neral information under which the
ordinary readers of continental Europe suffer. With all their libraries,
all their immense arrays of magazines and journals, we find among them an
apathy in regard to the world without (to the Fan-Qui), which appears
incredible until we reflect on the deadening influences of the censorship,
which views with distrust all information in regard to the Land of
Liberty. We are not aware, throughout the whole of continental Europe, of
a single publication so thoroughly cosmopolite in its character, so
general in the scope of its information, or which is so universally
disseminated among _all_ classes of readers, as _The International_; and
we trust we do not go too far when we assert, that it is to an extended
sale of periodical publications somewhat approaching it in the
concentration and dissemination of news from the world at large, that our
countrymen owe that superior intelligence and citizen-of-the-world
character which distinguish them from the insular Briton, self-important
Frenchman, or abstracted German.

The work from which we propose to make some extracts, is TRAUGOTT BROMME's
_Hand und Reisebuch fuer Auswanderer nach den Vereinigten Staaten_ (or
Traugott Bromme's Journey and Handbook for Emigrants to the United
States). As we have already stated, no work on America is at the present
day more familiarly known to that class of readers to whom it is
addressed. Certain remarks on the present condition of German emigration
with which it is prefaced, may not be devoid of interest to our readers,
though not constituting a part of such observations as we have more
particularly referred to:

"There is, it appears, implanted in every man an impulse to
advance and better his condition--an impulse caused by poverty,
dependent circumstances, or pressure from every side, vexing at
times even the highest in rank, and which is the cause why
thousands leave their fatherland, to seek afar a now home, and
hundreds of thousands cast around them disturbed and anxious
glances, restrained only by hard poverty, which imprisons them at
home. Such is very generally the case at present in our own
country, where--despite the political concessions of March in the
year 1848, of the published original privileges of the German
people, and of the promising prospect of a free and united
Germany, with a concluding general empire--emigration appears to be
by n