A collection of the popular songs of Southern Russia is now being published at Moscow by Mr. MAKSIMOWITSCH, who for twenty years has been in the Ukraine, engaged in taking down and preserving these interesting products of the early life of his people in that region. This is not the first contribution of the kind that he has made to Russian literature; in 1827 he published the _Songs of Little Russia_, consisting of one hundred and thirty pieces for male and female voices; in 1834 the _Popular Songs of the Ukraine_, consisting of one hundred and thirteen songs for men; and in the same year the _Voices of Ukraine Song_, twenty-five pieces with music. The present work is called by way of distinction _Collectaneum of Ukraine Popular Songs_; it is to be in six parts, containing about two thousand national poems. Each part is to be accompanied with explanatory notes, and the last volume will contain an essay on Russian popular poetry in general, as well as on that of the Ukraine in particular. One volume has already appeared; it is in two divisions: the first of Ukraine _Dumy_, the second of cradle songs and lullabys. The _Dumy_ are a particular sort of poems peculiar to the Ukraine. They are in a most irregular measure, varying from four to twelve syllables, with the cadence varying in each line. The only requirement is that they should rhyme, and frequently several successive lines are made to do so. These poems are the production of the _Vandurists_, or bards of the country, who are even yet found on the southern shore of the Dnieper. These singers, usually blind old men, chant their _Dumy_ and their songs to the people, accompanying themselves with both hands on the many-stringed _vandura_. The _Dumy_ flourished most in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There are some existing composed by Mazeppa after the battle of Pultowa, and one or two other poets have left a _Dumy_ of the eighteenth, but they are not equal to those of more primitive times. Since then there have been no new compositions in the way of popular songs and ballads, but the older works have been repeated with variations and to new melodies. The most frequent subjects of these ballads were, of course, historic personages and warlike deeds; but often they sung of domestic matters and feelings, winding up with a moral for the benefit of the young. In this volume of Mr. Maksimowitsch, are twenty _Dumy_; their subjects are such as these: Fight of the Cossack with the Tartar, the Three Brothers, On the Victory of Gorgsun (1648). He reckons the number in existence at thirty. Of these he publishes, four have not before been known. * * * * * A new edition of Hogarth's Works is in process of republication at Göttingen in a diminished size. There are to be twelve parts at fifty cents each; the third part has been published. * * * * *