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Literary Notes.

Santa Anna has been writing a book this
winter ON Mexican Affairs, which n Boston
firm is to publish.
The Christian Union says that 'it would
not be hard to show that the most distinct
literary reputation made last year by apy
American was made by Edward Eggleston."
There is frssh contribution to Dsme Eu-
ropa literature, in "Another Row at Dame
Europa's Showing how Johns Cook made
an Irish Stew, and What Came of IT,
Among the forthcoming English novels are
10 be noted Mrs. Ophant's 'tMay," "Oakley
Castle," by Henry Kingsley, and '"The Pillars
OF the House," by Miss Yonge..
Henry Cornelius Agrppa was respectable
sort OF man in his day, and his curious old
Latin work "On the Superiority of Woman
over Man. has just been translated into Eng
lish bya distinguished New York lady.
We learn from the Athenaum that the
forthcoming number of the Edinburgh Re-
view will contain memoir of the late Gener-
al Lee, the Confederate CommaDder-in- Chief,
from original and other materials, collated by
writer already known from his studies Of
the campaigns in Virginia.
The series of poli'ic ical comets by Mr. Swim
burne, which is appearing in the London Ex-
aminer, will deal chiefly with incidents in
the history of the Papacy and the French
Empire during the past twelve or fourteen
years, eight of the number having reference
to the late Emperor Napoleon III.
Rev. A. Blauvelt has in preparation three
papers for Scribner's Monthly, which will Tap
pear serially as soon as possible, beginning
probably with the June or July number The
papers are: 1st, Modern Sceptiesm; I'd,
Theologians and Modern Scepticism; Sd, Lay
men and Modern Scepticism.
Tho T iifo TorYfp al opd T at4o-, or noox.
ford, By his widow, soon TO appear in Lon
don, gives pleasant picture of the career of
most amiable and accomplished man. In
him the love of Bellies Lettres and the Arts
were combined with power of application for
seyerer studies rarely found in conjunction.
DR.. Ethe, who is intrusted with the cata-
logning OF the Persian manuscript in the
Bodleian Library has discovered several lyrics
OF the great Persian poetFirdus, the author of
the "Shah-nameh." He has published the
Persian test, with metrical translation, in
the Transactions of the Bavarian Royal Aca-
deny. .-
Professor Jevons's new work, upon which
he has been engaged for many years, entitled
''The Principles of Science" contains COM
plete explanation of the authors system Of
deductive logic, which has hitherto been de-
scribed only in brief essays and papers, to-
gether with new analysis of the methods of
inductive investigation, as illustrated by the
physical sciences. 1Is
The "Rip-Veda," in the Samhita and Pa
da texts, edited by Professor Max Muller, on
the eve of publication, fills one thousand sew
en- hundred pages, deny octave, and is be-
leved to be the first SanSkrit work ever ster-
eotyped. The difficulties Of this process are
said TO have been very great, on account OF
the fine accent and vowel-signs, which con-
stantly got broken.
Old book-lovers in Paris have been greatly
ex ,ited lately by fresh acquisition of the
well-known brothers Tross, a Horace"
printed on yellum, without place or date, but
in Italy, probably Venice, about 1869, in
small quarto, 157 leaves, 26 lines to page,
without signatures or initials. 1t is not the
unique copy on vellum that Van Praet de-
scribed, which formerly belonged to M. Fcna-
roll, at Brescia, and it has not heretofore
been known.