LITERARY NEWS.
Mr. Murray has in the press "The Five Great Monarchies of the An- cient World : Chaldtea Assyria, Babylonia Media, and Persia," by the Reverend George Rawlinson, editor of HerOdotus.
Dr. Beke, the well known Abyssinian traveller, is preparing for the press a book on "The Sources of the Nile ; being a general survey of the basin of that river and its head streams, with the history of Nib- tic discovery." It is to be published by Mr. Madden, of Leaden- hall Street Messrs. Edward Moron and Co. have in the press "Memorials of Thomas Hood," collected, arranged, and edited by his daughter ; with a preface and notes by his son.
The second part of the fourth volume of the "Greek Testament, with a critically revised Text, Prolegomena, and English Notes," by the Very Reverend Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury, is announced as nearly ready by Messrs. Rivington. The new part will contain John to Reve- lations.
Mr. Fry of Bristol, is preparing an edition of Tyndal's New Testa- ment, printed at Worms, in 1526. It is to be an exact transcript of the original, now preserved at the Baptist Museum, Bristol, and believed to be the only perfect copy of this oldest of English Bibles.
Mr. Bentley has in the press a new work by Mrs. 'Villa, entitled "Chapters on Wives; or Sketches of Married Life ; " also a volume by Mr. R. H. Dunlop, of the Bengal Civil Service, descriptive of "Hunt- ing in the Himalayas,"
A work "On Taxation; how it is Raised, and how it is Expended," by Mr. Leone Levi, Professor of Commercial Law in hug's Co/legs, is in preparation by Messrs. J. W. Parker and Son. A new weekly periodical, "The London Review," under the editor- ship of Mr. Charles Mackay, is announced to appear towards the middle of next month. It is to be a combination of the political, literary, and "novelistic" newspaper.
A work on "The Influence of Climate in a Commercial, Social, Sani- tary, and Humanizing Point of View," by J. Disturnel, has been pub- lished by Mr. Scribner, New York. The book is accompanied by a map of the world showing the most important isothermal lines.
A "Life of General Samuel Houston the Texan Hero," by his son, and a disquisition on the "Relations of? the Ganglio-nervous System to the Immaterial Soul of Man," by Professor William Morris, have been published at Philadelphia. A French translation of Archbishop Sumner's "Evidences of Chris- tianity." has just been issued by M. Giraud, Paris under the title " Divuri ite du Chrtianisme, par Lord J. B. Sumner; Paris, par M. De Fresne, ancien Conseiller d'Etat." This is believed to be the first work of a Protestant bishop which has ever been published for the express use of Roman Catholic readers.
The thirteenth volume of Professor Michelet's " Histoire dc France," was published this week by M. Chamerot, Paris. The volume contains the continuation of the reign of Louis Quatorze.
From the pen of the prolific M. Capefigue has appeared a new work, "Diane de Poitiers, described as " L'Histoire de la Renaissance des Arts and des Lettres."
The ninth volume of the " Memoires et Correspondence Politique et Militaire du Prince Eugene," edited by M. A. Du Cease; and "La Chine Contemporaine,' by M. Ch. Lavollee, have been published by Michel Levy, freres, Paris. A curious little work by N. Alexandre Weill, entitled "Paris inhabit- able : cc que tout le monde pense et que personne ue dit," has been is- sued by Dentu, Paris. The same publisher has brought out a "Life of General de Lamoriciere, by the Viscount de Meaux.
The first three volumes of a larger work, with the ambitious title, "La Morale ljniverselle, ou L'Esprit de tons lea Peuples," by M. Morel, has been published by Messrs. Hachette and Co., Paris. It contains thoughts, maxims, and sentences of Oriental, Greek, and Roman writers; and is to be followed by extracts of the same kind from English, French, German, Spanish, &c., authors.
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