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followed by an historical summary and a glossary. Herr Burckhardt, the archivist at Weimar, has just

lammbô;" but it must be premature, for Mons. Gustave Flaubert is a slow writer. He was five years working on his "Salammbô;" and, although Mons.discovered in the archives of the Ernestine branch Sainte-Beuve publicly counselled him to work more of the princes of Saxony a great many letters of rapidly, it is scarcely possible that he should con- Luther, whose existence has hitherto been unsussent to give to the world a book written in six pected. They treat almost entirely of religious months. Nevertheless, MM. Michel Lévy frères subjects. Herr Burckhardt is about to publish have published a card to deny a rumor that a Bel- them. Mons. Emile Colombey, the librarian of the gian publisher was to bring out his next volume, Corps Législatif, has discovered here a good many and to assert that they have a contract with the letters of Ninon de l'Enclos, of whom we have author for it. "Salammbô" continues-shall I say nothing except the fragments to be found in Saintsuccessful? it never was successful-to sell well. Evremont's works; for the letters alleged to be The fourth edition was published last week: it addressed from her to Villarceaux, Sévigné, and proves as profitable as author and publisher others, are known to be forgeries. Unless Mons. could desire. The former received $6000 cash in Colombey be able to demonstrate satisfactorily that advance for the first edition (an enormous price these letters he has just discovered are authentic, here). The sale of this book is wonderful for they will be received with incredulity. Herr MommFrance, especially when the price-$1.20-is consi- sen, the eminent historian, is now in Paris, collectdered; for people here look upon sixty cents as a good ing materials for his "Roman Inscriptions," and to price for a novel. I suspect this sale has tempted superintend the translation of his Roman History. MM. Hachette et Cie. to put the price of Mons. The Emperor has seen him several times to consult Edmond About's new novel, "Madelon," at $1.20. with him upon the former's "Life of Julius Cæsar." They bring it out to-morrow. It first appeared in It is time now to turn to the new publications of "Le Constitutionnel," and it is reckoned here his the last fortnight and report the last works which best work. No novel commands any thing like the the French press has given us. These are the theovogue obtained by Mons. Octave Feuillet's two logical publications of the last two weeks:-" Menovels, "Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme pauvre,' moriale vitæ sacerdotalis; a Claudio Arvisenet, and "Sibylle." No less than 40,000 copies of the canonico et vicario generali Trecensi," 32mo, pp. former have been sold; and the latter is fast attain- viii., 592. Paris, libr. Ruffet et Cie.-Abbé P. Bélet's ing these figures. Mons. Sainte-Beuve has begun the issue of a new series of reprints of his weekly articles from "Le Constitutionnel." He has now a comfortable independence of fortune: "Le Constitutionnel" gives him $2000 a year for his articles; he receives about $3000 copyright from his publishers; his chairs at the Collège de France and Ecole Normale bring him in $1500; and his place at the French Academy is worth some $400 a year. He is engaged in writing memoirs of his life and times, but they are not for immediate publication. A very good pen-and-ink silhouette in two lines appeared of him in one of our minor papers the other day: Mons. Sainte-Beuve is a cat walking over patent leather: he scratches as he slides." Mons. Rathery is collecting Ducis's letters to publish. They will form a charming volume, and lead all Anglo-Saxon readers to forgive him for translating Shakspeare without knowing a word of English (he confesses as much in a letter to Garrick). What à manufactory of books Mons. Guizot's house is! The last volume turned out from Val Richer (you know this is the name of Mons. Guizot's countryresidence, where, by the way, he now spends ten months of the year), Prince Albert's Speeches, translated by Mme. de W. (Mme. de Witte, his daughter, who married a descendant of the famous Dutch Pensionary: her husband is the author of a Life of Jefferson), with an interesting preface by Mons. Guizot. I never think of that industrious, active, energetic, religious household in Normandy without respect, when I see them, after tasting of the grandeurs of the world, seeking happiness in labor and in the discharge of domestic and the humbler political duties. Mons. Durand publishes to-morrow "Geografia del Peru del D. D. Por Soldan," corrected and augmented by his brother (it will appear, too, in French), and "De la Noblesse et des Récompenses d'Honneur chez les Romains," by Mons. Naudet. Mons. Pagnerre will give us at the end of May the last part of "Carnot's Memoirs," by his son. Mme. Veuve Joubert is continuing, periodically, Mons. Victor Foucher's edition of "Les Assises du Royaume de Jérusalem," with French and Italian texts, compared not only together, but with Roman, Frank, and Barbarian laws, and with the Capitularies and St. Louis Foundations, and

Le Mois de Mai. Six entretiens sur les vertus de la sainte Vierge, d'après l'opuscule: Ecce ancilla Domini." 8vo, pp. 40. Paris, libr. Pélagaud. lf.— Abbé Bergier's "Dictionnaire de Théologie. Edition enrichie de notes extraites des plus célèbres apologistes de la religion, par Mgr. Sousset, archévêque de Reims; augmentée d'articles nouveaux par Mgr. Doney, évêque de Montauban, et précédée du plan de théologie, manuscrit autographe de Bergier." 6 vols. 8vo, pp. liv., 3648. Paris, libr. Jouby.-D. Bouix's "La Solitaire des Roches, sa correspondance avec son directeur, éditée d'après plusieurs manuscrits, avec son histoire par Mialson et Bérault Bercastel, et une dissertation critique, par D. Bouix, docteur en théologie." 2 vols. 18mo, pp. xii., 835. Paris, libr. Ruffet et Cie." Manuale totius juris canonici, auctore D. Craisson, quondam vicario generali RR. DD. Chatrousse." T. 1 et 2, 18mo, pp. xiv., 1359. Paris, libr. Palmé.-Dupanloup's "Avertissement à la jeunesse et aux pères de famille sur les attaques dirigées contre la religion par quelques écrivains de nos jours." 8vo, pp. 121. Paris, libr. Douniol. - Bishop Landriot's "La Femme forte. Conférences destinées aux femmes du monde." 18mo, pp. 423. Paris, libr. Palmé, 2f. 50c.

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These are the chief historical and biographical publications:-Albert Arnoul's "La France en l'année 1848." 18mo, pp. 308. Paris, lib. Garnier Frères.-Madame de Bassanville's Les Salons d'autrefois. Souvenirs intimes." 2me série. 18mo, pp. 359. Paris, libr. Brunet. — A. Béziers's "Les Lectures de Mme. de Sévigné et ses Jugements littéraires." 8vo, pp. 380. Le Havre, impr. Mignot. -Bouniol's La France héroïque (de Tolbiac à Isly). Vies et récits dramatiques, d'après les chroniques et les documents originaux." 3 vols. 18mo, pp. 107. Paris, libr. Bray, 8f.-Caboche's "Les Mémoires et l'Histoire en France." 8vo, pp. xxvii., 7471. Paris, libr. Charpentier.-Cocheris's "Lebeuf. Sa vie et ses œuvres.' 8vo, pp. 96. Libr. Durand. Gaborian's Les Comédiennes adorées." 18mo, pp. 315. Paris, libr. Dentu, 3f.-De Goncourt's Greuze. Etude contenant quatre dessins gravés à l'eau-forte." 4to, pp. 28. Paris, libr. Dentu, 5f. Herbet et Lenoel's "Recherches historiques sur la petite vérole et sur la vaccine." 8vo, pp. 121.

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Amiens, impr. Lenoel Herouart.-A. Lebailly's | lished:-Mme. Ancelot's "Antonia Vernon, ou les Hégésippe Moreau: sa vie et ses œuvres. Docu- Jeunes Filles pauvres." 16mo, pp. 311. Libr. L. ments inédits." 16mo, pp. 127. Paris, libr. Mme. Hachette et Cie. 2f. (Bibliothèque des Chemins de Bachelin Deflorentine.--Le Couteulx de Canteleu's Fer.)—Abbé Anglade's “Napoléon et Diocléa, ou le Les Sectes et Sociétés secrètes, politiques et reli- triomphe de la faiblesse sur la force au temps de gieuses: Essai sur leur histoire depuis les temps Dioclétien." 12mo, pp. xv., 271. Paris, libr. Ruffet les plus reculés jusqu'à la Révolution française." et Cie.-Aug. Challamel's "Le Roman de la Plage." 8ro. PP. 271 et 4 pl. Paris, libr. Didier et Cie. 5f. 18mo, pp. 111, 283. Paris, libr. Dentu. 8f.— -Maille's "Recherches sur Elbeuf." T. 2 et 3. Devicque's "Ecoliers et bandits: drames du vieux 12mo, pp. viii., 948. Elbeuf, imp. Levasseur.— quartier latin." 4 vols. 8vo, pp. 1276. Paris, libr. L. F. A. Maury's "Croyances et légendes de l'anti- De Potter.-P. de Ferlat's "Iba: souvenir intime." quité. Essais de critique appliquée à quelque points 18mo, pp. 266. Paris, libr. Dentu. 3f.—Henri' de d'histoire et de mythologie. Les religions de l'Inde Kock's "Je t'aime." 18mo, pp. 153. Libr. Sartoet de la Perse. Traditions de la Grèce et de la Gaule. rius. 1f.-C. Ledhuy's "Le Fils maudit." 18mo. Les premiers historiens et les anciennes légendes pp. 323. Michel Lévy frères. 1f.-De Montépin's du Christianisme. Rapports de l'Occident avec Les Compagnons de la Torche; l'Hôtel du Diable." l'extrême Orient." 8vo, pp. 417. Libr. Didier et 5 vols. 8vo, pp. 1596. Libr. De Potter.-Mme. RatCie.-De Montchamp's "Les Bohémiennes de l'a- tazzi's (Princesse Marie de Solms) "Mademoiselle mour." 18mo, pp. 292.-F. Rossignol's "Les Pro- Million." 18mo, pp. 271. Libr. Dentu. 3f. testants illustres: portraits biographiques." T. 1, I may mention in a paragraph devoted to miscel2,3, et 4. 18mo, pp. 916. Libr. Meyrueis et Cie.-laneous publications:-" Annuaire du département Turennius's "Vie abrégée du vénérable serviteur de du Rhône et du ressort de la cour impériale pour Dieu Mgr. Vincent-Marie Strambi, de la congréga-1863." [This work is a continuation of the old tion des Passionistes, évêque de Macérata et Tolen- "Almanachs de Lyon," which were first issued in tino." 18mo, pp. 303. Paris, libr. Vivès.-Vallet 1711; consequently the present volume is the 152d de Viriville's "Histoire de Charles VII., roi de of the collection.]-H. Dauphin's translation of France, et de son époque, 1403-1461." T. 2. 8vo, "Les Oiseaux: comédie d'Aristophane." 8vo, pp. pp. xvi., 462. Paris, libr. Ve. J. Renouard.-Abbé | 120. Amiens, impr. Yvert.-A. Bigot's "Li BourBargès's "Hébron et le tombeau du patriarche | gadieiro: poésies patoises (dialecte de Nîmes)." Abraham. Traditions et légendes musulmanes rap- 18mo, pp. 216. Nimes, impr. Clavel Ballivet et portées par les auteurs arabes." 8vo, pp. 45.- Cie.-A. Caraven's "Tentative d'acclimatation du Carnot's "Mémoires sur Carnot, 1753-1823." T. 2, Gossypium herbaceum (Linn.), cotonnier herbacé, 1 partie. 8vo, pp. 252, libr. Pagnerre.- Abbé Du- cotonnier Géorgie longue soie, dans le pays Casvoisin's "Vie de M. Daguerre, fondateur du sémi-trais." 16mo, pp. 15. Castres, impr. Ve. Grillon. naire de Larressore, avec l'histoire du diocèse de-Abbé Caron's "Méthode pour les classes de Bayonne, depuis le commencement du dernier siècle plain-chant à l'usage des diocèses qui ont adopté jusqu'à la Révolution française." 8vo, pp. xii., le chant romain de la commission Rémo-Cambré520. Bayonne, impr. Ve. Lamaignère. 7f. 50c.- sienne." 12mo, pp. 160. Paris, libr. Guyot et RoiLe Prevost's "Mémoires et notes pour servir à dot.-Mme. Dora d'Istrias's 66 Excursions en Roul'histoire du département de l'Eure." T. 1, 2me par- mélie et en Morée." 2me vol. 18mo, pp. 672. Paris, tie. 8vo, pp. 268-576. Evreux, impr. Hérissey.- libr. Cherbulier.—J. E. Jouhan's “Le Jura: guide Cardinal Mathieu's "Le pouvoir temporel des pittoresque et historique, etc.; avec la description papes justifié par l'histoire: étude sur l'origine, de tout le département du Jura." 16mo, pp. 443. l'exercice et l'influence de la souveraineté pontifi- Paris, L. Hachette et Cie.-La Forge's "Iconogracale. 8vo, pp. 691. Paris, libr. A. Le Clerc et Cie. phie de la Vierge, type principal de l'art chrétien, -Merlet's "Portraits d'hier, attiques et humo- depuis le IVe jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle.” 4to, pp. xii., ristes." 18mo, pp. 409. Paris, libr. Didier et Cie. 335. Lyon, impr. Perrin.-Plato's "Œuvres com-Trognon's "Histoire de France. 1re partie. La plètes." 8, 9, 10. 18mo. Paris, libr. Charpentier. France au moyen âge, 481 à 1483." 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 3f. 50c. chaque vol.-Spinoza's "Euvres com1251. Libr. L. Hachette et Cie. 15f.-Vattier's plètes: traduites et annotées par T. G. Prat." "Galerie des Académiciens: portraits littéraires et 18mo, pp. clix., 256. Paris, libr. L. Hachette et artistiques." 1re série. 18mo, pp. 181. Libr. Amyot. Cie. [This edition will consist of 5 vols., and of 6 I may note among the scientific publications :- vols. if a translation of the Hebrew Grammar be Becquerel's "Recherches sur la température de given.]-Alfred Tugault's "Eléments de la langue l'air, au nord, au midi, loin et près des arbres; malaise ou malaye." 8vo, pp. viii., 112. Paris, suivies de: Note sur la psychrométrie électrique; imprimerie impériale.-Barre's "Herculanum et nouveau mémoire sur la coloration electro-chimique Pompéi: recueil général des peintures, bronzes, et le dépôt de peroxyde de fer sur des lames de fer mosaïques, etc. découverts jusqu'à ce jour." T. 8. et de cuivre, et mémoire sur la production électri- 8vo, pp. 235 et 60 pl. Paris, libr. Firmin Didot que de la silice et de l'alumine." 4to, pp. 205. frères, fils et Cie.-J. F. Boissonade's "Critique littéParis, libr. F. Didot frères, fils et Cie.-L. D. Ge-raire sous le premier Empire, précédée d'une notice rard's "Roue-turbine, nouveau récepteur hydrau- historique sur Boissonade par Mons. Naudet, de lique à axe horizontal, à libre déviation des veines l'Institut." 2 vols. 8vo, pp. ciii., 1153. Paris, libr. liquides continués sur la concavité des aubes cour- Didier et Cie.-G. Hugelmann's "La Quatrième bes." 4to, pp. 9 et 1 pl. Paris, libr. Mallet Bache- Race." 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 765. Paris, Dentu. 12f.— lier.-L. D. Girard's 'Application des surfaces De Pontmartin's "Nouvelles semaines littéraires." glissantes," 4to, pp. 8 et pl. Paris, libr. Mallet 18mo, pp. 351. Michel Lévy frères. 3f.-RenouBachelier.-Hommey's "Table d'angles horaires, vier's "Histoire de l'art pendant la Révolution, contenant plus de 40,000 angles horaires, calculés considéré principalement dans les estampes.' 8vo, pour toutes les latitudes depuis 0° jusqu'à 70°," pp. 592. Libr. Ve. J. Renouard.-Roux's "Statis etc. etc. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. xl., 692. Paris, libr. Mallet Bachelier. 20f.-Cotteau et Triger's "Echinides du département de la Sarthe, avec fig. dessinées et lithographiées d'après nature." 8vo, pp. 384 et 45 pl. Paris, libr. J B. Baillière et fils.

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The following are the latest works of fiction pub

tique des Alpes-Maritimes." 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 1075. Nice, libr. Cauvin.

There are at Paris commission-booksellers (if you will let me coin a word by analogy to the common

term "commission-merchants") who have on their

shelves books from foreign publishers for sale on

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I enclose a list of Dutch and Spanish publications, in which you will observe how utterly indifferent Spanish publishers are to the exactness of the date borne on the title-pages of their works (a reproach from which French publishers themselves are any thing but free), and how limited the circulation of their works must be, since they still adhere to the old and costly quarto form in so many instances. You will note, too, that the Deaf-and-Dumb Asylum of Madrid prints the publications of the Spanish Academy, and seems to be a leading printing-establishment of Madrid.

Very truly, yours,

J.

commission. I shall speak of this trade in a sub-repute. Of all living American writers, perhaps sequent letter. One who has a bank-runner's legs, Dr. Holmes is best known and most warmly appre no fear of staircases, no aversion to damp court- ciated in Europe. His most remarkable prose work, yards, insensibility to all forms of rebuffs, and per- "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," has been tinacious curiosity, may discover somewhere or an- reprinted in London, Paris, Leipsic, and Brussels. other in Paris all the chief publications of Europe. It is well known that this work, as it serially apBut then he must be familiar with all the by-ways peared in the Atlantic Monthly, then newly estaand lanes of the capital, he must be able to thread blished,-greatly helped to create the popularity of his way into and out of the most tortuous streets, that periodical. The book is in prose; but a fine up the most old-fashioned dark stairs; for these vein of thoughtful and fanciful poetry pervades commission-booksellers seem to have selected the it, and a charming little love-story runs through most out-of-the-way holes and corners of the capital it like a silver thread. The Autocrat speaks on for their dwellings. Indeed, I have often wondered numerous subjects, and is argumentative, and even how their customers ever found them out; for the logical, without being didactic. The history of this English and American systems of advertising are book is among the curiosities of literature. There unknown arts here. I intend to penetrate these formerly was a New England Magazine, published at dusky corners and tell you the titles of the new Boston by J. T. Buckingham. In this (in Novembooks I have discovered on their shelves. ber, 1831), after he had completed his twenty-second year, appeared an article entitled "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," to which were appended the initials "O. W. H." In February, 1882, a second article, with the same title, was published. There the series stopped. More than a quarter of a century elapsed, during which the author had achieved a world-wide reputation, and the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly (established in the autumn of 1857) invited him to contribute to its pages. He ought to have written for it,-the fact, not generally known, being that the name Atlantic Monthly was suggested by Dr. Holmes and adopted by its ori ginal publishers. It struck him that it would answer to revive the "Autocrat," after a long time had elapsed, to use his own words, "that it would be a curious experiment to shake the same bough again, and see if the ripe fruit were better or worse than the early windfalls." The success that attended the "Autocrat" has been very remarkable. It obtained a strong hold on the public mind at once and forever; and, indeed, its genial philosophy and fine fancy recommend it alike to old and young. Some of Dr. Holmes's most happy poetical effusions are scattered through its pages,-poems on various subjects, treated with originality. The singular lyric, altered from a chanson à boire to a temperance song, is a very happy hit; and even better, in its truth and quaintness, is the poem "The Old Man Dreams." For simple, touching, tender beauty of thought and expression, commend us, however, to "The Two Armies" (p. 262), and the brief but elegant stanzas "The Voiceless" (p. 355). These alone would stamp Dr. Holmes as a true poet. It only remains to be added that, contrary to the recognized rule that second parts of literary works are rarely equal to the first, "The Professor" is as good as "The Autocrat," except that it has nothing in it as delicate as the proposal of marriage,-Popping the Question" it is familiarly called,-on page 324. "No, no,' she answered, softly: 'I will walk the long path with you,'-the long path of a future lifetime." Finally, considering how well he writes, it is a pity that Dr. Holmes writes so little. By the way, it may gratify possessors of the New England Magazine, above referred to, to learn that, besides the original germ of "The Autocrat" (which was not then continued simply because its author went to Europe in 1833 to complete his medical education in Paris), it contains other papers by Dr. Holmes. One of these is entitled "May and October." To some of the rest the author's initials are appended.

THE AUTHORS AT HOME. Holmes-father and son. Exactly a century ago (1763) the Rev. Dr. Abiel Holmes, father of our genial and gentle "Autocrat of the BreakfastTable," first drew breath,-a Connecticut man, who was educated at Yale College, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Cambridge, Mass., from 1792 to 1832. When he was born, George III., whose reign had lately begun, in full enmity with John Wilkes the demagogue, had just ordered the publishers of Number 45 of the North Briton" to be prosecuted, and by his illegal conduct really laid the foundation of that discontent with his reign which, twelve years later, culminated in our Declaration of Independence; Louis XV. had nearly completed the fiftieth year of his reign; Poland was an elective monarchy, but just then distracted by twelve months of anarchy that followed the death of King Frederic Augustus; the Empress Catherine II. ruled in Russia, having recently deposed and murdered her husband. The Rev. Dr. Holmes was a man of letters, distinguished in his day, and still remembered. His principal work is "Annals of America, from the Discovery of America in 1492 to the Year 1826." It has passed through several editions in this country, and was republished in London. It displayed industry and research, and its statements had the merit of being very reliable. The work is rare, and a new edition would be acceptable. The copy before us, belonging to Mr. G. W. Childs, bears the imprint of Hilliard & Brown, Cambridge, 1829. It is enriched with some of the venerable author's manuscript, very clear and decided. He used to write with a squarenibbed pen, and with Walkden's Japan ink,-of which a bottle can scarcely now be obtained. He bore heavily on the pen, writing rather rapidly, and producing "copy" as good as print. This Dr. Holmes died in 1837, in his seventy-fifth year,-full of years and honor and goodness. The most distinguished of his children is Dr. O. W. Holmes, born at Cambridge in August, 1809. He was intended and educated for the legal profession, but abandoned it for medicine, in which he has won so much

REV. J. C. FLETCHER, whose literary labors in connection with Brazil are well known, is, we understand, engaged on a series of papers for "Harper's Magazine," giving sprightly sketches of his recent journey two thousand miles up the Amazon. Recently Mr. Fletcher's letters to the London Times,

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he expressed an opinion in favor of the general truthfulness of his book.

CURIOSITIES OF BIOGRAPHY.-In a volume of miscellanies lately collected and edited by Earl Stanhope (better known in this country as Lord Mahon) is a letter from the Duke of Wellington on the comparative merits of Marlborough and Wellington. In this it is affirmed that John Churchill, afterwards Duke of Marlborough, whose victories brought Louis XIV. to the verge of ruin, had, like his great colleague, Prince Eugene, applied in early life for a commission in the French army. When Napoleon was an unemployed general in Paris, before he was sent to command the army of Italy, he had serious thoughts of entering the Turkish

army.

KINGLAKE'S CRIMEA.-Evidently in dread of what Mr. Kinglake may say when describing the battle of Balaklava, the Earl of Cardigan has obtained a rule in the Court of Queen's Bench, London, against Colonel Calthorpe for a statement in "Letters from Head-Quarters," published in 1858. This statement, which Lord Cardigan declares a libel, charges him with having precipitately fled to the rear on horseback of his own accord, while the Light Cavalry brigade charged a Russian battery. Lord Cardigan produced many affidavits from officers and soldiers who were on the field, which tend to show that the imputation on his courage was unmerited. The whole affair shows how much the sword is afraid of the pen. Mr. Kinglake's probable profits on the first portion of his history are estimated at $50,000.

NAPOLEON IN THE INSTITUTE.-It is said that M. Guizot will soon propose the Emperor Napoleon as a member of the Institute of France. As the longpromised "Life of Cæsar" is not finished, the imperial author will be put forward on his "Idées Napoléoniennes." It is expected that thirty-five out of the forty members will vote for him. recent sale of the library of M. Double, Jun., Napoleon gave 9000 francs for a fine copy of Voltaire, enriched with 108 designs by Moreau.

At a

"PUNCH."-A new contributor to this still popular publication is Mr. Francis Burnand, who had written a good deal for Fun," its smart and cheaper rival.

ITALIAN OPERA.-Mr. B. Lumley, for many years lessee and manager of Her Majesty's Theatre, London, is preparing a history of his reign there.

MR. THACKERAY.-It is said that Mr. Thackeray is meditating another novel of the Queen Anne period.

ANOTHER LITERARY BARONET.-Captain Lascelles Wraxall, author of several novels, and translator of "Les Misérables" (London edition), has succeeded to the baronetcy and estates of his uncle, Colonel Sir William Lascelles Wraxall, of Wraxall, Somersetshire. The new baronet was born in 1828, and was Assistant Commissary in the Turkish contingent in the Crimean War. The baronetcy was created in 1813. Its first holder was Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, whose "Historical Memoirs of his own Times," though sometimes hasty and even incorrect, contain much curious matter respecting the administration of William Pitt, whose friend he

was.

HEAD VERSUS KINGLAKE.-Sir Francis Bond

Nassau,'

Head, author of "Bubbles from the Brunnen of land, announces a pamphlet with the title of "Mr. ," and of a singularly incorrect book on IreKinglake." It is said to be a caustic and personal review of "The History of the Invasion of the Crimea."

CLERICAL LITERATURE.-Among the English announcements we notice a new edition of Mosheim's "Ecclesiastical History," in three volumes, carefully revised by the Rev. William Stubbs, Librarian to the Archbishop of Canterbury; a fifth edition of which is nearly ready, will contain the four Gospels); Dean Alford's "Greek Testament" (the first volume, a Life of the late Bishop Mackenzie, who perished Africa, by Dr. Goodwin, Dean of Ely; three serlast year on a missionary expedition in South mons on "Subjection of the Creature to Vanity," by Dr. Trench, Dean of Westminster; "The ReSor-tributive Justice of God commenced in this Life, Proved and Exemplified," by the Rev. J. Langley; "Lectures on the English Office of the Holy Communion," by the Rev. Dr. Goulburn. Dean Trench has in the press a second series of "Synonyms of the New Testament." A Prayer-Book, in ruby type, exceedingly clear and distinct, with limp covers, has been brought out in London by the Christian Knowledge Society, for four cents. This is a marvel of cheap literature.

A FEMALE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.-At the bonne a young lady (M'lle Chenu) has, for the first time in Paris, passed a brilliant examination, and has been admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Science. She was highly complimented by the chairman of the Board of Examiners, and loudly cheered by the students. At Lyons, a short time ago, another lady also graduated in science.

MRS. OLIPHANT."The Chronicles of Carlingford" were attributed, when they first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, to Miss Marian Evans, author of "Adam Bede." Now the tales are acknowledged by Mrs. Oliphant, who wrote "Mrs. Margaret Maitland," and other acceptable novels. Messrs. Blackwood, of Edinburgh, announce a new volume of "The Chronicles."

VICTOR HUGO. A new work on which this vivid author is engaged will be called "93," and is destined to form a sort of link between "Notre Dame" and "Les Misérables." A biography of Victor Hugo, by his wife, is in the press, and will immediately appear. It will contain, among other novelties, an unpublished drama by Victor Hugo.

CHARLES DICKENS.-The London Literary Times says that Mr. Dickens has nearly ready for the press the new serial upon which he is engaged, and that it will be published by Chapman & Hall.

MISS M. A. BRADDON.-The fair author of "Lady Audley's Secret" and "Aurora Floyd" is said to have made more than $40,000 within the last six months.

ROYAL LITERATURE.-There was lately published (by Trübner & Co., London, and Ticknor & Fields, Boston) a volume of "Meditations on Death and Eternity," selected by Queen Victoria from the German of Zschokke, -a book which the late Prince Albert was fond of reading,—and translated, under the Queen's direction, by Miss Frederica Rowan. Among the most recent English announcements we find that of a companion-volume from the same hands, entitled "Meditations on Life and its Religious Duties." The selection has been made by the Queen; and the Meditations "each and all inculcate the permeation, as it were, of the character by deep religious earnestness, and represent growth in likeness to God as the great object of man's life."

ROYAL AUTHORSHIP.-More than a century ago,

Horace Walpole published his "Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors." Were this newly edited, it would be doubled in extent, so prolific have highborn writers since been. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, brother of the reigning Emperor of