Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

— Captain Burton, the famous traveller ; and oriontali«t, Ims bcou created a K.C.M.G. —Mrs Craik (Miss Dinah Muloch) is, it is said, writing a play fur Miss Mary Anderson. — Tho Emperor of Email is planning the erection of an Academy of Arts, which will be the first of its kind in South America. —A telegram, signed by Lord Tennyson on behalf of the Society of Authors, has been sent to Senator Huwley, thanking him for his Copyright Bill. — Dr. Schlioraaun is at present paying a short visit in London. He ii somewhat broken in health, and is not going to undertake any further excavations. — For a period of thirty years the lute King 1 of Portug.il collected all the confiscated books find pamphlets in all tho Euiopeau States. The collection numbers some 6000 volumes and pamphlets. — Miss Brnddon'rt next novel will be entitled "Tho One Thing Needful." It will first appear as i newspaper r-eridi, through Messrs Tillotson, of Bolton, and will afterwards be printed in two volumes. — Tho new edition of »Mr Riskin's "Stone* of Venicp " was not ready before Ihe end of March, tho restor.ition of tho mezzotint plates having taken longer t^an wag anticipated. — In response to an unfavourable criticism, Mr Bunvind states thit his F.uist and Loose is not an attempt to burlesque Goethe's F.iust, but to travesty Mjs>rs , Wills and Irving'a Pau.t, as done at the Lyceum. —Professor Sonnenschcin, of the M i«on Science C 'liege, has succeeded in forming in Birmiugh.un a Grammatical Society, with tho object of improving tho teaching of grammar and simplifying terminology. — Professor Dowden, who is preparing a life of Shelley, has been entrusted by Sir Percy audLidy Shelley with all their papers relating to tha poet, including the diaries of both Shelley and Mary Godwin. — Sir L°pol Griffin will begin in the April number of The Aniatio Quarterly Review a a:riea of articles on Native Indian opinion and thought, which are likely to throw new light on the ways of the princes of India and of other influential personages in that country. — The Liverpool Marine Biology Committee are about to publish their first report on the fauna of Liverpool Bay and thu surrounding seas. The work, which will exteud to about 300 page*, will be edited by Professor Herdman. — Mr Stanley Lnne-Poole has completed his catalogue of the Mahometan coins in the Bodleian Library. The collection, which number* about 1000 Arabic and Persian examples, contains a $;ood many unpublished pieces, and the Indian dynasties are well represented. —From the February number of th« Dfni and Dumb World we leara lhat three : gradnites of tho Deaf Mute College at Washington have become editors And publishers of newspaper*, three others are journalists, and ten are in the United Scates Civil Service. — A local memorial to the late Mr Randolph Caldecott is proposed to be raised at Manchester. It will probably take the form of a scholarship in the Manchester School of Art. Mr Caldecott passed tho greater part of his life in the city. — The executors of Victor Hugo announce the discovery of an unfinished drama by the poet, dated 1839. It is entitled Lea Deux Jnmoaux. It is not finished because a scene in a play by Alexandra Dramas, which was produced at the time, bore too (Treat a resemblence to an important situation in Victor Hugo's work. — Mr William Morris ha* had in hand for some time a poem, called " The Pilgrims of Hope," whioh deals wfth the Socialist propaganda: in which he is taking a share. Portions of it appear in The Commonweal, the organ of the Socialist League and Mr Morn* is understood to be welding the parts together for publication as a whole. —The sale of the •« Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant " has reached 325,000 Bets in America. Nine thousand canvassers were employed, to obtain subscriptions, and two hundred of them had New York and Brooklyn alone for their field. The pulishers state that a payment of nearly 2-50,000 dollars will shortly be made to Mrs Grant. — In connection with the sudden death of Mr J. B. Gough, the great temperance ; orator, it may be mentioned that he recently issued a standard edition of his famous speeches, under the title of " Pintform Echoes : Leaves from my Notebook of Forty Years. Illustrated by Personal Experiences and Incidents Drawn from the Humour and Pathos of Life." He had previously a volume of reminiscences, entitled " Sunshine and Shadow : Gleanings from my Life Work. Both these [ works have been re-published in England [• by Messrs H/xlder and Stoughfctn,