Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1887-03-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

VII.; "The Life and Times of Queen Victoria,. by Rob: rt Wilson: "Captain Trafalgar : A Story of the Mexican Gulf," rendered into English and edited by William Weston from the French of Andre I aurie; "The Official Guide to the I.,nion and South-Western Railway ; "Rhymes for the Young Folk.. by Mr. Wiliam Allingham, Illustrated by Mrs. Allingham, Miss Greenaway, Miss Paterson, and Mr. Furniss ; "Little Folks" Midsummer Volume; "Ophthalmic Surgery," by Mr. R. Brudenell Carter, F.R.CS., and Mr. W, Adams Frost, F.R.C.S. ; and "Syphilis," by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, F.A.S. Tar Mayor and Corporation of aftedstone are making strenuous efforts to raise funds sufficient to purchase the old Maidstone Palace, originally Ana of the paltioes belonging to the Archbishops of Canterbury, in order that it may be used for a nubile museum and other such purposes; and it is to be hoped that the movement may meet with strong support from the many educated people who now realise the gnat value of such historical buildings, for there can be hut little doubt that the whole of the money required cannot be raised in the town. L'nless the public will help, the building will become the property of some speculative builder, and we know but too well what that means.  —„ Mn. F. C. Penrose, Director of the British School at Athens, is now established at Athens, and wit shortly deliver his first lecture upon the remple of Olyrnpan Zeus. Mr. Ernest Gardner, Fellow of Caine Cotege, Cambridge, well known for his share in the excavations at Naucratis, is installed as a student, end will shortly be joined by Ur. David G. agar: h, newly elected Craven Fellow at Oxford. The cominitt4 have already purchased a consilerable number of the arckeological books which are most nssential for the purposes of the school, and this nucleus has been supplemented by valuable presents of books from the University of Oaford. Mr. John Murray, Messrs. Gerge Ben and Sone, Mr. David Nutt, Meseta. Regan Paul, Trench and Co., Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Messrs. Calvary of Berlin, and others. It is under. stood that a grant of books may also be exrected from the University of Cambridge. Iv August, 1584, Newca tie-under-Lyme adopted the Free Libraries Act. The way in which it should be carried out has been, in one fcrm or another, under crscussion ever since. Building operations are now, however, lobe coinsamced at once, and there seems to be reasonabl, hope of the library being in working order before the end of the year. Otis of the most famous incidents of early Swedish literary history, the disputation at Urania between Ohms Petri and Peder Gallo, which is described by the chroniclers Pe:ler Swart and Tegel, and which has hitherto hen attributed to 1524 or 1525, has jud be„is proved never to have taken plate. Dr. H. Schnck Ins discovered Oasis Petri's own account of the incident, written in 1527, according to which he did challenge Peder Gate, but the later declined to enter th lists. AU the eloquence, therefore, over which historians have expended no much Interest was born in the ingenious bosoms of the later chroniclers.  rite ',anion branch of the United Richard Wegnet Society intends to issue a quarterly periodical some. what similar to the German Bareeither Matter, and the Rev,. Wagnerienne in France.• The smog...melds of the society for the coming season include four meetings for the reading and discussion of papers. and a conversadone at which Hen Richter has promised to conduct the Siegfried Idyl."  Two companies of troops started the othee morning for Sartene, Corsica, near which place M. Teandri, s Bonaputist partisan,who lately made himself an outlaw and took to the mountains in consequence of s. bitter and protracted quarrel with the authorities. W reported to have appeared a the head of an armed  Tag brutal murder of a family Is re)orted from °deem, two young Nihilists, employed by u rich landowner named tiorovelo,st Yelimaretgrad, in South Ru having killed their employer, bin wife, eight chi then, and several of their relatives, and then decamped with :400,000 roubles which they stole. The inhuman .4135,31)8 wero apprehended at Odessa, just as thee %CT., tryingtn eweane on a vessel to Turkey.