death of Sir John
Moore made a deep impression on him, and was a special favorite. Goethe
and Heine he liked greatly, especially Goethe's song of Mignon, "Knowst
thou the Land," and Heine's Fisher's Song (which Schubert has set to
such delicious and befitting music) which ends--

"My heart is like the ocean,
Has storm, and ebb, and flow,
And many a lovely pearlet
Rests in its depths below."

Schiller he could not so well understand, and often the attempt
adequately to translate this poet had to be given up in despair.
However, Mirza Shaffy admitted that some of his poems had substance in
them. Uhland and Geibel were not much to his mind. One day, Bodenstedt
translated into Tartar a song by the latter, which we in our turn thus
render into English:

The silent water lily
Springs from the earth below,
The leaves all greenly glitter,
The cup is white as snow.

The moon her golden radiance
Pours from the heavens down,
Pours all her beams of glory
This virgin flower to crown.

And, in the azure water,
A swan of dazzling white
Floats longing round the lily,
That trances all his sight.

Ah low he sings, ah sadly,
Fainting with sweetest pain;
O lily, snow white lily,
Hear'st thou the dying strain?

Mirza Shaffy cast the song aside, with the words, "A foolish swan!"

"Don't the song please you?" asked the translator.

"The conclusion is foolish," replied the Tartar; "what does the swan
gain by fainting?--he only suffers himself, and does no good to the
rose. I would have ended--

"Then in his beak he takes it,
And bears it with him home."

* * * * *

Mr. Ross, the editor of _Allgemeine Auswanderungszeitung_ (Universal
Journal of Emigration), an excellent and useful German periodical, has
just published in Germany the _Auswanderer's Handbuch_ (Emigrant's
Manual), devoted especially to the service of those who design
emigrating to the United States. His manual is a valuable collection of
whatever a new comer into this country should know. The constitution and
political arrangements of the Union, its legislation, its means of
intercourse, the peculiarities of soil and climate proper to different
sections, the state of agriculture, and the chances of employment for
persons of different classes, professions, and degrees of education, are
all given. Mr. Ross was himself bo