Beauty, as mutually completing each other in the
passion of love. The _Monates-Maehrchen_ (Tales of the Month), by Gustar
von Mayem, are poems of another sort. Instead of sentimentality, the
stock in trade of this writer is patriotism and politics. His inspiring
thought is the unity of Germany and the national greatness which must
result therefrom. Unfortunately this thought does not find so welcome a
reception with statesmen as with poets.

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A PRODUCTION of the most indisputable German plodding and erudition is
the _Satzungen und Gebraeuche des talmudisch-rabbinischen Judenthums_, by
Dr. I. F. Schroeder, lately issued at Bremen. It gives a complete account
of the religious notions, doctrines, and usages of the Jews. To
theologians it is of high value for the light which it casts upon the
formation and institutions of the Christian Church. The author has
employed in its composition the writings of every sect, and has
condensed in it the result of a thorough study of the entire literature
relating to the Old Testament and the rabbinical writings. He writes
with the greatest impartiality, and in the interest of no particular
creed or tendency.

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M. ARAGO said lately in the Academy of Sciences, upon the suggestion of
some possibilities in aerostation, that a long time since the whole
subject had been treated in a masterly manner by Mousnier, a celebrated
member of the Academy of Sciences. His treatise had remained in
manuscript in the public library of Metz, and if it should be committed
to the press, it would prove to those who think they have discovered new
methods of aerial locomotion, that what is plausible and rational in
their ideas was already perfectly well known, expounded and appreciated,
in the last century.

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THE government of Naples constantly increases its list of prohibited
books. Among the works now excluded, Humboldt's Cosmos, Shakspeare,
Goldsmith, Heeren's Historical Treatises, Ovid, Lucian, Lucretius,
Sophocles, Suetonius, Paul de Kock, Victor Hugo, E. Girardin, G. Sand,
Lamartine, Valery's L'Italie, Goethe, Schiller, Thiers, A. Dumas,
Moliere, all the German philosophers, and Henry Stephens's Greek
Dictionary.

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THE ABBE LACORDAIRE has published an introduction to a work entitled _Le
Monde Occulte_--an exposition of the mysteries