fri-»-d✓sl-dvolumes 01 vuia *uru—ncrcivu.Miscellaneous.—A fourth series of the lateMrs, Jameson's 44 Sacred and Legendary Art, completingthe work, is preparing for publication by Messrs. LoneranLora aiti»fnereand Co. It is entitled “ The History of our Lord and of his Precursor John the Baptist ; with the Personages and Typical Subjects ef the Old Testament, as represented in Christian Art,” and will be illustrated, uniformly with the other three series, by many etching* andengravings on wood. An unpublished poem on “ OurSaviour’s Passion,” by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. sister to Sir Philip Sidney, from a manuscript in the British Museum, is in the press, and will shortly beeothe British Museum, is in the press, and will shortly be'published by Mr. John Wilson* of Great Bussell-street.-Mr. Henry Freshfield, the author of “Alpine Byways,” has nearly ready a new volume descriptive of “A Summer Tour in the Grisons and the Italian Valleys of thel1Bernina.” Messrs. Longmans are to be the publishers.liaifHr. George Meredith lias a volume—“ Modern* Love and Poems of the English Road-side”—in the press, which willslmrtly be published by Messrs. Chapman and Hall.-M. Michelet has just published the fourteenth volume ofhis “ History of France.” An elaborately-got-up volumehas just been published by Mr. John Russell Smith, entitled “An Account of the Grand Court of Shepw*ay, holden on the Redemption Hill at Dover, for the Installation of theRight Honourable Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmer-ralt;, ston, K.G., G.C.B., M.P., First Lord of the Treasury,c.,I ! as Constable of H.M. Castle of Dover and Warder and ^ | Keeper of H.M. Cinque-Ports. August iSfth, 1861.” The author is- Mr. Edward Knocker, seneschal of the Court,registrar of the Cinque P r-ts, and town clerk of Dover. *-A volume iijton the History of Moral Philosophy maybe ex«pected ere long from Dr. WhewelL Tire “ History of-Jerome Savonarola and hi* Times,” by Pasquale Villani, Professor of History in the University of Pisa, is preparing for publication in English, translated from the Italian by Air. Leonard Horner, with the consent and co-operation of the author.-—Miss Sewell, the author of “Amy Herbert, ” has “An Ancient History of Egypt and Assyria,” intended for the use of young people, nearly ready. In it she will endeavour to shew the connection between the results of modern research and the facts and prophecies ofScripture. Miss Emily Faithful is printing a pamphlet,at the Victoria Press, on The Recent Debate in Cor vocation on the subject of Deaconess Institutions, with the Speeches corrected by the Authors. It is edited by Rev. J. P. Dale,4 11____1 *__XT__i.1 X__J__TV_____1___T__t--L__