Burnand

Punch.

and explaining his views upon originality in dramatic art. In regard to this matter Mr. Taylor was to some extent sinned against, as he lived in a period when awkward questions were for the first time put, and was the scapegoat of a system he transmitted and perpetuated, but did not invent.......Mr. Taylor was a staunch advocate of a School of Histrionic Art. He never failed to accord a generous and loyal support to any attempt to revive upon the stage the plays of Shakspeare."

The following is at the head of "Literary Gossip" on the 31st of July:-"We are glad to Mr. F. C. be able to announce that Mr. F. C. Burnand, the new editor of author of 'Happy Thoughts,' succeeds the late Mr. Tom Taylor as editor of Punch. Mr. Burnand has for some years been the most popular of the contributors to the journal, and he will no doubt prove a worthy successor of Mark Lemon and Shirley Brooks."

M. Pasteur.

The Art Journal.

M. Pasteur has, it is mentioned on the 24th of July, "received from the Government of France. the sum of 50,000 francs in aid of his researches on the contagious diseases of animals."

On the same date it is also stated that "Mr. M. Huish succeeds Mr. S. C. Hall and the late Mr. Dafforne in the management of the Art Fournal, and that it is intended to elevate the tone and improve the quality of our contem

porary, so that it may compete with the Port- The Portfolio. folio. This is a well-merited compliment to Mr. Hamerton and Messrs. Seeley, and they will appreciate it."

"Rowlandson the Caricaturist: a Selection 'Rowlandson,' from his Works. By J. Grego. 2 vols. Illus- by J. Grego. trated," is reviewed in the same number. "Having completed his biographical notice, Mr. Grego enters on a chronology of the caricaturist's works, and, selecting those examples which are most suitable to his purpose, has adorned his pages with photographic fac-similes from the designs and prints of the satirist." "So prodigious was the facility of Rowlandson and so considerable his industry that it is by no means certain that even Mr. Grego's extensive catalogue is anything like complete. Yet this is by

far the largest list ever made, and its comprehensiveness proves the diligence of the compiler."

On the 31st of July it is announced that "an annual prize of seven guineas for excellence in practical physiology has just been founded at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to commemorate Harvey and the long connexion of Harvey with the hospital, to which he was elected physician in 1609."

The death of Mr. James Imlach, bookseller at Banff, is noted in the same number. He wrote an "interesting History of Banff,' in which he

St. Bartholomew's

Hospital.

mentions that in early life he collected materials James Imlach on the life of Macpherson, the Scottish freeand Sir booter celebrated by Burns, for Sir Walter Scott, and how the novelist was led to abandon his project."

Walter Scott.

W. H. G.

A sorrow for "English-speaking boys throughout the world" is announced on August 14th in Kingston. the death of William Henry Giles Kingston, who for nearly thirty years enjoyed a remarkable popularity as a writer for boys. He was born in London on the 28th of February, 1814. "For many years he lived with his family at Oporto, where his father was in business, and thence he made many voyages to and from England.......Encouraged by the success of his first work, 'The Circassian Chief,' published in 1844, he produced, while residing in Portugal, 'The Prime Minister: a Story of the Days of the Great Marquis of Pombal,' and shortly afterwards appeared his 'Lusitanian Sketches,' which were descriptive of his own travels and adventures in Portugal. In 1850 was issued from the house at the corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, which has for so many years been identified with juvenile literature, his first book for boys, 'Peter the Whaler.'......He has written about one hundred and thirty volumes.......The most popular of his books with boys were undoubtedly his sea stories, which have gained for him

Peter the Whaler.'

the title of 'the modern Marryat,' and the most prominent among them were 'The Three Midshipmen,' 'The Three Lieutenants,' 'The Three Commanders,' and 'The Three Admirals.'...... After a careful consultation last June with eminent medical advisers it was clear that the end could not be far off. He awaited it with Christian calmness and fortitude, and when it His Christian fortitude. came, on the 5th of the present month, it found him resigned and happy, and, like the hero he was so fond of portraying, strong in the consciousness of having done his duty."

'The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,'*

The Poetical Works' were reviewed on the 29th of September, 1877, and the Athenæum states that this edition of Shelley's poems is, “in beauty, carefulness, and fidelity to printed texts, superior to any that have gone before it. Its great feature, however-and that which calls for special attention-is that it substitutes 'Laon and Cythna' (which Shelley's publisher dared not publish) for the Revolt of Islam.'" On the 22nd of January, 1887, a letter appears from Mr. F. S. Ellis giving information of an important Shelley "find," being the MS. of 'The Mask of Anarchy' entirely in Shelley's handwriting, and, “apparently, the first draft of the poem." A facsimile of the manuscript, with an introduction by H. Buxton Forman, was printed for the Shelley Society, and is noticed in the Athenæum of the 31st of December, 1887"The introduction gives a serviceable account of the Manchester massacre of August 16th, 1819, the details of the recovery of the holograph manuscript, and

Shelley's, edited by Henry Buxton Forman, is reviewed on Prose Works,' edited by the 4th of September. In announcing this work

H. Buxton

Forman.

on the 31st of July the Athenæum stated:"The edition of Shelley's prose works which Mr. Buxton Forman has just finished putting through the press, and which, like his edition of the poetical works, is in four volumes, contains much that will be new. Shelley's own prose publications are accurately reprinted for the first time, and 'The Necessity of Atheism' and 'A Letter to Lord Ellenborough' are at length given from original copies. Mrs. Shelley's twovolume collection of posthumous essays, fragments, translations, and letters from Italy is reprinted with very considerable additions; all outlying prose essays, fragments, &c., are included, and nearly all outlying letters, except those in Hogg's 'Life of Shelley' and the 'Shelley Memorials.' The principal works not before published are the much-talked-of essay 'On the Devil and Devils,' a considerable series of Notes on Sculptures in Rome and Florence,' and the long letter which Shelley wrote to Leigh Hunt, as editor of the Examiner, on the iniquitous trial of Richard Carlile for publishing Paine's' Age of Reason.' There are several new

a careful and minute statement, such as might be expected from Mr. Forman, of the various points of textual interest involved in it."