of magnetism, by means of
somnambulism.

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A BOOK which contains some excellent sketches relative to MAZZINI and
the Roman Republic, has been published at Bremen, with the title, _Des
Republikaner's Schwerdfahrt_, (The Republican's Sword-Pilgrimage). The
author is a German, Ernst Hang, who held a high post in the Roman army.
He is now in Asia Minor, where his work was written. It is eloquent
sometimes, and entertaining and sensible always. His remarks on the
mutual relations of Germany and Italy, are admitted to be sound and
judicious.

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THE HON. CHARLES A. MURRAY, author of a volume of Travels in America,
and of three or four novels, is now the British Consul-General in Egypt,
and with his newly-married wife was to depart for Alexandria, to resume
his consular duties, towards the close of January.

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THE first volume of a most valuable and interesting work has just made
its appearance at Frankfort-on-the-Main. It is called _Geschichte der
Frauen_ (History of Woman), and is from the pen of G. Jung. The volume
now issued contains the history of the oppression of woman, and her
gradual self-emancipation down to the Christian era. It is written with
great talent, and comprehensive learning, but without pedantry. The
author believes that the emancipation of woman is not yet completed, and
she has a right to a free development of her faculties, and a perfectly
independent position in society. Two more volumes will complete the
work.

The Fine Arts.

RICHARD WAGNER, well known as an artist, has brought out at Leipzic a
book called _Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft_ (Art in the Future), which
excites a good deal of attention, and is soundly assailed by those who
dislike it. Wagner adopts the philosophical ideas of Feuerbach, and
treats his subject from that stand-point. Into modern art he pitches
with all the force of a genuine iconoclast. He says it is a sexless,
sterile product of dreams, not art, but merely manner, &c. With him art
must come out of the people, and be the apotheosis of the people. The
people are immortal and ever young. With the poets and novel-writers of
the day, Wagner has no more patience than with the artists. They are, he
thinks, dilettanti, sentimentalists, who coquet with the misery of the
masses, in order to serve the same up well spiced and warmed to their
luxurious an