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is hardly IN author Of fifty years back whose
letters are not found in these Constable NE

is hardly m author Of fifty years back whose
letters are not found in these Constable me-
moirs.
The stories Of the late Edgar A. Poe were
t7analated into French By Bandelaire, and have
lately appeared in new edition
An English critic thinks the musicians tale
in Longfellov aftermath" WAS translated
directly from the DANISH
Tho veteran historian Kanke has Issued an
other ]sborions work, entitled THE Genesis Of
the pruseian State"
The third volume Of tho Is Simancas Archives"
relating - England and Spain in the age o!
Henry VIII, has just been published by the
British Government
1.-THE Gallery of Literary Characters" illus
tra,ed with sketches Of the authors, BY Daniel
Maelise, has been brought out in Loudon. There
are elglt5~threo portraits, among whom are Dis
raeli, CARLYLE, Cruikshank, Ainsworth. Miss
Martineau, Count dOrsay, Walter Scott, Talley-
rand, and Charles Lamb.
Sir Arthur Helps new story Of Russian and
Siberian life is to be called 1raa do Biron.'''
on its appearance next mouth Sill be the - Life
and Letters of Lord 3linto." edited BY the
Countess of Miuto. It contains multitude OF
private letters referring to all the principal per-
sonages Of the first years Of this century.
Mrs. Mary Clemner Ames is to contribute to
Ecery Saturday > new story Of American social
life, - His Two Wives"
Mcssrs. Chambers will. in few months, pab-
lish pew edition Of chambers Cyclopedia."
bringing tho work down to the dates OF thu last
census III Great Britain, ireland, and other Eu-
ropesn countries.
A1rs Gro.e has intimated her intention 10 give
the Mss. Of her late husband to the British
Afusouu:.
! new work By Prof. Ravlinsou will shortly
appear. It is entitled ''The Seventh Great Ori-
entail Monarchy, History OF the SaEsanaps;
with Notices, Geographical and Antiquarian
Dr.. George Macdonald has completed new
work Q: fiction dealing partly with American
e.ai pa1:lv with Scottish life. Ii will be pub
l,shed il: the first instance in the Glasgow 1esk-
II Herald. The titlo is 1falcolnl."
Mr. Howells has completed Is new story OF
italian life. which the readers Of the ANan!ic will
first haye the benefit of
The Saturday Recie1o eood-humored1y laughs
at DR.. ". H. Russell's "Disry During the Last
thing. from ::he authors appetite to the battle
OF Sedan, aad from the Grown Princes white
breeches to the fall Of Paris" Tho specific
gravity of Mr. RUSSELL" it addg, ''when most
condensed is equal to that OF an ordinary writer
when most expanded,
Mcssrs. Longn,aua have in tho press new
edition. being the third: Of "Eesays on Some
Unsettled Questions Of Political Economy" by
John Stuart 3Iill. The essays follows:
!. OF the Laws Of interchange between Ma
Commerce among tho Countries of tbs CONNER
csl World; 2, OF the Influence Of Consumption
upon Production; 8. On the Words Productive
and Cnpro5nct;ve: /. On Profits and Interest;
and 5. the Definition OF Poltica! Economy
aud on tho Method Of Investigation properto It.
4 third series OF ''Easnya. Scientific, Politi-
cal, and Speculative" by Herber. Spencer, will
shortly be published. The ntieicC are: The
Classification Of the Sciences with postscript,
replying to criticism) Reasons for Dissenting
from the Philosophy of II. Comte; Laws in Gem
eral the Origin OF Animal Wo-5l:ip; Special
lied Administration tha Collective Wisdom :;
Political Fetichlsm; What Is Electricity? The
Constitution of the Sun; Mr. Hartineau on
Evolution Replies to Cr;ticisms.
It now appears that the aflictiog story OF
Bjo1nsen's poverty and his consequent e1nigra-
ton to America, which hns been going the
rounds, is, to put it mildly, made out
of whole cloth.'' The academy. in allud-
ing to it's publication. in II-u6ner's says
tinnie, 900 miles from Trondhjen, gets
q good income from his works, lives III compara-
tive luxury, and has never dreamt OF entering
tho Church. The only spark OF truth in all this
story is that Bjorusen is really about to leave
Norway; he has bought house III Florence"
We believe the story had its origin in German
newspaper, and was thence translated into En-
Slish.
Ex-Socretary Wells has decided to pnt At least
part OF his knowledge Of the inner history OF
ths historic Lincoln Administration into perma-
ncnt form. The Messrs. Sheldon last week
closed with him a contract Of publication for
tond to duodecimo Of some 800 or 400 pages.
Whilo it in part goes over the same ground as
the Gdlury articles, the book will be OF much
wider scope, besides amp1Hying the former
points and fortifyiug them with extracts from
official rccords-Neto York Mail