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gentlemen from continental countries, it would be well to ascertain whether those who are really qualified to speak on behalf of English literature are in sympathy with the undertaking. Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Jerrold may in a certain sense be 'gens de lettres,' just as with a continental audience the author of 'Ginx's Baby' might possibly pass muster as an English statesman, but when the literary position and representation of England are concerned, we have a right to ask that no unfair use shall be made of our name and reputation; and before further steps are taken, some information ought to be given as to the English authors who are apparently to play the part of hosts next summer. We have amongst us a Royal Society of Literature, a Library Association, and several other bodies which may claim to speak on behalf of English literature, and it would be interesting to hear what they have to say upon the subject.

The number of literary Bishops on the English Bench, which lost one of its greatest lights in Dr. Thirlwall, of St. David's, will receive a distinguished accession by the appointment of Professor J. B. Lightfoot to the See of Durham, where he will prove a worthy successor to the distinguished author of the Analogy, who was at the head of the Northern Diocese from 1750 to 1752. On Dr. Lightfoot, however, the honour conferred is greater than that which Butler enjoyed, for while he was, according to precedent, translated from another See-having been consecrated to the Bishopric of Bristol-the Cambridge Professor has received a direct appointment, which has at the same time been greeted with universal approval. Although little more than 50 years of age, the new Bishop has achieved a reputation for biblical scholarship and erudition second to few in Europe, and his commentaries on the Pauline Epistles, and his work in the Speaker's Commentary, 'Smith's Bible Dictionary,' and 'Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,' and other standard works, are sufficient to prove his 'title to honour.' The removal of a student from his study must always be a matter of regret, but the appointment of Lord Beaconsfield is one to which no exception can be taken, and in the present condition of the ecclesiastical world, it is a matter for satisfaction that the episcopal council will be strengthened by such an able and prudent mind.

A violent literary conflict has been raging at Paris during the last month-a regular Battle of the Books. According to a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, the campaign was opened by M. Zola, the author of L'Assommoir' and other unclean works, who attacked most of his brother novelists in a Russian review. His onslaught has been fiercely met by the irritabile genus, and desperate has been the struggle between the great naturalist author and the hornets'-nest he unmercifully probed. M. Louis Ulbach brought a number of charges against M. Zola, and accused him of having in one of his novels textually translated whole pages from Casanova. Upon this M. Louis Ulbach is informed that a book he has just published is a literal translation of the third volume of 'Thomas Thyreau,' by the German authoress Mdme. Paalzow. It may be asked why M. Louis Ulbach should have taken the third volume of the novel in question for his most recent production. The fact is that he had already plagiarised the two first volumes. M. Louis Ulbach, therefore, in spite of the author's rights being reserved, managed to get out of the German novel-first, his Princess Morani, then Magda, and, finally, his Comtesse de Thyreau. Emerson, adds the Pall Mall Gazette's informant in commenting upon this strange business, talks of an author having been used as a brickkiln; and in his construction of the three volumes above named M. Louis Ulbach has certainly treated Mdme. Paalzow like one.

The eminent homoeopathic physician, Dr. Frederick Foster Quin, was a well-known amateur of literature and the arts, and at the sale of his effects by Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods, which occupied four days in last week, some of the pictures and articles of virtu fetched considerable prices, the total amount realised being £2,139. 12s. The library contained many French books, including a large collection of French novels in 264_volumes, which sold for £5. 198. The Collection des Auteurs Latins, avec Production Française, pubilée par Nisard, Didot, 1850, sold for £6. 58.; Crébillon (fils) L'Ecumoire et le Sopha, plates, La Chandelle d'Arras, 1775, and Stevenson's Crazy Tales, 1780, and Libro del Perche, £2. 3s.; Dickens's American Notes, a presentation copy, inscribed From his friend, Charles Dickens, 18th November, 1842,' sold for £5. 5s.; Landor (W. S.), Literary Hours by various friends, portrait by Count d'Orsay, privately printed 1837, £1. 4s.; Thackeray's Mrs. Perkins's Ball, coloured illustrations, 1847, a presentation copy, with a pen and ink sketch of the author, by himself, and in his autograph,

Dear Quin,

Accept the wishes of a grateful art,

And this small token which I pay in part,

sold for £4. The Duke of Wellington's Supplementary Despatches, edited by his son, presented by the Editor, 22 vols., £4. 15s.; the Passage of the St. Gothard, poem by the Duchess of Devonshire, with views by Lady Elizabeth Foster, privately printed, £2. 15s. ; Venezia, Legge e memorie Venete sulla prostituzione, fino alla caduta della Republica, plates, Venezia, 1874 (the catalogue states only 150 copies of this very curious book were privately printed at the expense of the Earl of Orford); Marguerite Reine de Navarre, Heptameron Français ou Nouvelles, engravings and vignettes, by Longueil, after Freudenberg, 3 vols., ancut, Berne, 1792, a piece of the titles cut off, £12. 12s.