rs by an interesting review of it in _Blackwood's
Magazine_, accompanied by copious extracts. It is undeniable that
Professor Buelau has had access to materials unknown to previous writers,
which he has used with laudable conscientiousness, to clear up many
obscure points in history, and to explain the motives of many persons
whose actions have been wondered at but not understood.

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A work of some pretensions has just been published at Stuttgart, with
the title, _Italiens Zukunft_ (Italy's Future), by FR. KOeLLE, who gives
in it the fruit of seventeen years' residence in the country he treats
of. He begins with the original elements composing the Romanic Nations,
and goes on to consider the state of the country at the time of the
Revolution, the doings of the French, the Restoration, the cities,
commerce and navigation, the nobles, the peasantry, the Church,
monastical religious orders, the Jesuits, possibility of Church reform,
foreign influence, intellectual and scientific activity, Mazzini,
prospects in case of a future revolution, &c.

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A German translation of selections from the works of Dr. CHANNING is
being published at Berlin. There are to be fifteen small volumes, of
which six or seven have already appeared. The _Grenzboten_ does not
think much of the author, but classes him with Schleiremacher and his
school. It says that Dr. Channing was a special favorite with women,
which it seems not to intend for a compliment.

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M. FLOURENS, one of the perpetual secretaries of the French Academy of
Science, has published at Paris a collection of elegant and valuable
essays. They comprise a dissertation on George Cuvier, one on
Fontenelle, who is said to have best succeeded in casting on the
sciences the light of philosophy, and an examination of phrenology,
which M. Flourens discusses in the spirit of a disciple of Descartes and
Leibnitz.

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JACQUES ARAGO, author of _Souvenirs d'un Aveugle_ (A Voyage Round the
World), &c., and brother of the astronomer and ex-minister, is one of
the most remarkable characters of Paris. He is stone _blind_, and has
been so for years; and yet he placed himself at the head of a band of
gold seekers, and conducted them to California. Recently he returned to
Paris, with little gold--indeed, with none at all--but in his voyag