Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2191, 24 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

— Tjik greater pait of the library ot the Earl of Crawford, which contains a large number of old Bibles and many Oriental works, is to be sold shortly L>y Messrs Sotheby. — It is stated that tha volume containing the public speeches of the late Duke of Albany, which the Queen has been seeing tlnough the Press, will appear in the course ot a few weeks. — A Shakespeare memorial window was un\eiled by the Lord Mayor in St. James' Chinch, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, which stands in the immediate locality oi the old Curtain Theatre. — The woi k of copying the celebrated frescoes in the Ajanta caves iv Bombay, which was begun under the auspices ot the Governments of India and Bombay so far back as 1572, has recently been completed. —The originals, or old parchment duplicates, of the depositions and documents in the Cenei trial have been acquired by Mr W. P. Deuton-Cardew They are now under examination at the British Museum. — The subjects of the four lectures on English actors, which Mr Henry Irving will deliver at Oxford during the week before Commemoration, are : (1) The Age of vShakespeare ; (2) The Restoration and Betterton ; (?.) Garrick and his Contemporaries ; and (4) Kean and the Kembles. — In anticipation of an approaching " Thackeray Carnival " in Boston— our American cousins are never happy unless they are feasting somebody, and if the living are not worth it, or have been I feasted sufficiently they will turn to the dead — a useful list of the great novelist's works have been compiled by our transAtlanric namesake, The Literary World, whose place of publication is Boston. — At the Jubilee banquet of the Provincial Newspaper Society, held at the Hotel Metropolt, Manchester, last week, Mr W. H. Smith, M.P., not unnaturally remarked that he had "the largest amount of sympathy with the press of this country." Considering the vastness of Mr Smith's interest in the distrioution of newspapers, it would be strange if he had not some sympathy,althougi) we|have heard a complaint that it is chiefly lavished upon the organs holding his own views in politics. — If this year's exhibition at South Kensington is finally named the "Colonies" in popular parlance, it will not be without a struggle on behalf of other designations. " Colindia " and the " Colindies " have both been suggested on the ground that the administration of the .Exhibition have adopted "Colind" as their telegraphic code-word. Mr Burnand, the editor of Punch, declares, however, that the man who suggested "Colindies" can have no music in his soul, and recommends the term " Colinderies " as more euphonious and as harmonising with the popular names for the previous groat shows.