Literary Gossip.

There is a pretty little poem from the graceful pen of a contributor to The Graphic , and others of our popular journals and magazines , which we find in the Hull Miscellany , edited by Mr . William Andrews , F . R . H . Sl : —

TO-DAY . BY WILLIAM TIREBUCK . Work ye and wait ye all daring and doing Duty right worthy the day , Leaving tlie past and the present pursuing ,

Keeping the future away . Finding and setting new gems of emotion Bright in the crown of the brain , Training the heart in a silent devotion—Solace for somebody ' s pain . Living to-day and not pining for morrows : Morrows are mockers—we sue , Finding the morning o ' er-flooded with sorrows , Yesterday ' s duty to do .

Mr . William Andrews , F . R . H . S ., we gather from The Academy , is preparing for early publication a new work , under the title of "The True Story of Jack Ketch , or Gibbet Lore . " It will include much curious information of historical interest , and which is not generally known . An account of the many modes of execution in various countries ; particulars of notable executions ; hangman ' s wages ; seven generations of executioners ; singular dying

speeches ; ballads and jn'overbial sayings , will apipear . There will also be furnished a remarkable record of revivals after execution ; the folk-lore of the dead hand ; the quaint story of how Wigtown lost its hangman ; a notice of the bellman of Newgate ; marrying under the gallows , etc . An essay on the Halifax Gibbet , the Scottish Maiden , and the French Guillotine , will be included . The book will be profusely illustrated by Cruikshank , Wildridge , and other well known artists , and cannot fail to be one of great interest and value .

The same industrious writer has also in hand a book on " Typographical Curiosities , " which will see the light at an early date , and will contain a budget of entertaining matter anent press blunders , press beauties , and other typographical notabilia . Mr . T . Broadbent Trowsdaleauthor of "Lore of the Months" "Customs of

, , Christmastide , " and other retrospective writings , is engaged on a new work , to be entitled " Stranger than Fiction : a Series of Sketches from Real Life , " which , following the same author ' s " Glimpses of Olden England , " will appear simultaneously in a number of provincial journals prior to production in volume form . The new series of articles will deal in a popular manner with remarkable episodes from British family history .

Society , ably edited by Bro . George W . Plant , has now permanently assumed an identical appearance in every feature of both mid-weekly and Saturday issue . Each edition is also published at the uniform price of threepence . The paper is certainly the best and cheapest chronicle of the doings of society ; and its twice-a-week publication gives it the great advantage of presenting a much fresher reflex of passing events than journals of hebdomadal issue possibly can . The circulation of Society is deservedly a very large one , its notes being smart and ably written in every branch of the gossip of the salon and the club . As a journal of fact , fiction , and fashion , Bro . " Plant's periodical reflects great