LITERARY NEWS.
The Scotsman announces that the late Principal Lee has left some MSS. which will serve to keep his memory alive in the world of letters. " His Pastoral Addresses," says our contemporary—" models as they are of English composition—would scarcely have done it ; and with the exception of the learned Memorial for the Bible Societies of Scotland' and his edition of Lady Joceline's pathetic Mother's Legacie to her Unborn Child,' together with some dozen pamphlets, we are not aware that the Principal left ought else in type. A series of lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolu- tion is now announced as in preparation, end we trust that this book will not only exhibit the vast knowledge of the author on Scottish eccle- siastical matters, but that it will at the same time supply, what has long been wanted, a really impartial account of the rise and progress of the present Established Church, avoiding equally the extremes of prelacy and Presbyterianism, as shown in the works of Keith and Spottiswoode on the one hand, and Wodrow and Cruickshank on the other."
Messrs. Triibner and Co. announce for immediate publication a trans- lation of Dr. ICnapf's " Narrative of Missionary Residence and Travel in Eastern Africa during the years 1837-53." The author wandered, mostly on foot, over upwards of nine thousand miles, in regions seldom If ever trod by the foot of a white man.
Under the title of "Tinder Bow Bells : a City Book for All Readers," Messrs. Groombridge and Sons announce a series of stories descriptive of trade and commercial life, by Mr. John Hollingshead. Part of these tales already appeared in Mr. Dickens' defunct "Household Words," to which periodical the author was a leading contributor. Messrs. Hachette and Co., Paris, are preparing for publication the complete Correspondence of Buffon, edited and annotated by M. Henri Nadault de Buffett, great grandson of the celebrated naturalist. The publishers, believing that there are still many letters of Buffon in pri- vate hands, iy England as well as in France, solicit their com- munication, promising to acknowledge them in the forthcoming work.
A newjournal, established for the purpose of advocating the cause of Italian independence and of social reforms, is to make its appearance in Paris on the 16th of August next, under the title " L'Opinion Nationale." The chief editor of the paper will be M. Guemult, former editor of La Pram, who will be assisted by M. de Sauley, M. Azevedo, M. Champfleury, and M. About.
London likewise is to see the number of its periodical publications in- creased by the establishment of a weekly class paper, called " The Steam Ship Chronicle," intended to record the progress of steam navigation, and of scientific and other facts connected therewith. There is some talk also of establishing a newspaper on board the " Great Eastern," for the entertainment not only of its numerous passengers, but as a means of communicating instantly all the news she brings at the moment of her arrival.
A Literary and Antiquarian Society has lately been established in the Isle of Man, entitled "The Manx Society for Publication of National Documents of the Isle of Man." The Society intends to make every possible search after the most ancient records of the island, and to publish a standard edition of all its statute laws under a responsible editor.
Another number of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm'a " Deutsches Wafter- buch," has just appeared at Leipzig. The part now issued is the second number of the third volume, and the gigantic literary undertaking of the two celebrated linguists may therefore be expected to be brought soon to a conclusion.
A rather important statistical work has this week been published at Paris. it is entitled " Le Budget des Cultea en France, depuis le Con- cordat jusqu'l nos jours," and gives a detailed account of all the sums expended for public worship from 1801 till 1856. The book is not a mere compilation, but full of notes and commentaries. Its author is M. Charles Jourdain, a well-known writer and " chef de division " in the Ministry of Public Instruction.
The Postal Administration of France has just issued a new edition of a work which has been expected for a long time, viz., the official " Die- tionnaire des Postes." The last edition of this work, dated 1845, had become nearly useless.
The first complete translation of Dr. Livingstone's Travels has just appeared in Paris.
M. Ch. Didier, the author of "Rome souterraine," has published a new work on Italian life, called "Les Amours &Italie." The book consists of a series of tales, professedly in the style of Boccaccio.
A notable little book, called "La Toscane et sea Grands-dues Autri- chiens," " has just been published by Dentu. It is said to be from the pen of distinguished statesman.
Messrs. J. H. and I. Parker announce a curious work, the " Fac- simile of the Sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort, an Architect of the Thirteenth Century." It is to be in royal 4to, with seventy-fourLImatz numerous diagrams, and commentaries and descriptions by M. J.
late architect of Notre-Dame, and M. J. Quicherat, Professor of Archie- ology at the Ecole de Chartres at Paris. The translator and editor is the Reverend Robert Willis, F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the Tniversity of Cambridge.
The Salisbury Journal reports the painful fact that the eldest son of T. Hughes, Esq., of the Firs, Wimbledon, was drowned on Saturday last, whilst bathing at Sunbury. Mr. Hughes is the well-known author of Tom Brown's School Dim" and " The Scouring of the White Horse." This is the second child ho has lost by misadventure within a short period.
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