lished, by Wigand of Leipsic, two volumes on LUDWIG
KOSSUTH--the first volume treating of Kossuth as agitator, and the
second of Kossuth as minister. "We have in the author a most determined
admirer of the Hungarian chief; one whose respect for the hero is not
however expressed in enthusiastic encomiums; but he attempts by a clear
and sensible analysis of his deeds, of the circumstances upon which they
depended, and the consequences to which they have led, to excite in the
reader a corresponding conviction."

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The reader who likes to take history in an entertaining form is
recommended to BEHSE'S _History of the Austrian Court, Nobility, and
Diplomacy_, of which two volumes are just published in Germany. They can
make no just claim to philosophical thoroughness, but are full of
readable anecdotes and interesting glimpses of character.

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Among recent curious translations of Oriental literature published in
Germany, we observe the _Quarante Questions Addressees par les doct
Juifs au Prophete Mahomet_ (or The Forty Questions addressed by the
learned Jews to the prophet Mahomet.) The work is accompanied with a
Turkish text and glossary, for the use of Orientalists.

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The second volume of the second edition of BOeCKH'S celebrated _Die
Staatshaushaltung der Athener_ (or Political Economy of the Athenians),
has just been published by G. Reimer, of Berlin. So thoroughly has this
edition and particularly this volume been revised, and so materially
increased, that it may be regarded as almost a new work.

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Among artistic philosophic works, we see mention of one entitled
_Aesthetic Inquiries into the Modern Drama_, by HENMAN HETTNER. With its
merits we are not acquainted, but the subject, if properly treated,
might serve for an extremely interesting and useful work.

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Almost every writer on Egyptian theology, from Jablonsky to Bunsen, has
endeavored to identify, among the manifold gods of their Pantheon, the
eight older deities mentioned by Herodotus, in the 145th chapter of the
_Euterpe_. In a note to his _Chronologie der Aegypter_, Lepsius
announced the discovery, that this series originally consisted only of
seven, and was subsequently enlarged to eight. In a quarto volume, first
issued at Berlin, _Uber den ersten Ae