ODDS AND ENDS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 23, 18 May 1876, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

A translation of George Eliot's newwork, "Daniel Deronda," appears in the February number of a Russian periodical devoted to the publication of novels. Miss Ada Cavendish is to be at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, immediately. At the Manor Works, Ckealsea, may be ssen a case in bronze of the statue of Colonel Akroyd, late M.P. for Halifax, one of the last works of the late J. Birxiey Philip. - A new sixpenny monthly, to be called the ■'"' Union Magazine,' 1 is announced bj' a Liverpool linn to appear in March. The London publisher is Mr. E. W. Allen, of Stationers' Hall Court. We learn that Dr. Weinhold, of iveil, well known for his writings on the early social condition of the people of Northern Germany and Scandinavia, has accepted the chair of German literature-at the University of Brcslau. Wagner's " Bienzi" has been pix^i^'fe^' at Madrid. The musical speak but coolly of the music, while ing the rich instrumentation; but the success of the opera with the public is said to have been decisive. A GSrman firtfl has brought out a new life of Spinoza, by Dr. Ginsberg, who is also engaged on an edition of the philosopher's collected works. Half the profits of the biography go to the proposeel Spinoza. : monument. .>&,. Dr.' Richard P. Wmekner, who is editing an amalgamation of Mr. Thomas Wright's "Anglo-Saxon and' Early English VoJ3|bjda£ies" for Mr. Triibner, and the Nicodemus " for the early Society, has been appointed Professor Extraordinary in the Faculty of .Ehslo'saphy at Leipsic. volume of etymological essays, eniatted, "Leaves from a Wordhunter's Note : Bobk," by A. S. Palmer, is announced Triibner as ready for The words selected for exreconddtS derivation, or have hitherto been unsatisfactorily explained. The Rev. I\. Pocock Las published a pamphlet on " The Principles of the Reformation shown to be in Contradiction to the Book of Common Prayer," arguing that the doctrines professed by the leading ecclesiastics in the reign of Edward VI. are opposed to those which arc to be found in the Prayer Book as finally revised in IGG2. "'.T/isdisui journals report the discovery, in ""archives, repined from the monastery of the' Canipo|:Mazzu to Rome, of some interesting dtgiuinents connected with Benveniito CeHfjii, comprising inventories and accounts ; :of-..sculptures executed by him in Florence anij- at Fontainbleau ; a safe conduct, dat'ecTlooo,- and other papers, which., are to be published shortly. '"*-;>. Mr. Alfred Austin's long promised work, " The Huiran Tragedy," is in the press, and will be published by Messrs. Blackavoocl and Sons early in April. It is one continuous narrative poem, consisting of j four cantos or acts, comprising, together j with several lyrics, some thirteen hundred j ottava rim a stanzas, the metre of " Maj donna's Child." The action opens in Eng- ! land in J".ne, 1857, and closes in May, | 1871, with the fall of the Commune. "Miss Multon," the drama founded by MM. Auolphe Belot and Eugene N us, on " East Lyi-ne," has been furnished with two new acts, and in this form has beoii revived at the Ambigu-Comique. Madame Fargueil plays once more the part of the •heroine. The New York papers announce the death, at the age of tiiirty-five, of the Rev. •James O'Leary, editor of the New York "Tablet." DrT O'Leary was the author of several works and pamphlets, one of which, a " History of the Bible,", is in the Roman Catholic schools in AqtojU—rica. -*-•■■ v "#C