LITERARY NEWS.
Mr. Bentley announces some more forthcoming works in addition to his former list. Among them are "Researches and Discoveries in the Le- vant," by C. J. Newton ; "Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury," by • Dr. Hook ; "Pagan or Christian," by W. J. Cockburn Muir, arid "How we spent the Autumn of 1859," by the author of "The Timely Retreat."
Messrs. Thomas Constable and Co. promise "Twelve Years in China," by a "British Resident." The work is to be in one volume, with very numerous Chromo-lithographic and other illustrations, from drawings by the author.
Messrs. Bradbury have in the press "The Career, Last Voyage, and Fate of Sir John Franklin," by Captain Sherard Osborn ; and "Se- lections from the Plays of Shakspeare," by Mr. Charles Kean.
Messrs. Hurst and Blackett announce as forthcoming "The Man of the People," by William Howitt; "The Wood Rangers," by Captain Mayne Reid; and new works of fiction by the Honourable Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mrs. Grey, and Mr. Hannay.
Messrs. Griffin have in the press a "Manual of Moral and Meta- physical Philosophy," by the Reverend F. D. Maurice ; an "Eccle- siastical Cyclopedia, or Church Lexicon," by John Eadie, D.D. ; and a "Lexicon of Freemasonry," by Albert G. Mackey.
A new work is on its way to us from the hand of Professor Owen, entitled "Paleontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations." The publishers are Messrs. A. and C. Black.
Messrs. Pierse and Nash announce a "Genealogical and Historical Account of the Family of Be Lacy," by Mr. Deltury Pierse. The work is said to be based on extensive original researches.
"The Conduct of Life," a new work by R. W. Emerson ; "Ten Years," a volume of poems by Mies M.ulocia ; and a new romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, are announced by Messrs. Ticknor and Co. of Boston.
The Asiatic Society of Bengal have resolved to issue a new series of the " Bibliotheca Indica." It is to begin with the " Surya Sidcllianta," the great Sanscrit work on astronomy, translated by the learned Bapu Deva, of Benares, and the " Surya Siromani," a shorter scientific tree- tiae, both edited by the Reverend Archdeacon Pratt, of Calcutta.
There is a rumour in Paris of a second pamphlet from the same pen that wrote "La Pape et le Congres "being about to make its appearance. Meanwhile this celebrated brochure has passed its fifteenth edition, closely followed in its career by a host of publications on the same sub- ject. One of the last of the kind is " Conquete et Nationalite," a pam- phlet by M. Emile de Girardin.
Another authoritative work on the late Italian War is to appear in Paris in the course of the month, under the title, " Album de la Guerre d'Italie." The semi-official Pays informs its readers that the book has been written, "sous le haute direction de l'Empereur des Francais."
The first three volumes have appeared of a " Conciliengeschichte " {History of Councils), by Dr. C. I. Hefele, professor of theology at the university of Tiibingen.
Messrs. Cotta and Co., Stuttgardt, have just published a new render- ing, by Dr. Karl Simrock, of the famous epic "Der Wartburgkrieg" he War of the Wartburg), one of the most ancient monuments of the Teuton tongue.
Engelmann, of Leipzig, has published "An Account of Pompeii, its Buildings, Antiquities, and Works of Art," by Dr. I. Overbeck. The work is the result of some recent studies of the celebrated German anti- quarian.
Herder's " Cid" has found a Scandinavian translator in the person of Prince Oscar of Sweden.
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