Literature.

in their Sunday best ; they bad a band playing at their head ; a miscellaneous crowd , chiefly juvenile , with a few occasional females behind , brought up the rear . A deputy of the London Corporation aud his brother formed part of the devoted troop . Gaily and amidst cheers they marched from the bosoms of their families , leaving 'their girls behind them . ' On they went , up-hill and down-hill , many a mile , amidst Hornsey ' s pleasant green lanes , till at length the London deputy turned pale , ancl intimated—while

Ms limbs appeared to sink beneath him , ancl his whole body was bathed in sweat—that he could stand it no longer . The spirit was willing , but the flesh was weak . A halt was ordered—beer was sought for the London deputy , and with considerable difficulty they got the martial hero home . Had that gallant man been a good pedestrian , would he not have scorned the beer and laughed at the idea of rest ? Look at Charles Dickens—I am sure he will ' forgive me the personalityas no harm is intended—why is he ever

, genial , ever fresh—as superior to the crowd who imitate his mannerisms but fail to catch his warm , sunny , human spirit , as the Koh-i-noor to its glass counterfeit—but because no man in town walks more than he ?" Mr . Ritchie discourses of many other subjects , but our space and our reader ' s patience must not be exhausted , so we will conclude with our author ' s sketch of a veritable

Cockney . He tells us : — " Nature is the best and truest teacher a man can have , and it is little of nature that the Cockney sees , or hears , ancl feels . He goes to Richmond , but , instead of studying the finest panorama in the world , he stupifies himself with doubtful port ; he visits the Crystal Palace , but it is for the sake of the lobster-salad ; he runs down to Greenwich , not to revel in that park , beautiful still in spite of tbe attacks of London on its purity , but to eat white-bait ; he takes , it

may be , tbe rail or the steamboat to Gravesend , but merely that he may dance with milliners at Tivoli . The only idea of a garden to a London gent is a place where there is dancing , and drinking , and smoking going on . And this is a type of his in-bred depravity . He has no rational , amusements . In the winter time shut up the casinos , ancl do away with the half juice at tbe theatres , ancl the poor fellow is liors de combat , and has nothing left him but suicide or delirium tremens . "

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

Mr . Murray will commence on the 31 st of July the issue of his people's edition of the works , & c , of the poet Crabbe ; to be completed in seven monthly parts , uniform with his recent editions ot Byron ' s poems , Moore's life of Byron , ancl Croker ' s Boswell . Mr . Lowe's " Central India during the Rebellion of 1857 and 1858 , " ancl " Tbe Eagle ' s Nest : a Summer Home in an Al pine

Valley , " by Mr . Alfred Wills , author of " Wanderings among the High Alps , " will be published in a few days . Messrs . Ward ancl Lock are about to publish " Mont Blanc , " by the late Mr . Albert Smith , and a reprint ( from the deceased Train ) ofthe late Mr . Bobert B . Brough's "Marston Lynch . " Mr . Edmund Yates will contribute to the former , and Mr . Sala to the latter , a memoir of the author .

We are glad to hear that Mrs . Austin is engaged in preparing for the press a collection of her deceased husband ' s lectures ancl papers . In preparing the materials at her disposition , Mrs . Austin will follow out a plan already laid down—though only in part accomplished—by tbe thoughtful jurist ' who has passedaway . This plan was to publish a new edition of the " Province of

Jurisprudence , " with considerable additions , which was to have been followed by a second volume , employing" the matter collected for the remaining lectures of his course . The admirable' use made of our satirical literature by Lorcl Maeaulay in his " History of England" has suggested the publication of a collection of Political Ballads of the seventeetb ancl

eighteenth' centuries , to be edited by Mr . W . Walker Wilkins . The editor will aim , we understand , at supplying a volume acceptable to the general reader , admitting no pieces of an objectionable nature . Ho will supply a brief introduction and explanatory footnotes to each ballad , determining its date , ancl in many instances the name of its author . An important contribution to tho biography of modern English politics is contemplated by Mr . Murray—no less than a new life of

William Pitt , by Earl Stanhope , the historian of England during the eighteenth century . Lorcl Stanhope will have neiv and authentic materials placed at his disposal , ancl the result , there is every reason to believe , will be a work not unworthy of the subject , or , we may add , of the author's fame . Mr . John Camden Hotten , of Piccadilly , appears not only as

publisher but as editor , furnishing an introduction and notes to the- first English translation of "The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars , with a A ocabulary of their Language , " said to have been " edited by Martin Luther in the year 1528 . " Is this latter statement quite correct ? The great Reformer was a voluminous writer , but we never heard before of this somewhat anomalous exercise of

his pen . The Messrs . Longman are on the point of publishing the new ancl some-time-expected contribution to the Collier Controversy" Collier , Coleridge , ancl Shakespeare , a Review , " by tbo author of " Literary Cookery , " who , we need scarcely tell the initiated'is Dr . Ingleby , of Birmingham .

Messrs . R . Griffin ancl Co . are to publish the contribution to the juvenile biography of Franklin , by Mr . Henry Maybew , " Young ; Benjamin Franklin . " From France ive hear at last of an " authorised " French translation of the Humboldt-Varnhagen correspondence ( slightly expurgated no doubt ) , and for which , published at Strasbourg , MM .

Hachette are the Paris agents . A translation , too , has been published of onr own Arthur Young ' s " Travels in Italy and Spain " during the years 1787-9 , with an introduction by M . Leonce de Lavergne , of the Institute , tbe admirable writer on agricultural matters , ancl whose literary and ' practical merits are appreciated not only in his own , but in this country .

Among announcements of new French works iu the press , we observe two of some interest . [ One is a work by M . Edgar Quinet , of whom we have not lately beard in literature . M . Quinet seems to have been attracted to a region with which the Poet Laureate has recently familiarised us . Tho title of his work is to be " Merlin , the Enchanter . " The other is a " History of the House of Savoy , " by that well-known laiXy-literateur , the Princess cle Belgiojoso .

Mr . John Hamilton , late editor of the Morning Star , has been compelled , by ill health , to return to Preston . Mr . Hamilton's unremitting attention to his arduous duties had so far undermined his constitution that serious apprehensions were entertained as to his safety . The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

has resolved upon the establishment of two exhibitions , one at Oxford and one at Cambridge , for the purpose of securing the services of clergymen well qualified , by real study ancl preparation , for tho work of evangelists in India , whether among Hindoos or Mahometans .

A public subscription has been opened for a bust in honour of the late Mrs . Jameson , tbe distinguished critic in art ; to be made by MrJGibson , R . A ., of Rome , ancl placed in the Kensington Museum . Dr . James R . Ballantyne ( of the College of Benares ) , the candidate for the Boden Professorship at Oxford , has received the appointment of Librarian at the East India House , vacant through the death of Prof . H . H . Wilson .

The Bodleian Library has recently received an important accession of manuscripts—no less than the entire . Ashmolean collection , ivhich has been removed into the larger and more appropriate locality . Galignani states that ta a recent sale of autographs , a letter written , dated , and signed by the hand of Mary Stuart , and addressed to her mother , Catherine cle Medic-is , was knocked down

at 222 f . Mr . Hawkins has tendered his resignation as Keeper of tbe Department of Antiquities in the British Museum . Great changes are likely to take place in the administration ofthe various branches of our antiquarian collections . The senior officers of the British Museum , with the concurrence and support of the heads of departments , are making efforts to