The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-22 00:00:00

SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND THE
STACIE.

The Atheneum says :—We hear that there will appear
shortly a series of twelve brief poems by the Poet Lau-
reate, which are connected by a love story, and will be
illustrated by as many designs by Mr. Arthur Hughes.
The verses will be accompanied by music, the composition
of Mr. Sullivan, and issued in a handsome manner as
a table-book of the first class in square octavo.—
Professor Henry Morley has a new volume
in the press, " Clement Marot, and other Studies."—
Messrs. Chapman and Hall promise new novels by the
author of " Guy Livingstone," by Mr. J. G. Whyte
Melville, Lady Wood, the Hon. W. G. Craven, Mai.
Brookfield, and Mr. Edmund Yates.—The writer of the
descriptions of the German army before Metz, that have
appeared in the Daily News, is Mr. Archibald Forbes,
proprietor of the London Scotsman newspaper.—
A volume of poems, by the late Robert Leighton, with a
membir of the author, may be expected about Christ-
mas.—Mr. William Howitt is writing a poem
on the War.—Professor Maguire, of Galway, has
a volume on the Platonic Ethics in the press.—
Mr. J. C. Earle is engaged upon a work to be called
" Lives of the English Premiers, from Sir Robert Wal-
pole to Sir Robert Peel."—Mr. F. Williams has been ap-
pointed to the editorship of the Birmingham Gazette and
Aris's Gazette, vacant by the resignation of Dr. Sebastian
Evans.—Messrs. Fields and Osgood, of Boston, announce
an illustrated Christmas book, called " Winter Poems,"
which will contain poems new and old by Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Whittier, Professor Longfellow, and Mr. Bryant.—
The Russian gentleman, erroneously described in the
newspapers by the name of Foda, and as having acted
as steward to Mr. Strode, the owner of Camden Place,
Chislehurst, where the Empress of the French is now
residing, who was killed last Saturday by a fall from his
phaeton, was a tenor of note some years since. He had
sung on the lyric stage in many countries, and was for a
short time engaged at Drury-lane Theatre during the
opera days of Mr. Bunn. Signor Foedor—for such i s the
right name—had a fine chest voice, and was a good
musician. Although he acted as agent for Mr. Strode at
Chislehurst, he was regarded as a friend, and gave
lessons in singing in the neighbourhood of Chisle-
hurst. His untimely death will be much regretted
by a large circle of friends and admirers of his talents ;
for he was an artist of varied attainments.—
We were told the other day that one of Madame Grisi's
younger daughters promises to take high rank as
a singer, in right of her remarkable natural gifts.
A play bearing the curioas title of "A Rolling
Stone sometimes gathers Moss" has been produced
at the Victoria Theatre. Its story shows how
amid the varied opportunities of life in the New World,
men who have been in England mere outcasts of society
may acquire habits of honesty and independence, and
even obtain a certain amount of chivalry. The author,
Mr. P. Marchant,. plays an important part in the piece.
The Dublin University have just published the regula-
tions for the examinations for women for 1871. They
will be held in Dublin in March 1871, one for senior and
one for junior candidates. The latter must not be above
18 years of age. Examinations will also be held at any
place where a ladies' superintending committee shall be
constituted, and at least twenty candidates guaranteed to
present themselves.
The Senate of the Queen's University in Ireland has
conferred on William King, M.D., Professor of Geology
and Mineralogy in Queen's College, Galway, the honorary
degree of Doctor of Science, in consideration of his
eminence as a geologist.

The United Mates steamer Kansas, now fitting out at
the Washington 'Navy Yard for duty on the Tehuan-
tepec and Nicaragua Expedition, was, according to
.Engineering, put in commission about a fortnight ago.
'['he Kansas will he the principal vessel of the expedition.
The survey in Nicaragua will embrace the route for a
canal advocated thirty years ago by the Emperor Napo-
leon. That in Mexico by the Tehauntepec river possesses
less interest, owing to the length and difficulties of the
route. —Nature.

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