they will
confer.

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Several eminent scholars are in the list of candidates for the Greek
Professorship of Edinburgh, but the struggle is considered to be between
Dr. William Smith, whose classical dictionaries have gained him a high
reputation, Mr. Price, for many years a successful teacher at Rugby,
Professor M'Dowell, of Queen's College, Belfast, and Professor Blackie,
of Aberdeen. The election occurs March 2d.

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DR. J. V. C. SMITH has just published (Gould & Lincoln, Boston) _A
Pilgrimage to Palestine, Embracing a Journal of Explorations in Syria,
Turkey, and the Kingdom of Greece_.

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In illustration of the advancement of learning in Turkey, the London
_Literary Gazette_ mentions, that when the department of the Ministry of
Public Instruction was created four or five years ago in Constantinople,
it became apparent that there existed a desideratum of Moslem
civilization necessary to be supplied as soon as possible--a _Turkish
Vocabulary_ and a _Turkish Grammar_, compiled according to the
development of modern philology. The Grammar has now been published,
compiled by Fuad Effendi, _mustesher_ of the Grand Vizier, assisted by
Ahmed Djesvid Effendi, another member of the Council of Instruction.
Translations will be made into several languages, the French edition
being now in preparation by two gentlemen belonging to the Foreign
Office of the Sublime Porte, who have obtained a privilege of ten years
for its sale.

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SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON has just brought out a complete collection of
his _Poems_, except only, we believe, the once pretty famous book of
_The Siamese Twins_. His _My Novel, or Varieties of English Life_, is
nearly finished, and he will give to the world a new three volume novel
in the course of the spring. He is also bringing out, with final
revisions, notes, &c., all his prose writings, in a neat and cheap
edition. In the new preface to _Alice, or the Mysteries_, he says: "So
far as an author may presume to judge of his own writings, no narrative
fiction by the same hand (with the exception of the poem of _King
Arthur_) deserves to be classed before this work in 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."

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