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by the death of Sir James Stephen. It has also been said, that Messrs. Helps, Merivale, Spedding, and Woodham were among the candidates.

The Rev. THEODORE PAkker, of Boston, US, author of a Discourse on Matters pertaining to Religion, &c., died at Florence on 10th ult

Lady BYRON's demise has been announced.

Lisbon has now been enriched by a monument to CAMOENS. It is the work of Victor Bastos.

Prof. TISCHENDORF is to superintend, at St. Petersburg, the reproduction of the Bible Codex found by him on Mount Sinai. It is to be an exact reprint of the original, with new types, in three large folios, with one vol. of Commentary, History, and Criticism.

A monument to James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, is to be inaugurated on 28th irst., at Chapelhope-beside St. Mary's lake, in the parish of Ettrick and county of Selkirk-a spot which stands in the midst of the scenery he has made famous by song and story, and where his early life was spent.

"A History of Flemish Literature," by Octave Delepierre, intended to supplement Hallam, is just out.

Messrs. Ticknor and Fields (Boston, U.S.) "have assumed the control of The Atlantic Monthly," an international magazine.

ANDREAS RETZIUS, an anatomical and physiological writer, as well as a distinguished ethnologist, expired at Stockholm, 18th April, aged 64.

The Welsh Dante-ELIS WYNNE (1670-1734), is about to be introduced to the Saxon-speaking public, by Mr George Borrow, author of "Lavengro," &c., who has translated the "Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg" or Visions of the Sleeping Bard of the World, Death, and Hell, one of the most beautifully-composed works in the Cambrian tongue. The poet, however, has been accused of deriving some hints from Quizedo's (1580-1645) Visions.

H. H. WILSON, Boden Professor of Sanscrit, the historian of India, trans

lator of "Sakoontala," &c., died in Wimpole Street, London, 8th ult., age

75.

"Memorials of Thomas Hood," collected by his daughter, and prefaced by his son, are in the press of the Messrs. Kent (Moxon).

One thousand pounds have been raised for a memorial to HALLAM.

The complete works of Frederick the Great, edited by himself, and then capriciously (because of Voltaire's snappish criticism?) withdrawn from circulation, have been discovered in some nailed-up boxes in the Royal Palace of Berlin. Will this discovery delay Carlyle?

The National Review is said to be conducted by RICHARD HOLT HUTTON. TAUCHNITZ'S English editions of Macaulay's History," and Carlyle's "Frederick," cost respectively 16s. and 10s. each.

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1860 has an issue of 1,042 newspapers in Great Britain.

The Rainbow is the title of a newspaper publishing at Theodosia, in the Crimea, and printed in parallel columns in French, Russ, and Armenian-edited by Bishop AIVASOFFSKI.

Puritanism and its Leaders-Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, Bunyan-by Principal Tulloch, is in the press.

The Pepysian Ballads, with introductions on Ballad lore writers and printers, are promised shortly by Dr. RIMBAULT.

Day and Son have issued a fac-simile of Magna Charta.

HERR KÜNZEL has published a Biography of the late Sir R. Peel, in German.

The Deutsch Zeitung is now edited by Professors Gervinus, Hausser, and Beseler.

William Tegg is about to issue, commencing on 25th inst., Dr. Adam Clarke's Commentary, in ninety fortnight shilling parts.

THIERS is preparing the 18th vol. of The Consulate and Empire. It will contain a record of The hundred days, and an account of Waterloo.

The death of E. M. WHITTY, author of "Sketches in Parliament," "Friends in Bohemia," &c., in Melbourne, is announced.

L. N. R [anyard] is the authoress of "The Book and its Story," "The Book and its Missions," &c.

Routledge and Co. have begun an issue of "The Old Dramatists," and of "The Old Poets," in shilling monthly parts. They are to be annotated, and to be preceded by Biographical Notices, &c.

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EDWIN ATHERSTONE, the author of the highly poetical works entitled "Nineveh" and 1 he Ruins of Herculaneum," &c., has been placed upon the pension list for £100 per annum.

The Boston Transcript is edited by E. P. WHIPPLE (born 1819), author of Lectures on Life and Literature (1850), and one of the chief contributors to The North American Review.

REV. J. J. BLUNT'S contributions, Literary and Theological, to the Quarterly Review, are to be issued separately by Murray.

Dr. Isaac da Costa, a distinguished Dutch poet, is dead.

"The Life and Letters of Washington," by his nephew and literary executor, now in preparation, is highly spoken of. It is to be hoped that there will be in it something more pleasant than G. W. Plaster was able to tell of the Hero of American Independence.

Mr. Fry, of Bristol, intends to issue an exact transcript of Tyndale's New Testament, edition 1525.

DR. LATHAM is employed in editing Johnson's Dictionary for the Messrs. Longman; and Messrs. Williams and Norgate are to issue his Philological and Ethnographical Essays.

A Life of BLAKE, an artist of singular intensity and vigour of fancy, is about to be published by Gilchrist, the biographer of Etty.

A memorial church is to be erected at Bemerton, near Salisbury, where GEORGE HERBERT was rector. The fund has been raised chiefly among literary celebrities.

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