LITERARY NEWS.

As great public interest has been expressed respecting the continua- tion of Lord Macaulay's "History of England," and some misstatements have gone forth, we feel it desirable to announce, on the best authority, that some progress had been made by Lord Macaulay towards the com- pletion of another volume, and that a portion of the MS. is fully pre- pared for publication. Circumstances, however, will probably delay for some time the appearance of any further portion of the *History.— Tirees.

The second number of the Coin/till Magazine will contain, among other articles, a paper by Mr. Thackeray, entitled, "Nil nisi Bonum," being a tribute to the memo' y of Macaulay. and Washington Irving ; Invasion Defences, by Jacob Omnium, of the Times ; Tithonus, the promised poem by the Poet-Laureate ; Unspoken Dialogues, by Mr. Monekton Mines; and Curious if True, by Mrs. Gaskell.

Messrs. Griffin and Co. have in preparation an English version of the "Liber Albus,"—The White Book of the City of London, compiled A.D. 1419—translated by Mr. Riley, the editor of the original work.

"Man's Heart," a new poem by Dr. Mackay, is announced by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. ; and Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have in the press another by Edmund Sanders, called "Rothe, or By the Sea."

Mr. Bentley has in the press "Pagan or Christian, being Notes on our National Architecture;" and "The Poor Governess," from Nathusius, by Mrs. Bushby.

A supplement to the "Numismatics Hellenica" of Colonel W. M. Leake, author of "Travels in Asia Minor and Greece," who died a short while ago at Brighton, has been found ready for the press among the papers of the deceased, and will soon. be forthcoming.

A bundle of curious manuscripts, with the superscription "Various Letters concerning England, 1625-26," has lately. been discovered in the Imperial Library of the Rue Richelieu, Pans. The contents are some 130 letters, chiefly from and to Charles the First and Queen Hen- rietta. A Paris bookseller announces their forthcoming publication.

Messrs. Lippincott and Co., Philadelphia, have published a "Manual of Public Libraries and Book-Societies in the United States and British Provinces of North Americo," by Mr. W. J. Rheas It contains a large mass of valuable bibliographical information respecting the present state of American literature.

Messrs. Michel Levy, freres, Paris, announce the third volume of M. F. Guizot's " Memoires de mou Temps," for the end of next month. The

same publishers promise "La Politique Liberak' " by M. Chas. de Re- musat ; and "La Question Italienne," by M. Leon de Gaillard.

Among the large number of pamphlets relating to the Italian question which continue to be published at Paris, there are two this week (besides M. Villemain's) which are worth mentioning. These are " Un Mot d'un Lague sur la brochure le Pape et le Congres," by Count Desbossyas de Richemont ; and "Dc la Papaute Temporelle et de la Nationalite Ita- lienne," by M. Arnaud de l'Ariege, one of the present leaders of the Re- publican party in France.

An interesting historical work has been published by Hachette, Paris, under the title Projets de Gouvernement du Due de Bourgogne." It is said to be written by the Duke of Saint-Simon; at least the editor, M. P. Mesnard, who discovered the MSS. in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, attributes it, without hesitation, to that source.

A work containing much information relative to the industrial activity of the North of France, has just appeared at Amiens, under the title " L'Industrie dans le Departement de l'Aisne et en particulier dans le Rayon de Saint-Quentin." It is from the pen of M. Felix Ribeyrre, editor of the Journal rle Saint-Quentin.

The " Annuaire General du Commerce," the great statistical hand- book and Post Office Directory for the whole of France, was issued on the 20th instant, by Messrs. Didot-Bottin, Paris. The work contains this year some additional information respecting the movements of trade in the South of France.

Messrs. Hachette and Co. have published "Etudes Litteraires et Morales stir Homere, Scenes Tirees de 1' Made," by M. Aug. Widal; and Lethielleux, Paris, has issued "Rome et Londres," by M. Margotti, member of the Chamber of Representatives of Turin.

French papers state that the sale of M. Michelet's famous book, " L'Amour" has since its publication amounted to more than 55,000 copies ; and that of his last work, " La Femme," issued only about a month age, to nearly 16,000.

Mr. Borne, a Dutch astronomer, has published at Rotterdam a pamphlet in which he announces that the great Comet of Charles the Fifth, which was seen in 1553, will reappear in the month of August of the present year.

A work of interest to antiquarians has been published by Ileberle, Kola, under the title, "The Pilgrimage of the Knight Arnold von Her! through Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Ethiopia, &c., during the years 1496 to 1499."

Countess Hahn-Hahn, the once fashionable novelist of Germany, who retired to a convent some years ago, has s produced a work of fiction, entitled "Queen Marie : a Tale of the Day." Goethe's " Faust" has just found a new translator in Herr Stephen Nagy, who has published a Magyar version of it in Pesti]. Signor Mazzini's organ, Pensiero ed .Aoione, has recently changed its place of publication from London to Lugano. The paper is said to have now a large circulation in Northern and Central Italy. At Naples has just been published, by order of the reigning King, an "Historical Account of the Life and the Acts of King Ferdinand II." The work has been edited by the Advoeat Durelli, historiographer of the Court, with the assistance of Signori Salzano, Orazio Mazza, 'ferenzio Sacchi, A. Perifano, and M. Moschitti. It is issued from the royal printing office, with great luxury of binding and typography.