LITERARY NEWS.

Additions to the long lists of books for the next season still continue to come forward. Thus "The Archmology of Berkshire," by Lord Car- narvon, is announced by Mr. Murray; The Whisky Demon ; or, the Dream of the Reveller," by Charles Mackay, "with numerous suggestive designs," is to be published by Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall; and "Count Cavour, his Life and Career," and the second series of "The Peerage of Poverty," by the Reverend E. Paxton Hood, are promised by Messrs. Judd and Glass.

Messrs. Smith and Elder's long-promised shilling monthly, under the editorship of Mr. W. M. Thackeray, is announced for the 1st of January next, under the title of "The Comhill Magazine."

Mr. G. Grub, an advocate at Aberdeen, has issued a prospectus of a new "History of the Church of Scotland," in four thick octavo volumes.

One of the best of American monthlies, the Atlantic Magazine, has been bought by Messrs. Ticknor and Co., from the stock of its late pub- lishers, for 10,000 dollars. The periodical is to remain unchanged, and all the old contributors, among others Emerson, are to remain on the staff.

A new serial, "Lea Grandes ITsines de la Franca: Tableau de l'In- dustrie Franeaise an XLX. Siècle," is announced by Bourdilliat and Co., Paris. It is to contain descriptions of all the great industrial esta- blishments of France, their origin, and past and present state. The work is to be edited by M. Turgan, and to appear in fortnightly parts, twenty to form a volume.

A book by M. J. Salvador, "Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, on La Question religieuse an 19eme Siècle," has appeared this week, and is the subject of long articles in almost the whole of the French press. The plan of the work is given in its motto, from Bossuet, "And as Religion and the Political Government of a nation are the two points around which all human affairs turn, therefore to discover their order and system is to understand all that is great amongst men, and to hold, so to speak, the string of the movements of the world."

From the pen of Georges Sand has appeared a new work, entitled " Legendes rustiques," containing a sketch of the popular superstitions of the peasantry of France. The book is embellished with numerous illustrations drawn by M. Maurice Sand, son of the author.

The French police have confiscated the whole edition of Emile de Girardin's new pamphlet, "Napoleon III. et l'Europe." A few copies only escaped, and are now circulating clandestinely in Paris.

A book called "L'Europe devant la Chine," by Charles Gay, giving a detailed account of the present Chinese conflict, has been published by Plon Paris. Also, the first volume of a " Histoire de l'Architecture dial:rale," by M. J. de Filippi, with designs by M. C. Constant, former machinist of the Grand Opera of Paris.

Works on religions subjects seem to become more general than for- merly in France. Thus Messrs. Charpentier and Co. publish a " His- toire de la Liberte religieuse," by M. J. M. Dargaud, in four volumes, the first two of which have just appeared; M. L. Vives announces "Etudes sur la Philosophic, et son identite de principe avec le Ca- tholicisme " by the Abbe J. Bonnetat; and Messrs. Michel Levy, freres, are printing a new edition of the celebrated work "Le Protestantisme en France," by Samuel Vincent, published for the first time in 1829.

A new and complete edition of Schiller's Works, translated by M. Adolphe Regnier, member of the Institut, is announced by Hachette and Co., Paris. It is to be in ten volumes octavo.

M. Victor Cousin's new work, "Madame de Longueville pendant la Fronde, de 1651 a 1653," has appeared this week. It completes the series of eight books of "Studies on the Illustrious Women of the Seven- teenth Century," by the same author.

The Augsburg Gazette will have it that the Brussels paper Le Nord, founded with Russian money, but lately the organ of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has become the property of Count Cavour, or rather of a party counting that famous statesman as its chief.

A curious book, entitled, "Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the Sphinx on the French Throne," has been published by Meisner, Hamburg. It con- tains a not very flattering biography of the Emperor, and some so-called " revelations" of his plans.

The first volume of a "Life and Times of Prince Metternich," by Herr Schmidt-Weissenfels, has been published by Kober, at Prague. It purports to be compiled chiefly from private documents.

During the late War in the Crimea, the sale of our London Punch was interdicted throughout the Prussian. States. On the petition of several "highly respectable citizens of the town of Berlin," this prohibition has now been repealed by Count Schwerin, the Minister of the Interior, under date of October 31.

A proposal for the establishment of an Asylum for the fatherless chil- dren of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, has emanated from Mr. S. C. Hall, who has issued circulars with a view to ascertain how far he may hope for assistance in promoting his project.