Literary Gossip.

Almost everbody who has visited Oban , the charming West Hi ghland watering place which is now so deservedly popular , has been pleased with the smart guide book , " A Week at Oban , " which affords so easy ancl delightful an introduction to the grandeur of the Argyllshire scenery . It is pleasing , therefore , to be able to announce that the publisher will have ready immediately , as a sort of sequel or companion volume , a similar little work called " Out from Oban , " describing equally graphically the lovely excursions further afield .

A new weekly journal has just been commenced m the Third Port , with the title of The Hull Beview . It is devoted to a purely independent treatment of local literature , local sayings , and local doings , and is very smartly written and edited , standing out in bold distinction from the large class of provincial periodicals of similar aim and scope , which are flippant , and coarse , and full of personalities .

"Rambling Recollections of Old Glasgow , ' by "Nestor , " a handsome little volume , brimful of pleasant and informing gossip about the city of good St . Mungo , reaches us from Mr . John Tweed , a Glasgow publisher . All who can carry their memories back with the author to the early years of this century—and , alas , the number is now but few—will have a double deli ght in lingering over these reminiscences . "Nestor ' s" intelligent eyes have taken in all the wonderful history of the Clydeside city ' s rise into its present

immense commercial importance , the growth of its gigantic and handsome architectural adornments , and the development of its powerful public institutions ; and his ready pen has conveyed them to paper for the benefit of others who have not been blessed with such long life as he has , or have not been such assiduous emulators of Captain Grose , the note-talrin' chiel immortalised b y Burns . The result is that the volume he has produced is not only entertaining , but of great historical value . We have reason to believe that " Nestor " is none other than genial Dr . Hugh Barclay , the veteran Sherriff-Substitute of Perth .

Society ( edited by Bro . George A . Plant ) , says that " Literature has lost a pleasant writer in Dr . John Brown , who died in Edinburgh on May 10 th , aged seventy-two . A second edition of his 'John Leech , and other Papers , ' was only issued the other day , being one of three volumes of his essays , published under the general title 'Horaa Shbseciv-3 . ' His 'Rab and his Friends , ' together with ' Our Dogs , ' will be found in the volume , with the 1 Letter to John Cairns , D . D . ' He has contributed his essays to Good Words , the Scotsman , and the North British Beview . He was the son of the Rev . Dr . Brown , of Edinburgh , and was born at Biggar , Lanarkshire . "

The Camden Society is just now very much embarrassed for want of funds . This is not as it should be , as the Camden is engaged in a highly important work , the printing and preservation of the materials for the formation of our national history . All those interested in the annals of the country should be ready to extend a hand to help the society out of its difficulties .