Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-05-29 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MSS. with the latest researches of Biblical lore, such as the transcripts of Tiseliendorf and the print,tl texts of Ranke, Ceriaai, *and Hagen; and as the scheme covers somewhat diapu'..d ground, its value to students promises to be of the first immtance. Of that out-of-the.way corner of the globe. Mr. Hastings C. Dent has put on rec ,rd a year's obi eervations. These deal not only with the land and its culture, but also of its social life, finances, religion, meteorology, natural history, &c. Messrs, Kegan Paul and Co. are to be the publishers of the budget.  Br. Moritz Busch, the well-know chronicler of Prince Bismarck's daily life, ix engager' on a new wnrk that shonld be of some interest to English readers—namely, "Cardinal Wolsey mid die kaiser'. euglist:he Allianz, 1522-25."  Twenty pens are buy over the Concordance to Shelley; and it is anticipated that the work will be ill the printer's hands in less than a year from now. Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. will publish early in June the new humorous story by the author of " Vice Versa," entitled "A Fallen Idol." .The sixth and concluding volume of the International Encyclopedia of Surzery " edited by Dr. John Arrhhorst, will be published immediately by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. It contains a history of surgery, an appendix, and a general index to the whole work.  Mes,s. Kegan Paul and Co. have jnst ready a new v.,lume in their International Scientific Series. It relates to "Micr.lbes. Ferments, and Moulds," and is from the pen of M. E. L. Trouessart. The manual is to he fully illustrated ; 107 pictures exubelliah the text.  Messrs. Cassell'a second instalment of studies and researches into the lives of the 'Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United Statea," that is being produced under the editorship of Messrs. Brander Matthews and Laurence Hutton, nears completion. The actors and actresses dealt with in it are: G. F. Cooke, Mrs. Siddons, J. I'. Kemble, Joseph Munden, Elizabeth Ferran. Dora Jordan, R. W. Eiliston, Charles Mathews, Kemble. T. A. Cooper, Liston, Charles Mayne Young, Min O'Neill, and William Henry West Betty. Mr. Henry Stevens has in hand a little volume embodying his "Recollections of Mr. James Lenox, of New York." For more than 21 years the intercourse between th Mr. Stevens and Mr. Lenox whilst he was forming his rare and costly library was of the closest character. The little volume, we lean], contains a budget of bibliographical gossip, beeidee many anecdotes of rare and unique books of that period. The important work upon American institutions— the nature and working of the American system of Government—upon which Mr. Bryce, M.P., has been engaged for a long time is necessarily delayed for a few months by his appointment to the Under-Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs. The manuscript, however, is nearly ready for the printer, and as soon as the pressure id official work relaxes for a few weeks, Mr. Bryce will be able to complete and revise it, and the first volume will be issued immediately. A nice little legacy of some I:15,000 has been left to the Jena University, to be applied in zoological research on the basis of Darwin's evolution theory. The testator is Herr Paul von Ritter, of Basle, who believes the teaching of Darwin to be the greatest sign of progress which the century has yet given. There is now being organised a dramatic agency which is intended to protect French authors whose pieces are represented in England. Hitherto many adaptations and unauthorised translations have been put on the English stage, while the unhappy French authors have in too many cases not received a single as of c. mpensation. This association will, it is said, be on the model of the French and American agency established in New York by Am. Moos and Nathal, which has prevented many an impudent piracy. The new agency o milts among ita organizers the names many well-known lilt, rate urs.  • M. John Grand-Carteret has in hand 3 volume for the curious. He names his volume of observations Raphael et Gambrinus ; ou,l'Art dans la Brasserie." Actually the book will give a complete history of, and NVIII contain a budget of anecdotes relating to, those arbours of repose, the brasserieb, coves, and cabarets of France an Germany. The text is to be fully illustrated.  As Alderman Hamilton was on Friday morning leaving the Town.hall at Poole, where he had been attending a committee meeting of the Town Council, a man named John King stepped up to him, and after some conversation, fired several shots from a small revolver at Mr. Hamilton whose injuries are serious. King gave himself up, and will be charged with attempt into murder.