Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2215, 18 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

— The Marquis Tseng u writing an article, which will appear in the next miniber of the Asiatic Quarterly Kevit-w. -Th" proce«d»s of the fir-it day'a Hale, of the Blenheim pictures, which included man)' by Rubens, amounted to £34,834 11 a. — Not content with writing an historical no\ol, William Waldorf Astor, th" millionaire politic in, is preparing a play for the stage. — Two more volumes of Professor Mandril Cieighton's "History of the Papacy (hiiing the Reformation " may be expected before the end of tins year. They deal with the Italian Princes. -Two new volumes of selections from Robert Browning's poems are announced in the Cm ted States, one of which, by Piofes>or Co 1 "son, will contain a large amount of introductory matter. — The committf c of the Incorporated Society of Vuthoi a h.ivu resolved to hold a allies of meetings during the winter to consider the following subjects :—: — Int' i national Copyiight, the Maintenance of Jiit'Mary Property, the Diama, Fiction, and the Piofewon of Author. — A ui'iin collection of documents has recently become the property of the City of Paris. It consists of the series of death \\at rants, extending from Aprd 7, ISOS, to Decembers, 13X2, which belonged to the headsman of the Revolution Dining that timp Samson executed 7,14!} capital .sentences, and he had the warrants bound up in nineteen volumes, and prefixed to each of these a summary of its cont'tits. — The Board of Trade have derided to publish a monthly journal of any useful mfoi ination they may obtain with refeienee to shipping, railway, and eomni-iciil affairj generally, and particularly early intelligence respecting i actual and propo^fd change in customs, tariffs and regulations, as well as other information rehtmg to home and foreign trade. — A pioposal has been made for the foundation of a theological fellowship at the Cnhcrsity of S. Andrew's in momory of the late Principal Tulloch. It would !)•» held by a student after taking the B.D. degree, and it is hoped that the fund riUed will be sufficient to m.iUc the fellowship one of real value j and enable the student to go abroa I for a I year. i — The honorary degree of LL D has t been confeired upon Mr Reginald Stuart ! Poole, by Dirtmouth College, New Jer- , sey, and upon Miss Amelia B. Edwards, by Smith College, Ma«-sechusetts, in both c i^es m ive )i»nition ot services rendered | to antifjn m iau leifiiioh. Mr Charles i Dudley Warner, one of the editors of Haipei'^ M ig.i/ine, Ins received the detT'ee ot L 11 \) , or Doctor of Letters, from Hamilton Coll* ge, New haven, CSA. , — A tittincr memorial of Biyard Tay- > lor h ii been erected m a new church at i Kennett, in ! *»• ti n -.\ 1\ ani.i, the town in which tiic pot r w.us bom. It consists of a luge wi'idow, the main portion of whi u is illuotiathe of the Parable of i the (Jood .Mmantm. On the upp^r part 1 tlieic 1-- an open book with these lines of Ta} I'M «i : — " Till th- snn glows cold, and the stars , aie old, , And the leaves of the judgment book i unfold."' At the bottom of the window there is an I inscription : "'ln memonum Bayard T.iylor, | )voii3 poet, lov.il comrade, t pitient and generou-, brother in toil and i song Jjorii Ken net t, Pa , January 11, 1S2"). Died Berlin, Germany, December 1!>, 1878 '