LITERARY AND DRAMATIC JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3807, 23 October 1882, Page 4

LITERARY AND DRAMATIC JOTTINGS.

(F_Oil OUK LOHDOX COHP.ESPONDEST.)

A x.iw -en^ationai play ca:l>.d "Plick'-" has b-en produced a: Drury Lace. It h trash ot the same sort as "Youth" o t "The World," and would not draw a week but for the scenic illusions, which are marvels of theatrical f fleet,

"Much Ado About Nothing" will be Irring|S next production at the Lyceum.

Wagner, it is stateu, has sold the score of "Parsifal" to tbe well-known house ef Schott, of Mayence, for £9,500.

Mr Julian Hawthorne has discovered that one of his father's MSS., which had been laid aside for many years, in consequence of the difficulty ia dt ciphering it, is a novel which is practically finished. It 13 entitled " Dr. Grimshaw's Secret," and has for its hero and heroine a young American and an English pirl.

A new and permanently enlarged series of the " notorial World" will commence in Sept, It is to be produced iv the beit possible style, and with all the resourcesof art, skill, and experience which the Messrs Dalziel have at their command.

Three new works by Mr K. A. Proctor are announced, viz. : "Mysteries of Time and Space"; " Ihe Great Pyramid, ilg Plan and Purpose "; and a new and revised edition ot " Saturn and its System."

Messrs Chatto and Windus have in preparation the following new works of fiction: " All Sorts and Conditions of Men : an Im« possible -tory," by Walter Besnut and Jas. Rice, illustrated by Fred Barnard,—" Vrl Strange: a Story of the Primrose Way," by D. Christie Murray, author of "Joseph's Coat," —a new novel by the author of "A French Heiress" in her own Chateau," entitled " Valentina : a Sketch," — " The Golden Shaft," by Charles Gibbon, — a new novel by Ouida, — "Kept in the Dark," by Anthony Trollope,—"Foxglove Manor," by Robert Buchanan, —" Dust: a Story," by Julian Hawthorne,—a new novel by Wilkie Collins, —" Women ara Strange, and oth"Stories," by F. W. Robinson, author^ " Grandmother's Money," Ac, togekmV - with many additions to their series of chce. \ popular novels. ", 0 wa_^ "Vice Vena, or a Lesson to Fathe .ween it has ran through four editions in as a.ious inweeks. It is, without doubt, tbe b.c.js left a the season. battered Miss Braddon having reduced the no and its of Dickens, Thackeray, Cooper, Scott, c part of Marryat to mangled "penn'orths," is-ou»hit. doing ditto for Smollett. 'er-ally Sir Julius Benedict has, after two years* the labour, jnst completed his grand canta(,dows "Grazielia," which is now in active —' rehearsal, and will be performed on the first day of the Birmingham Festival. The seventh thousand of a pamphlet on "The New Materialism," by Dr. Lionel Beale, F.R.S., has just been issued by Mi Stanford.

Early in October will be published In one thick volume, uniform with Br. Brewer'a "Reader's Handbook," "A Dictionary of the Drama j being a Comprehensive Uuida to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, .and Playhouses of the United Kingdot_(jfegL Amsrica, flora the Earliest Times," by^W? Davenport Adams,

M. JLkcocq.—A new opera, "LeCeouret la Main," by this popular composer, is ia rehearsal at the Theatre dcs Nonveautds, Paris, where it will be produced in Septeni. ber.