Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

There is in preparation an important contribution to the history of tho repression of tho Indian Mutiny— " Tho Funjaub and Delhi in 1 S 57 : " being a narrative of the measures by which the Punjaub was ¦ saved and Delhi recovered during the Indian mutiny . " The author is the Rev . J . Cave Brown , chaplain of the celebrated " Punjaub moveable column . "

"Make Your Game , or the Adventures of tho Stout Gentleman , the Slim Gentleman , and the Man with the Iron Chest , " of George Agustas Sala , originally contributed to the Welcome Guest , is to be Xiublished in a separate form . In a recent number of Notes and Queries " B . C . " ( Bolton Comey ?) suggests to publishers tho feasibility of issuing a new

edition of the " Beauties of England and AVales , " which has been long out of print , and much of the information contained in which is now quite obsolete . "The Nursery of tho Church , " . 1 narrative of forty years personal experience in connection with Sunday schools , in a series of letters to a friend , will shortly be published , from the pen of the

Rev . Stephen II . Tyng , D . D . A new work entitled "Modern Statesmen , by Mr . Ewing Ritchie , the editor of tho National Magazine , and who has contributed to its pages some lively sketches of contemporary leading politicians . The German journals speak in a highly encomiastic way of a Life of Michael Angelo , by Herr Hermann Grimm , the first volume of

which ( dedicated , pedantically enough ., " to the Director Peter von Cornelius , " ) has just appeared . A new Edition of " The Annals of tho Olden Time in New York' is in preparation by the venerable author , John E . AA atson , who is now on a visit to the Empire City for the purpose of completing the arrangement of his materials , & c . Ma . TnOMrsO ^ - AV ESXCOTT , editor of the American , Sunday

Despatch , is engaged in the preparation of a history of Philadelphia . The Philadelphia Bidlalin says the book will cover the entire history of the city from the earliest days of the Swedes down to the present time , a period of nearer two centuries than one . "It will be to the credit of the American Press ( says the New York Tribune ) if the first complete edition of" Thomas Hood's

AVorks' is issued in this country ; and that such will bo tho case there is little doubt . It may bo safely prophesied that the delightful ' Memorials' edited by his son and daughter , and just issued by Messrs . Ticknor and Fields , will be followed by the announcement of such a collection—than which there is none more needed among book-buyers .

For some days past the model for a statue to , Tolm Bunyan , has stood in Guildhall , for the purpose of view . The author of tho "Pilgrim's Progress" is represented about life-size , seated ; the countenance raised upwards . There are books , a broken chain , and other accessories , but as a whole it is not quite satisfactory . A broir / . e statue of the late Sir John Franklin is about to he

erected at Spilsby , Lincolnshire . The statue will be placed on a granite pedestal . The Artie hero was born at Spilsby , and hence the townspeople are anxious to pay a tribute of respect to his memory . On the 9 th of September , the little town of Damme , near Bruges , will celebrate a national festivity . The monument of Jacob van Maerlant , a renowned Flemish poet of the sixteenth century , and a

native of Damme , is to be inaugurated on that day by his townsmen . , One of the most eminent painters of the modern French school , M . [ Alexander Decamps , met with a sudden and violent death last week , at the comparatively early ago of fifty-seven . It happened at Fontainebleau , on AVednesday , the 22 nd of August . The artist , who , like other properous French painterswas a man of the world

, as well as an artist , was to hunt that day with the Emperor's hounds . He had mounted his horse , a fiery and violent animal . At the first cry of the hounds the horse plunged , and threw his rider with great force against a wall . The unfortunate painter was taken np lifeless from a fracture of tho skull .

In New York , iu Broadway , a gallery , 200 ft . long by 25 ft . wide is being built for the reception of a collection of pictures from Dussefdorf and elsewhere . The , statue of Ney , at Metz , says the Monileur , is fine ; it has been placed most advantageously , and makes a truly grand effect . " The renowned son of Saarlouis " is represented in his well-known

defensive attitude , Proudly lifting his head , he looks forward to meet the attack of the enemy ; the expression of his face is calm and bold . The bronze hands clasps a weapon , which is just being lowered against tbe assailants . The great simplicity of the pedestal ( a stone without any ornaments or relievi ) does not impair the work of the artist .

A fine portrait of Hobbs of Malmesbury has been recently added to the National Portrait Gallery , together with a portrait of Dunning , Lord Ashburton , by Reynolds , —the latter presented by Mr . Thomas Baring , M . P . The gallery will be closed for repairs and alterations during the month of September , and will re-open to the public on AVecVnesclay , Oetober 3 .

The German republic of letters has to mourn the loss of two excellent members : Baron von AA essenberg , the tolerant bishop of Constance , a poet , whose pious mildness was allied to a good der , of manliness , died at the advanced age of eighty-five , at Constance ; and Prof . Ivosegarten , of the University of Greifswald ( son of the poet of that name , and , during his boyhood , 2 iupil of no less a tutor than Ernst Moritz Arndt ) , died , an advanced sexagenarian , at

Greifswald , Pomerania . In him , Germany loses one of her first philological scholars . Mr . Alderman Towle , of Oxford , on behalf of himself and other paper-manufacturers resident in that neighbourhood , has caused the following notice te be served on the Commissioners of Inland Revenue and others connected with the collection of the paper duty : " Take notice that I , the undersigned , John Towle , of

Hincksey and AA eirs Mills , in the county of Oxford , paper-manufacturer , do protest against the levying and collection of the excise duty on any paper made by me , on or after the loth day of August , 1 SG 0 , the gift and grant of the said excise duty for the service of her Majesty the Queen having been , with the consent of her Majesty , revoked ancl repealed by the Commons in Parliament

assembled ; and further take notice , that any payments which I may make for , or in respect of , the said excise duty , of any paper manufactured by me on or after the said loth clay of August , will be made under and subject to this protest , and for the purpose of preventing any attempts on tho part of you , or any of yot , to enforce payment of the said duty ; and that legal proceedings will be

commenced against such parties as I may be advised , for the purpose of recovering all or any sums of money to be paid by me in manner aforesaid . —( Signed ) Joux Towns . " It lias been resolved , at a numerous public meeting , to take measures for the establishment of a free public lending library and museum , at Blackburn , based on the free reference Vrbrary and museum already in existence , as a nucleus .

The prize of £ 150 offered by the Art-Union of London for a series of outlines from the 'Idylls of the King' has been awarded by them to Mr . Paolo Priolo , of Edinburgh . The Honorary premium of £ 21 has been awarded to each of the series , which were found to be by Mr . Alexander Rowan , of iiicld Terrace , Stockwell , and Mr . E . H . Courbold . The premium of £ 31 10 s . for the sculpture-group of Alfred in the Danish camp has been given to Mr Thomas Duckett .

Our Bro . George Markham Tweddeil is preparing for publication , in parts , " A History of Cleveland . " In his prospectus , ho tells us that since the Rev . John Graves printed his history thirty-five years have elapsed , and the latest historian , Mr . John AValker Orel , produced , another some years since , and was published at a price which rendered it inaccessable to the general reader , and now has become out of print . Bro . Tiveildle thinks the time lias come for a new history , seeing that Middlesborough , a corporate town , with