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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 438, 8 November 1875, Page 4

The Academy makes the following literary announcements We are informed that the life of the late Sir William Fairbairn, Bart., the eminent engineer, is about to be written, with the concurrence of his family, by a member of his own profession, Dr William Pole, F.R.S. Mr J, Hill Burton, the distinguished historian of Scotland, is engaged on a history of the reign of Queen Anne. Messrs Longmans have in the press a new edition of G. 0. Lewis’s “Influence of Authority on Matters of Opinion,” winch has long been out of print, Mr George Dennis, the well-known author of the “ Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria,” is preparing for publication a work on Syracuse and its antiquities. Mr Dennis has for some time past been British Consul at Palermo.” Concordia gives the following details of the Bayreuth Theatre :—The lighting apparatus has been made in Frankfort, and was lighted for the first time on the 15th inst. It gives a splendid light; that for the stage alone arises from 2500 burners. The auditorium is less brilliant, but here over 1500 burners are required. Strict measures of precaution are taken against the chances of fire, and large masses of water can be shot in a few minutes over every corner of the theatre,. At some distance on the stage, in a special space, jctsof vapor can be turned upon the scene. By an ingenious arrangement of machinery, the stage atmosphere can be filled with a mist which lighted with various colors shall imitate fogs, clouds, the rainbow, and the stormy sky, and at the same time serve to extinguish any conflagration on the stage. No less than 6666 metres of pipes are required to carry the gas, the water, and the vapour destined to the uses which we have described.