equent knowledge of natural phenomena therein
described, that those countries were, in the fifth century, visited by
Buddhist priests at the time mentioned.

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A late number of the _Europa_ contains a notice of the _London Art
Journal_. We have not time to read the article, but suggest that the
least which a Leipzig reviewer _should_ say of this periodical, is, that
it contains infinitely more news relative to the present condition of
art in Germany, than the _Kunst Blatt_, or Munich _Art Journal_ itself.
There is hardly any magazine of which we make more use in the
_International_, than the London _Art Journal_.

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One of the most practical handbooks of a higher order for the use of the
learned, in _Roman Antiquities_, is that by W. BEEKER, ex-Professor at
Leipzig--the third part of which has just made its appearance. The parts
already published contain the first part of the State Government of
ancient Italy; the Provinces ('of which we have here for the first time
a complete statistical account'); and the State Constitution. The
publisher promises that in the coming volumes there will be given the
departments of Finance and War, Jurisprudence, Religion and Private
Antiquities. In connection with this we may cite the _Legis Rubriae pars
superstes_, a beautifully lithographed _fac-simile_ of this classic
curiosity, and also by Dr. ADAM ZINZOW _De Pelasgicis Romanorum Sacris_,
which is a treatise on those oldest of the Roman local legends which the
author considers as Pelasgic.

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In our forgetfulness of such "opium reading" we are oft apt to imagine
the days of mysticism and the supernaturalism gone by. Germany, however,
occasionally reminds us that the world is ever prone to return to the
spectre-haunted paths trodden by its forefathers. One of the latest
_recallers_ of this description, is a second and very considerably
enlarged edition of Dr. JOSEPH ENNEMOSER'S _Historio-Physiological
Inquiries into the Origin and Existence of the Human Soul_. Of a
somewhat similar school, we have the second volume of the collected
works of FRANZ VON BAADER, and separate from these, by Dr. FRANZ
HOFFMANN, _Franz Baader in his relations to Spinoza, Leibnitz, Kant,
Jacobi, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Herbart_. Six groschens worth of
stout and vivid abuse of the atheist FEUERBACH has also been published
by Blae