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'The Annual Conversazione of the Society of Arts will take place at the Natural History Cromwell r-A 11 Road T \ _ . . 1 South C * ± t TJT i _
by Muse permission um , of the Trustees , of Kensington the British , Museum , on the evening of Friday , June 27 .
Mr . Murray will publish a biography of preparing Jenny ¦^ Lin . d , It which will , we Canon lear Scott nbe founded Holland on is
diaries * x , ^ pa ^ pers , and letters never , before published . The work will be illustrated .
An important and probably a very interestinc work on France is announced by Messrs .
Macmilian , who have engaged Mr . J . E . C . those Bodley pursued to furnish in the a case book of on Professor similar lines Bryce to 's book on * The American Commonwealth . '
We are glad to be informed that Messrs . Blackwood & Sons intend to publish immediately in one volumethe late Lord
Lamington 4 / , ' s brilliant and amusing , sketches of a vanished phase of social life , ' In the Days of the Dandies . '
The centenary banquet of the Royal Literary Fund will be a gathering of extreme
interest . We learn that the Bishop of Ripon will propose the toast of ' Literature , ' the reply being entrusted to Mr . John Morley .
The banquet is arranged for May 14 . The University of Mdntpelier JL , one of the
oldest seats of learning in France , celebrates this month the six hundredth anniversary of its foundation . There is to be a great
gathering on the occasion , and nearly all the Universities of Europe are sending delegates .
amongst The May other number articles , of a full Igdrasil report contains of the ,
speeches ( revised by the speakers ) delivered at the opening of the Ruskin Museum at Meersbrook -m Sheffield - - « in - » mm on -m ^ h mm April mmm 15 » ~ and -m an article on - *^
the Museum , ^ - ^— — - ' b y ^ , the ^* editor ^^ ^^ mr W ^^ ^^ *^ " of ~ , mm the m * w ^ " ^ " mnp magazine ^ — - ^ ^^» -mr ™ ^^ m ^ mmw ^ v wmm - . ^ ^» We hear . that the new Carrousel Garden in
Paris will shortly be decorated with several h groups aving o been f tine made statuary b , M the . choice Guillaume of pieces the y
architect the ' Exiles of ' the of M Louvre . Moreau . The and groups the ' Judith include , ' of Lanson .
liva We task learn at old that Troy Dr . Schliemann with as much is energy pursuing aa
ever . Over two hundred men are working under his superintendence , and to facilitate
progress eminent a railway recen has tl been visited made the . Several works and expressed persons their gratification y at the results .
being We made believe with that the decorations satisfactory for progress the spaces is
mider the Whispering Gallery in St . Paul's . < They ind St embrac . John e representations the designers being of St . Mr Matthew . G . F . r j h , m &* rmttm ^^ im mm ^^ mMm , BA V V ^^ r ^ - ^ - - *^^^ w rm ^ ^^ m *^ " ^ -
lute Watts Mr , . R Alfred . A ., Mr Stevens . W . E . . F . Britten , and the ni in Jt Considerable attention has lately been given
the Berlin serlm German to to the th schools « reiorm reform . The or of Ji h Emperor glu crhir r education education , we hear in in , is taking i a warm nu interest i in the »—¦ !¦ ¦ subject ~¦ - h . ¦
— ° — — . " ^ ppk ^ b ^ nv ^ twai m * ^»™» ^™ »»^^ ¦^¦^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ¦ v ^^ ^^ *^ —^ ^— ^— ** — —^ - — ~<— — — published Dr . Guessfeldt an h important ^ ^ , an eminent work authority on the q , has uestion just
which w ^ m a the — ^^ " Emperor w mm m pn rmMj ^^ m m * m H ^^ ^^^ ^^ William ^^^ has approved H . , < 9
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Continental We hear scholars that a protest , has , been signed issued by numerous against the proposal ... to hold the International Con-•
gress of Orientalists in London in 1891 . The protest is signed by such names as De Goeje , Leiden ; Geiger , Munich ; Jolly , Wiirzburg ;
Kiel Kautzsch Schmidt , Halle Weber ; Kern , Abel Leiden Berlin ; Oldenberg & c . , ; , , , , We understand thatin accordance with
the promise recently made , by Mr . Raikes in the Hous'j of Commons that public attention should again be Cdlled to the advantages of
Government Insurance , the General Post Office is about to issue in leaflet form Mr . A . G . Bowie ' s article on ' Post Office Insurance and
Old Age Pay ' which recently appeared in A 1 . M . Renan has recently v been considering ^ J
how the College de Franco could be made more attractive to the eye . We learn he has succeeded in getting the Minister of Public
Instruction to place some beautiful statues in several parti of the building . A splendid group will shortly be seen in the Cour
d r 'Honneur J . . «/ The friendship of the German Emperor
with M . Jules Simon Ins received additional emphasis from the circumstance that the Kaiser has forwarded to the French statesman
a copy of the works of Frederick the Great , bearing the Imperial autograph . The gift is accompanied by a letter from the Emperor
William A . written in French . X . We learn from Paris that an important
Buddhist Congress will be held thore this summer . It is stated there are about 30 , 000 Buddhists in the French centre . A large
number of delegates from all parts of the world will attend the Paris gathering . The Buddhists claim that they are drawing into
their ranks some distinguished Frenchmen . The Directors of the Booksellers' Provident
Institution held their monthly meeting on Thursday , the 17 th uU ., at the offices , 5 (> Old Bailey , Mr . Henry Hill Hodgson presiding ,
and there were twenty-one other directors present . The sum of £ 105 . 10 * . ( id . was voted for rfV h distribution fmt imt in # temporary at and h pe h bB rmanent b bmmi
m- ^ ^^^ K ^^ m * V ^ dWmt m \ t ^ ^^ V ^ V ¦¦ mm- * m * ¦ ^ m * m'm ^ v ^*^ >* ^> L ^—^ ** ^ f ^ V *^ % / ^ mr ^ m- ^^ . ^¦ « L m ^ m ^> ** ^ V . ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ¦* . ~^ m assistance to tov members and widows of member 3 .
Messrs . tSotlieran A : Co . are offering for sale just now some interesting souvenirs of the
Parliamentary Election of 1880 , consisting of a , unique collection of nearly six hundred political caricaturesportraitssquibs , ballads
and X broad sheets , , electioneering , M . addresses ' ' , posters , iVc , carefully mounted and bound . They also announce a similar and still larger
collection of caricatures ifcc . relating to the last general election . An important sale of autograp / h letters will
take placo * in Paris this month > _ . * The sale will also embrace many valuablo works of art , and original scores of music by great composers .
Thero ^ are holographs of Napoleon V Km * 1 ., Ta Ik lleyrandMadame RolandRousseauVoltaire ' , , ' , ,
King of Rome , Marie Antoinette , F ^ nelon , and Catherine de Me'dicis . Mr . W . T . Stead ' s idea as developed in
The Be view of Reviews appears to be hnding
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x 1890 The Publishers' Circular 495 m ,
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 1, 1890, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01051890/page/9/
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