LITERA.TUB! A>~D THE FINE AKTS. 89 



Mrs. Gaskell haa un Icrt ken to prepare for the press a biography of Charlotte 

 Bronte, the lamented authoress of " Jane Eyre." 



The Rev. Dr. W. L. Alexander, of Edinburgh, has nearly ready for the press 

 a Life of the late Dr. Wardlaw. 



The Dub/in University Magazine has been purchased for £750 by Messrs. 



H.rst and Blackett of London. It will henceforth be published there. Our 



3P3 are probably aware that the Edinburgh Rt view is in like mannera Cockney, 



having been for years Edinburgh only in name; bu; its place is well supplied by 



the native Xortk British Rex 



The Piedmontese Gazelle announces that Silvio Pellico's correspondence will 

 shortly be published, and invites all those who are in possession of letters of that 

 eminent writer, and wish them to appear in the collection, to send them to M. G. 

 Stefani, at Turin. 



The oldest work in the Russian language, says a writer in the Literary Gazette, 

 was produced in 863, and was a translation from the Greek of the Holy Scriptures. 

 The Russian language is allied to the Sanscrit, but the old Sclavonian dialect — 

 that which is used in the offices of the Church— approaches it more closely than the 

 modern tongue. The latter is overladen with Tartar, Mongol, Turkish, Polish, and 

 German words. 



The news of Macaulay's resignation of his seat in Parliament, while it affords 

 abundant excitement in the arena of polities, has its full interest in a literary 

 poiut of view. Already one of the Seotti.-h papers rumors the fifth volume of his 

 history completed in IIS., and further portions of the work far advanced. 



MILTON AND NAPOLEON. 



A correspondent communicates the following curious statement to the JTotcs and 

 Queries: — "Among some books purchased at Puttick & Simpson's two years since, 

 was a copy of Symmons' 'Life of Milton.' Having lately occasion to examine it 

 more than I had hitherto done, I found it contained many notes and remarks in the 

 handwriting of a former possessor, J. Brown. Who this gentleman was I know not, 

 and the following note must be taken on his authority, not mine: — 



" In this ' Life of Milton,' by Dr. Symmons, p. 551, is a note to which this notice 

 may be appended : — 



" Napoleon Bonaparte declared to Sir Colin Campbell, who had charge of his person 

 at the Isle of Elba, that he was a great admirer of our Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' 

 and that he had read it to some purpose, for that the plan of the battle of Austerlitz 

 he borrowed from the sixth book of that work, where Satan bring? his arti lery to 

 bear upon Michael and his angelic host with such direful effect: — 



•Training his devilish enginery, impal'd 



On e irons deep, 



To / 



" This now mode of warfare appeared to Bonaparte so likely to succeed, if applied 

 to actual use, that he determined upon its adi ption, and succ id expec- 



tation. A reference to the details of that battle will be found to a! com- 



pletely with Milton's imaginary fight as to leave no doubt of tin 



" I had this fact from Colonel Stanhope, who had jusl 



barn's, wi :. It has never to my know n in print, 



norh- I the circumstance repeated. C opbell 



have be ad. The time of my hearing the ab 



D. W. 



