LITERARY NEWS.

It is rumoured that a new work from the pen of Lord Brougham is in course of preparation ; nothing less than a " History of the British Con- stitution."

Mr. Murray announces as forthcoming a short "Life of Ary Scheffer," by Mrs. Grote, the wife of the historian of " Greece."

Messrs. Longman have in the press " Memoirs of Sir HenryHave- lock," edited from the papers of the late General, by his brother-in-law, Mr. S. C. Marshman.

Messrs. Bell and Daldy announce as forthcoming a new volume by Mr. Ingledew, entitled "Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire."

Messrs. J. W. Parker are preparing a volume of " Sermons on the Gospel of St. Matthew," by the Reverend J. H. B. Mountain, D.D., Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.

Messrs. Hall and Virtue promise for next month a new work by the Reverend George Gilfillan, entitled "Alpha and Omega, or a Series of Scripture Studies."

The fourth and concluding series of Mrs. Jameson's " Sacred and Legendary Art," is announced as forthcoming by Messrs. Longman and Co., under the separate title of " The History of Our Lord and of his precursor, St. John the Baptist."

Mr. A. Black announces the republication, in a separate form, of the articles contributed by Lord Macaulay to the Encyclopcedia Britannica, together with a preface explaining the circumstances under which they were written.

Messrs. Chapman and Hall are preparing for immediate publication a volume of poems, mostly political, and bearing on the state of Italy, by Mrs. B. Browning, who is now residing at Florence.

Mr. W. Jeffs has in the press " Right of Nations; or, the New Law of European Policy applied to the Affairs of Italy," by Count Mamiani della Revere, Minister of Public Instruction in Sardinia.

Messrs. Blackwood and Co. promise a new novel by the author of "Adam Bede," entitled "The Mill on the Floss; " also a work on the colonization of North America, by Mr. Wingrove Cooke, late correspon- dent of the Times in China.

Messrs. Derby and Jackson, of New York, have published a volume of "Recollections and Private Memoirs of George Washington," edited by his adopted son, George Washington Parke Custis, and with the addi- tion of explanatory notes by B. J. Lossing.

The fourth and fifth volumes of the " History of the United States of America, as traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and his Con- temporaries," by John C. Hamilton, have been issued by Messrs. Apple- ton and Co. New York.

Another historical work, entitled " The History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia," by Charles Campbell, has been published by J. P. Lippincott and Co. Philadelphia.

"The Concord of Ages, or the Individual Organic Harmony of God and Man," by the Reverend Edward Beecher, D.D., author of "The Conflict of Ages," is among the latest publications in New York.

Michel Levy, freres, Paris, have published a new work by M. Charles Nisard, " Les Gladiateurs de la Republique des Lettres au X`Te., %VP., et %Vile., Siecles." It sketches the terrible quarrels of literary men of the period named in the title.

The first complete edition of the works of the celebrated Prince de Ligne has just been issued by Van Meenen and Co. Brussels, under the title "Oeuvres du Prince de Ligne, preadees d'une introduction par M. Albert Lacroix." The work is in four volumes.

A remarkable work, by M. Berger de Xivrey, member of the Insti- tute, entitled, "Tradition Franeaise d'une Confederation de l'Italie," has been issued from the press of the Imprimerie Imperiale, and pub- lished by Ledoyen, Paris.

A new volume of the " Histoire Naturelle Generale," by M. Geoffrey Saint Hilaire, and another volume (the fifteenth) of the " Histoire de France," by M. Henri Martin, are among the latest publications of the French press.

M. Leon Fenger° has published, through Didier and Co., Paris, a work, entitled, Femmes-Pates au Seizieme Siècle," which is to serve as complement to the author's former " Caracteres et Portraits du Seizieme Among recent publications by Dentu, Paris, are " La Question Hon- groise, 1848-1860," by B. de Szemere, former Minister of Hungary ; as also, " La Question des Paysans dans le Royaume de Pologne," by Count Severin ITruski.

The second and third volumes of a German " History of the Popes, compiled from the latest and best authenticated (bewkhrtesten) sources," by Professor C. Haas, have appeared at Tubingen.

The collected Letters of the late Giuseppi Giusti, the celebrated Tuscan poet, have just been published at Florence, under the editorship of Signor Frassi, and with the assistance of the Provisional Government of Tuscany.