The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-29 00:00:00

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

The Athenceum says : —Mr. Wilkie Collins's "Man and
Wife" has been reprinted at Toronto. It is the first
book that has appeared in Canada under the provisions
of the new Copyright Act. Dr. Strauss has written a
letter to M. E. Renan on the characteristics and present
position of the French and German nations. It appears
in the Allgemeine Zeitung. M. Renan had congratulated
Dr. Strauss on his " Voltaire," and Dr. Strauss says
he wrote his sketch of Voltaire's life in the hope of uniting
the two nations more closely in the bonds of friendship :
he regrets that his attempt has proved so unsuccessful.—
Professor Lowell continues to be a frequent contributor
to American periodicals. He had, in July, an article on
Chaucer in the North American _Review ; and this month
he contributes "A Virginian in New England Thirty-five
years Ago" to the Atlantic Monthly, and a sonnet to Put-
nam's Magazine. There is a paper in the last-named ma-
gazine by. Professor Goldwin Smith, on " The Constitu-
tional Crisis in England."—The death is announced of the
publisher of the first Book of Mormon.—The Maine His-
torical Society has removed its headquarters from Bruns-
wick to Portland.—The graduates of Yale College are agi-
tating for a share in the Government of their university.
When we consider that the votes of non-residents are not
usually looked upon with favour at Oxford and Cambridge,
the proposal would seem to be one of doubtful wisdom.-
-Lord- Lytton is engaged on a new novel.—The next
volume of the "Ancient Classics for English Readers"
will be " Horace," by Mr. Theodore Martin.—M. de
Lesseps has received an addition to his numerous honours
in the large medal of the Society for the Encouragement
of Arts and Sciences. The Lavoisier medal of the same
Society has been awarded to M. Henri St. Claire Deville,
for his numerous researches in theoretical and technological
chemistry.—A new drama, by Mr. Boucicault, eniat'ed
" The Rapparee," in which Mr. Hermann Vezin, Mr.
Clayton, Mr. Rignold, Mrs. Stephens, and Miss Katherine Rodgers will play the principal parts, will
serve for the re-opening of the Princess's Theatre on the
sth of September.—The Globe will shortly open with
a performance of " Katherine and Petruchio," and of
"Marco Spada," a drama by Mr. Palgrave Simpson.
—From America we learn that Selwyn's Theatre,
Boston, re-christened the Globe, will shortly re-open
under the management of Mr. Fechter.

An official notice has been issued to the effect that
a considerable number of able seamen, engineers, &c., are
required for the fleet.

The Weekly Register says that the Postmaster-
General of Berlin, Stephan, has just left for Alsace and
Lorraine, to re-organise the postal service according to
the Prussian system. Yet the present is not a war of an-
nexation on the part of Germany, so, at least raid the
King of Prussia in the beginning. " Put not your trust
in princes" is as applicable as ever.
SUPPOSED MARINE BATTLE OFF ILFRACOMBE.—
Much amusement has been created at Ilfracombe by a
paragraph in the London papers stating that " heavy
canonading " had been heard off Ilfracombe, and "it was
supposed to proceed " from an action between French and
German craft. Residents in Ilfracombe were well accus-
tomed to the "heavy canonading." it being caused by
the volunteer artillery, who are in the habit of practising
at Mumbles, on the opposite Welsh. coast.