DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 109, 6 October 1874, Page 3

DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

It is reported that Mr Sims Reeves intends to retire from professional life. Professor Agassiz’s biography is being written by his wife. She has already prepared his correspondence for publication. Mr J. F. Lewis, R.A., has, it is stated, sold his four pictures at the Royal Academy for £IO,OOO.

Earl Russell is about to publish a volume entitled “ Recollections and Suggestions of Public Life, 1813-1873.” The first number of a new monthly periodical. the objects of which may be gathered from the title—the Linguist —was issued in July,

The first volume of the new issue of the “ Encyclopaedia Britannica ” is ready for the press, and may be expected to appear in the course of a few months.

Mr Henry Stephens, author of “The Book of the Farm,” died on Sunday, July sth, at his residence at Bonnington. in the eightieth year of his age. The Musical Standard says it is rumored that Sir Michael Costa contemplates making the restoration of the old pitch a condition of his re-engagement at her Majesty’s Opera next season.

Professor J, E. Cairnes is engaged in writing a reply, for “ Macmillan’s Magazine,” to Mr Goldwin Smith’s article “On Women’s Suffrage,” which recently appeared in that periodical. Mr William Black’s new story for the “ Cornhiil ” will be called “ Three Feathers,” and will be illustrated by Mr Du Maurier. The scene of the story is fixed in North Cornwall.

General Schenck, the American ambassador, has laid the nv'tnorial stone of the Lincoln Tower, which will form a portion of the church now building, in place of the old Surrey f-hapei. A Padua journal state? that some unpublisted sonnets by Petratch have been discovered. which will be printed at the approaching sixth century of the poet’s dca‘h.

St is rumored that an eminent English physiologist and palaeontologist has been induced to accept the chair vacant by the dcatii of Prof ssur Agassiz at Harvard University. in the United States. The A i he are um hears that the Secretary of State for India in Council has granted the money required for building a new museum and library upon the vacant ground opposite the India Office. The sum is said to be somewhere about £75,000.

Albany Fonblanque, writing of the election of Louis Napoleon as President of the French Republic, said;—“ It is idle to rail against the caprices, more seeming than real, of the French choice. We must not get into a rage with the nature of things, as did Sir Joseph Banks when he boiled tleas, and was wrath when they did not bear out a theory by turning red. ‘ Fleas are not lobster, cl their eyes.’ ”

The I). F. V. says:—There is a lady out in Michigan who subscribed for the Detroit Free Press in 1835, and has been taking it regularly ever since. The result is, she is now seventy years old and in good health. It is astonishing how long a person will live who subscribes regularly and pays promptly for a good newspaper. If the doctors ■would prescribe fewer pills and more papers of the right kind, the world would be much healthier than it is.

“ This year.” states an agricultural reporter of the Times, “ France is rich in bread. Last year she was poor, and had to import, probably, £12,000,000 worth of wheat and flour. She should in 1874-75 be able to export £3,000.000 to £4,000,000 worth of wheat, os that the Finance Minister may congratulate the country on an increase of wealth from the wheat harvest of about £15,000,000 sterling. Many miles of travel and visits to the fields have given assurance of the above agreeable facts, agreeable to England as to France, since in the years when France is a non-importer of wheat bread is cheap in Great Britain. Ever since last autumn the news from the French wheat districts has been exceptionally favorable, and personal inspection and actual results prove the good reoorts to have been exceptionally true.”