The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1879-06-21 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GOSSIP IN THE "WORLD."  The members of the International Literary COORTIM who visited Oxford University on Friday, were charmed with the exoursion sad delighted with their reception. Professor %nasty Prim who acted as neerone woe pronounced to be all that there is of the mime aharming. The Nee did the honours of Christchurch in the most d4nde4 manner, and the Vice-Chancellor esided at s sumptuous delecuev in Pembroke Hal.l. Our fo= friends appreciated most thoroughly the reception that was acoorded to them, and wen profoundly impressed by the academic dig:Litwin of the University.  Professor Boninamie Prioe—tehose prisons rusk be spelt thus in future—talked Frenoh like • flaneur of the Boulevard, and delighted everybody by his vivacity, bonhomie, and high On behalf of the distinguished visitors, IL Frederic, Thomas made • most animated and amusing speech of thinks, and was warmly backed by MM. Adolphe Belot, Jules Claretie, and other members of the Congress. The publication of the " &Wit* from the Correspondence of Chaska Dickens. whialt m in preparation by Miss Dickens and Ms Eva* hu been delayed by unavoidable The book, however, is in progress, and tis Ism may be oonfidently expected in the &atm&  - I wits much struck at the ()Met Theatre the other night with the extraordinary likeness which exists between the main incidents in ," Hernani" and those in "Romeo sad Joliet." The feet had never occarred to me before • but it is es sensible when one has just heard ,Les desaPristallZ Verovie at Covent Guam, Ido not mean to my that Victor Hugo has purposely "adapted" to the French stage, in that instance, our own national memer-pieoe. But there can be little doubt that. consciously or unconsciously, his reminiscences of Shskapesre had much to do with,the conception of " Hammitt" The story in the latter case is • different one, of =ass; still, I And in both dramas the scene planed in a southern moth% and the plot founded cm • crossed love; • " Juliet" and his "Borneo" under the 11•111011 of "Dons Sol" and" Hermai I" • family feud; • nurse ; • duel with swords; an old num full of pride and revenge; • tomb for the some of sa entire sot; • balcony lore &lotto ; • lover laths garb of • pilgrim; • masked bell; s vial of poison; and the suicide of both lovers •• • conclusion—in fast, whatever Is most dramatis and sensational in Vidor Hogo's work. . _  - This is • kind of " adaptation" which the Literary Congress jest convened in the Adel* would find some difficulty in preventing. I do not cite thin Sian example of literary uneernpuloan nese, but merely to mow that by enacting S 4 general principle that "adaptation" should he forbidden, exoept with the ooneent of the original author, the Congress in framing a law well-nigh impracticable. Where does adaptation begin, and where does it end? That is what the Oongres• ought to define, of all things in the wortd, and I am afraid the task will prove a difilcalt one. The lart of the Praia Exhibition Lottery. About 7,000 Mines of the aggregate value of 470,000 Lance, or close on .1119,000, remebied unotainiti to Una day. They are about to be sold by auction In the Pavilion de Fiore of the Tvileries, and the proceeds to be deposited at the Gansu den Dapon et Coneignatlone, there to await properly qoaldled claimants. At Captain Burnaby's wedding, which will be one of the events of the season, the officiating clew will be the Hon. and Bev. F. B. C. Byna. Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and the Rev. T. Teignmouth Shore. A pile in Temple Gardena stends, By stately beauty graced And where its lofty gate expands, Two effigies are plead. Why than on either side the door Are Law and Justice seen To show, what suitors knew before, Wide yawns the gulf between?  I am afraid that Sir Wilfrid Lawson and Sir Henry Thompson are gettirg the best of on Here is news that will make the hesrt of Dr. Benjemin Riehardson bound in his beaevolent haws. I have it on the highest aathority that the acted ravages of the phellosera threaten the gradual extinction of the :vineyards laths Charentes—. whence the finest brandy mates—sad Portage' lathe former large ()harlots have been devastated, while the great proprietors in the latter express. much alarm at the rapid spread of this pest.