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Mr. William Young, the thoroughly accomplished editor of the Albion, is to be our creditor in the coming autumn for two hundred songs of Beranger, in English, with the pictorial illustrations which graced the splendid edition of the great lyrist’s works recently issued in Paris.  Mr. Young may be said to be as familiar with the niceties of the French language as the eloquent and forcible editorials of the Albion show him to be with those of his vernacular; and he has studied Beranger with such a genial love and diligence, that he would probably be one of his best editors, even in Paris.  In literal truth and elaborate finish, we think his volume will show him to be a capital, a nearly faultless, translator.  But Beranger is a very difficult author to turn into English, and we believe all who have hitherto essayed this labor have found his spirit too evanescent for their art.  The learned and brilliant “Father Prout” has been in some respects the most successful of them all; but his versions are not to be compared with Mr. Young’s for adherence either to the bard’s own meaning or music.  In pouring out the Frenchman’s champagne, the latter somehow suffers the sparkle and bead to escape, while the former cheats us by making his stale liquor foam with London soda.  We shall be impatient for Mr. Young’s book, which will be published by Putnam, in a style of unusual beauty.

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Dr. Achilli, whose history, so full of various and romantic vicissitudes, has become familiar in consequence of his imprisonments in the Roman Inquisition, is now in London, at the head of a congregation of Protestant Italians.  He has intimated to Dr. Baird his intention to visit this country within a few months.  He resided here many years ago.

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Shirley, by the author of Jane Eyre, has been translated into French, and is appearing as the feuilleton of the National, newspaper.  Mr. LIVERMORE, one of our most learned bibliopoles, has a very interesting article upon Public Libraries, in the last North American Review.  He notices in detail several generally inaccessible reports on the libraries of Europe and this country; after referring to the number and extent of libraries here and elsewhere, and showing that in this respect we rank far below most of the countries of Europe, though second to none in general intelligence and the means of common education, he urges the institution of a large national library, and sees in the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution a prospect that the subject is likely to receive speedy and efficient attention.

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