Literary Gossip.

LITERARY GOSSIP .

OUR venerable friend , the Gentleman ' s Magazine , has in its September issue an excellent alternation of poetry and prose . Mr . Montgomerie Ranking has a learned article , entitled " Where was King Stephen Buried ? " containing much speculative matter worth y of careful consideration . Swinburne contributes a poem in twenty-five eight line verses , eulogistic of Victor Hugo , perfecHn metre and rh ythmbut evincing more of the irit of the admirer than of

, sp the judicious critic . Among other entertaining papers is one from the pen of Mr . W . Davenport Adams , dealing with the " Poetry of Parody " in lucid style . The writer enters into his theme at considerable length and with great force and clearness .

Mr . _ John Russell Waller , F . R . H . S ., an author and journalist of some reputation in the north of England , has just published a volume of verse through Mr . George Richardson , of Bedlington , under the title of "Wayside Flowers . " Mr . Waller some time since gave the world a similar work called " Unstrung Links , " which contains some very pretty poetry . This latest effort of his muse shows greater vigour and maturity , some of the pieces being finely finished , and abounding in pleasing imagery . Mr . Waller dedicates his work to Mr . Joseph Cowen , M . P .

We regret to notice that Mr . Horace Weir , under whose guidance the Illustrated Phonocjraphic Meteor has been raised into the foremost position among stenographic serials , is retiring from the editorial chair of that now excellent magazine . The Phonographic Monthly , a magazine of literature and art , presided over byMr . William Godclard , has among its contents a readable article b y Enford descri of

Stanley , ptive a " Visit to Verulam . " Mr . Stanley is a ready and graphic writer , and , but for his proneness to " point the moral and adorn the tale , " might make a successful magazinist . The rest of the articles are fairly meritorious , a poem by George Brom , entitled "Fairy Fancies , " calling for special mention . The magazine contains a profusion of illustrations , some of them of a pleasing ancl artistic character , while one or two are remarkable for the manner in which they ignore the first principles of art . The editor will do well to keep out these j > roduetions of amateur weilders of the pencil for the future . The ^ monographic printing is admirably executed .

A new magazine , called English Etchings , issued b y Mr . W . Reeve ( of 185 , Fleet-street ) , is being highly spoken of by all admirers of excellence in art . A series of interesting etchings of nooks and corners of old London is announced , which should increase the already large circulation of this commendable periodical .

Mr . Dante G . Rosetti hacl the subjoined pretty sonnet in a recent number of the Athencenm : —• PK-IDE OF YOUTH . Even as a child of sorrow that we give The dead , but little in his heart can find , Since without need of thought to clear his mind

Their turn it is to die and his to live : — Even so the winged New Love smiles to receive Along his eddying plumes the auroral wind , Nor , forward glorying , casts one look behind Where night-rack shrouds the Old Love fugitive .