s work on _The Bhilsa Topes, or Budhist
Monuments of Central India_--and the Governor General of India has sent the
manuscript home to the Court of Directors, strongly recommending the court
to publish it at their own expense.

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DR. WILLIAM FREUND, the philologist, is engaged in constructing a
German-English and English-German Dictionary on his new system. He hopes
to complete the work in the course of next year.

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The first volume has appeared of a collected edition of the _Poetical and
Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton_, containing "The New Timon,"
"Constance," "Milton," "The Narrative Lyrics," and other pieces. Of the
poems in this volume public opinion has already expressed its estimate,
and it is sufficient for us to notice their republication in convenient
and elegant form. In a note to the passage in "The New Timon" referring to
the late Sir Robert Peel, the author says "he will find another occasion
to attempt, so far as his opinions on the one hand, and his reverence on
the other, will permit--to convey a juster idea of Sir Robert Peel's
defects or merits, perhaps as a statesman, at least as an orator." Very
singular are the lines in the poem, written before the fatal accident:

"Now on his humble, but his faithful steed,
Sir Robert rides--he never rides at speed--
Careful his seat, and circumspect his gaze,
And still the cautious trot the cautious mind betrays.
Wise is thy head! how stout soe'er his back,
Thy weight has oft proved fatal to thy hack!"

The generous and graceful turn given to this in the foot-note, is such as
one might expect from Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. In another series we have the
second part of _Ernest Maltravers_, or, as the other title bears, _Alice,
or The Mysteries_. In this work of allegorical fiction, with the author's
usual power and felicity of narrative, there is mingled a philosophical
purpose; and in a new preface Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ascribes to it,
above all his other works, "such merit as may be thought to belong to
harmony between a premeditated conception, and the various incidents and
agencies employed in the development of plot." "Ernest Maltravers," the
type of Genius or intellectual ambition, is after long and erring
alienation happily united to "Alice," the type of Nature, nature now
elevated and idealized.