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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1973, 21 June 1880, Page 4

Mr James Bussell Lowell, the poet and critic, has been appointed by President Hayes United States Minister at the Court of St. James’s. For some years back Mr Lowell his been United States Minister at the Court of Spain, as Washington Irving was before his time. The new American Minister is in no sense a stranger. Only lately Sir Stafford Northoote was quoting in the House of Commons one of his lines from the immortal Hosea Biglow, the quaint philosopher and moralist, whoso humours and shrewd sayings were once in the mouths of all Englishmen. Mr Lowell’s “Biglow Papers” are his best known and most popular production outside the limits of New England at all events; but his graver poems have readers everywhere, and his delightful volumes of essays, republished in this country, entitled “Among my Books” and “My Study Windows,” may almost bo said to form part of our own literature, Mr Lowell is one of the number of men who have won a distinct and peculiar reputation in literature for their country, and who have made Harvard Uuniversity and Cambridge, Massachusetts, places that oil strangers in America love to see. It is intended to bring out in England before long a collected edition of Lowell’s “Pooticil Works,” handsomely printed, in three crown octavo volumes. The poems will probably bo rearranged and corrected for this edition by the author himself. Beturning to “ Ouida’s” latest picture of “ high life,” we may mention that one of its most original pages represents a hero picking fleas off his misti’oss, and quaffing them in goblets of generous Burgundy ! In the old doys, lowers’ hearts used to bleed for their mistresses ; but wo thought that kind of thing was quite gone out. But now it seems, at least in “ Ouida’s” circles, a new kind of floa-botomy is practised.