LITERARY NEWS.

It is stated by several journals that Lord Macaulay has left behind him the materials for another volume of the "history of England," the pub- lication of which is likely to take place in the course of a year or two.

Messrs. A. and C. Black announce that the Honourable Edward Everett, of Boston, is to contribute the biography of Washington to the new edition of the " Encyclopaidia Britannica."

A translation of the Odes of Horace into English verse, by Mr. Theo- dore Martin, one of the authors of the "Bon Gaultier Ballads," is an- nounced as forthcoming by Messrs. J. W. Parker and Son.

Mr. Charles Newton, H. M. Consul at Rome, formerly Vice-Consul at Mytelene, and previously in the Antiquities department of the British Museum, is preparing for publication a work on the monuments of art in the Levant, to be entitled "Researches and discoveries in the Levant, the islands of Mytelene and Rhodes, and the coast of Asia Minor, made during a residence of seven years." The work is to be published by Mr. Bentley. A "Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds," by Mr. Leslie ; "Two Years in the Crimea," by Mr. Kinglake, author of " Eothen" ; and an historical sketch entitled "Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First," by Mr. John Forster, are among the new promises of Mr. Murray.

Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. have in the press "The Life and Anecdotes of Edward Malone, the Commentator on Shakespeare," by Sir James Prior; and "The Letters of the late F. Robertson, of Brighton."

The first part of a new "History of England" may be expected ere long from the pen of Mr. J. A. St. John ; and Dr. Stebbing has nearly ready for the press his "Lives of Italian Poets." Mr. William Bridges Adams, a gentleman not unknown to the readers of the Spectator, is engaged on a Life of Robert Stephenson, in which we are to have a sketch of the career of both the man and the engineer.

A "Popular Account of British India," by Mrs. Easton, is announced as forthcoming by Mr. Hardwicke. Professor Owen is about to publish a collection of the manuscript works of the celebrated John Hunter, which were for a long time be- lieved to be destroyed, but of which copies have now been discovered. Another periodical devoted to art is announced as forthcoming under the title, "British Journal of Photography." The editor is to be Mr. George Shadbolt. A new poem by Mr. Ernest Jones, is in the press, and will shortly be published. It is entitled, " Corayda," and is dedicated, by permission, to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.

The Ostdetitsehe Post states that the Austrian general Hats has com- municated to the Emperor Napoleon, by the authority of his government, very circumstantial details about the military movements in the late Italian war. These reports are intended for a "perfectly impartial" account of the campaign which is to be published at Paris.

The rumour of another official manifesto in the shape of a brochure is current at Paris. The new pamphlet, it is said, will be entitled, "Napoleon III. et le Clerge," and will attempt to soften down the fears created by "Le Pape et le Congres."

The well-known Abbe Michon has published a "Projet de Solution de la Question Romaine." He proposes to establish a Viceroy in the States of the Church, with complete temporal authority, and somewhat in the position of the present Regent of Prussia.

A very interesting contribution to the history of the French Revolu- tion has just been published by Fume, Paris, under the title "Vie et Correspondance de Merlin de Thionville," by M. Jean Reynaud. The work contains the correspondence of Merlin with the Comite de Salut Publique, and with some of the most distinguished personages of the epoch.

Under the title Of " Preeieux et Precieuses, carat:area et mceurs late- rakes du dix-septieme siècle," M. Ch. L. Livet has published, through Dither and Co.' a series of biographical and historical sketches of the reign of Louis XIV.

M. Pierre Dupont, the first of living French song-writers, has brought out a volume of " Etudes Litteraires, vers et prose, chansons et poesies." The book is published by Gamier, freres.

The collected works of Be Bussy-Rabutin, the cousin of Madame de Sevigne, and author of the celebrated " Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules," have just been issued for the first time, under the editorship of M. Lu- dovic Lalanne. The work, published by Charpentier, forms eight vo- lumes.

C. Muguardt, Brussels, has produced "Pastes Militaires des Indcs Orientales Neerlandai.ses," by A. J. Gcrleach, containing the military history of the Dutch colonies, from the earliest to the present time.

The concluding volumes of J. W. Zinkeisen's "History of the Turkish Empire in Europe," forming part of Heeren and Uckert's great "History of the States of Europe," have been issued by Perthes, Gotha. The work is now complete in six volumes.

Dr. L. A. Frank], the Oriental traveller, whose account of Jerusalem was lately published in an English version,. has brought out a new book entitled Aus Egypten" (From Egypt), issued by Zamarski and Co., Vienna.

Two of the oldest newspapers of Germany, the Gazette of Leipzig and the Gazette of Rostock, celebrated on the first of January, the former its 200th and the latter its 150th anniversary. The Leipzig paper on this occasion distributed to its subscribers facsimiles of its numbers of January 1, 1660, and January 1, 1770, which are curious specimens of ancient periodical literature.

Several interesting works have recently appeared at Athens. M. Zampelios has published a philological work entitled "The Poetry of Modern Greece" ; M. J. Philimon, secretary of Prince Ipsilanti during the war of Independence' has issued his Historical Account of the Greek Revolution " ; and M. Varvattiz has brought out a "French- Greek Dictionary," in three voltimes, dedicated to the Emperor Napoleon.