The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-31
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be showed the necessity for caution in making
eonnparlsons' ana IN drawing conclusions from
fossil remains of the same species found in the
two countries. He holds that the basis of the
classification hitherto adopted for the geoogi-
culy recent deposits In India has been erroneous
and that to-appeal TO Europe for evidence of the
. geological age of Indian deposits is TO appeal to
Witnesses who cannot know the facts. BY this
Tgument DR.. Oldham supports the opinion cX-
pressed years ago by the late Mr.. FalcOner, that
in India, II anywhere, would be found the sOlu-
ton OF the great problem of the succession of
lie; and there, in the ancient aluvta OF marvel
! ouS extent, might geologiss hope to discover
some OF those intermediate forms which are cX-
tremely rare or altogether wanting i'm Europe.
Mr.. Thomas Wright is now editing, for the
Master of the Rolls, collection, in one volume
OF the Anglo-Latin SatirCal Poets of the twelfth
Century-Nigeus, John de Hauteville. etc.
which will, there can be no doubt, throw great
ight on the social history Of the age as well as
H. political history. Mr. Wright is also preparing
for press a revised and greatly-enlarged edition
Of his "HistOry of Women in the Early Ages"
The death of Mr. Toulmiu Smith will not
stop the publication of his English Gilds i" for
the Early English Text Society. His eldest
daughter, who for many years helped him in his
work, will complete the book.
The celebrated "Complaynt of Scotland
A. ID. 154S, is to be re-edited for the Extra Sc
ies of the Early English Text Society. next
year, by Mr. James A. II. Murray the writer of
some able papers son the Dialects of the South
en Counties of Scotland their History and
.>Ailnitics, for the Pathological Society.
Did people take snuff before it was made
rom tobacco? We suppose so, for Cotgraye
implies that 'neesing-power,' made from neese-
wort, well-llnown article in 1911: :" Yer
4 Oire blanc. White hellebOre, lingwort, neese-
wort of whose root neesing-pOwder is made
Neither the first nor the second edition of Cot
graves Dictionary mentions the French word
p ObGC, or tGbGC. Howell, in 1861 gives tObdc, as
we'll COtgraves words for the weed, pettDI
and niCoti0ne The latter is defined by Cotgrave
as "Ncotian tobacco (first sent into France by
a. a French Diptippnrip
in the yeare 1860, when he was Embassador Leger
in PortugalD."
There Is now a newspaper for the English
community nesting in the healthy hills of Ben
gal. 1t is called the Ddrjeeling AdUertiser, and
is published among the Himalayas within sight
OF the Chinese posts in Thibet.
Musical Items.
An unpublished Symphonic cOnCertdTte. for
VIOLIN tenor, and violOnceo, by Mozart re-
Gently discovered in the Mozarteum, was played
at Sazburg at the last concert of the institution.
-Shakespeare's birthday was celebrated in
Leipzig by an extraordinary performance of his
Midsummer Nights Dream, Mendelssohns
music being in this case as much cared for as
the drama.
-Schumann's music to Manfred has been per-
formed at Darmstadt, not with the usual con-
Meeting text, but with the entire Byronic poem
divided among the various drdnlGtiS perSOnR.
Herr Max Zenger's opera Rug Bias was
withdrawn after single representation in Bres-
bu.
--Halcvy's Jagoterita has just been revived at
/ the Opera Comique. NJ. Offenbachs opera
JOgfe, Les Brigdnds, set on one side to give
place to La PerichOle, is to be produced in the
autumn at the Varieties, the principal parts being
allotted to NJ. Dupuis and to Mesdames Aimee
and Xulma Bouffar At the TheatrelItaliens Ri
gOlettO has been given by the lyric company,
Hd1Hlet-or An1letO, to quote the bills-by the
dramatic, with Ernest Rossi at the head, and
Meyerbcers Sb"uenSeeby combination of the two
component materials of a singulary strong
troupe. Rumor speaks OF new tenor NJ. Uric,
urhn ia 70 mt md NJ Crinr'S onsTN
in Poljuto one of the most exacting of modern
operas.
Dramatic Items.
Mr.. j. S. Clarke has made hit mt the Strand
Theatre, London, in a new part. The AHteHgull
says--
Messrs Brough and Stockton are the authors
Of n new ''farccal comedy" entitledFOGU. Goose,
which has been played at this theatre. The ma
terials they have employed are old and common
81 place, and the work produced has no claim tc
originality of plot or situation. But its dialogue
I'd Is fresh and humorous, and its principal char
acter is thoroughly amusing. The story is that o.
scountry BOBBY who, falling into the hands of 6
swindler, is befooled and placed in many ludicrOu'
situations. He sees himself robbed, duped, ant
treated as an mpostor by the friends Of his father
while the man who has wronged him is teted in hi
Place and is apparently on the point of marrag,
with girl he has always expected to claim ~
bis own. These tribuations are borne in very
neful fashion by Mr.. j. s. Clarke, who shows
in this part more genuine talent than he has
previously exhibited. His power over his coun
enance is remarkable. In n moment his face
relaXes from an expression of stoid and com
placent gravity to grin of ineffable stupidity
and self-conceit. IntOXication, in all its variou
stages, was presented with great cleverness, TIN
actor being apparently drunk, not only in hi
head, but in his limbs and his entire body. Tn
entire representation, though eXtravagant,
thoroughly comic. Compression is necessary T.
the play, especially in the second act which
by far the weakest of the three over which
rather unnecessarily the story is extended.
The earliest novelty at the Holbon Theatre
- under Mr. Barry Sullivans management, will b
new tragic play by the author of "Londo
Poems" Mr.. Robert Buchanan is already know
10 pIaygoers by his tragedy of The Witch FIndeI
Produced some years ago at Sadlers Wells.
The Theatre du Prince Imperial is in futuI
n to be called the Theatre du Chateau dEau.
-Serdphine has at length been withdraw
from the Gymnase, and has been succeeded by
drama entitled lie ffAeut de Ren!ptgndc. III
author of the new piece is concealed under u
Een de pl,tqre of Alphonse Jain, but NJ. Dum
als is supposed to have had share in its con
}1pOsition 1t is q long and rather stupid dram
Showing how father who learns from his wi
III Dn her death-bed that the son he has brought I
Is not his own, dismisses the youth from
Ouse but is afterwards won by the youth affe
ion to readopt him. In tins play NJ. kaVel mat
Dis reappearance in n comic character.
Julie, the long-promised comedy OF \
Octave Feuillet, has been produced at d
r Theatre Francais 1t is curious and thorough
morbid work, the whole subject OF which
adulterous intrigue. "Jule" is a woman
middle age, who has been twenty years marie
lS and has n son at a naval school, and a daught
shout to take the VOWS in convent But n
years have not rendered her proof against Il
tender passion. Maurice her husband, n
treated her with neglect and cruelty, paradlI
before her his impure intrigues and condemnlI