The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

NIUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND

ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Miss Agnes XiOtrdefntamt, an accomplished pianist,
only thirteen years oiil, tfilote performances daring last
season excited some attention; lias ffifst ekaiifred the first
priie fe4r plati6fatie and'cbmpositioic,.aiinat *toil elected
King's Scholar` di de R:oYal Aatlemy of MMic, of which
she is a pupil.
We (Critic) bear that the far-fag:lied' Italian Opera
band feel extremely sore at being compelled to'giVe up
their long-standing engagements at the PhilharitKohie•
forthwith. No wonder, for they have contributed
largely towards the popularity that the society has
attained. In chaining the lesser of two evils, they found
it politic to submit to the decree of Messrs. Gyc, Costa,
and Co.

Professor Sten-nide Bennett ie busy upon a new ora-
torio to be Satight out d the Leeds restival next year.
At the Birmingham FestiVal, which will be held nest
' year, it has been resolved that aft eta cuncert shall be
given in lieu of the ball With which art festival gene-
rally terrtinatce. The hand is alieady engaged for the
last week in August.
A new musical entertain*ent (St that peculiar de-
scription which has become popidatr of late; was pro-
duced on Saturday evening at the IlaAtlei-square
Rooms, under the auspices of Mr. W. Willa, Idol has
secured the services of Mdme. Lancia and Mr. Augustus
Braham. The entertainment is entitled "Light and
Shade; or, Photographing and Spirit-rapping."

The following is a list of the Christmas entertain-
ments at. the various London theatres :---Drury Lane :
A pantotniute, Peter Wilkins and the
.Flying Islanders,
written' by E.: L. Blanchard.—Her Majesty's : Torn
a' phntonilimni I!)y the 'same author.—Covent-
garden A platifotamt, lAtee Pearl, written by Mr.
Bridgman, interpreted I;iy flin best pantomimist that
exists—the Paynes.—Haymattet :" .A pantomime, Lady-
bird, Ladybird, fly away Home, by Mr. Buckstone.—
Princess's : A pantomime, Robinson Crave, by Mr.
Byron. " Friday by that extraordinary grotesque, l*T.
Espinosa.--Adelphi : A burlesque, Blue Beard, by Mr.
BYr-on.—Strand A burlesque, Cinderella, by Mr. Byron.
Licetini A bnrlesque by Mr. Falconer, scenery by Mr.
Callcott —Midge A burlesque, Timm- the Tartar,
by Mr. Oxenford and S'iiiriey brooks.

Our learned friend Notes eta 0n7168 comes out like
his more vivacious contemporaries, With a Christmas
number, full of Christmas lore appropriate to the
season, and at once amusing and instructive.

Oft ptiMishing friends, says the Critic, evidently
reckols' toptar a leading as well as a merry Christmas, to
judge from Me supply of solid or striking books with
which they have fttruishied the community. It is the
week before Christmas that produces Dr. Ingleby's
" Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy," much
the most elaborate work yet issued on the subject, and
" complete" in every sense of the word. One el the
chief events of the publishing season was to be the
issue of Dr. Davis's " Carthage and her Remains ;"
and, appearing as the work does just at the
moment, it must figure as a valuable piece de resist-
ance in our Christmas bill of literary fare. In
biography, always a favourite, flourishing, and pro-
lific department, we have Mr. Walter Thornbury's
" Artiste, from Hogarth to Turner ;" " Ways
and Words of Men of Letters," by the Rev. J. Pycroft,
the author of the popular and amusing "Twenty-five
Years in the Church ;" Mr. Hepworth Dixon's "Per-
sonal IfisCory of Lord Bacon ;" and the Rev. A. A.
Bonar's "Men& of the Rev. D. Sandeman, Mis-
sionary to China." ft? history there is a solitary
contribution—the new worii of Mr. T. Adolphus
Trollope, " Paul the Pope and ravl the Friar," a
story of an interdict, and of which Paul t and Paul the
historian of the Council of Trent are the heroes. The
veteran Lord Brougham's "Treatise on the British Con-
stitution," long announced, has made its appearance this
week. The literature of home travel has been enriched by
Mr. and Mrs. a C. Hall's " Book of South Wales ;',
whilst Mrs. Meredith tells of Australian life in her new
toftnne, "Over the Straits •;" Dr. Godet offers his
exhansete work, " Bermuda ;" and Mr. Horace Marryat
narrates his enperiences of Northern F.urope in i" A
Residence in Jutland, the Danish Provinces, and Copen-
hagen." In religion we lt,tve to chronicle, the appear-
ance of the first volume of the late Dr. Wardlaw's pos-
thumous sermons, and an English transktion of Madam
de Gasparin's "The Near and the Heavenly Horizons,"
which was first introduced to, the notice of our reading
public by an appreciative criticism in facmilla'ds
Magazine. In poetry, a second volume of the Legends
and Lyrics of the daughter of Barry Cornwall, Miss
Adelaide Proctor, and " The Worn Wedding Ring,"
and other poems, by Mr. W. C. Bennett, are the only
contributions which this Christmas makes to serious
minstrelsy.
Gossiping on the recent gathering at Mr. Mudie's, the
Illustrated News says :—Theie were painters, and
sculpors, and engravers. There were critics and press
men. There were poets and divines. The ladies looked
cruelly learned, excruciatingly erudite, inexorably accom-
plished, as all literary ladies should do. The female
authorial personality is perhaps a little alarming—not
to say. awful; and we heard the prettiest lady in the
1.11:11Ina hP
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clever." All these celebrities weie gathered logerEn
partake of Mr. Mudie's graceful hospitality (he should
give a dinner and see what capital knives and forks
some of our most sentimental novelists can play),
and to inspect his new and magnificent central hall :
lofty, galleried, columniated, resplendently booklined as
it is. Everybody was delighted ; admired the host's
energy and enterprise ; marvelled at the development of
his operations which led to the construction of such a
palatial storeroom of his "select library," and felt dis-
posed to cry, "Io Mudie Eros Mudie !" till a grim
reminder somewhat saddened the most joyous in a
rumour that beneath the grand hall is a range of vaults
designed for the reception of the works of unsuccessful
authors. There is horror in the thought.

The Duke of Saxe-Coburg has, with the consent of
the Duke of Saxony, promoted the celebrated publisher
of Leipsic, M. Bernhard-Tauchnitz, to the rank of
hereditary Baron. This dignity has been conferred as
an acknowledgment for the exertions made by the baron
to promote the extension of English literature in Ger-
many.

The January number of the Cornhill contains the
opening portion of "The Adventures of Philip." We
have the old dramatist persona of so many of Mr.
Thackeray's fictions over and over again. Thus, Mr.
and Mrs. Pendennis, the Major, Dr. Goodenough, are
from " Pendennis;" the painter, Andrew Fitch, and his
wife, the ex-widow Carrickfergus, are from "A shabby
genteel story," published many years since in Fraser;
and the father of Philip, a certain Dr. Firmin, made, it
is to be presumed, his first appearance as Mr. Brandon
in the same bygone tale. The "Little Sister" is also
an old "shabby genteel acquaintance;" and the Ring-
woods, Ascots, Eghams, et hoc genus ovine, are indif-
ferently from the " Newcomes " and " Vanity Fair."
We have the same old smiles, aristocratic genealogies,
public school episodes, reminiscences of defunct dinner
parties, sweetstuff, ginger-beer, and the Charterhouse
birch rods, as of yore. With any other writer but Mr.
Thackeray, this eternal repetition of la vieille patraque
would pall and sicken ; with him, thanks to his genius,
his wit, and his pathos, they still amuse, instruct, and
delight.
A universal exhibition of paintings is to take place
next year at Florence. The Municipality has contributed
100,000 f. to the expenses ; the Provincial Council,
30,000 f. ; Milan, 20,000 f. ; Pisa, 7,000 f. ; and Leghorn,
I,ooof.

A week or two since (says the writer of "Literature
and Art ") we asked whom the " Lorenzo the Magnia-
'cent" could be who had given Mr. Frith a ten-thousand
pound commission. 'We trust that some kind friend will
set us right if we are in error. Our information, which
we have every reason to believe correct, points to M.
Flatou, a gentleman well known in connexion with the
." commercialities of art " as the Maecenas who is pre-
pared to give the £lO,OOO in question. The picture
contemplated by Mr. Frith is said to be " Life at a
Railway Station."

IXFANT-REARING.—Mini Martineau, who, like all philoso-
phical ladies, has studied the matter thoroughly, says, that
" in England alone, 40,000 babes die annually ; and one-third
more of that number grow up either idiotic, sickly, or de-
formed." The reason is evident, as mothers, through inability
to nurse their offspring, resort to the administration of baked
flour, biscuits, tops-and-bottoms,or pap. The infant stomach,
cannot assimilate such crude preparations, and frequently
rejects them; but still the nurse or mother continues them
under the hope of soothing the child. Internal inflammation
Place—eructations, diarrhoea, and consumption appear—and
most frequently convulsions are induced which seal the infant's
fate. The Medical Times and Gazette, August 28, 1858,
p. 215, conveys Dr. C. B. F. Routli's views on the same im-
portant subject, and his opinion of Du Barry's Revalenta
Arabica Food, as adapted to obviate the mischief effectually.
Dr. Routh is physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women
and Children. This learned and experienced practitioner says :
"The human milk contains, besides salts of lime, chltorideof
potassium. Now, in common with carbonic acid, his salt
enjoys the peculiar property of .dissolving cerbenat. of lime
or chalk. An abssnce of it in the food, ae in wheat 'read, Is
very injurious to a growing child ; hence, a child re,: on pap
for a time grows fat, but the bones arc soft ; frequently it
sickens, and severe symptoms supervene. Amongst the vege-
table substances, that which comes closest to ini k in its com-
position, besides being more easily assimilated and strengthen-
ing, is, without doubt, l)u Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food.
containing both phosphoric acid in abundance, and chloride of
potassium; it also includes caseme, the same principle which
is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there-
fore, that under its. influence many children affected with
atrophy (wasting away of the body) and marked debility
have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest
advantage in such cases; and, so tar a, I may judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory, from a
knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate. It gives
good muscle and strengthens the bones, restoring tone, and a
healthy, -regular action to the stomach and bowels, whether
constipation or a relaxed State of the system is complained of."
C. B. F. ROUTH, M.D.—Packed in tine, with full instructions:
11b., 2s. 9d.; 2 lb., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., Ils. ' • 121 b., 225. ; 211 b., free
of carriage, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Itegent-street;
also Fortnum, Mason and Co:, Abbiss. 60, Graee-
church-street, London; and through all grocers and chemists.
Agents in this district :—Nixon and '['hew, 1, Castle-street; T
Low; J. Kirkus ; Forsyth ; F. Ci. Jones, 5, Paradise-street;
R. Sumner and Co. ; H. S. Alpass; E. Pearson and Son ; J.
Oliver' W. Cross ; Sharp, Higgins, and Co.' Clay and Abra-
ham, 37, Bold-street; Evans. Sons, and Co., wholesale agents;
John Beynon ; Thompson and Capper; J. Strawson, druggist;
G. Bramwell and Son; C. Bromlow, 1, London-road ; Isaac
Woodville, tea dealer; Raimes and Co., wholesale druggists ;
F. Staveley, druggist, Price-street; T. D. Walker, Ranelaph-
street ; J. 11. Howell, 72, 'Dale-street; Hingston, druggist,
Bold-street ; Henry Middleton ; Gilbert Br.thers ; J. Cruise;
Grace and Kelk; G. Barber, '2l, Great George-street, Birken-
head ; T. Fore, druggist ; B. J. Candler ; J. Dutton ; J. E.
Hargraves ; Sanders and Co.; C. Jones; J. Green ; J. Lloyd,
69, Islington ' • 'J. C. Wales, 7, St. Anne-street; Thomson and
Capper, 43, Bold-street; J. Hamilton, 49, Mill-street; R.
Foulds, 76, Pitt-street.