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Two volumes of Marchioness de Boissy's (Guiccioli) "Life of Lord Byron," have been issued at Paris.

The late Rev. C. H. Townshend has appointed Charles Dickens to be his literary executor in the publication of his views on religious topics. John Crawford, Oriental scholar and ethnologist, died 11th May, aged 85.

Lord Brougham, whose name is famous in almost every field of intellectual effort, died 8th May, in the ninetieth year of his age.

Viscount de Cormenin, publicist and jurisconsult, author of "Studies

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Parliamentary Orators," &c., himself one of the most able of that tribe, died May 12th, aged 80.

The Edinburgh Review has for the subject of its opening paper," Comte's Positive Philosophy;" and the Quarterly opens with a paper on "Lord Macaulay and his School."

Wm. Morris, author of "Jason," has in preparation a new poem in two parts-" Earthly Paradise."

"Lives of the English Cardinals" (from Brakespeare to Wolsey), by Folkestone Williams, is in the press.

"The Shakspere Memorial Library," proposed in 1861 by George Dawson and the Shakspere Club, has been inaugurated at Birmingham. It has already acquired by douation and purchase 66 a collection of Shaksperian literature such as has never been seen before." It is anticipated that it will shortly embraceevery edition of Shakspere's works, and all works, such as commentaries, biographies, criticisms, &c., bearing on the dramatist.

An edition of the "English Reform Act," 1867, with notes and an index, has been issued by R. Wilkin

son.

It has been proposed to issue a "Birmingham Shakspere." It would be better, in our opinion, to prepare a "Universal Shakspere," and invite help from all the Shaksperians in the world to make it one,

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Professor Kingsley has given a course of four lectures at Cambridge supplementary to his course on "The Sixteenth Century." They treat of "Vesalius the Anatomist," "Rondeletius the Naturalist," "Paracelsus the Alchemist," and "Buchanan the Scholar."

An interesting correspondence between Lord Byron and the Armenian monks of St. Lazare, near Venice, has been recently discovered in that monastery. Lord Byron spent a considerable time at St. Lazare, and cherished a great affection for its monks, to whom he alludes in "Childe Harold."

Lovers of Milton will be happy to hear that Professor D. Masson has relinquished the editorial management of Macmillan's Magazine. Mr. Grove, the Palestine explorer, has taken the vacant seat.

A new series of the Journal of Philology under the care of the editor of the Globe Shakspere, is announced.

"Cavalier and Puritan Song," by Professor H. Morley, is in the press.

At the sitting of the French Academy of Science, 18th May, M. J. B. Dumas, professor of physics, author of "Lessons on Chemical Philosophy," &c., delivered a eulogium upon the late Professor Faraday. His discourse was much applauded.

It is said that Tennyson has the Arthurian epic of which the "Morte d'Arthur" is a fragmentary chip, lying completed among his papers, but that he is so anxious regarding the absolute finish attainable in it, he will not yield to the many endeavours made to get him to publish it.

In competition for T. P. Cooke's prize of £100, nineteen dramas have been sent in.

Professor D. Schenkel, D.D., has commenced the issue in shilling parts, at Leipsic, of a Bible Lexicon.

V. P. Tchijoff has translated Hegel's "Philosophy of Nature" into Russian.

John Payne Collier has had printed "for private circulation" a volume of "Old Popular Songs" in fac-simile of type, woodcuts, &c. He recently delivered a lecture on "The Origin and Progress of Street Ballad Singing," for the benefit of the Mechanics' Institute, Maidenhead, illustrating his subject by extracts from this work.

Dr. Besley, translator of Aristotle's "Rhetoric," author of "The Principles of Christian Allegiance," &c., died April 20.

Thorold Rogers, formerly Professor of Political Economy, Oxford, is to edit an authorized edition of Mr. John Bright's speeches.

Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, author of Bampton Lectures on "The Scholastic Philosophy in its Relation to Christian Theology' (1832), "Philosophical Evidences of Christianity," ""Lectures on Moral Philosophy," "Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle," reprinted from the Encyclopædia Britannica, the article on "Scholastic Philosophy" in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, sermons, &c., died 23rd April.

"Leibnitz as a Metaphysical and Ethical Philosopher," has been fixed on by Mrs. Blackwell's Trustees as the subject of the next £25 prize. The competition is unrestricted, and a note to the "Trustees," addressed University of Aberdeen, will, we believe, secure farther information.

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H. Ulrici has undertaken the editorship of a twelve-volumed reissue of the German translation of Shakspere's works by Schlegel and Tieck.

"A Poem," by George Eliot, is announced by Messrs. Blackwood as in the press. It is said to be founded on "a gipsy adventure."

The sum expended in publishing the fac-simile of "Domesday Book" has been £3,556, and it is expected that the receipts will more than cover the cost of its production.

That indefatigable old-book clergyman, the Rev. A. B. Grosart, now of Blackburn, having produced his "Fuller's Poems," and the annotated"List of Baxter's Works," now proposes to reprint, by his usual plan of private subscription, "The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies," "Giles Fletcher and Phinehas Fletcher," and the "Divine Poems" of Thomas Washbourne.

Bishop Colenso has issued the first part of "The Pilgrim's Progress," translated into the Zulu language, and the second part is in progress.

"The Paston Letters" are to be issued by the Early English Text Society, under the care of H. B. Wheatley.

A fac-simile series of reprints of broadsides, ballads, &c., has been commenced.

A statue of W. C. Bryant, the poet, is to be placed in the Central Park, New York.

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BRITISH CONTROVERSIALIST,

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LITERARY MAGAZINE.

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