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. * * * * * 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." * * * * * LADY BULWER LYTTON has written two extraordinary letters to the _Morning Post_, of a review in that paper, of her _School for Husbands_, hinting at what _might_ have been said about some of the minor faults, had the book been written by any body else, and going out of her way, to remind us that her husband is a plagiarist. Repeating one of Mr. Joseph Miller's anecdotes of a larceny of brooms, ready made, she says. "And so it is with the great _Bombastes_ of the Press--Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. Truly, therefore, may he exclaim:-- "----Non ulla laborum: O Virgo nova ni facies inopinaque surgit, Omnia percipi atque animo mecum ante peregi." And well may a _sapient, moral_, and _impartial_ press uphold so great an empiric." * * * * * LORD COCKBURN, one of the Scottish judges, is preparing a _Memoir of Lord Jeffrey_, with selections from his correspondence. "The ability, judgment, and taste of Henry Cockburn, as well as political sympathy and personal friendship," the _Athenaeum_ says, "give him every fitness for being the biographer of Francis Jeffrey." * * * * *