LITERARY NEWS.

The leading Calcutta journal says it is well known in India that, for the last eighteen months, Colonel Herbert Edwardes has been engaged upon a biography of the late Sir Henry Lawrence.

The two concluding volumes of the "Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William the Fourth and Victoria," compiled from the papers of the late Duke of Buckingham by the present Duke, are announced as forthcoming by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett.

The same publishers have in the press "Narrative of a Residence at the Court of Meer All Moorad, with sporting adventures in the Valley of the Indus," in two volumes, by Captain Langley; "Six Months in Reunion; a Clergyman a Holiday," in two volumes, by the Reverend P. Beaton, M.A. - and "Domestic Memoirs of the Royal Family, and of the Court of England," in three volumes, by Mr. Folkestone Williams,

A. volume of "Travels and Adventures of Dr. Joseph Wolff" late Missionary in Bokhara, is promised by Messrs. Saunders, Otley, and Co. • A "Manual of Sanitary Science," edited by Dr. Letheby and Dr. Edwin Lancaster, and bearing chiefly on the condition of life in large towns and populous districts, is about to be published by Messrs. Adam and Charles Black.

Several new works of fiction are announced as immediately forthcom- ing; among them "The Baddington Peerage," by Mr. G. A. Sala; "Camp Life," by them, Laseelles Wraxall; "In and Out of London," by Mr. John Hollingshead ; and "El Fureidis, or the Happy Valley," by Miss Cummins, author of "The Lamplighter."

We are enabled to state with confidence that there is no ground for surmising that any change will take place in either the proprietorship or the 'editorship of the Westminster Review in consequence of Mr. John

Chapman's retirement from business. Mr. Mainwaring will simply pub- lish the review on behalf of the proprietor.

A biography of the late Washington Irving, by his literary executor, Pierre M. Irving, will be published "as soon as practicable," by Mr. Putnam, of New York.

Messrs. Goetzel and Co., New York, promise a volume entitled "The War in Nicaragua," written by General William Walker, the Filibuster eader.

The experiment of publishing a daily religious journal is to be tried in New York from the 1st of May next. The editors of the paper will be Mr. Alexander Cummings, of Philadelphia, and Mr. J. R. Spaulding, formerly manager of the Courier and Enquirer of New York.

From a list of the respective ages of the most noted literary person- ages of the United States, given in the Boston Transcript, it appears that the senior member,of the confraternity, Mr. Josiah Quincy, is eighty. eight, and the junior, Mr. Wm. C. Doane, twenty-eight years old. The age between fifty and sixty, which is that of Longfellow, Agassiz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Francis Lieber, Bancroft, Emerson, and others, seems to be the most numerously, as well as prominently, represented in this list.

A new contribution to the biography of Mirabeau, entitled "His- toire des Amours de Mirabeau et de la Marquise de Meanie; suivie d'un choir de Lettres de Mirabeau a Sophie," is preparing by Michel Levy, freres, Paris. The same publishers announce "Scenes de la Vie hive, by M. Daniel Hauben.

l'C Eugene Poujade, the well-known author of" Chretiens et Tures," is preparing for the press "La Greco et le Liban, Missionnaires et Di- plomates." The book is to be a semi-official elucidation of the now again much discussed "Oriental Question."

The first volume of an "Histoire populaire des Papes," by M. J. Chantrel, editor of the Monde (the former Univers), has been published by Dillet, Paris. The work, which is to extend to twenty-four volumes, is published at an extraordinarily low price, it being intended by the Mtramontane party for a large circulation among the French pea- santry.

Seder Perez Calvi, formerly editor of a Madrid paper, has just pub- lished a small octavo entitled "Life with the Spanish Army in the African Camp."

The concluding part of the second volume of the great German Dic- tionary (Deutsches Worterbuch) by the Brothers Grimm, has just ap- peared at Leipzig. This part completes the letter D, and has boon en- tirely the work of the late Wilhelm Grimm, to whose memory an affec- tionate tribute is paid in the preface, by his surviving brother, Jacob.

, The Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, has re- solved on the publication of the Correspondence of the celebrated Ger- man philosopher, Christian Wolf, with the Czar Peter I. of Russia. It is by special desire of the present Czar that this work is undertaken.