LITERARY NEWS.

The collected works and a memoir of the late Dr. George Wilson, pro- fessor of technology at the University, of Edinburgh, are preparing for publication by Messrs. Constable and Co.

A "Life of Amalie Sieveking," translated with the author's sanction by Miss Catherine Winkworth, is announced as forthcoming by Messrs. Longman and Co.

Messrs. Chapman and Hall announce for January, 15 a volume of "Old Leaves gathered front Household Words." The book is understood to be the joint production of Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. W. H. Wills.

Mr. Leigh Sotheby has in preparation "Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton."

Messrs. Bell and Daldy have in the press an antiquarian work, by the Reverend J. Ridgway, entitled "The Gem of Thorne). Island, or the Historical Associations of Westminster Abbey."

"The Queens of Soeiety," a series of memoirs of the most celebrated women of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, is in preparation by Messrs. James Hogg and Sons ; also by the same pub- lishers, three volumes of "Twickenham Tales," edited by "A Society of Novelists."

Messrs. Marlborough and Co. have in the press "Reminiscences of -a Two Years' Residence in the Island of Sardinia," by Mary Davey; and Messrs. Saunders and Otiey announce a "dramatic novel" by II. Noel Humphreys, entitled " Goethe in Strasburg."

Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. announce as forthcoming the fifth and concluding volume of Mr. Ruskin's "Modern Painters;" the last vo- lume of Mr. Muir's "Life of Mehemet ;" and a "Life of Edmund Ma- lone," by Sir James Prior, author of the biographies of Burke and Gold- smith.

A new "History and Topography of Cumberland and Westmoreland,' edited by Miss Harriet Martineau, the Reverend J. G. Cumming, and Thomas 'Wright, Esq., is preparing for publication by Messrs. Whellan and Co., Pontrefaet.

Mr. Robert Hardwicke will publish about the middle of January a "Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of the Three Kingdoms," by Edward Walford, Esq., author of many simitar works, and sub-editor of Once a Week.

The Songs of Thomas Hood have just been produced in a German dress, by C. Bumpier, Hanover. The translator is M. Herman Harrys. Another translation from the English, that of Prescott's "History of the Reign of Philip II.," has been published by 'Messrs. Firmin Didot, freres, Paris.

Not participating in the common error which confounds the whole public opinion of Manchester with the views of what is called "the Manchester School," we anticipate, with much satisfaction, the fuller utterances of the voice of that great industrial centre, which will reach us on and after the 7th of January next through its new organ 7'he Manchester .Reriew.

More than ten editions, of 5000 copies each, of the pamphlet "La Pape et le Congres," are said to have been sold in Paris since Friday List. The fortunate publishers are Messrs. Dentu, and Firmin Didot, freres.

lathe train of this famous publication are following already a number of books and brochures on the same subject. M. Charles de Varenne has published, through Hachette and Co., a volume entitled "L'Italie Con- trale," containing some unpublished official documents regarding the States of the Church ; the Viscount de Melon, a zealous Ultramontane, has come forward with a pamphlet in favour of the Pope entitled "La Question Romaine ; " Signor Giorgini, of Florence, has published, in French, a little work called "Considerations sur le Pouvoir Temporel des Papes; " and M. Berardi, an Italian patriot living at Paris, is preparing "Rome et sea Provinces," a book unfavourable to the temporal power of the Popes.

The collected works of Hippolyte Rigault, the late editor of the Journal des Debate who died suddenly last year, have just been published in four volumes by Hackett and Co. The work is preceded by a biographical and literary notice by M. Saint-Mare Girardin.

The long felt want of a good History of Paris is about to be supplied by M. Edouard Fournier, the learned chroniqueur" of La Patric. His " Histoiro de Paris" is now announced as forthcoming by Didot and Co.

Chinese guide-books and grammars continue to appear in considerable numbers in France. The last few weeks have brought forth a " Gram- maire Mandarin° " by M. A. Bazin, professor of Chinese at the Paris School of Oriental languages ; a "Manuel Pratique de is League Chi- noise," by M. L. Rocket; and a new edition of the " Dictionnaire Chi- nois, Francais et Latin," compiled by M. De Guignes, by order of the Emperor Napoleon I.

The news of the death of Wilhelm Grimm, and the announcement of the third volume of the great Dictionary edited by him and his brother, Jacob Grimm, appear simultaneously in the German papers. Wilhelm, born February 24, 1786, at Henan, was the younger brother of Jacob. A correspondent of the Critic states that the compilation of their great work "is already quite completed, and the whole of the MS. is in the hands of the publisher."

The first volume of "Die Gotterwelt der Deutschen wad Nordischen Velker" (the Gods of the German and Northern Nations), an interest- ing work, by Professor Wm. hiannhardt, has been issued by Schindler,' Berlin.

A new edition of the " Geschichte der Griechi.schen Plastik" (History of the Plastic Arts among the Greeks), by'J. Overbeck, has appeared in Leipzig. It is in two volumes, most magniAcently illustrated.

Robert Prutz, the well-known critic' has published, through Voight, Berlin, a work in two volumes' entitled "The German Literature of the Present Time." It comprises the period from 1848 to 1858.

The first volume of a "History of Germany, from the Congress of Paris 1866, to the Peace of Villafranca, 1859," by Dr. Karl Jiirgens, has been published by Schweighauser, Basel.

Swedish papers announce the publication of a novel translated front the English by their young Queen Louise. Its title is " Vingiardsarba tare" (Labourers in the Vineyard), and it is stated to be after the Eng. lish of Miss Jane Anne Windsume. (?)