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LITERARY NOTES.

--The Rev. Dr. Bartol, of Boston, wants to raise a fun to build Walk Whitman a summer cottage.

--Mr.Swineburne's volume of selections from his own poetical work has just been issued, and is for sale in this country by Worthington Company.

--The report that a new literary weekly is to be issued in Boston, to be called "The Twentieth Century," is now stated to be incorrect, or at least premature.

--Mr. Justin Winsor's "Was Shaakespeare Shapleigh?" of which we spole recently when it appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly," has been brought out by Houghton, [Mifflin?] & Co. in the form of a very tastefully printed monograph.

--Mr. Edwin Arnold has just presented to the Indian Institute at Oxford, through the Vice Chancellor of the University, the Buddhist manuscripts and Pall books given to him by the priests of Ceylon during his recent visit to that island.

--Continental papers report that the King of the Belgians is engaged on a history of the Norman conquest of England, and that his recent visit to England was made for the purpose of personally examinig the battlefield of Hastings. The "Athenaeum" gives this iten as "under all reserve."

--Says the "Pall Mall Gazette:" "It is distressing to those who value the relics of the book world of to-day, nevertheless it is a fact that the original manuscript of 'The PickwickPapers' has been secured by a wealthy new York citizen much to the delight of the idol worshipers of that city."

--M. Chevreul, the distinguished French chemist and author, is approaching his one hundred and first birthday. He is in excellent health. He lately went to vote a municipal election, and upon being congratulated on his public spirit, said, "Yes, I am voting early. I shall soon be a year old."

--The Concord Summer School will open its ninth term on Wednesday, July 13, and will continue about two weeks. Lectures will be given morning and evening, except Saturday evening, on the six secular days, at the Hillside Chapel, near the Orchard House. The terms are $5 for each full week; or for all the lecture, $10.

--The "Book Buyer" for June shows a decided advance in variety and freshness; the literary topics are well chosen and presented with point and clearness. The :Book Buyer" has a field of its own, which it gives every promise of occupying in the most satisfactory and adequate fashion. As a monthly resume of current literature it is unique.

--Professor Knight, of St. Andrew's University, has discovered in Leicestershire, England, a large number of letters from Wordsworth, Coleride, Southey, Scott, and others which are unpublished, and which were addressed to Sir George Beaumont, the painter. It is beliebed that two large volumes will be required for their publication, and David Douglas, of Edinburgh, is said to have the work in hand already.

--Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has written the opening article for the "Beecher Memorial" Now being prepared for Mrs. Beecher and her family by Mr. Edward W. Bok, of Brooklyn, N.Y., to which Mr. Gladstone, President Cleveland, the Duke of Argyll, and some seventy five other distinguished Americans and foreigners have also contributed articles. Only one hundred copies of the "Memorial" are intended for the public.

--The "Saturday Review" mentions, as a curious fact connected with the Buffalo Bill show, that an extensive republication is going on in England of Fenimore Cooper's novels. "It seems," it says, "as if everybody who has paid a visit to the Wild West at Earle's Court must forthwith form the acquaintance of 'The Last of the Mohicans,' 'Leatherstocking,' and 'The Pathfinder.' It thinks that in common justice Captain Mayne Reade 'should have his share of the luck.'"