Mr. H. G. Keene, C.I.E., is engaged in editing an Oriental Biographical Dictionary. The workfounded on materials collected by the late Mr. Thomas Beale, an assistant of Sir H. Elliot'swas originally brought out in Calcutta under the auspices of the Government of the North-West Provinces. As the editor was at a distance from the press, and his time was much forestalled by his official occupation, a good many clerical and typographical errors escaped attention; but the book was found useful by scholars, and is now scarce. Mr. Keene's edition, besides containing corrections of these errors, will also include considerable additional matter. It will be published by Messrs. W. H. Allen & Co., and the price, to subscribers, will be 155. In the new edition of "Chitty on Contracts," now being issued under the auspices of Mr. J. M. Lely and Mr. Nevill Geary, there will be found (p. 665) a recently settled agreement for publication on commission, the author retaining his copyright. The agreement was settled by the Society of Authors. Miss Charlotte M. Yonge has in preparation a story entitled "The Slaves of Sabinus." The scene is laid in the time of Vespasian, and the book will be published in the autumn season. The seventh series of the "Cameos of English History," by the same author, is now appearing. Mr. W. A. Copinger, F.S.A., the author of "The Law of Copyright in Works of Literature and Art," has now in hand a Bibliography of the various editions of the Latin Bible in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with full collations, and fac similes of pages of the principal editions. The life of "Carmen Sylva," Queen of Roumania-a translation from the German (Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co.)-contains numerous extracts from the illustrious lady's poetry, which have been gracefully rendered into English by Sir Edwin Arnold. "Thomas Dain, the Memoirs of an Irish Patriot, 1840-1846," is also announced by the same publisher. The author is Sir Charles Gavan Duffy K.C.M.G. M. Jusserand, author of "English Wayfaring Life," and an honorary foreign member of our Society, has revised and enlarged his work, "Le Roman au temps de Shakespeare," and a translation of it has just been issued (Mr. T. Fisher Unwin). Miss Jane E. Harrison, author of "Myths of the Odyssey, &c.," has written an introductory essay, with archæological comments, to Miss Verrall's work upon Ancient Athens (Messrs. Macmillan & Co.). The Rev. Charles D. Bell, D.D., of Cheltenham, has just published "A Winter on the Nile (Hodder and Stoughton, price 6s.), containing the record of a tour up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract, with a sojourn at Luxor and a description of recent discoveries and antiquities at Bubastis and the Fayoum. Marion Crawford's new book, "A Cigarette Maker's Romance," will be published this month (Macmillan). Mr. Edward Clodd's "Story of Creation" will be issued in a cheaper edition next month by Messrs. Longmans. An Italian translation will also be published in Rome shortly. Mr. Edmund Gosse announces the first three volumes of an International Library, under his editorship (William Heineman). One is from the French, one from the German, and one from the Norwegian. A search is to be made on all hands and in all languages for such books as combine the greatest literary value with the most curious and amusing qualities of manner and matter. If such a search is only rewarded by a modicum of success a large body of readers should be placed under a great debt to editor and publisher. A new edition of Lamb's "Adventures of Ulysses' will be issued shortly, edited by Mr. Andrew Lang. The Open Court-a Chicago journal-is at present publishing a series of papers by Mr. T. Bailey Saunders, constituting a short critical review of recent theories on the Origin of Reason. Miss Mary Rowsell is engaged upon a biography of Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby (the Lady of Lathom), (Vizetelly & Co.). The book is to form one of a series of Romantic Biographies. Miss Rowsell is also dramatizing her novel "The Red House." Mr. Oswald Crawfurd, C.M.G., Her Majesty's Consul at Oporto, author of "Portugal: Old and New," Beyond the Seas," "Sylvia Arden," is working upon the final revise of "Round the Calendar in Portugal," a book dealing chiefly with rural life and rural themes in that country. The work is copiously illustrated by Miss Dorothy Tennant, Mrs. Arthur Walter, Miss Alice Woodward, Miss Winifred Thomson, Mr. Tristram Elles, Mr. Ambrose Lee, and the author. Mr. William Sharp has written a memoir of the great critic to be prefixed to Sainte Beuve's Essays, which are announced by Mr. David Stott, as a volume in a new series, entitled "Masterpieces of Foreign Authors." The latest volume of the Camelot Series, "Northern Studies," is by Mr. Edmund Gosse ; the latest volume of the Canterbury Series, "Great Oder," has been selected and edited by Mr. William Sharp (Walter Scott). A new edition of "The Story of a Marriage," by L. Baldwin, will appear immediately (Ward and Downey). "The Roll of the Highland Clans." This is a sheet somewhat similar to "The Roll of Battle Abbey," about 34 inches by 24 inches, on which is an inner scroll bearing the names of the principal cadets, the badge, and coloured specimen of the Tartan of each Clan. It has been prepared by Mrs. Philip Champion de Crespigny, and is subscribed in a limited edition by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, at a guinea. Dr. Beattie Crozier, whose book, "Civilization and Progress," met with such success last year, has in hand a book dealing with the Labour Question. The book will be a sequel to Civilization and Progress," and will be published by Messrs. Longmans & Co. Mrs. Kennard has begun a new novel in London Society, entitled "A Homburg Beauty." Her story, "That Pretty Little Horse-breaker," will run upon the Syndicate System with Mr. Tillotson, at the end of this year. 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