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83 LITERATtIKE, ART, AND ARCHAEOLOGY. impossible for the committee to award the prize, but his Honour Judge Gwilym Williams held that it was the duty of the Committee to bring about a compromise between the adjudica¬ tors, or to submit the difference to an independent arbitrator. He gave judgment for the amount with costs, and appointed himself the umpire. Our contributor, the Baroness Swift, La Mira, Venice, has written for the Christmas number of the Dundee Weekly News an Italian story, to which she has given the name of " The Magic Flute." Mr. Whyte Edgar, the author of the burlesque Yanderdecken, produced at the Novelty Theatre on Wednesday, December 9th, is a gentleman well-known in South Wales. He was the successful competitor for the twenty-guinea prize offered by Mr. Fletcher, of the Cardiff Theatre Royal, at the eisteddfod held in that town for the best libretto of a pantomime, which, it will be remembered, was produced under the title of Sinbad the Sailor. Mr. Edgar is at present a member of the Gallery staff of one of the London dailies. He commenced his journalistic career on the Western Mail, and subsequently went to London as the London literary representative of the New¬ castle Daily Journal. Members of Mr. Edgar's family resided for some time at Carmarthen. The caste included Messrs. Willie Edouin, Harry Courtaine, Eardly Turner, Arthur Corney, and Lionel Brough; Mesdames Harriet Vernon, Helen Hastings, Constance Morton, Kate Bellingham, Emmie Graham, and Alice Atherton. The name of Morris Kyffin, says the Academy, is unfamiliar as that of an English poet; and, in fact, we believe he was a Welshman whose not very numerous productions were chiefly in his own native language. Nevertheless, his loyal poem on The Blessednes of Brytaine, originally published in 1587 and reissued with additions in 1588, fully deserved to be reprinted as a piece of fine English versification not without historical interest. It is, in fact, a high eulogy on the government of Queen Elizabeth and an exhortation to loyalty, provoked, as it would seem, by Babington's conspiracy, in which two Welshmen were implicated. A reprint of the first edition has just been issued by the Cymmrodorion Society from a copy supposed to be unique, in the Lambeth Palace library, a former reprint, which appeared in Huth's Fugitive Tracts in Verse, being described as by no means accurate. Professor Powel has retired from the editorship of the Cymmrodorion Society's publications, which has been handed