn Collins, Q.C., who is to be the neW!**QuewrV Bench judge iv Sir James Stephen's place, was until lately better known in Liverpoel and Manchester than in London, having long enjoyed a nourishing practice in those cities and"iri other parts of the Northern Circuit. Of late years, > however, there has been so large a deniandfor his services in big mercantile and shipping cases in London, that ciipuit has; seen -tery little of him. 'He is known as a sound lawyer of the unpretentious kind. His last brief of any, public interest was on ibehalrVofc .' 'Mb * Jachsori,*' when the Clitheroe case was in the Court pf Appeal. It will be remembered what a display of legal erudition he made in tha^easeih-lup^rt 6f ; the British husband to do anything he pleases with his better half, short of killing . her. f lie it was* who.* mtt the^ Court ~ m - laughing with the quotation from an oldlaw book which laid down the husband's right to administer a rea--on&ble'amoUii- ■©! * ( castifeaitib/' In his outer man the new judge is a short, slightly built gentleman, with .$ -tath^paie -face,^ sandy -hair and v Whiskers, apd a mild voice. As regards appearance and man, a greater contract -jp^ Justice Stephen could hardly be i_aagined. Mr Collins comes of a legal family, being the son of aa Irish Q.C, and he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He possesses jme. excellent qualification for the Bench, which Ihe Star has loudly advocated, for he is still under fifty— -though only a few months. , One of the chief objects •o£ interest a^fM^b&#HeY&^ty is staying, is the collection of paintings of the celebrated Jean Honor, Fragonard. They are five love scenes, painted for IMa&mte dv Barry, the friend of Louis XV. and are admitted to be Fragonard's ~best work. They are to b^fourid aj^.*he f Jouse of M. Malvilfm, 8^ brthe painter's descendants, who is very chary of allowing them to. J^Mm, by anyone not furnished with a formal introduction. It is a fact that the Emperor of the Brazils cjijled,. once/ >?andJsent up his card, b'ttt was hot allowed to see th,e pictures at the time, as he had no introduction tOj^pr,lpe^niit from, the owner. "" v ■ Miss Ida Bell, the flower painter, haastarJtedioradk|ve^VßM^dhtßs , visit to^ralla. Whilst there she will hold an exhibition of her paintings similar to the "Flow erland" show she held at, Toot_?&*# -short time since.. The Empress Frederick wrote a. kindly letter to the young artist before her departure expressing her, interest on the project. The new Earl Granville will never, be without half-a-crown. Two vearjj ago, while performing some conjuring tricks at Walmer at a Christmas party, he conee&J.<.d&rie of these coins m his mouth, and by mischance swallowed it So far the half-crown has taken kindly, to its new surroundings. , Bf»syoulßgwlavl^ni.f_l-- • wis a daughter of Mr Campbell of Islay, a Highland chief whose posses eions were*6fci_fedfcy* His creditors more than forty years ago through a flaw in the entail. His liabilities amounted [ tou^earlj-va itaillibn isterling. The Islay estate was then purchased by the fither of Walter Morrison, who site foi ,ihe;Ship .pp. division of York-s-dfefs'-^ldng the .stronghold of the late Sir Matthew Wilson. The latest musical arrival in London is that ofsfr : Eugene Holliday, a young English pianist, who, curiously enough does not speak a word of English. His father is English, but resides in Russia, and married a Russian lady. This is, we believe, the boy's first visit to his native land, and he will signalise it by giving a concert , iate in the! present month; He is a pupil of Rubeustein _, and he is said by those who heard him privately yesterday to be a pianist of -Very considerable ability. Mr Cecil Rhodes, the South African Premier,N&o be&been received with so much enthusiasm on his arrival . at Kimberley from England, has just promised a donation of £500 for • mission work in Mashonaland.. T his fact closer intimacy "Between Mr Rhodes and the late General Gordon. When Gordon was in South Africa he came in contact with Mr Rhodes, who was-th^na very ;youpg -man, and was greatly attached to hini. Years afterwards, on the eve of the expedition to Khartoum,;sordon telegraphed to Rho ( des offering' him his secretaryship. Rhodes, who had just accepted the post of Treasurer-General at the PftBVIPP #uablf. to resign itjat- apE ointment immediately. He stated, owever, that if Gordon renewed his offer at the end of three months he would gladly join him in his perilous mission. At the expiration of that period IChartoum was i n vested.