GOSSIP FROM STAGE AND STUDIO.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4348, 19 April 1884, Page 4

GOSSIP FROM STAGE AND STUDIO.

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Mk Bland Holt has arrived safe and sound in England, and at tho latter end of January last, appeared at the Theatre Royal, Norwich, as Fanfaronade to Ilia father's (Mr Clarence Holt) Bolphcgor. Both gentlemen were most enthusiastically received. Bland Holt comes direct from England to NewZealand about July with some Drury Lane novelties. Mr .1. B. Howe, the well-known actor, was, at latest date, giving a series of dramatic recitals at different music halls in London. It is stated that, at the close of his present engagements, it is his intention to return to Australia, and that he will brin" with him several novelties, including "Clad Tiding.."

When Patti was first offered £120 for singing at an evening party in Paris it roused tire whole musical world; but long before that Mario had refused £200 for singing ono song at the entertainment of an importunate maiden lady, saying, "M. Mario could not for that price make up his mind to put on a dress-coat."

Mr.J. A. Froude will contribute a preface to a forthcoming work on the Irish Massacres of Hill. The volume will consist of a selection from tho unpublished sworn depositions taken verbatim from the original MSS. in Trinity College Library, Dublin. Miss Mary Hickson bas written an introduction. Messrs Longmans and Co. are the publishers.

Mr Sintha, a Hindu gentleman, has carried off from all his fellow-students of the Inns of Court in London the prize offered by the Council of Legal Education for such extensive and various subjects as Roman law, jurisprudence, constitutional law, and legal history.

Rumour has it that there is some thought of the Messrs Harper starting an English edition of their illustrated weekly—" Harper's Young People." The yearly subscription in the United States is 1 dollar 50 cents. Possibly, in England, the journal may run witii the twopenny juvenile weekly papers.

" Fortunes Made in Business " is the title of an elaborate work of about 700 pages which is bung prepared for the press. It purposes to be a series of original sketches by various writers, selected from recent events in the history of industry and commerce, and will be mainly biographical and anecdotic.

Miss Jane Cowen, daughter of Mr Joseph Cowen, M.P., has a volume of sketches in the press, chiefly reprinted from the " Newcastle Chronicle." Mr Cowen himself has collected materials for a biography of the Newcastle poet John Cunningham, to whose memory he some years ago erected a stained-glass window in the parish church of St. John, in that town.

Professor W. G. Whitney will contribute the article on " Philology " to the new edition of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica," and Mr E. Maude Thompson the article on " Paheography."

Mr George Wright, the well-known "Congress Secretary" of the British Archaeological Association, has in the press a volume of "Local Lays and Legends," being a selection from some of his scattered compositions in prose and verse.

It is proposed (says the " Athemeum ") to erect a monument at Cambridge to Thomas Cray, the poet of the " Elegy in a Country Churchyard." This memorial is to take the form of a marble bust, to be placed in the hall of Pembroke College, opposite to Chantrey's bust of Pitt, and close to the corner where Gray was sitting when his fatal illness attacked him.

The "Memoirs" of Heine, written by himself, are about to be published in the " Gavtenlaube," though doubts have been cast by some on the authenticity of the autobiographical MS.

The finest poem which Mr Whittier has written for a long time will shortly appear in "Harper's Weekly." It is entitled "Banished," and is to accompany a beautiful drawing by Mr Abbey, which represents a mournful group of Quakers driven from the Massachusetts shores by the persecutors of 1600.

Under the title of " Journalistic Jumbles : or. Trippings in Type," Mr F. C. Williams will publish a collection of newspaper misprints, collated and arranged. Mr Williams's experience extends beyond the mother country, he having been a judge in the West Indies and South Africa, and he is the newly appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Mauritius.