The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-22 00:00:00

TRACKERAYANA,

MR, THA.CKERIT'S Housu is to be sold. An advertise-
ment in the rapers has caused many hundreds of people to
visit the residence of the great humorist. It is said that a
sale will be held of the books, furniture, and curiosities
early in the coming month.
His incomplete posthumous story of "Denis Duval"
will be illustrated with woodcuts drawn by Mr. Walker,
the first of them after a design by the author.
THE NOVELLETTE, 66 COUSIN Palmas," recently pub-
:ished in the Cornhill, is underatood to be from the pen of
Miss Thackeray.
IN TUE NEW YORK " ALBION" of the 10th of January
appeared a biographical sketch of Thackeray by Mr.
Sale.
THACKERAY AND THE OxFonn VICE-CHANCELLOR.
—" Play what can I do to serve you, sir ?" inquired the
bland functionary. "My name is Thickeray." " So I see by
this card." "I seek permission to lecturo w:thin the pre-
cincts." "Ah I you are a lecturer ; what subjects do you
undertake—religious or political ?" " Neither ; I am a
literary man." "Have you written anything ?" " Yes ;
lam the author 'Vanity Fair.' " "I presume a dissenter
—has that anything to do with John Bunyan's book ?"
"Not exactly ; I have also written 6 Pendennis.' " " Never
heard of these works; but no doubt they are proper books.'
"I have contributed to Punch. Punch ! I have heard o
that ; is it not a ribald publication ?

SHAKSPERE ANA,

Profiting by the public criticism to vhich they have been
exposed, the Council of the Shakspero Committee, says the
Athenceum, have adopted a self-denying ordinance. Look-
ing on all sides for an active and popular Executive, for
gentlemen who could carry into effect the public desires,
they have found them outeide their own ranks; and, having
found them, they have carried in the General Committee a
vote which virtually transfers the leacing and active powers
of the committee from their own into other hands. This act
was wise; and their sharpest critics must allow that it was
also unselfish. Men who thought more of themselves
than of the cause in which they were engaged would,
perhaps, have hesitated to do it. Tie Council have been
sometimes blamed fur alleged self-seeking in this matter ;
when their faults of the past are remembered in the future,
generous men will not forget how readily and gracefully
they have now fallen in with what appears to be the wish
of their literary brethren.
THE GROWTH Or THE COMMlTTEE.—Ferdinand
grath, Esq., Joseph 1.. \r yon, Esq., German Reed, Esq.,
S. D. Sassom, Esq , have been elected members of the Na-
tional ShakEpere Committee.
Tern STIA.KSPERE BADGE FOR THE 23D OF Aram.—The
riband manufacturers of Coventry have just produced an
appropriate decoration to be worn on the days of the ap-
proaching Shakspere Festival. The badge consists of three
leaves. On one is the residence of the poet ; on another,
the church of Stratford-on-Avon, and on the third, a por-

trait of Shaksi.el e (from the Cbandos picture)—the three
devices being attached by a buttes, on which are engraved

the Shalzspere arms and crest.
SHAKSPERE A LA RUSSE,—The second edition of a Rus-
sian translation of Shakspero by 31. Ketcher has just been
published at Moscow. The first edition, it appears, is out

of print.
SumisrEßE IN ITALY.—The best tragic actor in Ital

Tommaso Salvini, has been giving a series of performances
at the Paganini Theatre at Genoa, and, for his benefit,
played his most celebrated part, °tell°, in an Italian ver-
sion of our Shakepere's" Othello,"