Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-08
BOOKS AND ART.

While Theodore Thomas orchestra
was rendering an exquisite pianissina
passage at Richmond, Virginia, the 9TH
er evening, a middle-aged gentleman in
the audience suddenly drew from his
pocket a huge bandanna handkerchief,
flourished it in the air, and gave a nasal
blast so loud and long hat it resounded
through the whole house. The effect
was immense. A broad grin spread
among the entire orchestra, and the ap-
plause which followed the performance
of the aspirant for musical fame was en-
thusiastic and deafening.
Sir Francis Reynolds, now ninety
years of age, is a member of the Society
of Telegraph Engineers, recently estab-
Iished in England. In 1878 Sir Francis
proposed a system of electric telegraphy,
and went to considerable expense in
erecting miles of telegraph in his garden
at Hammersmith. In 1923 he published
a book, now very scarce, in which he
said the day would come when the King
at Brighton might communicate with
the Ministers in London as quickly as if
he were himself in the metropolis.
The Academic des Sciences Morales ct
POAtiques, one of the branches of the
French Institute, awarded four prizes,
at its last session, to a journalistic.
Paul Leroy Beaulieu-On the staff of the
Journal DIES DebdtS. He toOk-frst. a
prize of one thousand five hundred
francs for an essay on the question of
"Woman's Work. second, one thous-
and five hundred francs for a paper on
the organization of local government in
France and England; third, a prize Of
seven hundred and fifty 5rancs for an
article on the Taxation of real estate;''
and fourth, three thousand francs FOR a
treatise on the Colonial System of
Modern Nations"
Messrs. ID. Appleton & Co, of New
York, have reprinted '"Three Centuries
of English Literature, y by Charles Duke
Yonge. The authors arrangement ap-
pears arbitrary, as he follows neither the
chronological order nor a classification
according to subjects. The work has
been criticised in detail in England,
where Mr.. Yonge has been well called a
literary ttmilkman.'' Unfortunately
much of its information has been shown
to be ludierously false. Still if it AVA
kens a taste for our higher literature in
those persons into whose hands it may
fall, il will accomplish, doubtless, the
authors purpose.
1t is certainly very curious that, with
all the extension of scientific knowledge
on the anatomy and physiology OF ami
mails, our scientists are still arguing
about definitions of instinct, and wheth-
er or not animals think. 1.-THE Lowell
Lectures for 1871, y by DIR. P. A. Chad
bourne, were on "Ins-inct: Its Office in
the Animal Kingdom and its Relation
to the Higher Powers in Man" New
York; q. p. Putnam q Sons, IS72.) It's
author endeavors to treat all opinions on
the subject with great candor, but he
himself holds that animals do not think
and never learn from experience-in
other words, are ~eerebelly stationary.
Miss Nilsson made her debut in this
country in concert, in Steinway Hall,
September IL, 1870, and sang, during
the 5 that followed, in one hundred
and twenty concerts. On the evening
Of October %, 1871, she made her debut
IN New York in opera, appearing with
Brignoh in "Lucia Iii Lammermoor.u
She has sung 80 far in one hundred ope-
ratio performances. She is engaged as .
the principal attraction at Drury Lane,
in her Majesty's opera, during the sum
mer season, In the fall, she makes her
debut at the Imperial opera house, ST.
Petersburg, and her engagements in Eu-
are of such a nature that it is ex-
tremely doubtful If she returns to Amer
lea before many years have passed She
will then reappear under another name.
as her marriage takes place in Paris ear
y in the fall,