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ALLIBONE'S DICTIONARY OF AUTHORS.-We have received a letter from S. Austin Allibone, dated May TOURISTS IN AMERICA.-Sir Morton Peto, M. P., 30, in which he says: "The Dictionary of Authors, has published the results of his tour in the United which I projected in 1850, and commenced prepar- States last autumn, as "The Resources and Prosing for the press Aug. 1, 1853, was completed last pects of America, ascertained during a Visit to the night at twenty-seven minutes after eight." We States in the Autumn of 1865," which gives a highly are glad to hear that this work, the result of sixteen favorable view of our condition and prospects. Mr. years of continuous and most exhausting labor, is W. H. Bullock, a young Oxonian, "with keen eyes, finished. The first volume has already been pub-good spirits, and plenty of animal daring," made a lished by G. W. Childs, of Philadelphia, and we rapid tour through Mexico in the winter of 1864 presume that the second and concluding volume and the spring of 1865, and has thrown his expewill soon appear. The book, as completed, will be rience into a volume entitled "Across Mexico in the most valuable bibliographical work in existence. 1864-5." His verdict, from what he saw and Indeed it will be a whole library of bibliography in heard, was that the French had made everything

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worse than they found it. He describes the French | pleted his romance of "Armadale" in the June soldiers as little better than thieves and assassins. number of the "Cornhill," it is announced that TENNYSON ILLUSTRATED BY DORÉ.—It is stated that Miss Thackeray will commence a new story in the Gustave Doré has finished a series of thirty illus- July number. trations of Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," which he was commissioned to execute by a London publisher. As Doré does not know the English language, Tennyson's blank verse was translated into French prose, and on this somewhat subdued text Doré had to work.

ALEXANDER SMITH.-This Scottish poet, whose "Life Drama" excited a sort of furore on its publication in 1853, and who now is only thirty-five years old, is writing prose tales and sketches for two English periodicals, "Good Words" and "The Quiver. Since 1854, Mr. Smith has held the secretaryship of the University of Edinburgh, an office for life, with $1500 per annum salary.

GUSTAVE DORÉ. This artist, whose genius and industry are alike marvellous, has supplied fortythree illustrations to the "Authentic History of Captain Castagnette," written by M. Manuel, a French author, and just translated into English. It is a story of the Munchausen class, and the hero, of the Bobadil family, is a ludicrous braggart, who applied artificial contrivances to repair the ravages of war, until scarcely a bit of his original person remained to him. The book is amusing, but the illustrations chiefly give it value.

POPULARITY. It is announced that of "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green," an amusing book which caricatures rather than describes college life at Oxford, ninety thousand copies have been sold. The author, whose nom de plume is “Cuthbert Bede,” is the Rev. Edward Bradley, and was educated, not at Oxford, but in the University of Durham.

IRELAND'S SHAKSPEARE FORGERIES.-There was to have been sold in London on the 7th ult. William H. Ireland's own Collections relative to the Shakspeare forgeries, with the "Confessions" in his own handwriting. It may be remembered that Ireland pretended to have discovered numerous manu. scripts by Shakspeare, including two entire plays, called "Vortigern" and "Henry II. ;" that Dr. Parr and other littérateurs fully believed in the authenticity of these papers; that "Vortigern," purchased by Sheridan, was produced at Drury Lane Theatre, in 1796, where it failed, with John Kemble in the leading part; that the two plays were published in 1799; and that Ireland's "Confessions," which appeared in 1805, revealed the history and mystery of the whole elaborate and specious forgery. Ireland died in 1835, and the manuscript of his

"Confessions" must be of no small interest to

Shakspearian scholars. It is singular that in the Shakspeare" documents manufactured and proLord Southampton, and of Queen Elizabeth were curiously unlike any of the originals, of which numerous fac-similes had been published.

ART UNIONS.-On the motion of Lord Robert Montagu, the House of Commons appointed a com-duced by Ireland, the signatures of the poet, of mittee to inquire into the establishment and operations of Art-Unions in England, and upon their effect upon Art. They report that the engravings issued by these Associations are generally indifferent, and that they have encouraged the duction of inferior painting and modelling. It is expected that these institutions, in consequence of this unfavorable report, will be strictly placed under the laws which prohibit lotteries in the British Empire.

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JENNY LIND. This great vocalist's appearance at the Dusseldorf Musical Festival, this year, will be a farewell one. She is now nearly forty-five years old, and wishes to retire in her prime.

GEORGE BANCROFT.-The Lincoln oration of our great historian, delivered before Congress, has been republished in London.

committed to the Tower in 1688, enriched and illustrated by most interesting personal letters, now first published, from the Bodleian Library."

VICTOR HUGO.--It is stated that Victor Hugo has lost £15,000 by the recent failure of a London bank.

NOBLE AUTHORS.-Among the recent English announcements is the "Memoirs and Correspondence AGNES STRICKLAND.-This historian of the Queens of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere," who died of England and Scotland has just completed, in last year in his ninety-third year, after over sixty-one volume, "Lives of the Seven Bishops who were four years of military service, and was supposed to have been the oldest soldier in the world. This biography is written by his widow (an accomplished Irish lady, daughter of Dr. T. Gibbins, of Cork), and Captain W. W. Knollys.-Viscountess Enfield has just published "The Dayrells: a Domestic Story," which is critically commended as "pure and honest in intention, and full of good morals for young people of a marriageable age."-And Lord De Ros has nearly completed "Memorials of the Tower of London," a subject hitherto much neglected, not having been treated with any degree of fulness in Mr. Brayley's pretentious" History of the Tower," though agreeably in several of Mr. Harrison Ainsworth's historical romances.

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ISA CRAIG.—This lady, born in Edinburgh in 1830, won the first prize for her Ode recited at the Bains Centenary Festival in 1859, there being 620 competitors. In 1856, Mr. Blackwood, of Edinburgh, published for her a volume entitled "Poems by Social Science Association, he secured Miss Craig's When Mr. Hastings organized the National help as assistant secretary. She has resigned that office, on the occasion of her marriage, and the members of the Association have presented her with a silver tea-service and salver, suitably inscribed.

paintings by this great artist have just appeared in
J. M. D. TURNER.-Engravings of two of the finest
London. One, engraved in line by William Miller
and his last and finest work, is "The Bell-Rock
Lighthouse during a Storm;" the other by William
Chapman, the only pupil of Miller, is
"Ilfracombe
Devon."

SILVIO PELLICO.-Lady Georgina Fullerton has translated the "Life of the Marchioness Guilia Fal letti of Bazolo," the posthumous work of Silvio Pellico, author of "Le Mie Peigione." It will be published immediately.

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A PRIMITIVE SUBJECT.-M. Gounod, the musical | now announced in London "A Century of Painters composer, who was making a new opera on the of the English School: with Critical Notices of their time-honored subject of Romeo and Juliet, has Works, and an Account of the Progress of Art in discontinued his labors in that direction, and is said England," in two volumes, by Richard and Samuel to be "writing the history of Adam and Eve." Redgrave, both well-known artists. J. SHERIDAN LE FANU.-A new novel by this writer, whose "Uncle Silas" is well known and valued here, is announced by Richard Bentley, London. Its name is "All in the Dark." Mr. Le Fanu, one of the great Sheridan family, wrote the eccentric and thrilling poem "Shamus O'Brien," which was originally recited in this country by Samuel Lover, who did not exactly claim, but never distinctly disclaimed, the authorship.

SCANDINAVIA. The "History of Scandinavia, from the Early Times of the Northmen, the Sea Kings, and Vikings, to the Present Day," by Professor Paul C. Sinding, published in this country about seven years ago, has been reproduced in England, with a map and portrait of Queen Margaret.

PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.-Bryant's "Dictionary of Painters and Engravers," always valuable as a standard work of reference, has just been supplemented by a volume, imp. 8vo., entitled "Modern and Living Painters," by Henry Ottley, London. TEETOTALISM.-We notice that the ninth number of "The Anti-Teapot Review" has just been published in London and Oxford.

THE LATE JOHN LEECH. A biography of this able artist, so long the leading illustrator of "Punch,' is announced in England. It will be written by Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh, author of "Rab and His Friends," and other genial works.

MARTIN ON MCCULLOCH.-A new and enlarged edition of the late J. R. McCulloch's "Dictionary of Geography," prepared by Frederick Martin, is announced by Longman & Co. of London, the original publishers of the work, which has long been out of print.

MONOGRAMS. A recently published English volume, shield-form, printed on fine drawing-paper, with 45 illustrations in colors, and set off in illuminated binding, is J. E. Hodgkin's "Monograms, Ancient and Modern, their History and Art-Treatment; with Examples collected and designed," by the author. The contents are: 1. Greek and Roman Monograms; 2. Early Forms of the Labarum; 3. Later Forms of the Labarum, &c.; 4. Monograms of Popes, Bishops, &c.; 5. Monograms of Emperors of Germany; 6. Monograms of Kings of France and Italy; 7 and 8. Monograms of English and Foreign Printers; 9. Masons' Marks; 10. Monograms of Painters and Engravers, &c.; 11. Various Monograms; and 34 combinations of Initials of various characters printed in gold and colors on shields.

DR. PETRIE.-A committee has been formed, consisting of the Earl of Dunraven, the Rev. Drs. Todd, Graves, and Reeves, &c., to edit the literary remains of this well-known Irish antiquarian. Professor Stokes, of Dublin University, is to write

the memoir.

QUAKER BOOKS.-The "London Bookseller" says: A curious bibliographical work is now in course of publication, of which the full title is "A Descripby Members of the Society of Friends, commonly tive Catalogue of Friends' Books, or Books written called Quakers, from their first Rise to the present Time; interspersed with Critical Remarks and occasional Biographical Notices, and including all Writings by Authors before joining, and by those after having left the Society, whether adverse or not. Compiled by Joseph Smith. London: Printed for Joseph Smith, No. 2, Oxford Street, Whitechapel." Five one shilling parts have been issued, but the names go no further than "Baker," the most voluminous writer being "Anonymous." Some of the most curious titles belong to books published within the last fifty years.

LIBERAL EDITORIAL REMUNERATION.-In the "Lon

CAMDEN SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.-This association, which has taken the name of an eminent antiquarian, applies itself to the publication of early his torical and literary remains. By an accidental coincidence, the Marquis Camden, whose family name is Pratt, is now its President. The followingdon Atheneum" we find the following advertisebooks will be issued to its members in 1866, annual ment: "Reporter and Sub-Editor wanted. Wanted subscription $5: I. Letters and Other Documents on a Country Journal, a Verbatim Short-hand ReIllustrating the Relations between England and porter, and good Descriptive Writer, one who would Germany at the Commencement of the Thirty also be willing to make himself generally useful in Years' War, edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Sub-editing, &c. To a competent person the situaEsq., late Student of Christ Church. II. A Re- tion would be an improving one.' It ought to be gister of the Priory of St. Mary, Worcester, con- improving, for the next announcement is, "Salary taining an Account of the Lands and Possessions of to commence at £90 per annum," which is about the Church in the Early Part of the Thirteenth $8 50 per week. Century, edited by the Venerable Archdeacon Hale. "ON THE CAM."-The "London Athenæum," in concluding a highly complimentary notice of Mr. William Everett's "On the Cam," says: "We warn our readers against thinking that the character of these lectures is such as to make them interesting only to Americans; on the contrary, we know no book which will give a better, brighter, and more truthful account of Cambridge University, to those who wish to send their sons thither; and we can with justice say of Mr. Everett's work, that it would not have been unworthy of his father's reputation." -Boston Transcript.

BRITISH ART.-Mr. Dunlap's "History of the Arts of Design in the United States," published in 1834, is the only work giving any continuous account of the progress and condition of the Fine Arts in America. In England, far better notice is taken and kept up of native art and artists, and there is

AUTOGRAPHS.-There was lately on sale in London a charter signed by King Stephen, Matilda his Queen, and Eustachius his son (A. D. 1137)—in each case the signature being forma crucis, in the form of a cross.

HOMER A HINDU !-Mr. James Hutchinson, of the Cape of Good Hope, has published a book in which he contends that Homer had "the great poem of Valmiki, the Rámáyana, in his eye" when he composed his own immortal work, and that "Homer was himself a Hindú; that is, that he worshipped the same deities as the Hindús, and professed the same religion, there being at that time but one common idolatry prevalent in that portion of the world." He points out resemblances between the Iliad and the Rámáyana, and to show that the rape of Helen and the siege of Troy are merely the Greek copies of the carrying off of Sitá, and the capture of Lanka, as described in the Ramayana.

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At Paris, on May 19, aged seventy-one the Rev. FRANCIS MAHONY, author of "The Reliques of Father Prout." He was a native of Cork, and belonged, in London, to the rollicking literati of "Fraser's Magazine," of which Dr. Masson was leader. His translations of Moore's Irish Melodies and other popular lyrics into various languages, modern and dead, were wonderfully clever.

The death of PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY, author of a recent and excellent translation of Homer, is also mentioned. He had published the "Odyssey," and intended to transfuse the "Iliad" into English verse.

GERALD MASSEY ON SHAKSPEARE.-Mr. Massey He was pupil and successor of the celebrated has taken Shakspeare sonnets and written a Gesenius, and at least as good a Hebraist and critic. volume of six hundred pages about them. He Mr. JOHN C. PRINCE, who had obtained some repudivides them into the Southampton Sonnets and tation in his native Lancashire as a writer of local into the Herbert Sonnets-claiming that Shakspeare, poetry, and had great facility in verse-making, friend of Lords Southampton and Pembroke (Her- died on the 5th of May, aged sixty. He was emibert), wrote these for these noblemen; not in his nently one of the working-class, and always stood youth and poverty, but in the fulness of his fame, up for his "order." after he had become a prosperous gentleman," at Stratford-that Southampton, who once gave him a thousand pounds (equal to five times the amount now), had employed Shakspeare to put a series of real incidents into verse, to write a number of sonnets expressing Southampton's passion for his mistress, Elizabeth Vernon-others expressing Elizabeth Vernon's love for Southampton-and others again expressing Elizabeth Vernon's jealousy of Lady Rich. This theory is very ingeniously worked out. MARIE-ANTOINETTE's Letters.—Last year a number of letters were published, said to have been written by the unfortunate wife of Louis XVI. Reference having been made to Louis Blanc, as to their authenticity, he has written: "No sooner did I glance over them than it struck me how little, in many respects, they were in accordance with the idea I had been led to form of Marie-Antoinette, by a patient and strict investigation of all the facts referring to the part she played during the French Revolution. I was not, therefore, surprised at the authenticity of those letters being called in question; and I feel bound to say that, after having paid due attention to the controversy to which they have given rise, I am most decidedly under the impression that they are not genuine.' These letters were purchased, for 80,000 francs, from M. Feuillet de Conches, Imperial Master of the Ceremonies in Paris, by Count Vogt von Honolston, who believed, of course, in their authenticity. It is now imputed to M. Feuillet that he was concerned in the production of seventeen letters from Racine, lately sold at auction and since proven to have been fac-similes of an equal number in the Imperial Library, which he (M. F.) had retained in his possession for nearly two

years.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.-Already there have been published eight volumes of Froude's "History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth." Six of these, to the Death of Mary I., have been republished by C. Scribner & Co., New York, and all the volumes liave passed into a third edition in London. Volumes IX. and X., being the third and fourth of Elizabeth, are now advertised as in the press, and will be published by Longman & Co., London, during the present summer. Elizabeth Tudor reigned for forty-five years, and governed in a most important era, the annals of England during that time are necessarily exten

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“ECCE HOмo.”—This is the name of a new nonclerical biography of Christ, published anonymously in England, extremely popular, attributed to a great many distinguished writers, and republished by Roberts Brothers, of Boston. It has been assailed as unorthodox by the Earl of Shaftesbury and the "Quarterly Review." The title is not new. In 1813, one Mr. Houston put forth an "Ecce Homo; a Critical Inquiry into the History of Christ," which, being legally declared to be blasphemous, cost him £200 fine and two years' imprisonment in London. In 1860, Saunders and Ottley, London publishers, issued a second "Ecce Homo," and the title has been repeatedly used by German and Italian authors.

OBITUARY.-Dr. HUPFELD, of the University of Halle, in Prussia, one of the best Hebrew scholars in Europe, died on the 24th of April, aged seventy.

MISCELLANEA.

COSTLY ENGRAVINGS.-At a recent sale of engrav. ings collected by the late Mr. Curling, a Welsh gentleman, a proof before letters of Guido's Aurora." engraved by Raphael Morghen, brought $240: Raphael's "Fornarina," same engraver, $230; and Da Vinci's "Last Supper," $285. A proof before letters of Sir Edwin Landseer's "Bolton Abbey," engraved by S. Cousins, brought $125. In each instance the purchasers were print-vendors.

MUSIC. It is reported that the British governLondon, at the head of which will be placed Dr. ment propose to establish a great music-school in Sterndale Bennett and Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, musi cian, but best known as Jenny Lind's husband.

PERIODICALS.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine. June.

Personal Recollections of the War: First Paper (Gen. D. P. Strother).-The Reese River Country. Chattanooga.-Are there Other Inhabited Worlds? -The Spectre.-Easter Lilies.-Gladstone as Leader of the Commons.-The Live American.-Henry Barth, the African Traveller.-Armadale (Wilkie Collins).-The Fall of Richmond.-Miss Letitia. American Studios in Rome and Florence.-A Psychological Experiment.-A Dixian Geography. The Outside World.-Working the Beads.-Editor's Easy Chair.-Monthly Record of Current Events.Editor's Drawer. New York: Harper & Bros. Hours at Home. June.

De Rebus Ruris : No. 1. An Old Style Farm (D. G. Mitchell).-The Patriotic Record of Yale College (Rev. J. W. Morris).-The Passion Flower.-Come to Me.-The Little Preacher.-Tischendorf's Biblical Researches and Discoveries, narrated by himself; translated from the German.-Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character (J. A. Froude).-Before the Spring.-The Last Twig of the Tree (Mrs. S. J. Pritchard).-Life in a Southern Village.-God's Quiet.-A Visit to the English Universities: concluded (Prof. J. M. Hoppin).The Sculptor and his Child (Miss M. E. Atkinson). The Christian Statesmen of America: No. 5. John Jay (Rev. E. H. Gillett).-Jane Gurley's Story: Chapters VII. and VIII. (Miss E. Stuart Phelps). -An "Advanced" Dog on the Origin of Species (Mrs. Charles).-Lt.-Gen. Grant. The Lady of Fernwood.-James Montgomery (S. C. Hall). Books of the Month. New York: C. Scribner & Co. Contemporary Review. June.

Philosophy and Theology (Mansel). - Montalembert and Monasticism in the East and West