"In every revolution, good or bad, there are blind fanatics and selfish intriguers ready to take part, and loafers and vagabonds (Bummler und Gamins) willing to raise their voices." This is the remark of a German medical critic on a recent hydropathically insane composition, entitled The Sin-register of the Medical Art of Healing. In this work the servum pecus of allopathic physicians are richly abused, partly with biblical quotations and partly with original anathemas. Another on the same subject and in the same curious style, is entitled, Gustav Schwab, the noble bard of Suabia, by Gottlob Wasserman (or Praise-God Water-man). In this work the anti-Sangrado author proves to his own satisfaction, that the noble bard came to his death in consequence of having been imprudently bled, on one occasion, some six months previous to his death.
At the end of June an eighth edition of Oscar von Reduitz's Amaranth, was announced, and it has already been succeeded by a ninth. Many of the poems in this collection are in Uhland's romantic vein, and abound in the artistic spirit. To this we may add a Mahrchen in verse, (or Child's Tale,) a beautiful fantasie of birds, brooks, leaves, and sunshine, reminding us at times of The Story without an End, at others of Sara Coleridge's Phantasmion. But as it is one of those gilded fascinations which invariably charm on a first perusal, we leave to some more accurate reader the task of judging more critically as to its literary merit.
A translation of Shakspeare's Plays into the Swedish language by Hagberg, Professor of Greek in the University of Lund, is now in course of publication. Of this twelve volumes have appeared; and although the first edition consisted of no less than two thousand copies, the whole have been sold off, and a second edition is in preparation.
The lectures of Neander, On Church History, etc., are soon to appear, in fifteen volumes, edited by Professor Julius Muller, of Halle. The Interpretation of the Gospel of St. John, will form the first part of the work.
German books and pamphlets on the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition, are already in the market, or have indeed been extant for some time. Der Krystall Palast im Hyde Park, is among the last in this line.