LITERARY NEWS.

We have to correct an error in our last issue. Baron Bunsen's "Egypt's Place in Universal History" will be published not by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, but by Messrs. Longman and Co.

On the 7th of next month the first number of a new weekly paper will appear, entitled the Army and Navy Gazette. The editor is Mr. W. H. Russell. This journal is to be devoted to the discussion of questions re- lating to the military services and national defences, and the diffusion of authentic information upon these subjects.

Miss Agnes Strickland, author of the " Queens of England," is pre- paring for the press a new volume of biographical sketches, entitled " Old Friends and new Acquaintances," to be published by Messrs. Burton and Co.

The promised work on the Collier-folio Sbakspeare by Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton, is now announced as forthcoming by Mr. Bentley, under the title, " An Inquiry into Modern Additions to Shaksperian Lite- rature."

It is stated that Mr. Layard has returned from his Italian journey, during which he has gathered the materials for a pamphlet on the po- litical state of the Peninsula, which he intends publishing forthwith.

A contribution to the volunteer movement, from the pen of the Reverend Fr. Maurice, is promised by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., under the title, " War, how to prepare ourselves for it."

Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., in addition to their former lists of new works, announce a "Life of Schleiermacher," to be published in the first week of the new year.

Mr. J. H. James, of the Middle Temple, is preparing for the press a volume of "Memorials of Chiswick and Nammeramith Poetic, His- toric, Epitaphian, and Heraldic." The work is to be published by Mr. W. Johnson, St. Martin's Lane.

Mr. William Howitt has undertaken to write a continuation of " Cas- sell's Illustrated History of England," from the accession of George III. to the present time. A faithful narrative of this important period of his- tory, from the pen of so able a writer as Mr. Howitt, will excite no little interest among the reading classes generally.

Arthur Young's well-known French Journey, is now for the first time announced in a French dress, by Guillaumin and Co., Paris, under the title " Voyage en France pendant le Annees 1787, 88 et 89."

The Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio's expected pamphlet " La Politique et le droit chretien, an point de vue de la question Italienne," was pub- lished simultaneously in Paris and Turin, on Tuesday last. The pamphlet attempts to show that though the manners and morals of civilized nations have become Christian, their political systems are still Heathenish, and that this is the main cause of all modern insurrections, wars, and revolutions.

The political correspondence of the Count de Chambord, otherwise Henri V., is announced by M. Decq, Brussels. The book, described as an " Etude politique," is to consist of letters written between the years 1841-1859.

Messrs. FirminDidot, freres, announce a "Bibliotheque des Memoires relatif a l'Histoire de France," with introduction, notes, and annota- tions, by M. F. Barriere. The work is to include many scarce and ex- pensive publications, not generally attainable by historical students.

Under the strange title of " Glares et Vieux Mors " (Shadows and

Old Walls), M. Auguste Vitu, one of the editors of the Pays, has just published, through Poulet-Malassis and Co:, a kind of historical sketch- book, containing glimpses of Paris Past and Present.

Schweiglaanser, Basel, has published "La Rome des Papes, son origine, ses Phases sueeessives, sea Moeurs intimee, son Gouvernement, et son System administratif." The work is in three volumes, and stated to be a translation from an unpublished Italian manuscript, written by

" 17n Anoien Membre de la Conatituante Romaine." .

The fourth and last volume of the "Life of Mozart," by Otto Jahn, has appeared at Leipzig. The volume contains the last ten years of the great maestro, from 1781 to 1791.

A series of "Biographical Sketches of eminent natives of Switzer- land," by Dr. R. Wolf, has been published by Orell and Co., Zurich, in two volumes, containing some forty memoirs.

The author of the pamphlet on " Revolutionary Despots," generally supposed here in England to be the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, but who is known to be the Assessor Fisehel, at Berlin, has published another little work entitled " The Mission of Prussia in Germany."

A new volume of Signor Rornanino's great "History of Venice," based on original researches in the archives of the city, has just appeared at Padua. It treats of the annals of the Republic from 1700 till 1763.

The Independence Beige asserts that a paper recently founded at Malta, called I7 Monitore Maltese, and edited by a gentleman allied to the family of Pio Nono, has just been suppressed by order of the Governor, and the editor banished from the Island.

Three Spanish journals, El Estado, El Leon Espanol, and El Con- eiliador, have been melted together into one great newspaper of "Eng- lish size," entitled El Horizonte, which is henceforth to be the great organ of the Liberal party in Spain.