LITERARY NEWS. • " A Personal Narrative of Two Years'

Imprisonmentin Rurmah," by Henry Gouger, is preparing for publication by Mr. Murray. . Messrs. Longman and Co. announce' as forthcoming "The Life and Professional Services of Sir James M'Grigor, Batt., an Autobiography ; " "half-hour Lectures gin the History and Praetiee of the Fine and Orna- mental .'arts," by William B. Scott ; and "-Egyptian Chronicles : with a Harmony of Sacred and Egyptian Chronologyr, by William Palmer, M.A.

The 'Very Reverend the Dean of Ely has nearly finished a new trans- lation of Thomas a Xempis, to be brought out by' Messrs, Deighton, Bell, and Co. ; and Dr. -Ackermann Archdeacon ofJena, is about to publish Messrs. an English dress, through fessrs. T. and T. Clark, a complete edition of his work, "The Christian Element in Plato, and in the Platonic Phi. losophy."

Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have in the press, "Six Years of a Travel- ler's Life in Western Africa," by Francisco Valdez ; "A Saunter through the West End," by Leigh Hunt; and various works of fiction, among them, "Daunton Manor House," in two volumes ; and "The House on the Moor," by the author of "Margaret Maitland."' - A." Memoir of the late Joshua Watson, Esq.," by the Venerable Arch- deacon Churton ; and a " Ilistery of the Church; from the Edict of Milan (A.D. 313), to the. Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451)," by William Bright, M.A., are preparing for publication by Messrs., II. and J. Parker. •

Mr. John Snow has in the-press, "Nineteen Years in Polynesia : Mis- sionary Life, Travels, arid Researches in tbo Islands of the' Pacific," by the Reverend George Turner ; and Mr. T. C. Newby promises "-The East Unveiled ; or Slavailiana, their Churches, Festivals, -and Religious and Social History," by M. D. ChYlinski,:a- native of Wallachia.

'Mr. Janaes Blackwood tinnounees as forthcoming, " Enoch ; or, the Sons of God,' the Sons of Men," by Professor Robertson; and the first translation of the interesting French "Journal of what passed in the Temple Prison, during the Captivity of Louis XVI., King of France," by M. Clery, valet of Louis XVI.

Messrs. W. and R. 'Chambers, Edinburgh, are preparing for publica- tion the third volume of the " Domestic Annals of Scotland," by Mr. Robert Chambers, embracing the period of the two Rebellions, and bring- ing the history Otte country down to 1745.

Messrs. Edmonsten and Douglas, Edinburgh, have -in the press a second series of " Horx Subsecivm," by Dr. John .Brown ; a volume of "Memoirs. of His own Life and Times, from .1741 to 1813," by the Reverend Dr. 'Somerville, minister ofJedbiirgh ; and an Edinburgh tale of fifty years,ago, entitled "The Two Cosmos."

A new work, by M. Edmond About, entitled "Rome Contemporaine," has _just been brought out by Messrs. Michel Levy- freres. The same publishers have issued "Souvenirs at Portraits : Etudes sur lea Beaux Arts," by M. E, Halfray, of the Institute; " Coutes de In Montague,'-' by M. -E. Chatrain ; and " Constantinople, Jerusalem, et Rome," in two volumes, by the Abbe Pierre.

The renowned Dr. Veron, author of the:" Memoires d'un-Bourgeois de Paris," hasissned, through Messrs. Bourdilliot• and Co., a new work on the same subject, entitled "Paris en 1860: lea Theatres de. Paris de

1806 a 1860. • • - The fourth volume of M. Louis Figuier's " Histoire du Merveilleux daini lea Tempi Modernes;" published under the separate title, "Lee Tables Tournantes, les Mediums et les Esprits," has just been brought out by Messrs. Hachette and Co.' • •

M. Eichhof, Inspector of the University of Paris, an accomplished Oriental scholar, has published a new work on Indian literature, being a comparison between the Indian epic, the " Ramayana " of Val/nee-hi, and the epic poetry of -the ancients, illustrated by mean's of a French

translation and imitations in Latin verse. .

Messrs. Amyot and Co., Paris, have published " L'Eglise Catholique en Pologne sous le ,Gouvernement Russe," by M. P. Lescoeur, and. "Garibaldi et P.Menir," by Viscount de Beaumont-Vassy.

The first two volumes of a " Theorie und Geschichte ,der National- Oekonomik" (" Theory and History of National Economy "), by. M, J. Lintz, and the first part of.a Treatise on the "Public Law (Offent- lichee Recht) of the German States," by G-. G. Grotefend, have appeared at Leipzig.

Professor G. Hartwig Whose book on "The Wonders of the Seashore," has just been issued-in English by Messrs. :Longman, has-produced a new work, entitled "Die Tropenwelt im Thier und- Pflanzenleben" (" The Tropic World in the Life of Plants and Animals").

Two books on England; a volume' of " Studien land' Bride fiber Lon- doner Theater, Kunst, und Presto ",(" Essays and Letters on the Theatre, Art; and the Press in London"), 'by- Th. Fontane, and "Architectur Bilder aus -Paris und London" (" Architectural Studies in Paris and London "), by A. Rosengarten, have just teen published:at Berlin.

M. F. Siebigk, Dessau, has brought out an interesting "Autobiography of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Deasau," the friend and military tutor of Frederick the Great, so often alluded to in Mr. Carlyle's History of the great Prussian King.

Lord Dufferin's "Letters from High Latitudes" have just been pub- lished in German, by Messrs. Vieweg and Son, Brunswick ; "Adam Bede" has been brought out by Messrs. lesser, Berlin, translated by Dr. Julius Frere.