LITERARY NEWS.

Messrs. Routledge and Co. announce " A Diary in India," by Mr. W. H. Russell, the well-known correspondent of the Times. It will form two volumes post octavo.

Mr. Murray, besides other books mentioned in our last, is preparing "The Glaciers of the Alps," by John Tyndale ; and " The Story of New Zealand, Past and Present, Savage and Civilized," by Dr. Arthur S. Thomson.

A new edition of Walter Savage Landor's " Hellenics," is announced by Mr. Nichol. The volume is to contain several new poems, and many old ones which have been entirely rewritten.

George Herbert's Poems and Remains, with Coleridge's Notes, edited by Mr. James Yeowell, sub-editor of Holes and Queries, are promised by Messrs. Bell and Daldy.

A volume of "Forays" from Household Words, by Mr. IV. H. Wills, is announced by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. The book will have a typographical peculiarity in the indentation of many of its chapters and passages—parts so distinguished as proceeding from the pen of Mr. Charles Dickens. Mr. Dickens's name, however, will not appear on the title-page.

The new edition of the Works of Alexander Pope, so long announced as being in the hands of the late Mr. Croker and Mr. Peter Cunningham, is now filially announced as forthcoming within a short time, under the editorship of Mr. W. Thom.

Mr. Henry Bohn has in the press " Reliques of Father Prout," a new edition of a choice old book, which, as the Bookseller expresses it, has been augmented and revised by the Reverend Father while doing penance in the French capital.

The Camden Society is about publishing several new volumes ; among others a "Narrative of the Days of the Reformation," consisting chiefly of papers from the MSS. of John Foxe, the martyrologist; fal'ited by Mr. John Gough Nicholls; and a new " Lik3 °ll'21,1"ii Poxe," combined with the literary history of the Book 9r,Lityrs, by the same gentleman. Messrs. Didier_ng..P6z,- rarie, have just published an elaborate work by M. Barthia.-

-re-zemy St. Hilaire, entitled "Le Bouddha et sa Religion."

-the 17.hor traces the history of Buddhism during three stages ; its origin, in the sixth century before Christ; its declining state, in the seventh century of our era, as described in the Memoirs of the Chinese traveller Hiouen-Thsang ; and its present state, chiefly on the Island of Ceylon, as observed by M. Stanislas Julien and other competent witnesses.

A volume of "Lcttres sur le Caucase et la Crimee," by M. F. de Gille, a French gentleman in the service of Czar Alexander II., has appeared at Paris. The work is said to be the product of travels extending over several years.

"La Chine devant l'Europe," is by the Marquis d'Hervey Saint- Denys, a little work published this week, gives a brief description, ac- companied by maps and plans, of the successive attempts of the Western Powers to open the Celestial Empire.

" Hommes du jour" a book just published by Michel Levy, is creating a certain sensation at Paris, on account of its freedom of style. It con- tains biographies of living men, among others of Kaiser Francis Joseph, the Duke of Modena, M. de Bourqueney, Marshal M'Mahon, and Lord Palmerston. The author, not named on the title page, is said to be one of the chief writers in the Revue des deux Hondas.

Under the somewhat curious title of "L'Italie est-elle la Terre des 'torts ? " M. Marc-Monnier has published, through Hachette and Co., an elaborate defence of contemporary Italy. The name of the book is in allusion to a celebrated phrase by Lamartine, who in his " Medita- tions," calls the peninsula " La Terre des Morts."

The first volume of the long-expected official description of the Italian campaign, by the Baron de Bazancourt, " historiographer of the Em- peror Napoleon III.," and author of the " Histoire de rExpedition de Crimee," appeared in Paris on Monday. It is entitled " La Campagne d'Italie: Chroniques de in Guerre."

An interesting contribution to contemporary history, which has just appeared from the pen of M. Saint-Marc Girardin, is " Souvenirs et Merlons politiques d'un Journaliste " ; and another is promised by M. Jullien, of promenade concerts memory, now residing at Paris, under the title " Ma Vie en Angleterre." Among new books published at Paris there is one on Dante, crowned by the Academy of Arras, called " Dante et le Moyen-age," by M. A. Magnier ; and a work entitled " Masques et Bouffons," by M. Maurice Sand, son of George Sand. Messrs. Cotta and Co. Stuttgart, have published a " History of Cor- sica," in two volumes, by Ferdinand Gregorovius, which is said to be the best yet written. They have likewise issued a "History of Maria Theresa, Emperor of Austria," by Dr. Carl Ramshorn.

An elaborate—and apparently semi-official—defence of the politico- religious union of Kaiser and Pope, has been published at Leipsic by an anonymous writer, who styles himself " An Austrian Clergyman." The title is "The Church in Austria under the reign of the Concordat."