The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-23 00:00:00

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

THE POET LAUREATE has been experimenting in classic
metres; and some specimens of hexameters and pentame-
ters, Alcaics and hendecasyllabics, by him will appear in
the next cumber of the Cornhill Magazine, together with a
sample of a translation of Homer in blank verse.

MR. THACKERA.Y'S new novel, to appear in.the Cornhill
Magazine, will relate to a very early period of English
history.
MR. CHARLES READE'S novel of a " Very Hard Cash"
now rapidly drawing to its conclusion in " All the Year
Round," will be published by Messrs. Low, Son, and Co,
early in December.
MR. ED),LuND YATES will commence a new novel of
English Life in the Temple Bar Magazine, on the conclu-
sion of Mr. Dutton Cook's " Trials of the Tredgolds," in
February.

Mit. G. A. SALi's new series of essays entitled, " Streets
of the World," will begin in the next number of the same
magazine, while the January number will contain the open-
ing chapters of a new novel by Miss Braddoa, to be called
" the Doctor's Wife."

" Acunt. RAY," by Anthony Trollope, is announced as
the new volume of the Tauchnits series.

THE new correspondent of the Times in the United
States, who has succeeded Dr. Charles Mackay, is actually
Signor Gallenga, the well-known writer, and a member of
the Italian Parliament I

A LIFE OP STERN; BY MR. PERCY FITZGERALD (of
Dublin), will shortly appear, reprinted from the Dublin
University Magazine.

LORD AMBERLEY, the eldest son of the Eirl Russell, is
the writer of the article on clerical subscription in the
North British Review.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Caxtoniana. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. 2 vols. Black-
wood.
The Gladiators. By White Melville. 3 vols. Longman.
The Wife's Evidence. By W. G. Wills. 3 vols. Hurst

and Blackett.
Morton of Bardem : a Lancashire Tale. 3 vole. Newby.
Annis Warleigh's Fortunes. By Holms Lee. 3 vols.
Smith and Elder,
The Pirates of the Foam. By C. F. Armstrong. 3 vols.

Newby.
Leo : a Novel. By Dutton Cook, 3 vols. Smith and

Eider.
Life of Blake. By Ales. Gilchrist, 2 vols. Macmillan.
Battle Fields of the South. 2 vole. Smith and Elder.
Memoirs of Jane Cameron. 2 vole. Hurst and Blackett.
Plays. By Frances Anne Kemble. Longman,
Keeping Afloat : a Novel. Skeet.
My Imprisonment at Washington. By Mrs. Greenhow.
Bentley.
Adventures of Rob Roy. By James Grant. Routledge.
My Beautiful Lady. By Thomas Woolner. Macmillan.
Chapters of College Romance. By Isaac Butt, M.P.
Skeet.
Rise and Fall of the Model Republic. By J. Williams.
Bentley.
Hamlet. Par le Chevalier de Chatelain. Rolandi.
Cruise of H.M.S. Fawn. By T. H. Hood. Edmonston

and Douglas.
Anthropology. By Dr. Theodore Waltz. Vol. I.

Longman.
Andersen's Tales and Stories. Routledge.
London Peopl•:. By Charles Bennett. Smith and Elder.
Every Boy's Annual, Illustrated. Routledge.
History of Poor Match. By Rohn° Lee. Smith and Elder.
The Rector's Daughter. By Anne Bowman. Routledge.
Maud Latimer. By Hon. Augusta Bethel'. Smith and

Elder.
Marian and her Pupils. By Charlotte Lankester.
Routledge.
Aunt Maddy's Diamonds. By Harriet Myrtle. Routledge,
George Stanley. By J. C. Geikie. Routledge.
The Child's Picture Scrap Book. Routledge,
British Soldiers, Sailors and Volunteers. Routledge.
Every Little Boy's Book. Routledge.
Punch's Pocket Book tor 1864. Bradbury and Evans.

Mr. E. T. SMITII, who has become lessee of
Astley's, will open the theatre at Christmas with a new
drama and a gorgeous pantomime,