18 AUGUST 1860, Page 20

LITERARY NEWS.

Anew work by.Mr. Beresford Hope, entitled "The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century," is preparing for publication by Mr. Murray.

The same publisher announces "A Treatise on General Jurispru- dence," by the late Mr. John Austin ; and "Ancient Law : its con- nexion with the Early History of Society, and its relation to Modern Ideas," by Henry Sumner Maine.

Messrs. Longman and Co. announce a " Manual of Chemistry, De- scriptive and Theoretical," by William Odling, F.R.S. ; and a , Glos- sary of Mineralogy, embracing the physical characters and chemical com- position of the various minerals, and a popular account of their history and application," by H. W. Bristow, F.G.S.

A "Life of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism," compiled from documents left by Fox, and from other authentic sources ; "An Au- tumn.Tour in Spain ; " "Summer Songs," by Mr. Mortimer Collins, dedicated, by permission' to Lord Mount-Edgeumbe, are announced s forthcoming by Messrs. Saunders, Qtley, and Co.

Mr. Charles Darwin's investigations into the Origin of Species are about to he replied to by Dr. C. R. Bree, F.L.S., in a work entitled "Species not Transmutable," to be published in the course of the month by Messrs. Groombridge and Sons.

An "Anecdote Biograp!T of English Worthies, including Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 8re.,' y John Timbs, is promised by Mr. Bentley; and "Shakespeare and his Birthplace," by John R. Wise, is preparing for publication by Messrs. Smith, Rider, and Co.

"Why the Shoe pinches : a Contribution to Applied Anatomy," by

Dr. Hermann Meyer, translated from the Gerraan by John SSrling Craig, is announced as forthcoming by Meissrs. Effinonston and Douglas, Edin- burgh.

The seventh volume of " Memoire of the American Academy," just published at Now York, is devoted to a "Glossary of Later and By- zantine Greek," containing about 15,000 words, with explanations and authorities, by Professor E. A. Sophocles, of Harvard University.

Messrs. Appleton and Co., New York, have brought out "Reminis- cences of a General Officer of Zouaves," by Qeneral Cler, "A Run through Europe," by Emstus C. Benedict, and a "Life of William T. Porter," late editor of Porter's Spirit of the Times.

The first volume of an " Histoire Politique des Papes," by M. P. Lanfrey, has been published by Messrs. Hingray and Co., Paris.

M. Dentu, Paris, has brought out "Les Tures et la Civilisation," by Alexandre Bunneau, editor of the Opinion .21Tationak, an old traveller in, and writer on the Orient.

Another work on Turkey, from the pen of M. de Tchitchatchelf, a Rus- sian savant, has been published by Messrs. Gide and Baudry, Paris. under the title " L'Asie Mineure et see Peuples."

" Lettres Satiriques et Critiques : avec un defi au Lecteur," by M. Hippolyte Babou and "Los Paradis Artificiels : Opium et Ilaschiseh," by Charles Baudelaire, have been published by Messrs. Poulet-Malassis and Co., Paris.

The Emperor of the French has nominated a commission for editing and publishing the works of Bartolomeo Borghesi, the learned Italian numismatist and epigraphist. The members of the commission are M. Leon Ranier, M. Ernst Desjardins, and Chevalier Battista de Rossi, of Rome.

Messrs. Cotta, Stuttgart, have just brought out the "Diary of Count von Platen, from 1796 till 1825 ; ' and "Die Napoleoniden, em n genealo- gisch-historisches Gemalde " (The Napoleon family, a genealogic-histori- cal Picture), by Dr. F. 'Nagel.

The posthumous works, in seven volumes, of the learned J. J. Wagner, edited by Dr. P. L. Adam ; and a new novel by the well-known F. W. Hacklander, entitled "Der Tannhauser," have been published by Messrs. Brockhaus and Co., Leipzig.

A new "Life of Baron von Stein," by Wilhelm Baur ; and the third volume of Dr. Heinrich von Sybel's " Geschichte der Revolutions-zeit" (History of the Revolutionary Period), have been brought out by M. Buddeus, Dusseldorf.

The first volume of a " Geschichte der Juden in Polen, seit der Ein- wanderung in dieses Land bis zum Jahre 1848" (History of the Jews in Poland, from their immigration into this country [about A.D. 850] till the year 1848), by A. von Hernberg, has appeared at Berlin.

Three volumes of a Collection of Treaties and Conventions, concluded between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and various foreign Powers," have appeared at the Hague. The work which is to extend to at least ten volumes, is edited by E. G. Lagemans, under the supervision of the Minister of Home Affairs.