The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-16 00:00:00

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, .kND ART.

The Athenceum says :=Mr. Mill is at work on a new
e lition of his " Logic ; " and Miss Helen Taylor is said
to be editing , the posthumous works of Buckle.—Mr.
Halliwell is making progress with his " About ten folio
volumes," which will illustrate the life of Shakespear and
the history of 'the Early Englsih stage. The com-
piler will be glad to receive any information that
is new, in • reference to the above subjects.—
Messrs. Rivington will publish, on Monday next, an ac-
count of the_ Ober Ammergau Passion Play, by the Rev.
M. M'Coll, who wrote the account of it in the Times.—
Mr. J. C. Brough has just been appointed to the libra-
rian's post at the London Institutionan office once held
Uy Porson.—The , new volume of tke Chandos Classics
contains the legendary ballads of England and Scotland.
It is carefully edited by Mr. J. G. Roberts, who has
done well in shewing that some of the heroes of old sang,
Gilderoy for instance, were vulgar thieves, or worse, to
whom undeserved honours have been paid by the bards.—
An excellent Italian version of Charles Dickens's " The
Cricket on the Hearth " has been written by Signora
Grazia Mancini Pierantoni.—The New York Nation says
thrt " many of the American publishers, all the authors,
and all the intelligent and honest men and women who
have thought the thing out, wish an international copy-
right law to be passed.' —Putnam's Magazine, in an article
on Disraeli as a statesman and a novelist, says that
" - • hair' alone in the realms of- English fiction
is worthy to be named alongside of ' Wilhelm Meister !' "
Mr. Bailey Walker, of Manchester, is engaged on an
attempt to bring about a certain amount of fusion be-
tween various scientific, religious, educational, and other
societies, so far as their working expenses are concerned.
We wish that the thing may be done, but neither
expect that it will be done, nor know whether Mr. Walker
is the right man for the attempt.—We may report pro-
gress as to the instruction of Indian women in midwifery.
In the Medical College Hospital at Calcutta there is a
class of twelve ; and in the Mitford Hospital at Dacca
three. Besides paying the female pupils, the Government
has hit upon the novel idea of paying female patients a
daily stipend to attend the hospital.—At Zurich the ques-
tion of admitting female students to the share of the
highest scientific education, and of university diplomas,
seem likely to be practically solved. At present fourteen
ladies attend the lectures of the Faculty of Medicine con-
currently with the male students ; and last year
two ladies, one Russian and the other English, passed
their examination for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.—
The closing of the Royal Italian opera season is an-
nounced for next Saturday, the 23rd instant, when it will
be time enough to supply a summary of the carrying out
of the prospectus of 1870. One more revival is promised,
that of Meyerbeer's " Etoile du Nord," for the 19th inst.
—At a performance of Mr. Reece's extravaganza on
Saturday last, at the Olympic Theatre, the dress of
Undine took fire, and a serious accident to the actress and
a panic were only avoided by the presence of mind of
some of the officials of the theatre.—The conversion of
the Chatelet into a Parisian Alhambra, to which we re-
ferred last week as probable, is now determined upon.
The management of Mr. Strange commences on the Ist
of August.