OCT. 15, 1869. statement that, before being published, it ought to | Academy some documents which proved that Pasbe submitted to some person who had read through cal knew the laws of attraction, and even had rethe consumed Byron memoirs, so as to secure, thelations with young Newton, I did not act with correction of any misstatements. I cannot see that precipitation: for it was from November, 1861, that Messrs. Wharton and Fords make no charge of an individual, calling himself a Paleographical Armaterial inaccuracy against Mrs. Stowe; I believe chivist, and engaged in buying and selling geneathey meant to assert the inaccuracy of the whole logical titles, procured me these documents from article. I, for one, cannot allow that Mrs. Stowe's their owner, who had intrusted him with their statement is substantially correct (according to sale. I consequently knew the scientific value of your inference and that of one or two other news- the documents; I knew, moreover, I did not pospapers). I am, etc. WENTWORTH." sess the whole collection, and I exerted myself to It is greatly to be regretted that Lord Houghton's have all of it delivered to me. I was told the pos(Sir John Cam Hobhouse's) life had not been pro-sessor, who had brought it from America, whither longed a few weeks, or that Mrs. Stowe had not it had been carried in 1791, was fond of examining published her article during his lifetime (as she might easily have done, for Countess Guiccioli's book was published several months ago in its English dress). He could have refuted with authority her libels on departed genius. Nevertheless sufficient evidence has already been adduced to brand her indelibly as a calumniator of the dead, and as a betrayer of family secrets confided to her at a hearth where she was hospitably entertained. FRANCIS BLandford. OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, Sept 15, 1869. THE mystery of the autographs, which I touched in my last letter, has been cleared up-at least in part and, like most stories of literary forgeries, its particulars are incredible. Poor M. Chasles still clings to the belief he has not been entirely cheated, and that some of the immense collection of papers he has purchased are original. He is alone in this opinion. The forger has been arrested; his name is Irene Lucas, and he has confessed to be the forger of all the pseudo autographs he sold M. Chasles. This poor gentleman has been buying these forgeries since 1861, and has laid out no less than $30,000 gold for them. I think I ought to lay before you Abbé Moigno's letter, and the declaration made by M. Chasles to the Academy of Sciences. It was a painful sight to see him make the humiliating confession he was at last obliged to speak, and indirectly to acknowledge his regard for truth had not been invariably sacred. He was shunned by his colleagues. He stood half bowed to the ground by shame, and read, in a weak, trembling voice, the declaration which I shall presently give. He did not once dare to lift his eyes from the paper. A smile would occasionally flit over the face of the public as some ingenuous confession escaped him; for instance, when he boasted of possessing letters of Julius Cæsar, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and Charlemagne ! When he ended, the President asked if any one desired to speak. No one answered. Then M. Dumas read, in a severe tone, the second report of the Committee in Italy to which the pseudo autographs of Galileo had been referred. When the first report was sent in, M. Chasles objected it was too hot in Italy for a photograph to be judged. The second report was clear and unanswerable, but disdainful, almost scornful, and repeated the pseudo autographs were forgeries, and added it was useless to examine documents which came from the source these forgeries issued. M. Dumas did not add a word. Poor M. Chasles rose and said, with burlesque ingenuousness, this report only confirmed what he had said. The President wished to adjourn the meeting, but some member took the floor. M. Chasles quitted the Academy, leaning on Abbé Moigno's arm. This was M. Chasles' statement, which assuredly is one of the most incredible pages of literary history: "When, in the early days of July, 1867, I had the honor to communicate to the all these documents, and would not surrender them except when he pleased. Therefore, when M. Leverrier, at the meeting of the Academy on the 29th August, 1867, asked me from whom I obtained these documents, and urged me to state the whole number in existence, I was obliged, as the Academy will understand, to refuse to satisfy his demand. Because, had I declared from whom I got them, I should have provoked offers to the person who sold them to me which he could not have resisted. It would have been to endanger the fate of these documents, which I considered valuable. Neither could I say that the several thousand pieces which were already in my possession were the only pieces of the collection. I was consequently obliged clearly to abstain from satisfying M. Le Verrier's desire; but no blame can be thrown on my reserve, especially as I earnestly invited all persons interested in the question to come to my house and examine all the papers. Moreover, as soon as objections came from abroad, I sent abroad all the disputed original papers or photographs of them, to every person who desired to see them. Could I do more? Again, the great number of documents, the names of their authors, the variety of scientific, literary, and historical subjects treated in them, and the perfect concordance I found in them, left me no doubt on the authenticity of their contents. It was this accord between all the documents which has allowed me always to reply to every objection made. This is so true some persons imagined the papers were furnished me by a forger, and so afterwards by a number of forgers who fabricated the papers at the last moment for the requirements of the cause. Let me add on this subject, that the very letter of James II., which seemed to authorize some persons to express this opinion, was known to our colleague, M. Balard, who had observed it several months before I used it, while he was, with two English scholars, examining at my house the collection of letters of King James, and his daughters Queens Mary and Anne. Independently of this fact, I may add that all the incidents which have occurred at our meetings ought to have averted the idea that I had resorted to documents which had been placed in my hands at the last moment, for I replied instantly to every objection made from foreign sources. When notice was given me at the beginning of the meeting, I ran home to get the pieces which refuted the criticism, or, when I had not time to do that, I replied in quoting from memory the documents which referred to the subject; and at seven or eight o'clock of the morning after the meeting the documents were sent to the printing office of the 'Compte-Rendu,' with the text of this reply. I moreover declare the seller who brought me the documents always came to my house between eleven and twelve o'clock meridian, or between half-past five or six o'clock of the evening; that I never went to his house, and never sent anybody to him to get documents. Consequently I was full of confidence in my documents. Never OCT. 15, 1869. theless, the observations made at Florence on Galileo's letter, dated Nov. 5, 1639, of which I had sent a photograph, aroused my attention, and began to fill me with apprehensions, which led me to make some investigations, and take some measures of precaution. I even thought it right to ask the Prefect of Police to order an active watch to place us upon the traces of the real collection of the pieces of which a part had been sold me. to me. one single person, compose-let alone the scientific and other pieces the Academy knows-all the letters and poems of Dante and Petrarch? I instance these especially. It cannot be pretended he borrowed them from printed works which contain only pieces in Italian. If the documents are to be believed, the manuscripts by Petrarch, Laura, and Clemence Isaure were sent to Rabelais by Nostradamus, who is said to have obtained them at Avignon. The collection of documents I possess extends to the earliest period of the Christian era, and even beyond it, for it contains some letters and numerous notes by Julius Cæsar, the Roman Emperors, the Apostles, St. Jerome, Gregory of Tours, St. Augustin, etc.; of several Merovingian Kings; a great many of Charlemagne, etc. The origin of the collection is stated by the documents themselves to be as follows: The Abbey of Tours was very rich in ancient documents. Alcain, who was its abbot, enriched it still more by ordering purchases to be made in Italy and other foreign countries of every treasure offered for sale. Rabelais, who was a great amateur of papers of this sort, and who was even stimulated in his researches by Francis I. and Marguerite d'Angoulême, familiar with the archives of the Abbey of Tours. He was allowed to take copies and make translations of several thousand pieces. All these papers were at his hermitage at Langey, which was a dependency of the Du Belleys' estate, and are believed to have been added to the collection of Intendant Foucault, who died early in the last century a member of the Academy of Inscriptions. I do not guarantee the authenticity of all these papers. But whatever their origin may be, it is certain their composition, if they are not original, must have required a great deal of labor and numerous materials. And if it be considered they are in concordance with so many others of every age down to the last century and treat of so many different subjects, it cannot be believed they are the work of one single person, of one single forger, who, moreover, knows neither Latin nor Italian, nor any branch of mathematics, or of other sciences which are treated in a considerable number of these documents. There is, therefore, a mystery to be penetrated, and until it is cleared no conclusion may with certainty be drawn.” nay; letters and devices by Cervantes; letters and poems by Ronsard, Tasso, etc. I may mention among the documents older than the sixteenth century in my possession, a great many manuscripts in prose and poetry by Dante, René d'Anjou, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Laure de Cabière (Petrarch's friend), Clemence Isaure, Villiers, Charles d'Orleans, etc.; numerous letters from kings: Philippe Augustus, St. Louis, Philippe le Bel, Charles V., "Further information increased my uneasiness, Charles VI., Charles VII., Agnes Sorel, Jacques and I felt it to be my duty to ask the Prefect of Cœur, Brantome; letters and narratives relating Police to arrest the man who sold the documents to Joan of Arc, written some by Agnes Sorel, others This was done. But nothing was found during Joan's imprisonment by the young girl her in his lodgings except some blank sheets from re-bed-fellow at Orleans. How could the same man, gisters, pens, a bottle of ink, and some fac-simile from the isographie, although I had hoped there would have been found in his chambers the collection of documents of which he had given me only copies, and of which a considerable portion was still due me. He at first refused to tell from whom he had received the documents he had sold me, but which he afterwards declared he himself had fabricated. The police asked him if he had received none of them from Count de Menou in 1861. He replied, 'I got about sixty of them from Count de Menou,' and added, he had also had the remnant of M. Le Tellier's collection; but this collection contained only genealogical pieces, which have doubtless been sold since 1860. He declared he has fabricated since 1861 all the pieces sold me; there are more than 20,000 of them. He also declares he has deceived me since that time; therefore we may believe he is capable of deceiving still further. Of a truth, he is still deceiving; for he has been obliged to confess, contrary to his first declaration, that he did receive documents from Count de Menou who died in 1862; moreover, a note in his handwriting found among his papers, mentions that he had received from this same Count de Menou some 20,000 valuable documents. The owner had not had time to examine them thoroughly; they had been given him in exchange for genealogical titles and labor performed for him. Moreover, can it be admitted that one single person could alone have composed so considerable a mass of documents on every sort of subject, especially when there is found in his lodgings none of the indispensable materials, books, fragments and drawings such a fabrication of documents would require? Nevertheless, the documents to which I have called the Academy's attention, are only a portion of those he has given me. There are an immense number of others which I have had no occasion to lay before the Academy, because it was proper I should confine myself to the scientific question. Besides numerous manuscripts by Galileo, Pascal, Louis XIV., Labruyère, Molière, Montesquieu, Boilliau, Marcotte, Rohault, Fontenelle, Maupertuis, Bernouille, St. Evremont, Mme. de Sevigné, Etienne Pascal, Mme. Perier, her sister, Jacqueline Pascal, and a number of other persons, I possess two thousand letters of Rabelais, a great many letters of Capernicus, Christopher Columbus, Here is Abbé Moigno's note on the same subject: Cardan, Tortolea, Ramus, Bride, Grolier, Calvin, "I defended M. Chasles with perhaps too much Luther, Scaliger, Dolet, Machiavelli, Michael An- energy and vivacity, because I had every reason to gelo, Raphael, Thomas More, Charles V., etc., all believe his cause was the cause of truth and of the addressed to Rabelais; a great many letters with honor of France. I considered the replies he made verses from his friend Clement Marot; unpublished to his adversaries as absolutely victorious, because mysteries and numerous poems by Marguerite d' I was persuaded he had long been in possession of Angoulême, letters and quatrains in French and the documents he communicated to the Academy; Latin by Anne de Pisselen; numerous letters and and nothing had been able to make me suspect they instructions by Francis I. for his son, letters and had successively been brought to him. It was only numerous pieces of poetry by Mary, Queen of in the beginning of April I heard from M. Chasles Scots; several hundred letters from Montaigne; a himself this distressing secret. He has been for great many letters from Shakspeare, addressed to eight years in relations with a man named Irene Larrivay, Philippe Desportes, and M'lle de Gour- | Lucas, who calls himself a paleographical archivist, was ОСТ. 15. 1869. Is it not one of the most curious literary forgeries ? G. S. cannot hold ourselves responsible for the insertion of any list, unless these rules are strictly observed. BOOKS WANTED.-Subscribers are reminded that, under this head, they have the privilege of adver tising for such scarce books as they may want, and are unable to obtain in their immediate neighborhood. The rate at which these are inserted is ten cents per book. Each title must, if possible, not Catalogues occupy more space than one line. wanted, or books bearing upon specific subjects mentioned generally, and not by name, must be paid for as regular advertisements. and has purchased from him an immense collection | the Academy itself! for I have played in the affair of historical documents. Lucas has already given only the part of a fatally convinced echo." him 20,000 pieces, but an enormous number are still to be delivered. This collection, according to Lucas, is in the hands of an old man, who found it hard to part with it and consented to surrender NOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. new pieces only after reading them. This was the ANNOUNCEMENTS.-In sending in their lists of anexplanation given of the slowness with which his nouncements, publishers are requested to observe engagements with M. Chasles were fulfilled; and the following rules: I. To place the name of the of the small number Lucas daily brought him, firm, and address, at the head of the list. II. To especially of late. This revelation was a thunder- condense the titles of the works so that, if possible, bolt to me, especially after M. Chasles had added they will not occupy more space than one line. that the sum he had successively given Lucas III. To send the titles of such works only as have reached the enormous amount of $28 or $30,000. not been actually published up to date of making I was still more terrified when I heard that the up the list, but are in preparation. IV. To be carenew copies and the translation of the famous letter ful not to send the same titles twice over. V. To of Galileo of the 5th, Nov. 1639, as well as the nu- write the list legibly. It constantly happens that merous letters of Saverian and Gerdil were given we receive lists without any name attached, and M. Chasles after Messrs. Breton, de Champ, and Le are therefore obliged to leave them out altogether, Verrier's communications. I trembled from this and others are so badly written that the names of day, and ceased speaking of M. Chasles's docu-authors, or titles of books, are unreadable. We ments; even their historical authenticity (I no longer considered them as autographs) was gravely compromised in my eyes. Moreover, M. Chasles himself was extremely uneasy. He already knew that if fabricated documents had not been given him, Lucas had at least given him inaccurate copies, and he did not cease pressing Lucas to prove to him the real existence of the collection and to put him in relations with its real possessor that he might exact from him the surrender of the autographs promised. M. Chasles's uneasiness became so great, that in coming to see me about 4 o'clock Tuesday, 17th Aug., he told me he wished to ask the Police Commissioner of Quartier St. Thomas d'Aquin whether, in the event of his meeting Lucas in the street, he could ask a policeman to arrest him as a thief and carry him to the nearest police station. When M. Chasles made this confession to me, I told him it was best to apply to the Prefect of Police to enable him to discover the collection, if it was true Lucas went daily to it to get papers, as he said he did. The next day I went with M. Chasles's authorization, or rather at his request, to see the Prefect of Police, who listened to me with great courtesy, took a deep interest in my revelation, and charged, by a note he gave me, the director of the municipal police to have Lucas watched until evidence was obtained of the real existence of the collection, or that Lucas was a forger. The same day I, in writing, informed Marshal Vaillant of the step I had taken; and I gave the same information to M. Balard. It was at first extremely difficult to discover Lucas's traces, although he continued to bring to M. Chasles more and more incredible letters, evidently forged for the necessities of the cause. One among them, which was alleged to have been written by Cardinal Gerdil to Guinguené, gave to the French author details about the existence of copies and the translation of Galileo's letter of the 5th Nov. 1639, which could only have been known to him (Lucas) who gave the letter to M. Chasles. This excess of audacity and the an nouncement that Lucas daily went to the Imperial Library to consult Galileo's works, biographical dictionaries, and Chauffepie's dictionary, left no doubt about his trade, and M. Balard and I persuaded M. Chasles to lodge a complaint for swindling in the hands of the director of the municipal police. So Lucas was arrested about noon the 10th September. I have evidently been deceived, but deceived by my absolute confidence in the worthiest of men and the noblest of causes. I accept my humiliation heartily. It has nothing dishonorable about it, and perhaps the evil is not irreparable. Besides, I am much less compromised, alas! than M. Chasles and BOOKS FOR SALE.-This department of the LITERARY GAZETTE is intended for the use of subscribers who have overbought, who have had good books thrown upon their hands, or who have become possessed of good or rare books, unsalable in their own localities. There is no limit as to the number of books, but a charge of twenty cents each is made for the first five, and ten cents for each succeeding one-the description, if possible, not to exceed one line; and the prices should in every instance be appended. CORRECTION.-A paragraph appeared in our last issue, which may mislead the Trade, concerning a recent change in a Boston firm. Messrs. A. Williams & Co. have not retired from the business, but have bought the stock of Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co., and will also retain the agency for the publi cations of Messrs. Harper Bros., and the specialties of Agricultural and Mechanical books. Mr. Dutton carries the stereotype plates of his Episcopal and other publications to New York. MR. BROTHERHEAD, the American Mudie, has recently established a branch establishment at Washington. It contains 5000 volumes in all classes of literature, and every new work of importance published in America or Europe, will from time to time be added. MR. Alfred TENNYSON has at length finally left Faringford House, in the Isle of Wight, and taken up his abode at his new residence near Petersfield, in Hampshire, one of the most beautiful of the southern counties of England. MR. SWINBURNE has returned from France. It is said he has made much progress with his "Bothwell" the second trilogy, of which "Chastelard” was the first. Ar the Amsterdam Exhibition, last month, W. & R. Chambers, the Edinburgh publishers, received a diploma of honor. Mr. William Chambers, after serving two terms as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, has announced that he declines re-election. OCT. 15, 1869. Ox the 5th of September, the fiftieth anniversary | F. Ellet, F. S. Cozzens, E. P. Whipple, and James of Hans Christian Anderson's first arrival in Copen- Russell Lowell, 51; Julia Ward Howe, Thomas W. hagen, his friends gave him a public dinner. THE law, in Great Britain and Ireland, which required all printing presses-even those used by amateurs in private houses-to be licensed, has been repealed, and newspaper publishers are no longer required to give bonds to the Government for pay-ard H. Stoddard, George H. Boker, and Bayard ment of fines or damages, in the event of conviction for printing seditious or blasphemous articles. In consequence of the high wages exacted by compositors in London a great deal of printing is sent to Edinburgh, whereby a large saving is effected. The Dublin steam-printing Company has opened an agency in London in order to secure a share of this extra work, wages and the cost of living being lower in Dublin than in Edinburgh. The Dublin Company employs from 150 to 200 men throughout the year, in stereotyping, printing, and bookbinding. THERE is a new way of spelling the word Mahometan, or Mohammedan. In the London papers is advertised a "Digest of Moohummudan Law." T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE, son of the author of "Men and Manners in America," and brother of Anthony Trollope, the novelist, has hitherto chiefly written works of fiction, with the scene in Italy, where long residence has made him entirely at home. "Lindisfarm Chase," an English novel, was not so successful as his foreign tales. He has in the press, in three volumes, "The Garstangs of Garstang Grange." A LITERARY Society in Paris has undertaken to publish, in about 200 semi-monthly volumes, octavo, the "Bibliothèque Internationale Universelle," containing, translated into French, all the known masterpieces of literature of all nations. THE hundredth number of the "British Quarterly Review," founded and long edited by the late Rev. Dr. Robert Vaughan, was published on the first of this month. JACOB ABBOTT's "Franconia Stories" have been republished in London. THE Paris insurrection of June, 1848, has found a historian in M. Garnier Pages, who has nearly completed a book upon it. APPLETON'S JOURNAL, though only a few months old, is now an established periodical, low-priced, well edited, and finely illustrated. It gives the following as the ages of living American authors, announcing that the list has been compiled with great care: Gulian C. Verplanck, 87; Richard H. Dana, 83; George Ticknor and Charles Sprague, 78; John Neal, 76; John P. Kennedy, 75; Sarah J. Hale, 74; William Cullen Bryant, 73; Stephen H. Tyng, Francis Lieber, and George Bancroft, 70; William H. Seward and Catharine E. Beecher, 69; Lydia M. Child and Leonard W. Bacon, 68; William H. Furniss and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 67; Horace Bushnell and George D. Prentice, 66; William Gilmore Simms and M. F. Maury, 64; Theodore S. Fay, John G. Whittier, Louis Agassiz, and H. W. Longfellow, 62; James Freeman Clarke, Isaac McLellan, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 60; Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, and Alfred B. Street, 59; Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Osgood, 58; C. R. Cranch and John S. Dwight, 57; J. T. Headley, W. H. C. Hosmer, H. T. Tuckerman, H. W. Bellows, Henry Ward Beecher, and E. H. Chapin, 56; Richard H. Dana, Jr., and John Lothrop Motley, 55; John G. Saxo and Epes Sargent, 54; E. A. Duyckinck and Parke Goodwin, 53; James T. Fields, John Bigelow, and Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 52; William E. Channing, Henry Giles, Mrs. E. D. Southworth, Mrs. E. Parsons, C. A. Bristed, and Herman Melville, 50; T. B. Read, Samuel Eliot, J. G. Holland, and Edward Everett Hale, 48; Alice Carey, William R. Alger, James Parton, and Donald G. Mitchell, 47; Francis Parkman and George W. Curtis, 46; RichTaylor, 45; Mary A. Denison and Charles L. Brace, 43; Paul H. Hayne, Mary L. Booth, and William Louise Chandler and James Grant Wilson, 35; Crosswell Doane, 38; William Swinton, 36; Ellen Thomas B. Aldrich and E. S. Rand, Jr., 33. Of these, however, Francis Lieber was born in Germany, Henry Giles in Ireland, and James Parton in England, and are not strictly American. SIR WALTER SCOTT's novel, "Old Mortality," has been dramatized, and played with some success at Sadler's Wells' Theatre, London. IT is stated that the "Autobiography of Mr. Gough," the temperance lecturer, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, is in press. A PROMISED "History of the Norman Kings," in one 8vo. volume, by Thomas Cobbe, Barrister, will form a new chapter in English history. Miss MULOCK's new work, in two volumes, "The Unkind Word, and other Stories," will consist of magazine tales. ALEXANDER SMITH, the poet, has many admirers in America, who may be glad to learn that the Rev. T. Brisbane has just published a volume, entitled "The Early Years of Alexander Smith, Poet and Essayist. A Study for Young Men. Chiefly Reminiscences of Ten Years' Companionship." A NEW edition of "Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities," a very amusing sporting book, has appeared in London, with a memoir of the author, now first published. He was a Mr. Surtees. CHARLES KNIGHT'S "London," originally in six volumes, a new edition, enlarged to eight, has just appeared. MR. SCHIMMEL, who ranks as a Dutch Walter Scott, has written a novel of English life in the days of Charles II., of which a translation, in three volumes, is announced in London. It is entitled "Mary Hollis." MR. SWINBURNE, the young English poet, has completed "Songs of the Republic" and "Bothwell, a Tragedy," both of which will immediately appear. RICHARD DOYLE, formerly the principal artist on Punch, is about bringing out a folio, entitled "In Fairy Land: Pictures from the Elf-world," with sixteen plates, containing thirty-six designs printed in colors, and a poem by William Allingham. A NEW edition of Thomas Moore's translation of "Anacreon," with beautiful designs by Girodet, is announced. A NEW work of fiction by "Ouida," author of & Co.; also, "The Great Empress: a Portrait," by "Under Two Flags," &c., is announced by Lippincott Professor Schele de Vere. M. L'ESTRANGE's "Life of Mary Russell Mitford," to be published by Bentley, London, will extend to three volumes. It will be filled up with correspondence and "Remains." THE "Sermons and Speeches of Father Hyacinthe," the Roman Catholic preacher at Paris who repudiates the policy and power of the Pope, are being translated by the Rev. L. W. Bacon, and will be published in one volume by Mr. Putnam, New York. OCT. 15, 1869. HORACE GREELEY'S Treatise on Political Economy, which recently was printed in the "New York Tribune," will be published in book form, before Christmas, by Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston. OF Mrs. Sewell's ballad, “Mother's Last Words," 600,000 copies have been sold in England alone, and yet another edition is announced, to be illustrated in colors by Kronheim. It will be published by Jarrold & Sons, London. DURING the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, a slave girl who was inside Delhi kept a Diary, which will be published in London during the present month. MISS LOUISA M. ALCOTT's clever and pleasant book, "Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy," published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, is very highly praised in the "London Athenæum," which says: The reader will find more truth and more humor in this story than in many works of fiction of a more pretentious character." MESSRS. SAMPSON LOW, SON & MARSTON, state that £5000 has been expended on designing and engraving 320 wood-cuts in a new Guinea Gift-Book of theirs, called "The Favorite Poems," to be pub lished this month. LIVES of Francis I. of France; of Albert Durer, the painter; of John Gibson, sculptor; of Michael Faraday; of Charles R. Weld, Secretary of the Royal Society, are announced in London. GENERAL GARIBALDI is writing, with a view to publication, a book, to be called "Rome in the Nineteenth Century." It will touch, among other subjects, on the low state of general education in Italy. DR. HENRY PHILPOTTS, Bishop of Exeter, who has lately died, at the advanced age of 91, was a very voluminous writer, though he never published a book. The titles of his pamphlets occupy sixteen folio pages of the British Museum Catalogue. and Roman Antiquities, Biography and Mythology, and Greek and Roman Geography. They are indispensable in a library. To MoxON & Co., announce, in a half-guinea volume, crown 8vo., profusely illustrated, two unpublished plays by Thomas Hood, namely: "Lost and Found" and "York and Lancaster (a Fragment)." which are added, with the original illustrations by John Leech, George Cruikshank, and E. Harvey, "Hood's Whimsicalities," "The Epping Hunt," This swelland "The Dream of Eugene Aram." ing out the volume, with many previous and wellknown poems by Hood, is a species of book-making which would not be tolerated on this side of the Atlantic. with original illustrations, will be published as a NEXT month, a new serial story by Wilkie Collins, serial, in "Harper's Weekly." It will run through several months. We have not learned what the title is, nor whether this is the serial story which the "Athenæum" lately stated Mr. Collins was writing for "Cassell's Magazine.' ventures, and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot, of THE leading idea of "The Remarkable Life, AdBristol," by J. B. Nicholls, the city librarian of Bristol (England), is to show that Cabot, a Bristol man, was "the founder of Great Britain's maritime power, the discoverer of America, and its first colo nizer." Mr. Nicholls fixes the date of Cabot's birth in 1474; that of his death is uncertain. MISS BRADDON's health appears to be re-established, for the "Belgravia Annual" for 1870, edited by her, is announced to appear early in November, and to open with a new story of hers, called "The Scene Painter's Wife," Among the contents will be "Sir Philip's Wooing," by Babington White, author of "Circe," who is supposed to be Miss Braddon writing under a nom de plume. The other contributors are Annie Thomas (Mrs. Pender Cudlip), THE admirers of one of the best of Scott's histori- Col. Meadows Taylor, Percy Fitzgerald, Charles cal novels may be pleased to know that the Earl H. Ross, Dutton Cook, Walter Thornbury, Joseph of Clarendon, the present owner of Kenilworth Cas- Hatton, John Saunders, &c. There are to be eight tle, is causing works of a rather extensive nature whole page and forty other engravings, by Louis to be executed among the ruins of that palace, with Huard, Thomas Gray, Edward Radford, Henry a view of preventing its further decay. These ope- Woods, H. D. Friston, H. K. Browne, F. W. Lawrations embrace the Great Hall, Leicester's build- son, J. A. Pasquier, and A. D. Friston; two of the ings, and portions of the external walls, being rein-authors, Charles Collette and Charles Ross, illusstated rather than restored. With these works ex-trating their own stories. This will be a tremendous cavations have been carried on, and have revealed shilling's worth. certain passages, cellars and chambers, which had been concealed by the débris of the upper portions of the buildings. WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI has nearly ready, in two volumes, "The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley," to which is prefixed a most carefully revised edition of his Poetical Works, with some Early Verses hitherto unpublished. The previous biographies are an unfinished one by Mr. Hogg, an English barrister, and another by the late Captain Medwin, who was Shelley's cousin. THE Stationers' Company of London will issue their "Almanacks" on the 25th of November. On that day, also, "Whitaker's Almanack for 1870" will be published, containing a variety of novel and valuable features, with a vast amount of information. This is the best Almanac ever published in England, and the cheapest shillings' worth in the world. THE four great classical Dictionaries of Dr. William Smith, now editor of the "Quarterly Review," are being issued, in a subscription edition, by Mr. Walton, their London publisher. Their price, £23 16s. is reduced to £12 11s.-almost half price. These, respectively, are the Dictionaries of Greek THE" Atlantic Almanac" for 1870, just published by Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, may be considered as rivalling the "Belgravia Annual" in the beauty of its illustrations and the value of its letter-press. It is superior, inasmuch as it also gives a variety of astronomical and statistical information. Among its contents are compositions by William Cullen Bryant, W. M. Thackeray, Kate Field, E. E. Hale, John D. Sherwood, Lewis Carroll, W. D. Howells, Elizabeth Phelps, T. W. Higginson, Charles Dickens, Nora Perry, M. R. Mitford, J. R. Lowell, J. T. Trowbridge, A. Tennyson, Thomas M. Brewer, &c. "GOOD WORDS" and "Good Words for the Young." These two magazines will in future be published in this country by Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co. The former, under the editorship of Norman Macleod, one of Queen Victoria's chaplains, is immensely popular in England, its circulation having reached as high as 180,000, a number almost without precedent in the anuals of periodical literature; its present circulation is, however, somewhat below that number, probably not more than 130,000. Its highly moral tone, and the literary excellence of its articles having gained for it admission into many houses, where, until its advent, periodical |