12 NOVEMBER 1859, Page 30

LITERARY NEWS.

Besides the long lists of forthcoming books enumerated in preceding numbers of the Spectator, there are still promises of more publications. Thus Mr. Bentley announce; in addition to his first list, a "History of Rome," by Theodor Mommsen ; " Lives of the Italian Poets," by Dr. Stebbing ; and " Historical Record of the Fifty-second Regiment " Ox- fordshire Light Infantry), by Captain W. S. Moorsom. Other pub ere also hold forth promises, but without as yet stating particulars.

Mr. William Bell, Ph.D., is preparing a work on " The Three Missing Years in the Life of Shakespeare," in which he will attempt to prove that the three years in the life of Shakespeare which have hitherto been a complete blank, those from 1686 to 1589, or from the period when he was forced to flee from his native town till his appearance as joint pro- prietor of the theatre at Blackfriars, were spent by hint in Germany. The probability of this has already been hinted at by Deorient, in his " Geschichte der deutschen Schauspielkunst."

A member of the University of Oxford has offered a prize of 501. for the best poem on " The -Life, tho Character, and the Death of the heroic Seaman, Sir John Franklin, with special reference to the Time, Place, and Discovery of his Death." Competitors, who must be members of the University, are to send in their contributions on or before June 1, 1860. The Judges are to be the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean of Christ Church, and a third person named by them.

" It is now positively known," says the Dublin Evening Packet, "that the writer of those humorous papers now publishing in the Dublin University Magazine, entitled "The Season Ticket," is the renowned Judge Haliburton, the Author of the Clockmaker. These articles possess all the peculiarities of his amusing style, and mingle a large amount of information with anecdotes,. which are provokingly witty.

A great sensation has been created this week at Paris by the appear- ance of a brochure by M. Louis Jourdan, entitled " La Guerre 1'Anglais." The author, one of the editors of the Siècle, was formerly in the foremost ranks of those who preached an alliance with England, and his sudden conversion therefore to opposite principles is generally wondered at. In his pamphlet he accuses Great Britain of following " une politique egoiste, ambitieuse at dominatrice, qui froisse rEurope, qui a pu accepter autrefois la tutelle des marchands par lesquels elle avait Ste soudoyee, mais qui la repousse aujourd'hui." England, he concludes, has only one real advantage over France and the rest of Europe, which is a free and unfettered press.

" La Democratie," by M. Etienne Vacherot, a book published this week by Chamerot and Co., Paris, was immediately seized by the police, and a prosecution has been instituted against the author. The work contains merely a philosophical disquisition on the state of political parties, and particularly the democratic.

Count Montalembert's pamphlet " Pie IX. et la France en 1849 et en 1859," which has also been seized at the Paris publisher's, is said to be circulating nevertheless in enormous numbers in France, being sold for fifty centimes or five pence, by A. Decq, Brussels, and publicly adver- tised in the Independance, the Nord, and other newspapers.

M. Saint-Rene Taillandier, one of the contributors to the Recite des Deux-Mondes, has just published a "Histoire et Philosophic religieuse," which gives an interesting account of the religious movement of Catholic populations towards Protestantism which is now going on in Germany and France. Two other books of the same kind have also recently been published by M. Larroque, entitled respectively, " Examen critique des Doctrines do In Religion Chretienne," two volumes, and "Renovation raligieuse," one volume octavo.. A book of considerable interest to social economists, entitled " Les Maclons de in Crease," has just left the press. It is from the pen of L. B. de Naleche, and exposes the consequences of the fact that more than 30,000 emigrants annually leave the Creuse and neighbouring de- partments to seek employment at Paris. The author believes that Paris is thus devouring the best source of the prosperity of France, its agriculture.

Several more historical books on the late Italian campaign have ap- peared at Paris. Messrs. Felix Mornand and M. Lahure are the joint authors of a work entitled "Le Journal de la Guerre d'Italie," which is to appear in parts ; M. Jules Michaud has issued his "Histoire popu- lake de la Campagne d'Italie," on which he has been engaged for some time ; and the proprietors Of D Illustration have put on sale a large illustrated volume, the size of their paper, in which the chief events of the war are represented in woodcuts with appropriate text. It is calculated that by this time there have appeared in France already more than two hundred different books on the late campaign in Italy.

M. Pierre Leroux, the well-known Red-republican, who has just re- turned to Paris in consequence of the amnesty, has published a pamphlet, by Dentu, entitled, " Qudques pages de Writes." It is said to be a very harmless work.

Rather more important is a little volume of poems, by Louis Veuillot, of the Univers, which has been distributed this week for private circu- lation among the friends of the author. In these pages the great champion of Rome is said to come forth even more violently in rhyme than he is wont to do in prose.

The first volume of a " Geschkhte der Papste " (History of the Popes) has been issued by Laupp, Tubingen. The author, Dr. Carl Haas, has opened some new sources of information for his work, which is to consist of about ten volumes.

Wiegandt and Co., Berlin, have published a "History of the Pro- testant Church in Hungary, from the beginning of the Reformation till 1850," by Merle d'Aubigne. It is in two volumes, and tolerably minute in its details.

An " Altdeutsches Lesebuch in neudeutscher Sprache " (Old Teutonic Reading-book in New-German language), by Karl Simrock, containing subjects connected with ancient Teutonic mythology, has been published by Cotta, Stuttgart. It is remarked that such works are becoming very popular in Germany.

The Austrian Government has interdicted the circulation of a new novel by Louise /Wahl/tech, entitled " ErSherzog Johann " (Archduke John), on account of some petsonages of the Austrian court figuring in the story, "which is forgetting the respect due to members of the Royal-Imperial family," as the decree says.