d even thrilling.

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COTTA, of Stuttgart, has just published a new collection of poems by
FRANZ DINGELSTEDT, under the title of "Night and Morning." The themes
are drawn from the revolution, its hopes and its disappointments.

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FREDERIC LOUIS JAHN, the celebrated German professor, who invented the
modern system of gymnastics, is writing his personal memoirs. He is
about seventy years of age, and his long life has been full of
significant incidents.

To those who seek a good acquaintance with the current belles-lettres
literature of Germany, we can cordially recommend the _Deutsches
Museum_, published semi-monthly at Leipsic, under the editorial care of
Professor Robert Prutz and Wilhelm Wolffson, and sold in this city by
Westermann, 290 Broadway. Each number contains eighty-five close pages,
filled by some of the leading writers of German science, art and
politics. In the number now before us, are articles by Gutzkow, Boech,
the philologist, Berthold Auerbach, Emanuel Geibel and Julius Mosen. The
entire range of politics, philosophy, antiquities, art, poetry, romances
and literary criticism is included in the scope of the _Museum_, except
that it is designed not for the learned world, but for the mass of the
people, and accordingly aims at general not technical instruction. Among
the art notices, we observe a brief criticism on the Gallery of
Illustrious Americans, in which the lithography of the pictures is
praised as well as the faces themselves. The critic is delighted with
the energy, originality and freshness of character expressed in their
features.

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A valuable contribution to current political history is the
_Verfassungskampf in Kurhessen_ (Constitutional Struggle in Electoral
Hesse), by Dr. H. Graefe, which has just made its appearance in Germany.
The conflict of the people and parliament and public officers, against
the selfish, arbitrary and foolish Elector, is the turning point of
recent German politics, and the defeat of the former after their
patience and firmness, acting always within the limits of the
constitution, had gained a decided victory, and compelled the faithless
prince to fly the country,--a defeat accomplished only by the
intervention of Austrian and Prussian troops, was the final downfall of
every form of political liberty in Germany. Dr. Graefe has wisely
abstain