plates with
explanatory text. The cost will be $4,50 in Germany. The first part has
appeared at Stuttgardt, and is praised as worthy of the great work it
illustrates.

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Of AUERBACH's _Dorfgeschichten_ (Village Stories), 25,000 copies have
been sold in Germany. He has just published a three-volume novel called
_Neues Leben_ (New Life).

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A new religious and philosophical novel is _Das Pfarrhaus zu Hallungen_
(The Parsonage at Hallungen), by LUDWIG STORCH. It is said to be full of
exciting interest, but we confess that we have not read it, and do not
mean to. Our taste is for novels of less elaborate purpose.

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We give our tribute of commendation to the _Haus-Chronik_ (House
Chronicles), which CASPAR BRAUN and FREDERICK SCHNEIDER are now
publishing at Munich. These gentlemen are well known to all readers of
that excellent comic paper, the _Fliegende Blaetter_, and here appeal to
all who can enjoy humor and have a taste for studies in the history of
German life in the middle ages.

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MUGGE, whose romance on _Toussaint L'Ouverture_ was translated by the
Rev. Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, has published at Leipzig the third
volume of his annual _Vielliebchen_ (My Darling). It contains two tales
and several poems, and is illustrated with seven steel engravings. It is
worthy of notice that this word _Vielliebchen_ is the original of our
mysterious _Filopine_.

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M. PULSZKY, who is now in this country in the suite of KOSSUTH, has just
published a historical romance at Berlin called _Die Jakobiner in
Ungarn_ (The Jacobines in Hungary). It is in two volumes, and meets a
favorable reception from the critics, and we doubt not, from the public
also. It fared equally well when it was published in English at London
some time since.

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The _Middle Kingdom_, of our countryman, Mr. S. WELLS WILLIAMS, is the
subject of a most favorable notice in the Augsburg _Allgemeine Zeitung_.
Of this careful and very comprehensive work--the most elaborate and
reliable that has ever appeared in the English language respecting China
and the Chinese--Mr. Wiley has just published a new edition.

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The public are solemnly warned in a number of the Leipzig _Centr