LITERARY NEWS.

George Eliot's new novel, "The Mill on the Floss," will be published on the 5th of April.

Mr. Bentley announces his intention to print a superb edition of the "Letters of Horace Walpole," with upwards of fifty choice portraits, in rrine volumes imperial. The number of copies to be strictly confined to one hundred, price 10/. 10s.

Dr. Musprates great work, the "Dictionary of Chemistry," is nearly completed. It has brought a fortune to its publisher, fame and honour to its editor but we regret to learn from a contemporary, that this is all the reward which Dr. Muspratt receives for his seven years of intense labour and research. We cannot believe that the thousands who have benefited by Dr. Muspratt's labours will acquiesce in this unequal par- tition of their fruits ; something they will surely do towards rectifying so gross an iniquity.

A volume of" Contemporary Biography; a Handbook of the Aristo- cracy of Rank, Worth, and Intellect,' is announced as forthcoming by Messrs. Griffin and Co.

The same publishers have in preparation "Professor Faraday's Lec- tures on the Physical Forces ; delivered to a juvenile auditory at the Royal Institution," reported and edited by Mr. W. Crookes.

A "History of the Church of England, from the Accession of James II. to the Rise of the Bangorian Controversy in 1717," by the Rev. Thomas Debary; and a "Treatise on Metaphysics chiefly in connexion with Revealed Religion," by the Rev. John H. Manmahon, are in course of preparation by Messrs. Bell and Daldy.

Messrs. James Nisbett and Co., have in the press "The Book of Psalms ; with an exposition," by Dr. W. Wilson; "Letters from Han- nah More to Zachary Macaulay," edited by the Rev. Arthur Roberts ; " Descriptive and other Poems, by Charles Baily, Esq.; and "Romance of Natural History," by P.M. Gone," Esq.

Messrs. Hurst and Blackett will publish immediately "The English- woman in Italy: Impressions of Life in the Roman States and Sardinia, during a Ten Years' Residence," by Mrs. G. Gretton ; and a new novel called "Stratton of Ringwood Chase," in three volumes.

Miss Strickland is said to be preparing a new volume of Royal Biogra- phies entitled "Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England,"—namely, William Rufus, Edward V., and Edward VI.

A work, intended, it is stated, to "give a faithful portraiture of the American character," is announced at New York, under the title, "A Winter in the Federal City ; or the American Night's Entertainment, compiled from pencillings of a United States' Senator," by Talbot Greene, Esq., of Ionesborough, Tenn.

A series of Handbook3 for Travellers after the manner of Murray's celebrated volumes, is announced as forthcoming by Mr. Charles Norton, of New York, under the editorship of Mr. J. H. Siddons. The intro- ductory volume will be "Norton's Guide to Europe ; or How to Travel in the Old World."

Messrs. Sheldon and Co., New York, are about to publish "Letters from Switzerland," by Dr. Tremens Prime, author of "Europe and the East ; " and "Aboriginal America," being the first volume of a series of "American Histories," by Jacob Abbott.

Messrs. Phinney and Co., New York, have in the press, "Popular As- tronomy," and "Astronomy of the Bible," by Professor Mitchell, of the Cincinnati Observatory.

Messrs. Ticknor and Co., Boston, U.S. have just published "Notes of Travel and Study in Italy," by Charles Eliot Norton; and "The Marble Faun ; or The Romance of Monte Beni," by Nathaniel Haw- thorne.

A new " Histoire de la Famine Bonaparte, depuis son origine jusqu'en 1860," by Messrs. D. L. Ambrossini and Adolphe Huard, has been issued by Lebigre-Duguesne, Paris. It is said to be based on new genealogical researches.

The first edition of the new volume of M. Thiers' " Histoire du Con- sulat et de PEmpire," which appeared on the 22d instant, was sold off in the course of the week. The reason for this unexpected demand is believed to be the protest, incorporated in the work, of Mr. Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, against the second marriage of the ex-king of Westphalia.

An" Histoire illustr5e des Vines d'Italie," written by a body of dis- tinguished French and Italian writers, is in course of publication by M. Dutertre, Paris. The first volume, which has just appeared, gives the History of Naples.

Report speaks favourably of two works of travel published by Didier, Paris; they are "Recite et Types Americains," by M. F. R. Dabadie ; and "Itineraire en Kspagne et en Portugal," by M. Germond de is Vigne.

Messrs. Brockhans, Leipzig, have published "The Life of Prince Fre- derick Josias of Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony, and Field-Marshal of the Kaiser and the Holy Roman Empire," in three volumes by A. von Witzleben.

A philosophical work, "The Life, Doctrines, and Political Teachings of Polybiva, of Greece, in Connexion with the Political Theories of Plato, Aristotle Cicero, and Tacitus," by Professor A. Pichler, has ap- peared at Berlin.

The Vienna correspondent of the Independence Beige reports as forth- coming the autobiographical Memoirs of Count Giulay, late Commander- in-chief of the Austrian army in Lombardy, and states that they will make sundry disclosures respecting the constitution and conduct of the Imperial Armee-Ober-Commando during the late Italian campaign.

At Milan, Robecehi has published some Italian additions to About's "La Question Romaine," under the collective title of" II Papa Re—Gilt il Re," "The Pope King—Down with the King."

At Lugano' Fioratti has brought out a pamphlet, called "Ai Giovani d'Italia—Parole di Giuseppe Mazzini," "To the Youth of Italy—the Words of Joseph Mazzini " ; and the editors of the _Diritto have pub- lished one entitled "All' Italia ; Pensieri d'un Militare," "To Italy; the Thoughts of a Soldier."

Terra, of Turin, has published a volume : " L'Arte di Feral Amare." "The Art of Making Oneself Beloved."

Jacopo Bernardi has written a book, which has recently appeared at Turin, on the subject, "Di Eugenio Benda e de 'suoi Bcritti riguarao Phalle," "Of Eugene Rendu and his Writings on Italy."

A tragedy, by Giulio Careen° called " Ardoino, re D'Italia, " Ardoui- nus, King of Italy," is announced as ready for publication.