eye, the progress of the Reformation, recording | anxiously its victories and its reverses in every State of Europe. He exhorts our own Edward the Sixth, the youthful King of England, and Margaret of Valois, the noble sister of Francis the First; he writes to Luther and Melancthon; he prompts John Knox, and directs Coligny, Condé, and the Duchess of Ferrara. The same man, worn out by sleeplessness and pain, wrestles with incipient heresy, encourages the infant churches, fortifies martyrs, counsels the Protestant princes with a prudence and a policy at once most able and far-sighted, engages in controversy, conducts negotiations, teaches, prays, and in his last farewell to the ministers of Geneva, leaves us a noble and affecting legacy." The historical value of such a series of letters from one of the most energetic intelligences of the age cannot be denied. Among the works of fiction announced, which appear to have been numerous, we find the following: nected with the University, for the study respectively of Scots Law, Dialectics, Diagnostics, and Medicine, the last being called the Hunterian Society. These four are now united; and Sir E. B. Lytton is the first president of the associated body, Mr. Disraeli having declined to stand, and the Duke of Argyll having withdrawn in favor of Sir Edward. A Conference was recently held at the residence of the Chevalier Bunsen, on the subject of a uni versal alphabet. Among those present were Sir John Herschel, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Professor Owen, Dr. Max Müller, Dr. Pertz of Berlin, and other distinguished men of science and literature, with the Revs. Henry Venn, Trestrail, and other representatives of Missionary Societies. The Chevalier Bunsen stated the object of the Conference, which was to consult as to the practicability of adopting a uniform system of expressing foreign The advantages alphabets by Roman characters. of such a system, both scientific and practical, were urged, the former in connection with the study of ethnology and philology, and the latter chiefly in connection with the great Protestant missionary enterprises of the present time. Professor Lepsius and Dr. Max Müller have devoted much time to the subject, founding their phonology on the phyThe Broken Sword: a Tale of the Allied Armies siological principles ably expounded by Dr. Joof 1757. By Adelaide O'Keeffe. hannes Müller. Miss Pardoe's New Novel, "Reginald Lyle." Mr. Baillie Cochrane's new novel, "Florence the Beautiful." Alice Wentworth. Charles Stanley. By the Author of "Nina." The Slave Son. By Mrs. William Noy Wilkins. Castellamonte; an Autobiographical Sketch, illustrative of Italian Life during the Insurrection of 1831. The Evil Star; or, the Tide and the Planet. By E. Colburn, Esq. Hester and Elinor; or, the Discipline of Suffering. Mabel. By Emma Warburton. New works of fiction by the following distinguished writers are announced: Miss Mitford, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Trollope, the author of "Margaret Maitland," the author of "Emilia Wyndham." ITEMS. The Minery Prize, which was exhibited in the Crystal Palace of New York, offered for the best treatise on Commercial Law, has been awarded to Mr Leone Levi. A warm correspondence has been going on in the Times between Mr. Croker and Lord John Russell, on the subject of a very severe-we might say malicious-critique in the Quarterly, said to be written by Mr. Croker on a work of Mr. Moore soon after the death of the latter, notwithstanding the habits of intimacy between the two. It has taken a very bitter personal turn. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has been addressing the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh to their great satisfaction. At various periods, four societies have been established in Edinburgh, con On Christmas day died the Rev. Dr. William Hodge Hill, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, one of the ablest Oriental scholars of the time. In 1820 he went to India, as Principal of Bishop Middleton's College, Calcutta. He distinguished himself by his knowledge of Sanscrit literature. Mr. Alexander Smith, the Glasgow poet, has been elected Secretary of the University of Edinburgh. There is to be a new Publishing Society-"The Wharton," on the plan of "The Percy,"-and the two series of books are to range together. Literature, History, and Antiquities, but especially the first, are to occupy its pages. The death of M. Blanqui, one of the most distinguished of the French economists, author of a very excellent "History of Political Economy," and of various other works on that science, is announced. He was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Paris. He took great interest in the Grand Exhibition of London, and wrote a series of very excellent papers on it. He was also a member of the Commission of the French Exhibition which is to take place in 1855. Messrs. Bradbury and Evans have been appointed printers to the Crystal Palace Company. It is said they are to pay the authors of the books they print for the Company, and to pay such prices as the Company shall direct to be paid. In other words, the their printers; and Messrs. Bradbury and Evans Company will draw checks for their authors upon must get their money back out of the profits of their printing. The tombstone and grave of the daughter of Thomas Moore, the poet, in Hornsey churchyard, have been recently done up by direction of the rector, the Rev. Richard Harvey. The Earl of Aberdeen has renewed the grant made by Lord John Russell to Mr. E. W. Lane, from the fund for special service, for the furtherance of his Arabic Lexicon. A company has just been formed for purchasing the copyright of all M. Lamartine's works already written, or to be written hereafter. The capital 450,000f. M. Ampère, the academician, MM. Emile de Girardin, Ponsard, and Pagnere are among the promoters. The professorships at King's College, London, recently vacated by the Reverend Frederick Maurice, have been filled up. The Reverend Dr. A. M'Call is elected to the chair of Ecclesiastical History; and Mr. George Webbe Dasent, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, Doctor of Civil Law, is elected to the chair of English Literature and Modern History. Dr. M'Call still retains the chair of Hebrew and the Old Testament; and a lecturer will be appointed to relieve him, by instructing the junior classes in Hebrew. The Bishop of London has intimated to all the reverend believers in the mystery and attributes of table-turning, that he cannot allow them to discharge their ministerial functions in any part of his diocese. The Berlin Government has purchased for 35,000 thalers (about 5,2501.) the celebrated collection of fossils and minerals, and the library, left by the late Louis von Buch. We see it stated that two American publishinghouses are in treaty with the family of the late savant, Arago, for the privilege of editing his complete and collected works, in eleven volumes. The offer of one is 100,000 francs. M. Thiers has written to the Paris newspapers to say that he expects to be able to publish the last three volumes of his "History of the Consulate and the Empire" by the end of the present year. The Rev. Peter Brown, of Wishaw, has collected a quantity of unpublished materials with reference to Oliver Cromwell's visits to Scotland, and the result of his researches will, it is said, be soon made public. | In an ancient chest, long standing in a neglected corner of an obscure tower in Lambeth Palace, historical papers have just been found. They are supposed to refer chiefly-if not exclusively-to the Cromwell period. Some of them bear the signature of the Protector. M. Victor Hugo is about to leave Jersey with his family, to reside in Portugal. M. de Sacy is to be the new editor of the "Journal des Debats;" but M. Edouard Bertin will supply articles of the nature of those contributed by his deceased brother. Uhland, the German poet, has refused to accept the Order of Merit offered him by the King of Prussia on the recommendation of Baron Humboldt. The reason he assigns is, that the King's government has persecuted his political friends. Uhland is a great liberal, and is a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Wurtemburg. We regret to learn the death of Silvio Pellico, the well-known author of "Le Mie Prigioni." Since his liberation in 1830 he has led a retired life, and has never taken any part in politics. He was a man of most amiable disposition, and was universally beloved and esteemed. The sum of 3007. has been realized for the Educational Societies of Birmingham by Mr. Charles Dickens' recent entertainments in that town. The Bishop of Manchester has presented the Free Library in his cathedral city with copies of the Scriptures in twenty different languages. The public library at Vienne, in France, has been totally destroyed by fire; 8,000 volumes and some very valuable old MSS. were burnt to cinders, and a painting of Claude Lorraine, representing "The Daughters of Lot," was a good deal damaged. The Frenchman Mariette has at last succeeded in discovering the long-sought-for entrance into the Sphynx. The entrance leads into beautiful marble rooms, which are supposed to be connected by subterranean passages with similar chambers in the adjacent pyramid. There is but little travelling this year in Egypt. |