We give our tribute of commendation to the Haus-Chronik (House Chronicles), which Caspar Braun and Frederick Schneider are now publishing at Munich. These gentlemen are well known to all readers of that excellent comic paper, the Fliegende Blätter, and here appeal to all who can enjoy humor and have a taste for studies in the history of German life in the middle ages.
Mugge, whose romance on Toussaint L'Ouverture was translated by the Rev. Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, has published at Leipzig the third volume of his annual Vielliebchen (My Darling). It contains two tales and several poems, and is illustrated with seven steel engravings. It is worthy of notice that this word Vielliebchen is the original of our mysterious Filopine.
M. Pulszky, who is now in this country in the suite of Kossuth, has just published a historical romance at Berlin called Die Jakobiner in Ungarn (The Jacobines in Hungary). It is in two volumes, and meets a favorable reception from the critics, and we doubt not, from the public also. It fared equally well when it was published in English at London some time since.
The Middle Kingdom, of our countryman, Mr. S. Wells Williams, is the subject of a most favorable notice in the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung. Of this careful and very comprehensive work—the most elaborate and reliable that has ever appeared in the English language respecting China and the Chinese—Mr. Wiley has just published a new edition.
The public are solemnly warned in a number of the Leipzig Central Blatt, against a lately published work, entitled Tabula Geographica Italiæ Antiquæ, as swarming with errors. Divers towns are cited therein, at different times under different names, and as standing in different places, while the names themselves are declared to be sadly corrupted.