ART AND LITERATURE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2414, 30 December 1881, Page 4

ART AND LITERATURE.

(Homo papers.)

Mr George Boid, B.S.A , is engaged on por! rails of the Lord President of tho Court of Session and Mr Duncan M'Laren, for many years member for Edinburgh. Mr Frederick Courteney Selous has written on account of his nine years’ “ Wanderings in South Africa,” v/hioh will shortly be published by Messrs Richard Bentley and Son. M. Eichomme baa just finished the ceiling for the foyer of the new theatre at Cherbourg. Tho canvas measures eight metres by four and a half metres, and the subject is “ The Pout Seasonal”

Milo. Hortonse Schneider, tha actress celebrated on the stage of tho Yarietea as the Grand Duchesse do Gerolatein, has now become by marriage a real countess on her own account.

Principal Tulloch, although restored to health, has, it is understood, definitely retired from the editorship of ‘‘Fraaer’a Magazine,” Mr O. Longman will, it is said, continue to conduct it.

Messrs Dowdesvrel! are arranging to exhibit in their gallery in Now Bond street, a collection of sketches in water colours painted in Yorkshire during tho past season by Mr Sutton Palmer. Messrs Whittaker and Co. will publish immediately a “ Reference Handbook for Bible and General Readers,” and early in December a “ Handy Dictionary of Mythology for Every-day Readers.”

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of “ From Log Cabin to White House,” published by Messrs Holder and Stoughton, of which work 7000 copies have been sold within six weeks.

Mr Millais appears as one of four from which a selection will be made by the Academia des Beaux Arts to fill up the foreign membership left vacant by the death of Herr Strucko, the Berlin architect. M. Olesinper, the distinguished French sculptor, has finished his status of M. Thiers, which is to be erected at Marseilles, of which city M. Thiers was a native, his father having carried on the business of a locksmith.

Mr Fawottt has ready for the press a new edition of hts “ Free Trade and Protection,’' in wbioh he has discussed the snore recent development of protection in foreign countries, and tho Fair Trade movement in England. Mr Gladstone has forwarded to the public library of Neweastle-on-Tyne a number of books, which he sends in thankful recollection of the kind welcome given him by tho town of Newcastle nearly twenty years ago. Mr Bhys David’* Hibbert Lectures on Buddhism are nearly ready for publication, and will probably bo published about the beginning of next month. Messrs Beil are about to pnblish a new story by the author of “Bathelle,.” “ Mercer’s Gardens,” Ac. It is entitled "Tho Lieutenant, a Story of the Toner,’' and deals with the aspect of the fortress about thirty years ago.

M. Eugene Guillaume, the sculptor and In-spector-General of Designing in Paris, bos just been despatched by tho French Government to England for the purpose of studying the system of school* of design.