LITERARY NEWS.

An elaborate " Life of the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli," is said to be forthcoming shortly.

A new and improved edition of "The Grand Remonstrance, and other Historical Essays," by Mr. John Forster, is in preparation by Mr. Murray.

A collection of the late Lord Macaulay's " Miscellaneous Writings," among them some unpublished poetry written by the author between the age of twelve and twenty, is announced by Messrs. Longman and Co.

The third volume of Mr. Massey's " History of England during the reign of George III.," and the fifth and sixth volumes of Mr. Froude's " History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth," will be published by Messrs. I. W. Parker and Son in the course of the present month.

Messrs. Longman and Co. have in the press the fifth and last volume bf Chevalier Bunsen's "Egypt's place in Universal History," translated by M. C. A. Cottrell, M.A. According to German critics, this concluding part is the most important of the whole work.

" Three Years in Turkey : the journal of a Medical Mission to the Jews, under the auspices of the Free Church of Scotland," by Mr. John Mason, M.D., is announced as forthcoming by Mr. J. Snow, Pater- noster Row.

The Cambridge Antiquarian Society is preparing for publication a .curious M.S. volume, containing St erome's version of the Gospels in Latin, recently discovered at the Public Library by Mr. Bradshaw, Fellow of King's College, who is to be the editor.

Messrs. Derby and Jackson, New York, U.S., announce " Five Years in China," by the Reverend Charles Taylor;. " Methodism Suc- cessful, and the Cause of its Success," by the Reverend B. F. Tefft, D.D. ; and " Warring in the Wilderness ; a story of Kentucky," by Mr. Charles D. Kirk.

Messrs. Appleton and Co., New York, are about to publish "A Voyage down the Amoor, with a Land Journey through Siberia, and Incidental Notes of Manchooria, Kamschatka, and Japan," by Mr. Perry M'Donough Collins, Commercial Agent of the United States at the Amoor River ; also, " The Life and Writings of Dr. G. W. Doane, late Bishop of New Jersey," by Mr. W. C. Doane; a new volume of " Mount Vernon Papers," by the Honourable Edward Everett ; and a new translation of " Virgirs .2Eneid," by Professor Frieze, of the University of Michigan.

The thirteenth volume of the "Abridgment of the Debates of Con- gress, from 1789 to 1856," by the anther of " The Thirty Years' View," has just been published by Messrs. Appleton and Co., New York. 'ro judge by the progress hitherto made, this work threatens to become ultimately as voluminous as our own "Hansard."

M. Granier de Cassagnac's new work, " Histoire des Girondins et des Massacres de Septembre," has just been published by Dentu, Paris. It is professedly based on hitherto unpublished documents, and is described by a critic in the Pays as, " um des plus eurieux et des plus interessants ouvragea qui aient ate ecrits sur la premiere revolution."

A book called " La Verite sur la Russie," written by Prince Peter Dolgorouki, has this week been published by M. A. Franck, Paris, and is creating considerable sensation in political circles. It furnishes some striking " revelations " regarding the present maladministration of le great Muscovite empire and its dependencies.

The fourth volume of M. E. Hatin's great " Histoire de la Presse," has just been published by Poulet-Malassis, Paris. It contains the his- tory of the French press during the first period of the revolution, from 1789 to 1792.

A splendid quarto, "Les Bas-Reliefs du Parthenon et du Temple de Phigale," with engravings by Colitis' new process, and text by Means. P. Delaroche and Ch. Lenormant, has this week been published by Didier and Co., Paris. -

Among the commercial publications recently issued from the Paris press' is a " Reeueil des Tarifa des Douanes en Europe, Chine, Etats Unis d'Amerique, et Brazil." The work is published by Firmin Didot freres, at the price of fifteen francs.

A work of strong anti-Imperialistic tendencies, entitled "La France et L'Allemagne sous le Premier Empire : Napoleon of le Baron Stein," by M. Francis Lacombe, has been issued by Maline and Co., Brussels.

The " Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varahagen von Ense," published by Brockhaus, Leipzig, have been prohibited in several smaller German states. The book proves extraordinarily popular, having already reached its fifth edition. A French translation of it has just appeared at Geneva.

At Milan, Bolchesi and Brigola are selling a book by Pietro Ellaro on Capital Punishment, "Della Pena Capitale." It was originally printed at Venice, and is noteworthy as having been prosecuted by Austrian authority. Bolchesi also publishes a tale by Achille Argentine, called " Carmela Ambrisi."

A pamphlet by Francesco Berlau on the subject of the cession of Nice to France is occupying attention at Milan; it is entitled " La Cession di Nizza," or "Nizza a Italiana Fmncese ? " (Is Nice Italian or French ?) Miss MARTMEAU ON EARLY speak from experience here.

For thirty years my business has lain in my study. The practice of early rising was, I am confident, the grand preservative of health, through many years of hard work—the hours gained -toeing given, not to book or pen, but to activity. I rose at six, summer and winter •, and (after cold bathing) went out for a walk in all weathers. In the coldest season, on the rainiest morning, I never returned without being glad that I went. I need not de- tail the pleasures of the summer mornings. In winter, there was either a fragment of gibbous moon hanging over the mountain, or some star quiver- ing in the river, or icicles beginning to shine in the dawn, or, at worst, some break in the clouds, some moss on the wall, some gleam on the water, which I carried home in the shape of refreshment. I breakfasted at half- past seven, and had settled household business and was at my work by half- past eight, fortified for seven hours' continuous desk-work, without injury or fatigue.—Once a Week.

" Pzeriony " ON STATE CnArr.—Why it don't stand to reason, nor convene to the natur of things—Latin and Greek may do for governing Oxford or Cambridge, but Gladstone found Homer didn't help him at Corfu, where he made an awful mess of matters, and Palmerston will have to talk something better than he learned in Ovid, or Virgil, to the Pope. The Governor-General of Canada has written a book since he went there, and what do:you think it is about ? The Quebec and Halifax Railway ? No, that's trady. The monopoly of the Norwest Company, that obstructs the settlement of a country as big as all France ? No, that would bring down the great Bear-hunter, and the Lord knows who upoq him. The construc- tion of a practicable route from Canada to Vancouver's Island, by which the China trade might be made to pass through the British territory ? No, for that would involve expense and trouble, and he might get a hint that he had better mind his own business. An historical, geographical, and sta- tistical account of British North America? No, that count*, is growing so fast, it would require a new edition every year. Do you give it up ? Well, it is a treatise on the words " could, would, and should." Now, he could write somethin' more to the purpose, if he would, and he should do it, toe, if he held office under me, that's a fact. Yes, it takes a horseman to select cattle for the lead, or the pole, and a coachman of the right sort to drive them too, and it takes a man who knows all about colonies, and the people that dwell there, to select governors of the right sort, and to manage them, when he gets the collar on 'ern. State-craft ain't lamed by instinct, for even dogs, who beat all created critters for that, have to be trained. It ain't book larnin that is wanted in Downing Street ; if it was, despatches might be wrote, like the Pope's allocutions, in Latin, but it's a knowledge of men add things that is required. It's not dead languages, but living ones that's wanted. Ask the Head Secretary what the principal export of Canada is, and it's as like, as not, he will refer you to the Board of Trade, as it is more in their line than his, and if you go there, and put the same question, it's an even chance if they don't tell you, they are so busy in bothering ship-owners with surveys, and holding courts of inquiry, to make owners liable to passengers for accidents, and what not, that they haven't time to be pestered with you. Well, don't be discouraged, go back to Co- lonial Office, and try it again. Salayou to head-clerk, " what's the princi- pal Canadian export ? " " I don't know any of that name," he'll say; `there are so many ports there, but I should say Quebec." "No," eats you, "not that, but what's the chief commodity or production they send to Great Britain ? " "Oh, now I understand," he'll say, `-it's timber, you ought to know that, for we have had trouble enough about lumber duties lately." "'Well, what kind of timber?" says ;you, "squared, or manu- factured, hard, or soft wood, which is the most valuable white, or black birch, hemlock or larch, cedar or spruce; which wood makes the best tre- nails, and which the best knees for a ship ? " Well, I'll take you a bet of a hundred dollars he can't tell you. " Then," says you, " which is the best flour, Canadian, or American ? which keeps sweet the longest ? and what is the cause of the difference ? Have they any iron ore there ? if so, where is it, and how is it smelted ? with pit, or charred coal? and which makes the beet article ? " Well, the goney will stare like a scallawag. that has seen the elephant, see, if he don't ! Now, go into any shop you like in London, from Starr and Mortimer's down to the penny bazaar, and see if the coun- terskippers in 'em don't know the name, quality, and price of every thing they have. Let me just ask you, then, is it right that a national office like that, should be worse served and attended to than them, and be no better than a hurrah's nest ?—&sason Ticket.