LITERARY NEWS.

Messrs. Longman and Co. are about to complete their editions of Lord Macaulay's Miscellaneous Works, by the republication of his Essays con- tributed to Knight's QuarterlyMagazine ; of Essays in the Edinburgh Re- view, which have not yet appeared in a collected form; of his biographies of Atterbiuy, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Pitt, contributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica ; of various pieces of poetry in Knight's Quar- terly Magazine, and of others existing only in manuscript.

The same publishers intimate that "some portion of an intended fifth volume" of Lord Macaulay's History of England' "has been left in manuscript; but circumstances will prevent an early publication."

The Journal of the great African traveller, Captain Burton, will be published this spring by Messrs. Longman and Co., under the title of "The Lake Regions of Central Africa." From the same house will also be issued new books of travels, by the Abbe Domenech, Mr. John Ball, the President of the Alpine Club, Mr. R. C. Wild, Author of "The Pyre- nees West and East," and Professor Hind, of Toronto, who had charge of the second expedition despatched by the Canadian Government to explore the southern portion of Rupert's Land, -with view to the formation of a new- colonial settlement.

The Alpine Club will meet on Tuesday next, for the special purpose of receiving practical suggestions for the exploration of little-known moun- tain districts, and for the inquiries which might most advantageously be pursued in the better-known and more frequented districts.

The second volume of Mr. Buckle's "History of Civilization in Eng- land ; " and the fifth and sixth of Mr. Froude's "History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death Of Elizabeth," will speedily be pub- , lished by Messrs. J. W. Parker and Son.

Messrs. Triibner and Co. announce as forthcoming "Results of a Sci- entific Mission to India and Upper Asia undertaken by order of the

Court of Directors of the Honourable East Company, between 1854

and 1858," by Herman and Robert Sehlagintweit. The work is to be in nine quarto volumes. The first requisite towards any real improvement is a sound and com- prehensive knowledge of the thing to be amended. Social reformers will therefore welcome the announcement that Mr. Phillips Day, author of "Juvenile Crime, its Causes, Character, and Cure," is preparing for publication another statistical volume, on "Woman and Civilization," having especial reference to the "Great Social Evil." The author pur- poses to make it the most perfect and comprehensive statistical work yet published in this country on this important topic.

Mesara. J. H. and J. Parker have nearly ready the second volume, with a supplement, of Mr. Hewitt's work on "Ancient Armour ; and the first volume of the Reverend H. Newland's " Catena on the Epistles of St. Paul."

At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, is preparing a translation of the Sy- riac version of John of Ephesus, published in the original some years since by the Delegates of the Press; the Philetus of Plato, edited by Mr. Poste, of Oriel College ; and the Anglo-Norman Psalter, edited by M. Francisque Michel.

According to the Inverness Courier, a manuscript History of the Gospels in the Celtic language, written as early as the tenth century, has been discovered at Cambridge, together with other papers in the ancient Scoto-Celtic dialect. They are to be edited and published by Mr. Bradshaw.

M. 'Alexandre Dumas has produced the first part of what purports to be a translation of "An Autobiography of Horace, discovered by M. Dumas in the Library of the Vatican!" The opening portions are descrip- tive of Horace's boyhood—his first visit to Rome, and his being placed by his father under the care of Orbilius the Flogger.

The third volume of the "Correspondence de Napoleon I., Publiee par Ordre de Napoleon has just been issued by Henri Plon, Paris ; and the seventeenth volume of hl. Thiers' great work, " L'Histoire du Consulat et de L'Empire," is announced by Michel Levy, frares.

Among the French pamphlets of the week, are a brochure, "De In Liberte de L'Italie et de L'Eglise," by Father Lacordaire, the new Aca- demician; and " Reponse a is Circulaire de M. Thouvenel our L'Ency- clique du 19 3-envier," by Mgr. Parisi's, Bishop of Arras. Both are, as might be expected, strongly in favour of the Papal Government, but Lacordaire is intensely hostile to Austria.

A propos of the question of the Pope's temporal power, a very in- teresting work has just been published by Brigola of Milan, bearing the title of "La Podesta temporale del Papa giudicata da Francesca Petrarca, da Coluccio Saluted e da Giovanni de Alessi : " it exhibits the question as viewed by these famous Italian writers.

Another interesting work which has just seen the light is on the sub- ject of the popular songs of Piedmont., and written by Costantino Nigza, secretary to Count Cavour during the famous Paris conferences.

The progress of agriculture in Northern Italy is indicated satisfac- torily by the appearance of a new Journal entitled " L'Amico del Conte- dino," which is to be published three times a month.

A new work on the subject of Dante has just appeared at Florence. It was discovered in the collections of the Vatican and consists of dia- logues, written by Donato Giannotti, the friend and literary adviser of Dante; in these dialogues, the author and his friend are represented die- cussing various important political questions' a propos of the Divine Corn- media.

The second volume of the inedited works of Pietro Giannoni, has just been published in Turin, under the title of "La Chiesa sotto fi Pontificate di Gregorio il Grande," and consists of an elaborate com- parison between the church-discipline of his time and that of Pope Gre- gory the Great. Flying from the persecution called down upon him in consequence of his having written his famous History, Giannoni was captured by the Piedmontese Government of his day and thrown into prison, where he wrote the present book.

"Popular Stories of the Icelanders of the Present Time, collected from oral communication," edited by Professor Maurer, has been published by Brockhans and Co., Leipzig.

A "Life of the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon I," by Mr. Cecil B. Hartley ; a "History of Ink," by Mr. T. Davids ; a volume of "Loves and Heroines of the Poets," by Mr. R. H. Stoddard ; and a translation of the Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio's novel " Nicolm dei Lapi ; or the Last Days of the Florentine Republic," by Mr. Mallet, are among the latest productions of the American press.