ART, LITERARY, AND DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2238, 4 June 1881, Page 3

ART, LITERARY, AND DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

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Baker and Farr on were last at New Orleans.

Mrs Scott Siddons is playing Shakespeare to good audiences at the Brooklyn Theatre, Now York.

J. K. Emmett is playing to crowded houses at the Grand Opera House, Now York, in “ Fritz in Ireland.”

Lord Rowton, for many years private secretary to the late Earl Beaoonsfield, will undertake the writing of the biography of the deceased statesman. The private papers of the late Earl have been placed at his disposal. A cable telegram this week informs us of the death of Miss de la Ramee, a novelist, well known under her nom deplume of Ouida. Miss de la Ramee was born at Bury St, Edmunds in 1840. On her father’s side she is of French extraction, but at an early age she went with her mother and maternal grandmother to reside in London, and soon began, under the name of Ouida (a child’s mispronunciation of Louisa), to write for periodicals. She has been a prolific writer, amongst the best known of her works being “ Under Two Flags,” “Puck” and “Tricotrin.” She resided ,of late years in Florence, and one of her most recent books is a description of society in that city. As a writer she possessed great natural ability, but the general tone of her works is unsatisfactory.

Now that Edwin Booth and Henry Irving are to play together presently in London, exchanging such narts as “ Othello” and “ lago” alternate nights, it is interesting to know that when Booth acted in Manchester, nearly twenty years ago, Irving played “ Laertes” to his "Hamlet,,’ “Oaasio” to his “Othello,” “Bassanio” to his “Shylock,” “Wellborn” to his “Sir Giles Overreach” and “Buckingnam” to his “ Richard III.”

Bernhardt says American women are adorable. That little speech has been made from the dark end of thousands of sofas every Sunday evening for a century or more. _ With regard to the proposed extension of the Summary Jurisdiction (England) Act, 1879, to Scotland, the Government are making inquiries with a view to ultimately giving Scotland the benefit of a measure of this kind. In the present state of public business, however, it is not expected that any progress will be made during the present session.

John Francis will shortly enter upon his fiftieth year as publisher of the London “Athenreum,” a fact unprecedented in periodical literature. It is believed that only one of the original staff of writers now survives. , , ~ The remains of Victor Jacquemont, the French naturalist, who died at Bombay nearly sixty years ago, have been exhumed and embarked on board a man-of-war for conveyance to France.