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Show Festival of Litorature. In place of the ball which is given annually at the Hotel dc Ville, a Paris municipal councilor proposes that an annual festival of literature shall be organized, says the Westminster Review. Re-view. The idea is that J he municipality shall offer prizes for plays and poems, and shall produce the best play, and print the best poem at the public expense, ex-pense, and distribute copies of an edition edi-tion dc luxe to their guests. Tt is a high-minded proposal: but a goodly proportion of the guests would probably prob-ably miss the dancing; and the question ques-tion might also arise whether a municipal munici-pal council was the best imaginable junto jun-to pronounce on the incrils of literary ami dramatic compositions. |