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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .
Mr . Murray is just publishing A ol . VI . of the Supplementary Dispatches of the Duke of AVellington , edited by his son , the present Duke . The new volume comprises the period between 1 S 07 and June 1 S 10 , and the subjects elucidated include the expedition to Denmark in 1 S 07 , that to Portugal in 1 S 0 S , and the commencement of the Peninsular war . A literary curiosity has just made its appearance from the
lithographic press—a " Treatise on Political Economy for the use of the Turks , " beautifully written in the flowing Arabic character , and chastely illuminated . I . is entitled " Ilm Tedbiri Mille ; " is written and composed hy a young gentleman , Mr . Charles AVells , who carried off several prizes for his attainments in oriental literature , at King ' s College , London ; and embodies the leading laws of the
science of political economy , as now established in Europe . Mr . . 1 ames Blackwood has in preparation : " The Archer and the Steppe ; or , the Empires of Scythia : a History of Russia aud Tartary from tho Earliest Ages to the Pall of the Mongul Power in Europe hi the middle of the Sixteenth Century ; " and a new trans - lation of " Telemaclius , " executed by the Rev . J . Lockbart Ross .
The Messrs . Longman are preparing for publication "Lectures on the History of the Pine ancl Ornamental Arts , " by Mr . AVilliam B . Scott , head master of the Government school of design at Newcastle . "The Limits of Laissez-faire , " by the Rev . Dr . Mac Ivor , Donnellaii Lecturer in the University of Dublin , is to form one of
the series of University Essays now publishing in the Dublin Universit y Magazine . " Concerning some Scotch Surnames , " is another of the contributions to the gossip of Scotch history ancl biography which w * e
are to owe to the enterprise of Messrs . Edmonston ancl Douglas , of Edinburgh . Messrs . Trubner & Co ., are about to publish an English copyright edition of the " Footfalls on the Boundary of another AVorld , " the Spiritualist work of Mr . R . Dale Owen ( a son of Robert Owen ) , which appeared some time ago in the States . A Boston ( U . S . ) paper says : " Mr . II . M . Ticknor , of the
publisliing-liouso of Ticknor and Fields , sails in the Arabia to-day for London , whither he goes to act as agent for that house in the purchase ancl sale of new works . " Tho admirers of that amusing book "The Semi-detached House " ( which was edited by Lady Theresa Lewis , and attributed to the Hon . Miss Eden ) will be glad to hear that another work from the
same lively pen is about to be published by Mr . Bentley . It will bear the piquant title " The Semi-attached Couple . " " A Glossary of Mineralogy" is announced for publication by the Messrs . Longman . The author is Mr . II . AV . Bristow , P . G . S ., aud of the Geological Survey of Great Britain . The work will embrace the physical characters and chemical composition of the
metalliferous and earthy minerals , and a popular account of their history ancl applications . The town of Festus-Bailey is about to give a proof of intellectual life . E . u-l y in October next will be published " A Book without a Name , " being a magazine of essays , tales , poetry , and miscellaneous literature , conducted by members of the Nottingham Young Men's
Literary Association . The proprietorshi p of the Elgin Couranl is passing from the hands of Mr . Russell , who lias conducted it for nearly thirty years , into those of Mr . Black , a reporter on the staff of the Banffshire Journal .
The literary and artistic gentlemen who have undertaken to collect a fund , by subscriptions and dramatic performances , for the widow and family of the late Robert B . Brough , are proceeding as vigorously with their task as the present " out of town" season will admit . AVith tho exception of a few minor details , the handsome Memorial Arch which has been some time in progress at Brompton Barracks , Chatham , to the memory of those officers , non-commissioned
Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
officers , and men of the Royal Engineers who fell in the Crimea during the Russian war , is now completed . The A ery Rey . the Dean of York has presented to the Chapter the munificent donation of £ 2 , 000 , to be invested as au augmentation fund for the improvement of the musical services of York Minster . This great liberality is in keeping with his former donations of £ 1 , 000 for the restoration of the chapter-house , and
£ 1 , 000 for the improved approach to the cathedral . A tea and coffee service , in silver , from the works of Messrs . Hunt and Roskell , together with a puree of two hundred guineas , has been presented to Prof . Robert'Hunt , Keeper of Mining Records , by a number of gentlemen connected with the mineral industries of the kingdom , as a record of . their appreciation of bis
energy and ability in originating and completing the great publication of Mineral Statistics . No appointment has yet been made to the office of First Assistant in the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , in contemplation of an expected vacancy in that office , caused by the translation of the Rev . R . Main to Oxford .
The Meeting of the British Chess Association will be held at Cambridge on the 2 Sth , 29 th , 30 th , and 31 st inst ., under the presidency of the Right Hon . Lord Lyttleton , with Lord Cremoi-ne and Sir John Blunden , Bart ., as vice-presidents , and a local committee . The fourth annual meeting of tho National Association for the promotion of Social Science is announced to be held at Glasgow on the 21 th of September and five following days .
Mr . Mayan- lias put togetber , in a " Royal Album , " the series of royal photographic portraits made by him , from time to time , at Buckingham Palace . These exquisite studies from real life are fourteen in number : one of the Queen ancl Prince Consort , one of the Queen and Princess Beatrice , one of the Queen alone , one of the Prince alone , one of the Prince of Alleles and Princess Alice , one oftlie Prince of AA ales , one of Princess Alice , one of Prince
Alfred , one of the Princesses Helena and Louisa , one of Princess Helena alone , one of Princess Louisa alone , one of Princes Arthur and Leopold , one of Prince Arthur alone , and one of Princess Beatrice . The appointment of Sir C . Eastlakc as Director of the National Gallery has been prolonged , according to the rule before instituted ,
for another period of five years . The First Commissioner of Public AVorks stated , in the House of Commons , that Captain Fowke ' s plan for the improvement of the National Gallery had been rejected by him , "because he thought it a bad one , " and on the objection of the Royal Academy , to whom he had submitted it . It was considered that it provided for too
little , if it was intended to make tlio National Gallery a complete picture gallery ; as a mere improvement it provided too much . A spirited discussion took place in the House of Commons , last week , upon the grant of £ 9-l-, 951 to the Department of Science and Art . The practice of photography by that Department was strongly objected to , but successfully defended on the ground that it would be dangerous to entrust objects of oirln and valuable works of art to private operators .
NATUKE ' S PSAmoiiY . —The uuiversal hymn of praise ascending for ever tn that IBoing who can hear and comprehend it all better than you or I can comprehend one of its notes . Of what countless millions of voices is it composed ; each voice ever keeping its own distinct ancl appropriate key , as regularly as any instrument in a well-arranged orchestra ! If it he not so , why do the linnet iu Kelvin grove , and the lark over Salisbury Plain , still sing precisely the same parts they in Paradise . AVhy pipes the wind in one
sang key through the pine , in another through the willow , or poplar , and in another through the oak , in such beautiful swells and falls of JEolian melody ? Depend upon it , there is perpetual harmony in the hymn of creation and , that we cannot all clearly perceive it , is not so much an argument against the fact , as an evidence of our limitcdness of capacity and dulness of soul . —Dr . Spencer T . Hall ' s " Peak anil the Plain . "
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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .
Mr . Murray is just publishing A ol . VI . of the Supplementary Dispatches of the Duke of AVellington , edited by his son , the present Duke . The new volume comprises the period between 1 S 07 and June 1 S 10 , and the subjects elucidated include the expedition to Denmark in 1 S 07 , that to Portugal in 1 S 0 S , and the commencement of the Peninsular war . A literary curiosity has just made its appearance from the
lithographic press—a " Treatise on Political Economy for the use of the Turks , " beautifully written in the flowing Arabic character , and chastely illuminated . I . is entitled " Ilm Tedbiri Mille ; " is written and composed hy a young gentleman , Mr . Charles AVells , who carried off several prizes for his attainments in oriental literature , at King ' s College , London ; and embodies the leading laws of the
science of political economy , as now established in Europe . Mr . . 1 ames Blackwood has in preparation : " The Archer and the Steppe ; or , the Empires of Scythia : a History of Russia aud Tartary from tho Earliest Ages to the Pall of the Mongul Power in Europe hi the middle of the Sixteenth Century ; " and a new trans - lation of " Telemaclius , " executed by the Rev . J . Lockbart Ross .
The Messrs . Longman are preparing for publication "Lectures on the History of the Pine ancl Ornamental Arts , " by Mr . AVilliam B . Scott , head master of the Government school of design at Newcastle . "The Limits of Laissez-faire , " by the Rev . Dr . Mac Ivor , Donnellaii Lecturer in the University of Dublin , is to form one of
the series of University Essays now publishing in the Dublin Universit y Magazine . " Concerning some Scotch Surnames , " is another of the contributions to the gossip of Scotch history ancl biography which w * e
are to owe to the enterprise of Messrs . Edmonston ancl Douglas , of Edinburgh . Messrs . Trubner & Co ., are about to publish an English copyright edition of the " Footfalls on the Boundary of another AVorld , " the Spiritualist work of Mr . R . Dale Owen ( a son of Robert Owen ) , which appeared some time ago in the States . A Boston ( U . S . ) paper says : " Mr . II . M . Ticknor , of the
publisliing-liouso of Ticknor and Fields , sails in the Arabia to-day for London , whither he goes to act as agent for that house in the purchase ancl sale of new works . " Tho admirers of that amusing book "The Semi-detached House " ( which was edited by Lady Theresa Lewis , and attributed to the Hon . Miss Eden ) will be glad to hear that another work from the
same lively pen is about to be published by Mr . Bentley . It will bear the piquant title " The Semi-attached Couple . " " A Glossary of Mineralogy" is announced for publication by the Messrs . Longman . The author is Mr . II . AV . Bristow , P . G . S ., aud of the Geological Survey of Great Britain . The work will embrace the physical characters and chemical composition of the
metalliferous and earthy minerals , and a popular account of their history ancl applications . The town of Festus-Bailey is about to give a proof of intellectual life . E . u-l y in October next will be published " A Book without a Name , " being a magazine of essays , tales , poetry , and miscellaneous literature , conducted by members of the Nottingham Young Men's
Literary Association . The proprietorshi p of the Elgin Couranl is passing from the hands of Mr . Russell , who lias conducted it for nearly thirty years , into those of Mr . Black , a reporter on the staff of the Banffshire Journal .
The literary and artistic gentlemen who have undertaken to collect a fund , by subscriptions and dramatic performances , for the widow and family of the late Robert B . Brough , are proceeding as vigorously with their task as the present " out of town" season will admit . AVith tho exception of a few minor details , the handsome Memorial Arch which has been some time in progress at Brompton Barracks , Chatham , to the memory of those officers , non-commissioned
Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
officers , and men of the Royal Engineers who fell in the Crimea during the Russian war , is now completed . The A ery Rey . the Dean of York has presented to the Chapter the munificent donation of £ 2 , 000 , to be invested as au augmentation fund for the improvement of the musical services of York Minster . This great liberality is in keeping with his former donations of £ 1 , 000 for the restoration of the chapter-house , and
£ 1 , 000 for the improved approach to the cathedral . A tea and coffee service , in silver , from the works of Messrs . Hunt and Roskell , together with a puree of two hundred guineas , has been presented to Prof . Robert'Hunt , Keeper of Mining Records , by a number of gentlemen connected with the mineral industries of the kingdom , as a record of . their appreciation of bis
energy and ability in originating and completing the great publication of Mineral Statistics . No appointment has yet been made to the office of First Assistant in the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , in contemplation of an expected vacancy in that office , caused by the translation of the Rev . R . Main to Oxford .
The Meeting of the British Chess Association will be held at Cambridge on the 2 Sth , 29 th , 30 th , and 31 st inst ., under the presidency of the Right Hon . Lord Lyttleton , with Lord Cremoi-ne and Sir John Blunden , Bart ., as vice-presidents , and a local committee . The fourth annual meeting of tho National Association for the promotion of Social Science is announced to be held at Glasgow on the 21 th of September and five following days .
Mr . Mayan- lias put togetber , in a " Royal Album , " the series of royal photographic portraits made by him , from time to time , at Buckingham Palace . These exquisite studies from real life are fourteen in number : one of the Queen ancl Prince Consort , one of the Queen and Princess Beatrice , one of the Queen alone , one of the Prince alone , one of the Prince of Alleles and Princess Alice , one oftlie Prince of AA ales , one of Princess Alice , one of Prince
Alfred , one of the Princesses Helena and Louisa , one of Princess Helena alone , one of Princess Louisa alone , one of Princes Arthur and Leopold , one of Prince Arthur alone , and one of Princess Beatrice . The appointment of Sir C . Eastlakc as Director of the National Gallery has been prolonged , according to the rule before instituted ,
for another period of five years . The First Commissioner of Public AVorks stated , in the House of Commons , that Captain Fowke ' s plan for the improvement of the National Gallery had been rejected by him , "because he thought it a bad one , " and on the objection of the Royal Academy , to whom he had submitted it . It was considered that it provided for too
little , if it was intended to make tlio National Gallery a complete picture gallery ; as a mere improvement it provided too much . A spirited discussion took place in the House of Commons , last week , upon the grant of £ 9-l-, 951 to the Department of Science and Art . The practice of photography by that Department was strongly objected to , but successfully defended on the ground that it would be dangerous to entrust objects of oirln and valuable works of art to private operators .
NATUKE ' S PSAmoiiY . —The uuiversal hymn of praise ascending for ever tn that IBoing who can hear and comprehend it all better than you or I can comprehend one of its notes . Of what countless millions of voices is it composed ; each voice ever keeping its own distinct ancl appropriate key , as regularly as any instrument in a well-arranged orchestra ! If it he not so , why do the linnet iu Kelvin grove , and the lark over Salisbury Plain , still sing precisely the same parts they in Paradise . AVhy pipes the wind in one
sang key through the pine , in another through the willow , or poplar , and in another through the oak , in such beautiful swells and falls of JEolian melody ? Depend upon it , there is perpetual harmony in the hymn of creation and , that we cannot all clearly perceive it , is not so much an argument against the fact , as an evidence of our limitcdness of capacity and dulness of soul . —Dr . Spencer T . Hall ' s " Peak anil the Plain . "