Literary And Antiquarian Gossip.

The Age is the title of a smart little monthly published at Bradford ( Yorks . ) and extensively circulated through the various northern counties . It contains racy notes and articles , and interesting and well-written stories . We notice that the editor 1 ms lately secured the valuable assistance of L'Allegro , a writer who is building up for himself a good reputation as a novelist . The publication is well illustrated .

Mr . William Andrews , F . R . H . S ., editor of the Hull Miscellany , has in active preparation a volume of selections from the most important contributions to that bright little weekly . It will be appropriately entitled "Miscellanea , " and amongst the writers represented will be the editor , Dr . Spencer Hall , Matthias Ban- ( "the children ' s poet laureate" ) , W . Davenport Adams ; John Brent , F . S . A . ; T . B . Trowsdale ; W . E . A . Axon , F . R . S . L . ; J . P . Briscoe , F . R . H . S . ; Henry Calvert Appleby , " Guy Roslyn , " " L'Allegro ; " S . 0 . Hall , F . S . A . ; aud many other prose and poetical authors of high repute .

Another class newspaper is announced . It is to be called The Clerk , and will be the organ of the young man suggested by the title . Mr . Thomas Archer is to be the editor , and will , no doubt , very efficiently fill his post . Mrs . Maxwell , better known as Miss Braddon , is writing yet another novel . The popular magazine founded by the late Charles Dickens is to be the initial vehicle for the new story , which will be called "Asphodel . "

Mr . Barnwell , of Hull , has just published a recherche little volume of verse , entitled " Lays and Lyrics . " The author is Mr . George Lancaster , who is well known both on this aud the other side of the Atlantic as a reputable writer of smart and humorous prose and verse . In the book before us there are many trifles which reflect very great credit upon Mr . Lancaster , and we hope to shortly see further productions of his pen .

Messrs . Bemrose and Sons have recently issued a valuable addition to the literature of the county of Derby in the shape , of a little volume ou "The Etymology of some Derbyshire Place-Names . " The substance of the glossary was originally read as a paper before the Derbyshire Archasological and Natural History Society ; but in compliance with the request of the local press aud public , Mr . Frederick Davis , its remarkably well-informed authorhas been tempted to extend his listand the result is a book that

, , should be at the elbow , not onl y of all residents of the count y to which it more particularly refers , but of students of local history generally . Mr . Davis now promises to revise and considerably extend even the very full list of place-names included in the volume under notice ; and those who know him know that he will do his best to turn out of his literary laboratory a finished work that cannot fail to become a standard local authority .

In a recent obituary appeared the once familiar name of Pierce Egan , a writer whose wild works of imagination were wont to eonsumedly exercise our youthful mind in the days that are gone . Wilkie Collins has described the deceased gentleman as one of those writers who address " the unknown public , " by which we presume he means the readers of the London Journal aud periodicals of a cognate character , to whom it is to be regretted that , possessed of undoubted genius as he was , he has of late years somewhat pandered . It is sa . d to think that the most part , if not all , of the emanations from his busy pen have died with their o-iftfid a . ntbnr .

In the next number of Leisure , a capital little London quarterly , will be published a Christmas story of absorbing interest from the pen of L'Alle ° To , the gifted author of " Newspaper Romances " and other popular works . The story is entitled " Within the Sound of Crookton Bells , " and deals with a bank failure , K 2