LITERARY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1892, 8 May 1890, Page 39

LITERARY NOTES.

Miss S. Rajahgopaul, a Hindoo lady, has translated several of Froebel's works and a collection of Kindergarten songs into Hindustani for the benefit of the children in East India.

The Michael Beer prize at Berlin, under which £112 is offered for the best setting of the 96th Psalm, will not this year be awarded. There were only five competitors, none of whom were adjudged worthy. Musical Germany does not appear to be looking up.

The late Dr yon Dollinger's splendid library, which is one of the Guest private collections in the world, has been left to the University of Munich, which is to print a full catalogue of the books, and then sell them by auction. The proceeds are to be devoted to forming an academical foundation at Munich which is to bear Dr yon. Dollinger's name.

Messrs R. Bentley and Son will shortly publish a new work of fiction by Hugh Westbury, which is understood to be the pseudonym of a well-known Liverpool journalist. The author's first book, " Frederick Hazzleden," was a bright story of, contemporary English life. Its successor, to be entitled " Aefce," is a romance of the time of Nero ; and Hugh Westbury has followed the early tradition, which attributes the conversion of Acte to St. Paul. — Academy.

Mrs Stanger, who died at Keswick on Thursday of last week, was a daughter of William Calvert, the only friend of Coleridge and the brother of the Raisley Calvert who left £9,00 to Wordsworth. Brought up at Greta Bank (since the residence of the Speddings), her childhood was spent with Coleridge'sand Southey's children, and she remembered both the poets, as well as Wordsworth and Shelley. Wordsworth visited at her father's house, and Shelley stayed a few days there on his way from Wales to Edinburgh in 1813. Her recollections of Hartley College were very intimate, and for Sonthey as a man she had a feeling of the deepest reverence. She died afc 85 years of age, and was probably the last link with the poets of the Lake country. — Academy. Mr J. W. Lovell, the New York publisher, is stated to have spoken last week as follows:— "I am the biggest payer of English authors of any publisher in America. I have given Farjoon as much as £10,000 for advance sheets, and I regularly pay English authors of imrne and fame. lam not proteclert. ii> any way, save hy priority, anrl in a few days after my books are out others may be after mc, and T have no redress."

Some of (.ho ladies of Melbourne have formed a;i association called the " Austral Salon.' 1 It is composed chiefly of women who devote themselves to literature and art, and are anxious, after the manner of men, to show that they have club instincts, and desire occasionally to rub shoulders with each other in the way of friendship. Lady Clark and Lady Hopetoun have become patronesses of the " Salon," ami it bids fair to become a success. The "Salon" is not to be entirely o£ the "blue-stocking" order, for literary and artistic men are to be admitted, but only on sufferance as associates.

Use Sunlight So-.p for all dairy utensils.— Advt.]

—There's the Rub.— " No," said the man v/ho was shot in the head by his friend while they were out shooting, lost the most oE an oar, and was scratched considerably, " I don't mind the wounds so much, but it breaks my heart to have my head mistaken by my most intimate friend for a rabbit."

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