Stoddard hopes Hudson and his Ave Maria may come to Washington where they can begin life anew. If this is impossible, Hudson will die in harness and the Ave Maria will go to the dogs. They will kill it in a year in that accursed atmosphere; they would have killed Hudson in a year had it been possible. Never was less wisdom or tact displayed than in the management of affairs at Notre Dame. Were it not that a whole community of egoists is working for its bread and butter, the place would have been bankrupted years ago. They are booked to sail on the "City of New York" on August 7, his birthday. From New York he will go to Covington. These generous people Mr. and Mrs. Vail deserve some consideration; Stoddard daily grows more necessary to the happiness of their boy Arthur? whom he does not care for. He breakfasted yesterday with young Robert Browning. . Marion Crawford writes the profession of amuser to the public is a miserable one. May there be more Father Joseph Damien DeVeusters and fewer novelists in the twentieth century. Harrison,, who was a devil at Notre Dame and a pal of Roger Byron came to see him. He has taken a degree at the Sorbonne and speaks French like a native. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.