Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-20
LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.


tWaddle - ever.
-"Smoked Gisssp is the title Of Orphs-
ls c. KsrFis new book.
Painful times are anticipated when
Miss Louisa Payne arrives.
"A danes-hOuss In Boston has been
urned into q mission room.
Why Is ballet girl Ike dog IN
nid-summer9 Because abe needs mus
in.
Verdi has had q new opers house IN
Ms native village Of Busseto, named sftsr
him.
-Blitz, the old original and genuine
+'gnor BiiiZ, is at DOdwoFth's Hall, New
York, and draws good houses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is said TO
have devoted six hours a day % study
sor the last twenty-five years.
The letters of the late Gar Nicholas,
pronounced quite foolish by many critics,
Sre-bo be published In Berlin.
=Tsnnyson has an income from his
works OF about e70OO per annum, and n
said 70 be exceedingly thrifty WithaI.
"A new edition Of the Rejected ADJ
dresses of the Brothers Smith nas sp-
peared In England, with i've llustra-
tons. -,l
Mr.. Ross has lately become manse-
Ing editor OF the Boston Advertiser. M,
Goddard late Of Worcester, is It's leader
writer.
The pretty Princess Dsgmar writes
very graceful sonnets, and even her mar
fiags has not eaased her to hang her harp
on willow. aa
PATHS husband is willing that she
should make his name famous. She is
no~ billed for the opera as Msrquise de
Caux.
The White Fawn,H now running
at the Chestnut, Philadelphia, has been
changed somewhat, and several new
features introduced.
In Nashville the condition OF affairs "a
about the came. John RObinsouls great
circus was showing there yesterday and
daybefOre.
Bonner has fallen back upon Mrs.
SOuthwOrth's "Hidden Hand" and is
giving his readers weekly instruments OF
that touching tale.
Alexander Dumas, Sr., reIishes q
pipe OF Tobacco and opium, and a glass
OF aosinthe, about two in the morning,
above everything else In life.
The Thester Comique, New York.
has been reOpened as varieties thea
ter, oy Llngard, an. established favorite,
and mas thus far been as successful a.
could be wished.
-kingiake sent the Ms. Of his HCri-
mean War to the publishers in the box
used by Wellington for the transmission
OF his dispatches from Waterloo. Hon
Ored WellingtOn
The Hanlon Brothers are axbibft;n,-
a velOcipede st New York. with an inn
proyement of their own invention. bv
which twenty miles an hour can bs
made.
In Memphis, the only place OF annuse-
ment now open Is the q Varieties The
ster, and this is conducted IN such :
manner as to be place where no gentls-
man would care to be caught.
Mr.. Grau has received a esblaOram
announcing the sailing on Tuesday OF his
Opera B0ntfs company. The season
opens st the French Theater on the 5th
October with Ofenbsch's 'iGenevieve de
Brabant."
Madame Victor Hugo has left the
manuscript of the second volume Of the
Life OF Victor Hugo ready for the press.
Its title viii be Victor Hugo as a poll
tician and in exile"
=" Foul Play" Reads version. pro-
duced last week at the Walnut, PhiIa-
deiphiR, seems to have made a fair bit.
bad as the play is, and q series Of good
houses was the result. 1t is on the bills
for the current week.
"A plimentary testimonial is about
to be rendered to Meyer EIJas, on which
occasion anme of the bes amateur talent
of New York will spPLIr. The affair
will be under the management Of the
Warren Combination.
AT the Salt Lske Tieater. Miss Ipca
has appeared in " "Evadne,r - /" Mary Stu
art, +" IOn,p and other pieces, and her
performances are praised by the Salt
Lake critics.
The Poems Of Charles G. Halpine.is
edited by bis associate on bis paper, ara
in course of publication by the Messrs,
Hsrpers. They will appear within few
weeks.
DIR. Holland writes concerning fha.
death OF Adsh Isaacs Msnken 81 A story
is current, which l give for what it ia
worth, that she laid q wager she could
drink given quantity Of whisky; won
ner bet and died"
Gail Hamilton declines to be a
indOrsing the WOman's club idea. She
objects to the male nomenclature OF off,
GERS in vogue, and nominated herself to
The position of Grand Aunty,n which
was unanimously accorded to her.
-Prefact Haussmann is one OF the best
in Paris. At q sOiree in
FOntainebleau recently, he and Jean
Jacques Offenbaeh played duet which
pleased the Empress so much that she
ssid to the great beautifier of Paris: I'M
If your enemies should get
the better of you, shall appoint you my
7laitre dc chdpslLe."
Mrs. Lander's Elizabeth" is a great
piece of acting, which has attracted much
attention st the Broadway thester The
management has wisely decided to retain
8 e IL sbeth - on the boards as long as ft
3 SO well received. Mrs. Lander is adj
niTably supported by Messrs. J. ii. Tay-a
or, George Backs, and James Taylor,
md the tragedy is well presented, with.
strict attention to historical details.
Mrs. O'Donayon RoSsa, the talented
1ut unhappy lady-working with her
pen and voice, using her gifts Of mind
md grace Of person in the literary world
" upon the public boards, in order 10 ae-
,umulate the necessary funds to free
husband, u0justly convicted, from his
English dungeon-is about to issue vol
mae of her poems.
One of the Parisian theaters pub
lshes the following advertisement. fTo-
light, the Grand Duchess of GeroIstein.
lis Highness, Prince Paul Of Thurn
nd Taxis, will perform Prince
PAUL" The thester in question
} Madame Bruning'5 German The
ter, where the Prince of Thuru
nd TRxis, who recently gave up his title
D order to marry an actress and become
in1self an actor, has been engaged. His
ebut 10 one which will certainly dis
Iease his august relatives in Germany.
moDg whom are the Empress of Aus
ria and the King Of Bavaria.
-Clergymen Of repute have written
ieces expressly for the stage. Court and
relscy, in the first Charles's DAYS, hailed
be solemn dramas OF the Rev. w, Cart
wright. DR.. Brady-half OF the untune-
nj author, "Tate- and-Bradyn-wrots as
nmefodious tragedy as be did psalms:
nd the Rev. DR.. Young contributed
hree tragedies, one Of which was first
for the benefit OF the Society
Or the Propagation of the Gospel in For
ign Parts. In the last century there
Fere, further, the Rev. John Stirling and
be Rev. James Miller. and g greater
han these in the Essv. DIR. Browne, who
Vrote "Bsrbarossa," snd the Rev.
'Owneley, bland master of Merchant
'aylors', to whom is attributed that
leasant bit of extrsvagance, "High