James, the author of Darnley, has completed the Life of Edward the Black Prince.
Lady Dacre, who wrote the Tales of a Chaperon, has published Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry. The work is ostensibly edited by Lady Dacre, but there can be no doubt of her having written it. Every lover of fine writing must remember the story of Ellen Wareham in the Tales of a Chaperon. Positively we have never seen any thing of the kind more painfully interesting, with the single exception of the Bride of Lammermuir. The Tales in the present volumes are The Countess of Nithsdale, The Hampshire Cottage, and Blanche.
Willis' Pencillings by the Way are regularly republished in the Liverpool Journal.
The Canzoniere of Dante has been translated by C. Lyell with absolute fidelity, and of course with correspondent awkwardness.
Barry Cornwall's Life of Edmund Kean is severely handled in Blackwood's Magazine for July.
The seventh Bridgewater Treatise has appeared in two volumes. It is by the Rev. W. Kirby, the naturalist, and treats of The History, Habits, and Instincts of Animals. The article on the Bridgewater Treatises in the London Quarterly (we believe,) is one of the most admirable essays ever penned—we allude to the paper entitled The Universe and its Author.
A second edition of Social Evils, by Mrs. Sherwood, has appeared. Mrs. S. is now well advanced in years.
A political novel is also in press—Mephistopheles in England, or the Confessions of a Prime Minister.
The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, is in preparation by Lister, author of Granby.
Joanna Baillie is about to issue three new volumes of Dramas on the Passions. She is, in our opinion, the first literary lady in England.