finished. It is perhaps the best Illustrated Bible ever published.
The typography and woodcuts are admirable. Of the latter there are
eighty, after original designs by Jaeger, Overbeck, Schnorr, and others.

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FALLERMAYER, the distinguished German traveller, is about abandoning the
fruitless polemics which have gained him so many foes, to devote himself
to more useful labors. He himself desires to be at peace with all the
world, and the antagonists which his trenchant pen has so often
unsparingly scarified, need fear him no longer. He is about to complete
and print the third volume of his Oriental Impressions of Travel. This
is reason for rejoicing. Fallermayer is one of the most charming and
instructive of travel-writers.

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WALLON'S _Histoire de l'Esclavage dans l'Antiquite_, just published at
Paris, is a work of high value to those who wish to look into a branch
of history hitherto comparatively little cultivated, but destined to
attract the most profound attention. M. Wallon, who is one of the
candidates for the vacant seat in the French Academy, discusses in an
exhaustive manner the origin of slavery in the antique world, the
condition of bondmen in the various nations, and the gradual development
of the institution under all circumstances and in all countries. His
book is excellent for its manner, while in respect of matter the author
has drawn information from all accessible sources, and digested it with
judgment and impartiality. Thus he has produced a worthy contribution to
that great but yet unwritten work, so full of both tragic and epic
elements, the Annals of Labor. What a noble book might be made by some
competent writer who should grapple with the whole subject.

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THE NARRATIVE of the United States South Sea Exploring Expedition, is
being translated into German, and published by Cotta of Stuttgard. The
second volume is just completed. Probably all the supplementary volumes,
as Hale's "Ethnology," and Pickering's "Races of Men," will follow.

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MISS BARBAULD'S "God in Nature" has been translated into German by
Thecla von Gaupert, and illustrated by that most fertile and charming of
designers, Louis Richter. The translation is made from the thirtieth
English edition, and the price put within the reach of the poorer
classes, at fifty cents.