The Shakspeare Society in London, at a recent sitting, received as a present a translation of Shakspeare, in twelve volumes, into Swedish verse. This laborious work has been accomplished by Professor Hagberg, of the University of Lund, and it was transmitted through the Swedish Minister to England.
A new history of German literature from the most ancient to the most recent times has just been published at Stuttgart by Dr. Eugen Hahn. It is particularly valuable in respect of biography and the history of mental culture in general.
A new work, called Bilder aus Spainen (Pictures from Spain), is among the recent productions of the German press. Its author, Herr A. Loning, has already published several works on the Peninsula, where he resided several years.
Liszt, the eminent pianist, has published in French a book on Richard Wagner's two operas, Lohengrin and Tannhäuser. He praises them most enthusiastically; possibly he may succeed in having Wagner's pieces produced at Paris.
Dr. J. W. Haddock's work upon Somnolism and Psycheism, after having gone through a second edition in England, has just made its appearance at Leipzig in a German translation, made by Dr. C. L. Merkel.