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author of "John Halifax," has turned editor, and is to supervise a new monthly shilling magazine; she has contributed largely to McMillan's Magazine. Lamartine has offered a play to the Porte Saint Martin, and it was rejected. A double mortification. The piece was called La Servante. The new pamphlet, "Rome and the French Bishops," is attracting nearly as much attention in Paris as "The Pope and the Congress," a year ago. Victor Hugo having completed his great romance of Les Miserables, demands $60,000 for the six volumes. Solar, the publisher of La Presse, offers $15,000 for the right to publish the work in the feuilleton form, and another publisher offers $15,000 for the absolute property of the volumes, but the poet resists both inducements. Who shall talk of the lack of business talent, the improvidence and carelessness of literary men? Motley's new volume is in press by the Harpers, and indeed ready for publication. They hold it back solely on account of t