LITERARY NEWS.
We are authorized to state that Mr. Tennyson's new poem "Idylls of the Kung" is in the printer's hands, and will shortly be published. by Masers. E. Moxon and Co.
geveral not unimportant changes have taken place within the last few days among the leading organs of the Paris press. The Pays has ceased to be a semi-official paper, and passed into the hands of M. Grapier de Casag- nee, eurnamed by his friends-, " plume de guerre." The Courrier de Paris has severed. its oh/ connexion with the magnates of the Credit Mobilier, zed Has been purchased by itsrinter, M. Dubuisson, who, it is: said, will make it " belong to no party.' M. Grapier de Cassagnac's forper paper, Le Revell, is to be merged in another weekly, Ls& Salons de Pkrris
L'.etudienee, a gossiping paper under the direction of M. &nista, announces that it will enlarge its pages, and become a daily as well lira a political journal.
A letter by the celebrated Pere Lacordaire, on the Question of Italy, is making some sensation at present in Paris circles. The reno ed preacher quite unexpectedly declares himself in favour of French intervention, and against the policy of the Univers ; and as he is the acknowledged represen- tative of a rather numerous portion of the Galilean clergy,. his letter printed and liberally distributed—is regarded as a kind of ',political mani- festo.
Two works written in choice French by Russian authors 'have just ap- peared in Paris ; one is a comedy in three acts entitled " Un. trait d'amitie," by Count &Rehab, first chamberlain of the Czar Alexander ; the other is "The Confession of a Poet," an autobiographical novel by Nicolas Semenow. All educated Russians speak French. It is the court language of St. Petersburgh, and there is nothing new or strange in its use by Russians as a literary medium. But it is decidedly a novel thing for a Frenchman to write a book in English, and then to translate it into his native tongue. M Louis Blanc has done this. The " Historical Bevels-- dons," which he wrote in English, and which were published a year age,. by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, have now been clothed in a French dress ; and the book is particularly recommended to the public by the Paris pub- lisher for the reason that "la traduetion est faite par ranteur lui-meme. '
M. Emile de Girardin has just published a pamphlet entitled : "The Free Vote. A Letter to the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor of the Exchequer." The first volume of a " Political and Literary History of the Preso is France," by M. Eugene Haten, has appeared this week in Paris. The com- plete work will consist of four volumes of about five hundred pages each M. Alexandre Henne, Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts of Brussels, has just issued a " History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth in Belgium." It is partly drawn from manuscript sources, and gives a good deal of new and most minute information about the political and social state, the muni- cipal organization, the church government, &c., of the Flemish races when under the dominion of Spain.
In a work just published in Paris, Des Ceriales en Italie sons ids Remains," M. Joseph Michon investigates the state of Italian agriculture under the Caesars, and arrives at the conclusion that Lombardy was always,. as it still is, the granary of Italy.
The great success of Madame d'Harcourt's recent book on the life of the Duchess of Orleans has prompted Herr von Schubert of Munich, formerly private tutor of the Princess, to publish her correspondence with him, ex- tending over more than twenty years. The work will appear simultaneously in French and German.
M. Alphonse Esquiros, thejeccentric author and traveller, has published, this week, his adventures in Holland, under the title "The Netherlands and Netherlandish Life." The book, if pleasing to Frenchmen, is certain not to please the Dutch. Possibly they may regard with a little less disfavour another work published almost simultaneously with that of M. Esquires, namely, the "Souvenirs de Voyage en Hollande," of M. Maxima du Camp.
A life of the illustrious exile, Daniel Manin, exdietator of Venice, from the pen of M. Henri Martin, the well-known author, has just beenpublished by Furne and Co., Paris.
Id. Edmond About's long expected work2 La Question Romaine, appeared on Monday, in Brussels. The sensation it makes may be measured by the fact that the first edition was sold in less than ten hours.
" Les Tombeaux des Popes Romaine," a new work from the pen of the distinguished savant, M. Ampere, has just been issued by Michel Levy. It bears an ominous title, though the book, has of course, nothing to do with present political events.
A very useful work by M. G. Vapereau, the editor of the Dietionnaire Universal des Contemporains has this week appeared in Paris. It is called, " L'Annee Litteraire et Dnimatique," and gives an account of all the publications issued from the French press during the last twelve month&
M. Anatole de Barthelemy, an historical writer of some note, has, pub- lished a small volume, intitled " The Aristocracy of the 10th Century.' It
It is a rather remarkable work, as advocating principles seldom heard in France. The writer ascribes the turbulent state of his country during the last sixty years to the absence of a law of primogeniture, which he wishes to introduce in its mildest form, viz., that of majorats, to last for two or three generations.
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