The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-26
LITERATURE AND THE DRAMA.

Queen Victoria is said to be writing her
autobiography. 20
The author of "Red as Rose is She," is
now engaged upon companion work entitled,
screen as Cucumber Is He."
Jenny Lind's eldest daughter, who Is be-
ing educated for the operatic stage, is said to
have as fine a voice as her mother.
-Carlotta Patti, the celebrated prima donna,
now electriiying New Orleans, is to appear in
Atlanta on the 4th and 5th of March, proximo
1t is said that the title of Dickens new Be-
rial has suggested to Charles Webb another
travesty, to be called "The Mysteries Of Edwin
Booth.'
-Senor Emilio CASTELAR,, the eloquent Libe-
raj leader of the Cortes, in Madrid, is at work
upon history of the Spanish Revolution Of
1868 s-'T0.
-signor Reyna, who is playing Mephisto-
pheles to Miss Kellogg's Marguerite in Faust,
in New York, is declared by Mr.. Greeley to be
"ioyely devil"
-"Why Did He Marry Herr is the title of
new love story Probably because he was
afraid If he didn't marry her she would sue
MIN LOT predcn Ol plomlSc.
"A new journal has just been established
in London called ''Food." It is intended as
review of social and sanitary economy, and
record of public food and health.
"A ballet is in preparation in st. Peters-
burg, wherein the stage is to representa- piano
forte keyboard, on the keys of which Lydia,
the heroine of the ballet, is to 60 through her
steps,
Two of Tom Taylor's plays, "'Twixt Axe
and Crown" his latest, and "New Men and Old
Acres,n are being performed in London, the
latter having had quite long run at the Hay
market.
-Elenor Kirk, in her book, Sup Broadway"
conveys her idea OF marriage about as follows:
That 1t is the same as renting house-f the
roof leaks. or the chimney smokes, all you
have rot to do is to rent another.
! The Philadelphia Ledger inveighs against
the long waits between acts at theatrical en-
tertainments, and says: "Sometimes good
part of the five years supposed to elapse' really
does elapse before the curtain rolls up.
Victor Hugo's Lucretia Borgia has been
renroduced in Paris after thirty-seven years
n Rochefort, who was in state box with the
Husos, Gill, the caricaturist, and Nine. George
Sand, was enthusiastically applauded.
One of the daughters of Donizetti, the IL
lustrious composer of 'The Daughter of the
Regiment" Lucia de Lammermoor, and "Lu-
crezia Borgia,"is is schoolma'am at Novasa.
and the other keeps coftee-house at Brescia,
When Milton's great work first appeared,
Edmund Waller wrote thus concerning 1t:
"The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, has
published a tedious poem on the fall osman; If
Its length be not considered merit. it has no
other.''
A New York correspondent laughs at the
way people use the ''book Of the play" when
they go to see Booths Hamlet. "As soon as
they are seated" he says, ''they straightway
find the place and bury their noses in the
book, and follow every word of the piece, de-
ightedly exclaiming to one another, there,
he left out that word or, as heard one intel
ligent creature say, after Hamlet passed from
the scene, He didn't say exit, did he! ana
it's down here for him to say 1t the last Word."'