ses."

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PRINCE WINDISCHGRATZ has issued his long promised narrative of the
Hungarian winter campaign in 1848-49. In the preface, he says he has
been induced to depart from a resolution not to publish until a much
later period, by numerous calumnies and misrepresentations which have
been circulated. The book is dedicated to the army.

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MENZEL, whose work on German Literature had the honor of appearing in
Ripley's excellent series of foreign books, published at Boston some ten
years since, has just published a novel at Leipzig, with the title of
_Farore_. It is the history of a monk and a nun during the thirty years
war.

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FREDERIKA BREMER has in press a book upon the World's Fair. It is
announced in Germany, but we presume will appear at the same time in
England. Whether it will be historical, philosophical, sentimental, or
mystical, we are not informed, but suppose it will have a touch of all
these qualities.

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FREDERICK THE GREAT (so-called), is not yet exhausted as a topic for
book-makers, if we may judge by the _Anekdoten und Charakterzuege_
(Anecdotes and Traits of Character), drawn from his life, and just
published at Berlin. The author is an adorer of the selfish old
martinet.

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KOHL, the indefatigable traveller, has just published, at Dresden, his
_Reise nach Istrien Dalmatien und Montenegro_. A book of travels in
those countries is a novelty, and no explorer could give his reader a
more vivid picture of the peculiarities of a nation and its country than
Kohl. The book is in two volumes.

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The Shakspeare Society in London, at a recent sitting, received as a
present a translation of Shakspeare, in twelve volumes, into Swedish
verse. This laborious work has been accomplished by Professor HAGBERG,
of the University of Lund, and it was transmitted through the Swedish
Minister to England.

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A new history of German literature from the most ancient to the most
recent times has just been published at Stuttgart by Dr. EUGEN HAHN. It
is particularly valuable in respect of biography and the history of
mental culture in general.

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A new work, called _Bilder aus Spainen_ (Pictures f