ides,
in most of her writings, George Sand has dealt with problems whose
justification later times will not understand; and thus it may happen
that hereafter she will be regarded as of consequence in the history of
literature alone. But in that sphere she will have a permanent
importance. Future centuries will regard her as the most significant
image of the morbid but intense striving which marks this generation.
When it has long been agreed that the lauded works of Victor Hugo,
Eugene Sue, Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, and others, are but the barren
outgrowths of an untamed and unrestrained fancy, and a perverted
reflection; when the same verdict has been pronounced on the poems of M.
de Chateaubriand, whose value is now taken as a matter of belief and
confidence, because there are few who have read them; then the true
poetic element in the works of George Sand will, in spite of all its
vagaries, still be recognized. And more than this, since the period of
sentimentalism will be seen as more extensive, and as the works of
Richardson, Rousseau (of course only those which belong in this
category), and of Madame de Stael and others, will be included in it,
then we say that the better productions of our authoress will carry off
the prize from all the rest."

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Two collections of songs, national and lyric, have made their appearance
in Germany. The one is by GEORGE SCHERER, and is called _Deutsche
Volkshelier_, the other, by WOLFGAND MENZEL, is entitled _Die Gesange
der Volker_ (The Songs of the Nations). The former is exclusively
German; the latter contains songs from every civilized tongue under
heaven, as well as from many of the uncivilized, in German versions, of
course. Both are elegantly printed, and highly commended by the knowing
in that line of literature.

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HENRI MURGER has published a companion volume to his _Scenes de la
Boheme_ in the shape of some stories called _Scenes de la Vie de
Jeunesse_.

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A curious specimen of what may be done by a ready writer who is
scrupulous only about getting his pay, is afforded by a book just
published at Leipzic, called _Zahme Geschichten aus wilder Zeit_ (Tame
Stories of a Wild Time), by Frederick Ebeling. In these "tame stories"
the heroes of the late revolutionary movements are held up now in one
light, and now in another, with the most striking di