Not long ago it was stated that a Mr. SIMONIDES had discovered at the foot of Mount Athos a great number of important Greek MSS. We ventured to express some doubts on the subject, and we now perceive that Mr. RHANGABE, Professor of Archaiology in the University of Athens, has published a critical examination of these pretended discoveries, in which he proves very satisfactorily that every manuscript of an ancient work which Mr. Simonides has allowed others to examine, and every work which he has published, has turned out to be a modern fabrication. A more real discovery has been made by persons engaged in removing the earth for the foundations of a house near the Acropolis. Fragments of inscriptions, and several relics of sculpture and architecture, have been dug up, and it is thought they prove that the senate house, metroon, and other buildings in which the Athenian archives were preserved, stood in the vicinity. Apropos of M. Simonides, in a letter from Constantinople it is alleged that from the examination of ancient manuscripts in different Greek convents, he has discovered an indication that the original of the _Acts of the Apostles_ is buried in an island in the Sea of Marmora, and that he has caused an application to be made to the Turkish government for leave to search after it, which, it is said, is opposed by the Greek Patriarch, from fear that the discovery of the important document may lead to new schisms in the church! * * * * * We mentioned in a recent number of the _International_ the discovery and publication of a supposed MS. work by Origen. In the June number of the _Quarterly_ it is carefully reviewed, and in several of the theological journals it has received the attention due to a work of its pretensions. We see now that the Chevalier BUNSEN has in the press of the Longmans _Five Letters to Archdeacon Hare, on Hypolitus, Presbyter of the Church of Rome, author of the recently discovered book ascribed to Origen, and the bearing of this work on the leading Questions of Ecclesiastical History and Polity_. * * * * * Dr. CROLY has just published a new volume of poems, under the title of _Scenes from Scripture_. The greater part of them had previously appeared in annuals, &c. C. B. CAYLEY has given to the world a new version of the _Divine Comedy_, in the original terza rhyme; EDMUND PEEL, a poet of Mr. Robert Montgomery's class, has published _The Fair Island_, descriptive of the Isle of Wight; ROBERT MONTGOMERY himself has nearly ready his some-time promised _Poetical Works_, for the first time collected into one volume, similar to the octavo editions of Southey, Wordsworth, &c., including some original minor poems, and a general preface, (only the printing being in the style of Wordsworth.) * * * * *