LITERARY NEWS.

Mr. Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, is said to be engaged upon a new poem, on the subject of" Boadicea," which is expected to appear in the course of next year.

The concluding portion of the Reverend F. D. Maurice's "Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy," and the "Treatise on the British Constitu- tion," by Lord Brougham, are about to be published by Messrs. R. Gran and Co.

Messrs. Longman and Co. are preparing for the press a "Treatise on Mills and Mill Work," by Mr. William Fairbairn, the eminent practical machinist.

The Horse and its Rider," by Sir Francis B. Head; " Iceland : its Volcanoes, Geysers, and Glaciers," by Commander C. S. Forbes, R.N.; and "Two Years' Residence in Jiitland and the Danish Isles," by Horace Marryat, are among the latest promises of Mr. Murray.

Mr. Bentley has in the press, "Memoirs and Correspondence of Wil- liam, first Lord Auckland, including important letters of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Edmund Burke, Charles Fox, Gibbon, Hume, Atc." edited by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Mr. Hotte,n is about to publish a hitherto unknown poem written by the author of the "Pilgrim's Progress," while in Bedford Gaol. Mr. Offer will edit the work and furnish an introduction, giving many new facts concerning Bunyan's prison life.

"]h Home Life of English Ladies in the Seventeenth Century," by the author of" Magdalen Stafford; " "The Manse of Mastland,' trans- lated from the Dutch by Thomas Reightley; and "Master Waee's Chro- nicle of the Conquest of England.' edited by Sir Alexander Mallet, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary at Frankfort, are announced by Messrs. Bell and Daldy.

Messrs. Hurst and Blackett are preparing for publication a new work by Frederika Bremer, "Two Years in SwitzWand and Italy," trans- lated by Mrs. Mary Hewitt and the record of a hunting tour in the United States, entitled "fie English Sportsman in the Western Prairies," by the Honourable Grantley Berkeley. Mr. B. Botfield, M.P., it is stated, is engaged on a large bibliographi- cal undertaking, namely, a collection of all the known catalogues of the monastic and private libraries of Great Britain which existed before the Reformation.

Messrs. A. Stair= and Co., Edinburgh, announce as fortheoming, "God's Glory in the Heavens; or, something of the Wonders of Astro- nomy," by Wm. Leitch, Dl)., Principal of Queen's College, Canada; and The Story of the Mission Fields; how they were planted, and how they have prospered," by the Reverend Thomas Smith, M.A., Edinburgh.

Messrs. Rudd and Carleton, New York, are preparing for publication the first English translations of professor Illichelet's celebrated books on natural history " L'Oiseau," and " L'Insecte." The translation is by Dr. J. W. Palmer, to whom M. Mit:hold's " L'Amour " and "La Femme" are also indebted for their remarkably good English dregs.

A new work by M. E. About, entitled" Rome Contemporaine," and an important publication by Admiral Bonet-Willaumez, maritime Prefect of Cherbourg, entitled "L'Espit de la Guerre," are announced as forth- coming by Messrs. Michel Levy, freres, Paris.

The same publishers have just issued the seventh volume of M. Fran- eois-Victor Ilugo's translation of Shakespeare, containing "Antony and Cleopatra," and "Romeo and Juliet," classified by the translator as " Les Amants Tragiques."

The collected works of Madame Emile do Girardin, in six volumes, are about being brought out by Henri Pion, Paris' in an "Edition de Luxe." The fourth and fifth volumes will contain the " Lettres Parisiennes," and the last the dramatic works.

Messrs. Didier and Co., Paris, announce as forthcoming "La Con- sience ; ou, la Regle des Lotions Humaines," by M. Bautain ; and anew, improved, and illustrated edition of the " Iistoire des Duce de Bour- gogne," by M. de Barante.

An interesting bibliographical work, " L'Histoire de la Bibliotheque Mazarine, depuis sa Fondation jusqu a nos Joura," by M. Alfred Franklin, attaché at the Mazarin library, has been published by M. A. Aubry, Paris.

M. Dentu, Paris, has brought out " L'Heure Supremo en Italic," by M. Jules Mint; "On L'Alliance Anglaise, on L' Alliance Russo?" by M. J. Lecomte ; " L'Egliso en Hongrie," by an " Ecelesiastique Hon-. grois ; " and "Alexander II. et L'Entrevue de Varsovie," by M. Herzen.

A new monthly magazine, entitled "Revue Nationale et Etrangere," is about to be started by M. Charpentier, Paris, under the editorship of

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M. de Lomcnie professor at the College de France, and with several members of the French Academy for contributors.