LITERARY NEWS.

Mr. Fordyce, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, known by his "History of the County Palatine of Durham,' has just commenced a "History of Coal, Coke, and Coalfields : Iron, its Ores and Process of Manufacture," which promises to be the best as well as latest statistical information on this important subject.

Hermann and Robert Schlagintweit, the two remaining of the cele- brated three exploring brothers, have recently arrived in this country to lay before the public a statement of the progress of their labours in India. One of their first acts was to distribute among their friends and the members of the scientific world a privately printed memoir of their lost brother Adolf. The complete result of their united labours is now in press at Leipzig, in eight volumes quarto, with eighty plates, the first volume of which is expected to be published towards the end of September.

M. B. Nicoladji, a captain of artillery in the Greek service, has just published, in French (Sartorius, Paris), a work in two volumes, entitled, "La Turquie Contemporaine." It gives most detailed in- formation, from the author's own observation, of the present state of the Ottoman Empire.

A reproduction of the " Biblia Pauperum," from the copy in the British Museum Library, is announced by Mr. J. Russell Smith. It will consist of forty engravings, printed in one volume, uniform with Mr. L. Leigh Sotheby's Principle Typographies."

Messrs. Blackwood announce, for the beginning of September, a "Handbook of Geological Terms and Geology," by David Page, F.G.S. —Also a new and enlarged edition of the same author's "Advanced Text-Book of Geology."

A "Narrative of Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan," by Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, is announced as forthcoming. From the author's position as private secretary to Lord Elgin, coupled with his old- established reputation as a writer of travels, something more than usually interesting is expected in the new work.

A "Life of General Garibaldi, the Roman Soldier, Sailor, Patriot, and Hero ; with Sketches of his Campaigns in Arms, translated from his private MSS. and published with his consent," is announced under the editorship of Mr. T. Dwight.

The "Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire," collected and annotated by Mr. C. Davison Ingledew, of Northallerton, who has devoted himself to the task for many years, are about to appear.

A history of the ill-fated expedition of Count de Raousset into Sonora, has appeared at Paris, under the title of "Le Comte de Raousset- Boulbon et l'Expedition de la Sonore." The author, M. de la Chapelle, was one of the participators in the strange undertaking he describes.

The first volume of the " Euvres choisies du philosophe Saint-Simon," has come out this week at Paris, published by the editors of the extinct "Philosophical and Religious Review." There has been as yet no complete collection of the works of St. Simon,—a strange fact, as this philosopher counts among his more or less avowed disciples a galaxy of distinguished persons, among others almost all the men constituting the present Government.

'Historians of the late Italian war threaten to be very numerous in France. Not leas than fifteen works on the war, some of them by writers already well known, are announced at present by different Paris publishers. In the list of authors stand M. Amedee de Cescna, former chief editor of the Patrie and of the Constitutionnel, M. J. Richard, one of the directors of the Pays, and M. Belmontel, the "Deputy-Poet," as he is called, of the Legislative Assembly. The work of the last named writer is announced to be partly in rhyme and partly in prose.

Francis Liszt, the famous pianoforte player and composer, has just published at Paris a little work entitled "Des Bohomiens et de leur Musique en Hongrie." The author, it will be remembered, is a Hungarian by birth and enthusiastically attached to his country.

An historical work of deep research, the "History of the House of Hohenzollern during the Middle Ages," is among the recent publications of the French press. The book, originally written in German, by Pro- fessor Schaefer, has been translated into French by desire of the Paris Historical Society.

The Emperor of Russia has accepted the dedication of a work by M. Politouzoff, entitled "The Rouman Hospodarats of Moldavia and Wallachia," and the Russian translation of another, "The History of Armenia," by M. Emine.

The first volume of a "History of English Literature, with particular notice (besonderer Beriieksithtigung) of the History of Politics and Morals in England," has just appeared at Leipzig. The author is Pro- fessor Gatschenberger.

Two other works of interest which have recently appeared in Germany are a "History of the Literature of the French Revolution," by Schmidt- Weissenfels ; and "Frederick the Great and Katharine the Second," a historical sketch, by K. von &Moser.