gyptischen Goetterkries und seine
geschichtlich-mythologische Entetchung_. (On the First Series of
Egyptian Gods, and its Historico-Mythological Origin,) a dissertation
read before the Royal Academy of Berlin, he supplies the monumental and
other evidence of this discovery, and gives the names of these deities
_majoram gentium_.

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SMIRDIN, a publisher of St. Petersburg, who some time since commenced
the issue of a uniform edition of the more prominent authors of Russia,
of which he has already published thirty volumes, has now begun a new
edition of Karamsin's _History of the Russian Empire_. It will be
completed in ten volumes; the first is already published. This is
regarded as the best history of Russia extant, though it notoriously
misstates many facts in order to flatter the imperial house and sustain
its absolute authority. It has previously passed through five editions,
and it is estimated that twenty-four thousand copies of it are in
Russian public libraries and the hands of private persons.

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The traditional literature of Germany, already very rich, has received
an important addition in the _Sagenbuch der Bairischen Lande_ (Book of
Traditions of the Bavarian Provinces), of which the first volume has
just been published at Munich. These sagas are collected by the editor,
Mr. A. SCHOePPNER, from the mouth of the people, from out-of-the-way old
chronicles, and from the ballads of the poets. They are full of natural
humor and poetic beauty.

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S. DIDUNG has lately written _The Fundamental Laws of Art, and the
German Art-Language, with Poems dedicated to the German Spirit_. This
singular mixture of subjects under one title seems peculiar to Germany,
where authors occasionally have recourse to curious expedients in
book-making.

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PROF. WILHELM ZAHN has printed the fourth part of the third continuation
of _The most Beautiful Ornaments and most Remarkable Pictures from
Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae, with several Sketches and Views_, and a
new German edition of HAGMANN'S _Sketches_, got up in excellent style.

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MISS BREMER'S records of her visit to the United States will appear as
_Homes of the New World_.

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One HERR FROST, who flourishes as Director of the Inst