rom Spain), is among
the recent productions of the German press. Its author, HERR A. LONING,
has already published several works on the Peninsula, where he resided
several years.

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LISZT, the eminent pianist, has published in French a book on Richard
Wagner's two operas, _Lohengrin_ and _Tannhaeuser_. He praises them most
enthusiastically; possibly he may succeed in having Wagner's pieces
produced at Paris.

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DR. J. W. HADDOCK's work upon _Somnolism and Psycheism_, after having
gone through a second edition in England, has just made its appearance
at Leipzig in a German translation, made by Dr. C. L. Merkel.

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A new edition of that excellent work, _The History of the Poetic
National Literature of the Germans_, by Gerbinus, has just made its
appearance at Leipzig.

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SILVIO PELLICO is passing the present winter in Rome.

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In Tuscany, a periodical similar to the _International_ has been
established under the title of _Rivista Britannica_. The main purpose is
to select articles from English periodicals, and offer them in good
Italian versions. French newspapers, novels, and magazines come in
freely, too freely in Italy. The good ones will sometimes be seized at
the frontier, or at the post-office, by the jealous police of Rome,
Naples, and Tuscany: but against any thing that is corrupt and debauched
no Italian despot, prince, or priest, was ever known to shut his door.
French literature, such as it is under most circumstances, can have only
a bad influence in that enslaved country, and scarcely an Italian is to
be found able to read, who has any difficulty in understanding the
French language. As an antidote to this poison, the editors of the
_Rivista Britannica_ have thought of ministering copious draughts of
healthful English. We wish they might quote English and American
journals with perfect independence of all censorship.

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GIOBERTI, whose attack upon the Jesuits is fresh in the minds of all
students of European literature, has lately published at Turin an
elaborate work entitled _Del Rinovamento Civile d' Italia_ (Of the Civil
Regeneration of Italy). It is in two parts, the first treating of the
errors and misfortunes that have marked the past, the second of the