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FREDERIC BODENSTEDT, the author of the successful book on the Wars of
the Circassians, has just published the conclusion of a new work, called
"A Thousand and One Days in the Orient."

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A COLLECTION OF HUNGARIAN MYTHICAL TRADITIONS AND FAIRY TALES, has
lately been published in German at Berlin, translated from the Magyar of
Erdily, by G. Stier.

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The first part of the third and last volume of HUMBOLDT'S Cosmos has
been published at Stuttgart. It is on the Fixed Stars, and makes a
pretty stout book.

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HUMBOLDT, having furnished for his friend, Dr. Klencke, materials for a
memoir of his life, such a work was announced at Berlin, and so great
was the interest excited by its advertisement, that before the first
edition was all printed a second one was commenced.

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DR. KARL AUGUST ESPE, who for many years has filled the post of editor
to Brockhaus's _Conversations-Lexicon_, the work which forms the basis
of the Encyclopedia Americana, died near Leipzic on the 25th November
last. He was a man of great acquirements and unwearied industry, and was
well known and esteemed in the literary and scientific circles of the
continent. He was born at Kuehren, in 1804, and went to Leipzic in 1832.
Beside the great work above alluded to, he had charge of the annual
memoirs of the German Society for the study of the native language and
antiquities. Nearly two years ago he was attacked by a fit of apoplexy,
from the effect of which his mind did not recover. He has since been in
a lunatic asylum.

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NEANDER'S Church History is printed as far as the year 1294. He had
continued the work in manuscript up to the beginning of the fifteenth
century, so that Wiclif, Huss, and other important precursors of the
Reformation have found a place in it. This last volume of this great
work will shortly be printed. Neander's various posthumous works are of
remarkable value, though very few of them are in a finished state.
According to the _Methodist Quarterly_, always well informed upon such
matters, his exegetical Lectures upon the New Testament are of even
greater merit than his compositions in history. They are soon to be
published at Berlin, from notes taken by his students.

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