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MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

We hear that the authoress of "Adam Bede" is now
travelling in Italy. •
Messrs. R. Griffin and Co. are to publish Mr. Henry
Mayhav's " Young Benjamin Franklin."
Mr. Murray has " just ready" his Handbooks of the
Southern Cathedrals of England and of South Wales.
Messrs. Routledge and Co. have in the press a volume
of " Poems," by Gerald Massey.
The Marchiso sisters have at last cone out in Paris,
at the Grand Opera of Paris, iu Semiramide
An opera company, headed by Madam Rudersdoiff,
has set forth to sing and play in the Channel Islands.
Among announcements of new French works in the
press we observe a " History of the House of Savoy,"
by the Princess de Belgiojoso.
From France we hear at last of an " authorised"
French translation of the Humboldt-Varnhagen corre-
spondence, slightly expurgated no doubt.
Messrs. A. and C. Black have in preparation an
" Introduction of the History of French Literature," .by.
M. Gustave, master of Harrow School.
Mrs. Austin is engaged in preparing for the press a
collection of her deceased husband's lectures and papers
on jurisprudence.
The prize offered for the best operetta by the Ton-
halle at Mannheim has fallen to Herr Kraehmer, who
is also engaged on a comic opera in three acts. .
The Bodleian Library has recently received an
important accession of manuscripts—no less than the
entire Ashmolean collection.
Signor Pacini has finished a new comic opera, "'the
Muleteer -of Toledo," and is now occupied on yet
another work, " Berta."
Dr. James R. Ballantyne, of the College of Benares,
the eminent Sanscrit scholar, has received the appoint-
ment of librarian at the East India House.
Ole Bull, the gifted violin player, of whom We know
too little in England, has been performing at a series
of concerts at Stockholm.
Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. announce as forthcoming
a new " History of Chess," by Dr. Forbes, and an
essay on modern Muscovite civilisation, entitled, " The
Russians at Home," by Mr. Sutherland Edwards.
The Belgian Art Exhibition—which is much encou-
raged by the government, and open to foreigners as
well as BelgiansHcommencel at Brussels on the 15th
of August next.
M. de Beriot is said to have handed over a comic
opera by him, composed in Russia, to M. (evaert, to be
scored ; the work is to be performed at the Opera
Comique of Paris this winter.
A " Church History of the First Three Centuries,
from the 30th to the 323rd Year of the Christian Era,"
by Milo Mahan, has been published by Messrs. Appleton
and Co., New York.
M. de la Guerroniere announces his intention of pre-
paring, "from materials placed at his command," a
Life of the late Prince Jerome Bonaparte. He disclaims
the "De rnoi'tuis nil nisi bonum" principle.
The Messrs. Longman are on the point of publishing
the new and some-time-expected contribution to the
Collier controversy—" Collier, Coleridge, and Shakespere,
a Review," by Dr. Ingleby, of Birmingham.
Messrs. Blackwood publish Sir William Hamilton's
Lectures on Logic, edited by the Rev. J. L. Mansel and
John Veitch ; and Mr, Lawrence Oliphant's " Patriots
and Filibusters.
Messrs. Bosworth and Harrison announce the late
Henry Drummond's Speeches in Parliament, edited by
Lord Lovaine ; and " The Early Life of Louis Napo-
leon," collected from authentic sources.
A special grant of £2,500 to the Department of Prints
and Drawings in the British Museum, has enabled Mr.
Carpenter, the keeper of the print-room, to.purehase 134
of the Lawrence drawings.
The sale of the collection of works of art. left behind
him by the encyclopredic-minded German, Alexander
von Humboldt, will take place at Berlin on the 17th of
September.
Mr. Atkinson's " Travels in the Regions of the Upper
and Lower Amoor," previously announced as in prepara-
tion by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, and dedicated, by
permission, to her Majesty, is just published.
The action brought by Mr. Beale for non-fulfilment
of contract on the part of lfr. Balfe and his daughter,
Mdlle. Victoire Balfe, in a concert tour last season, hai
been compromised, we understand; for something like
£1,200.

Mr. Murray will commence, on the 31st of July, the
issue of his people's edition of the works, &c., of the
poet Crabbe, to be completed in seven monthly parts,
uniform with his recent editions of Byron's Poems,
Moore's Life of Byron, and Croker's Boswell.
A new book from the- clever author of the story
entitled " Sir Rohan's Ghost." The writer is an Ameri-
can, we are informed, and previously unknown in this
class of literature.
" The newspaper press of the present age" is a fertile.
theme, and one which has been considerably expanded
since Mr. Herodotus Smith handled it in the columns of
the Critic. A work on the subject is, we hear, in con-
templation by Messrs. Saunders, Otley, and Co.
Mr. Walter Thornbury, the biographer of Turner,
has addressed a circular to all known ,friends. of the late
great English landscape painter, soliciting unpublished
letters, notes of prices, or any other -information likely
to be useful in the work he has undertaken.
A Life of Pitt, by Lord Stanhope, better known,
perhaps, by his historical title of Lord Mahon ; and a
work by Dr. R. A. Smith, on "Air and Water as Sani-
tary and Industrial Agents ;" are among the publishers'
announcements.
Mr. Hawkins has tendered his resignation as keeper
of the Department of Antiquities in the British Museum.
Great changes are likely to take place in the administra-
tion of the various branches of our antiquarian collec-
tions.—Athencruin.
Mr. John Camden Rotten, of Piccadilly, London,
appears not only as publisher but as editor, furnishing
an introduction and notes, to the first English translation
of " The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars, with a Voca-
bulary of their Language," said to have been " edited
by Martin Luther in the year 1528."
The memorial bust of Admiral Blake, executed after
Mr. Baily's design by Mr. Papworth, has been placed in
the Assize Court at Taunton, in the grand' old hero's
native county of Somerset. The money—the sculptor
was paid some 130 guineas—was raised principally by
local subscriptions.
The committee, for managing the fund for the erection
of a memorial to Hallam, having decided that it should
be a statue, invited Messrs. Foley, Woclner, Bell,
Munro, Noble, and Theed to send in designs in com-
petition for the commission. Messrs. Foley and Woolner
have declined to do so.
With reference to the Wakefield bribery prosecutions
it is stated that Sir Fitzroy Kelly, in addition to his
retainer, refreshers, and consultation fees, received 300
guineas in each of the four cases upon which the records
have been withdrawn, If this is true, the cost of the
defence, without •the trial, in these cases, cannot be
much under £2,000.
A collection of Political Ballads of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, to be edited by Mr. W. Walker
Wilkins, is announced by the Messrs. Longman. The
volume will comprise characteristic specimens of the
ballads published. originally as broadsides between the
years 1641 and 1760, namely, from the " great rebellion,"
in the reign of Charles I. to the death of George a,
A Goethe monument has been resolved upon at Berlin,
as well as a Schiller monument, and the one is also to
find its place near the ether. It is stated that the Prince
Regent has granted 10,000 thalers, and that all the
theatres in the capital will give representations on the
28th of August, Goethe's birthday—an example which
will be followed by all the theatres in Germany—for the
benefit of the Goethe fund.
The Gazette des Theatres (Paris) announces that -a
marriage is on the eve of being. celebrated - between
Wile. Troche, the descendant of Racine, ,and a young
captain of infantry in the French army. The subscrip-
tion which was opened -in favour of the young orphan,
and in which the Pope and several foreign sovereigns
took part, will give the lady a marriage portion •of
50,000 f. -
M. Roger, the French vocalist, who some time ago
met with the serious accident of losing his 'al-in; has
returned to the scene of his original triumphs, the Opera
Comique of Paris, and in " La D,ame Blanche" is draw"
ing aLiohcrowded hoeses, even during the height of the
summer season, that money is refused at the doors—
a somewhat rare occurrence in modern managerial
experience.
The Brough Memorial Fund progresses favourably.
We see in the list of the General Committee such names
as those of Charles Dickens, Tom Taylor, Lord Tenter-
den,r.,H. Ingram, M.P.,
Francis Talfourd (the son of
the "poet judge ") and George Cruikshank. The dra-
matic performance at Drury-lane will take place on
Wednesday. Buckstone, Webster, and an entire host of
professional talent, will appear. The amateurs of the
Savage Club will
perform the Brothers Brough'i'bur-
lesque of "The Enchanted Isle." Mrs. Stirling has
consented to deliver a prologue to the extravaganza
written for her by
Shirley Brooks; end Mr. L. Buck-
ingham will recite Robert 13rough's lyric of " Godiva.!'
A deputation from 'a Committee of the Institute of
Architects had an interview, a few days ago, with Lord
Palmerston, to urge the propriety of erecting a statue of
the late Sir Charles Barry in some convenient part of
I great work at Westminster. The Premier, we
tijederstaq, aequieseed fully ; and, moreover, when it
e,;-ae, suggested that the Government should undertake
tie duty, expressed his personal willingness 'that it
should be so. The site spoken df is the 'top of the
flight of steps at the end of Westminister Hall, under
the large window put in by Barry. The Art Union of
London, being about to commission the execution of a
medal commemorative of an architect for their medallic
series, have determined on appropriating it to Sir
Charles Barry.--,e'udrier.
4 New READING OF " ORNITUOLOGY."—In a recent
discussion in the Field, the Hon. Grandee- F. Berkeley
oracularly says :—" I ought to know the English rabbit
naturally and scientifically, having studied orneeludoaee
end killed and eaten them all my life." He furtEer
makes mention of a whale as an "ornithological spr.
dam."