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"William Shakespeare: a Biography," by A. Bekk, has appeared at Munich. A paper called "The Motherland" has been issued at Leipsic, for circulation in Poland.

Dr. J. N. Sepp is nearly ready with "The True Life of Jesus," a reply to Renan and Strauss.

A memorial tablet of Hegel has been placed in the house where he died.

O. Loreng's" German History in the XIIIth and XIVth centuries," vol. ii., is in the press.

Renan's "Phenice" is issuing. Lord Brougham is again reported to be engaged on an Autobiography.

The article on Shakspere in the London Quarterly Review is by Peter Bayne, author of " The Christian Life," &c., formerly editor of "The Commonwealth" (Glasgow), now editor of "The Weekly Review" (London).

The Rev. Charles Merivale, B.D., author of "A History of the Romans under the Empire," has been appointed Boyle Lecturer for the present year.

The copyright of Washington Irving's entire works has been disposed of for £42,000.

J. G. Edgar, author of "The Boyhood of Great Men," "The Wars of the Roses," &c., died 20th of April.

M Jules Lecomte, author of "Parisian Follies," &c., editor of "Le Monde Illustré" (b. 1812), died April 24.

Colenso intends to issue a people's edition of his work on the Pentateuch.

H. F. Chorley is superintending a reissue of "Mendelssohn's Letters," with biographic and critical introductions.

Selections from Whately's Commonplace Book, by his daughter, and a Memoir, by W. J. Fitzpatrick, the biographer of Dr. Doyle, are announced.

St. Paul, the Founder of Christianity," is the subject of M. Renan's present literary efforts.

A MS. of date 1760 has been discovered at Poictiers, containing the fundamental formulæ of Hegel's philosophy, ten years before the birth of the German thinker. It is to be published.

Charles Edw. Turner, Professor of

English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum, St. Petersburg, is about to issue his lectures under the title," Our Great Writers."

"The Home and Foreign Review," the quarterly exponent of the intellectual and progressive English Roman Catholics, has perished under a rescript from the Pope; and the "Dublin Review" and ultramontanism have gained a temporary triumph.

Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer (b. 1794), composer of " Jephtha's Daugh," "L'Etoile du Nord," "Les Hugue,"" Dinorah," &c., died April 30. A Welsh Quarterly, called "Yr Eisteddfod," has been commenced.

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Adolphe Garnier (b. 1801), editor of "Descartes," author of a "Criticism of the Philosophy of Reid," "History of Morals," &c., successor of Jouffroy, died May 5.

Rev. Dr. Davidson has undertaken to translate into English, for Tauchnitz, the "Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary" of the Old Testament of Jules Furst, the German Orientalist (b. 1805), of which the first edition appeared in 18514, the second in 1863, and this, from its author's improvements, will be equivalent to the third. Furst was educated for a Rabbi.

The Rev. Cæsar H. A. Malan (b. 1787), author of "The Songs of Sion," "Come and See," "The Witness of God," &c., died 8th May, aged 77.

Kepler's monument, by Kreiling, erected at Weilerstadt, is nearly ready for inauguration.

Shakspere Tercentenary German Poems are shortly to be published. Dietzel, Professor of Roman Law at Kiel, is dead.

A people's edition of Renan's "Studies in Religious History" is announced.

Thomas Solly, Lecturer on the English Language and Literature at the University of Berlin, author of "A Syllabus of Logic," "The Will Human and Divine," has issued "A Coronal of English Verse, or a Selection from English and American Authors," as a reading book.

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"Linnet's Trial," by the sister of the late author of" Harry Coverdale's Courtship," is out.

Victor Hugo announces as nearly ready," Songs of the Streets and the Woods," and two dramas, "Torquemada" and "The Twins."

Lord Brougham has written an introduction to the Speeches of Lord Wm. C. Plunket, the Irish orator (1761— 1854), which are about to be published.

H. G. Bohn has printed privately, for the Philobiblion Society, a work entitled, "The Biography and Bibliography of Shakspere." The Memoir is an independent excursus; the bibliography is an amended reissue of the matter prepared for the bibliopole's edition of Lowndes." It is a great pity, we think, to bury the book in the libraries of the thirty-three of that association.

Mr. Nelson Lee, the pantomimist, has composed his Autobiography.

J. P. Collier is reconstructing his "Old English Reprints Association," limited to fifty, on the guinea subscription plan.

John Downes, M.A., author of Pantheism, Scepticism, Spinoza, &c., in the Encyclopædia Britannica," and subeditor of that great national work, died May 16th, aged 36.

Jas. Ferguson, M.D., author and editor of several able and useful classical works for schools and colleges, died May 18.

A life of Carl von Weber, by his SOD, is out.

M. Grimm, son of the German philologist W. Grimm, has issued a biography of Michael Angelo.

W. R. Alger, an American author, has ready "A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life," with a complete bibliography of the subject. It is said to be a most voluminous and thorough work.

"A General Dictionary of the Sciences," edited by MM. Privat-Deschanel and Ad. Forillon, has been commenced in Paris.

Dr. Heinrich Kurz (b. 1805), author of a notable History of German Literture (1851-1855), is about to continue his work, bringing it down from 1830 to 1860.

Messrs. Macmillan and Co. will issue a Commentary on Shakspere's works as a companion to the Cambridge edition of Shakspere now under issue by them, of which Vol. V. will appear in August.

A Biography of the Hon. S. P. Chase, secretary of the Federal Treasury, and candidate for the presidency of the U.S., has been issued to help bis "run," under the title of "The Ferryboy and the Financier," the main facts "vouched for by himself."

An essay on Shakspere music appeared in the Recension, a Viennese publication.

Lumley's "Reminiscences of the Opera" are just out.

The musical world seems to be much agitated by a controversy on The True Laws of Melody and Harmony."

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Dr. David Laing, after twenty years' labour, has completed his edition of the "Works of John Knox, the Scottish Reformer," in six vols., with elaborate indexes and résumés.

Dr. William Leitch, Principal and Professor of Divinity in Queen's College, Canada, author of God's Glory in the Heavens," &c., died 9th May.

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