National Republican (Washington City

Mr. Harold Frederick has been given a
banquet in London by Consul General Waller
on the eve of his departure for a short visit to
America. Mr. Frederick is the accomplished
London correspondent of the New York Times,
and went abroad on that duty soon after the
presidential campaign of 1884. He ranks next
to Mr. George W. Smalley in length of service
as a London correspondent for an American
journal. Mr. Smalley has served the New York
Tribune in London for more than a dozen
years. Mr. Oakley Hall, well remembered as
once mayor of New York, has been the London correspondent for the New York Herald
for about three years. Mr. Brisbane, who
is quite a young man, went out for the Sun
about eighteen months ago. Mr. Frederick is
about 34 years old, and is a native of New
York. His letters are exceedingly well written, and he has literary ability beyond most
foreign correspondents. A novel of his, "Seth's
Brother's Wife," recently appeared in Scribner's Magazine, and has since been published
in book form. Consul General Waller, who
paid Mr. Frederick this handsome but deserved compliment before leaving London, is
very popular with all the American correspondents abroad who happen to be thrown
in contact with him.