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

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

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

MR. THACKERAY'S new novel, to appear in the Cor•nhill
Hagazi4e, 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.

Ma. EDMUND 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. SA.LA'S new ,F cries 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 now novel by Miss Braddoa, to be called
" The Doctor's Wife."

"RACHEL RAY," by Anthony Trollope, is announced as
the new volume of the Tauchnitz 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 OF STERNE, BY Met. PERCY FITZGERALD (of
Dublin), will shortly appear, reprinted from the Dublin
University Magazine.
Loup AMBERLEY, the eldest son of the E trl Russell, i s
the writer of the article on clerical subscription in the
North British. Review.

BOOKS RECEIVED.
Caxtoniana. By Sir E. Bulwor 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 Mocha.
Morton of Bardom: a Lancashire Tale. 3 vols. Newby.
Annie Warleigh's Fortunes. By Holmo Lee. 3 vole,

Smith and Elder.
The Pirates of the Foam. By C. F. Armstrong. 3 vcls

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

Elder.
Life of Blake. By Alex. Gilchrist. 2 vols. Macmillan.
Battle Fields of the South. 2 vols. Smith and Elder.
Memoirs of Jane Cameron. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
Plays. By Frances Anne Kerable. 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. U. Hood. Edmonston

and Douglas.
Anthropology. By Dr. Theodore Waitz, Vol. I

Longman.- -
Andersen's Tales and Stories. Routledge.
LoLdon People. By Charles Bennett. Smith and Elder.
Every Boy's Annual, Illustrated. Routledge.
History of Poor Match. By Holmo Lee. Smith and Elder.
The Rector's Daughter. By Anne Bowman. Routledge.
Maud Latimer. By lion. Augusta Bethel!. Smith and

Elder.
Marian and her Pupils. By Charlotte Lankestor.

Routledge.
Aunt Maddy's Diamonds. By Harriet Myrtle. Routledge,
George Stanley. By J. C. Geikie. Routledge,
The Child's Picture Scrap Book. Boutledge,
British Soldiers, Sailors and Volunteers. Routledge,
Every Little Boy's Book. Routledge.
Punch's Pocket Book for 1864. Bradbury and Evans.

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