Obituary.

Langhans.—At Berlin, on 20th June, aged 60, Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, a native of Hamburg, and a well-known musician, composer, and musical critic. After his marriage to Louise Japha, the pianist, he settled in Berlin, and devoted himself to musical criticism and history. He contributed largely to periodical literature.

Osgood.—On 18th May, in London, of bronchitis, John Ripley Osgood, of Boston, publisher, aged 56. He was a native of Maine. As the publisher of the Atlantic Monthly he was associated with the leading American authors, besides Charles Dickens and other English writers of repute. Five years ago, his firm fell into financial difficulties, and he retired, taking a business agency in London for the Harpers. His mother is still living at Boston; and a brother and two sisters remain. One of these, Kate Putnam Osgood, is a well-known writer. Mr Osgood never married.

Wood.—At Cove, Loch Long, on 25th June, aged 86, Mr J. Muir Wood, the well-known music publisher of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the leading authority on Scottish music. His firm was started in the last century, and he himself had been more than fifty years in the trade. He wrote the article on Scottish music and musicians for Sir George Grove's Dictionary, and has left the MS. of a considerable work on the subject. At the age of 78 he issued an important work on the Songs of Scotland; and he edited and published the Scottish Monthly Musical Times, discontinued in 1878.