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Mr. Rogers, the poet, was lately knocked down by a cab, as he was returning from a dinner party, and so seriously injured as very much to alarm his friends.  He was not restored sufficiently to see visitors at the last dates.  Rogers, Montgomery, Moore, Hunt, Wilson, Savage Landor, and De Quincey, are “listening to the praises of posterity.”  Not any of them can last much longer.

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Harro Harring, the Swedish republican novelist, had scarcely reached his own country after several years exile in America, before he was again imprisoned for some quixotic attack upon institutions which he has neither the ability nor the character, even if let alone by the government, to change.

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Mr. W.E.  Foster has published in London a new edition of Clarkson’s Life of Penn, in the preface to which he has entered very fully into the points raised by Macaulay in his History in regard to the Quakers, vindicating them, and very ably sustaining the fame of their hero.

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Rev. Dr. Judson, the missionary, is again reported in very feeble health, and in a decline.  He is nearly sixty years of age.

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The Poems of Frances A. and Metta V. Fuller, of Ohio, are in press, and to be published in a beautiful volume in the autumn.

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Mr. Prescott, the historian, is passing the summer in England.

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LITERATURE IN PARIS.—­A correspondent of the London Literary Gazette, under date of June 12, says: 

“I notice reprints, by Didot, of several of the standard works of Chateaubriand; a condensation, by General O’Connor, of his “Monopoly;” a Treatise, by the Bishop of Langres, on the grave question of Church and State; a very interesting and curious work on the forests of Gaul, ancient France, England, Italy, &c.; a volume of the Unpublished Letters of Mary Adelaide of Savoy, Duchess of Bourgogne—­which throws great light on many of the principal historical events and personages of her time; a charming series of Sketches from Constantinople, entitled “Nuits du Ramazan,” by Gerard de Nerval, a popular feuilletoniste; a big volume of the works of St. Just, the terrible Conventionist; a continuation of the Illustrated Edition of Defauconpret’s Translation of the complete works of Walter Scott; an admirable fac-simile collection of Contemporary Portraits of Eminent Individuals of the Sixteenth Century; a reprint of Boileau’s Satires; an Alphabetical and Analytical Table of all the Authors, Sacred and Profane, discovered or published in the forty-three volumes of the celebrated Cardinal Mai; a ‘Month in Africa,’ by Pierre Napoleon Buonaparte, &c.  There have also been more than the usual average of works in the Greek, Latin, Hebrew.  Italian and Portuguese.”

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