sregard of
consistency. Jellachich, for instance, is lauded in one place as the
most genial and charming of men, a scholar and gentleman, without equal,
and almost in the next page he is called a ferocious butcher, who never
wearies of slaughtering human beings. These discrepancies are accounted
for by the fact that Mr. Ebeling wrote for both conservative and radical
journals, and adapted his opinions to the wants of the market he was
serving. He would have done well to reconcile his articles with each
other before putting them into a book.

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A valuable work on national law is entitled _Du Droits et des Devoirs
des Nations Neutres en Temps de Guerre Maritime_, by M. L. B.
Hautefeuille, a distinguished French jurist, lately published at Paris
in four octavos. It is praised by no less an authority than the eminent
advocate M. Chaix d'Est Ange, as the fruit of mature and conscientious
study: he calls it the most complete and one of the best works on modern
national law ever produced. The author in the historical part of his
treatise, criticises the monopolizing spirit and policy of the English
without mercy, and insists that the balance of power on the sea is of no
less importance than that on land. He would have established a permanent
alliance of armed neutrality, with France and the United States at its
head, to maintain the maritime rights of weaker states in time of war,
against the encroachments of British commerce and ambition.

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A Vienna publishing establishment has offered GRILLPARZER, the German
dramatist, $4,000 for his writings, but he refuses, not because he
thinks the price too low, but because he will not take the trouble of
preparing and publishing a collected edition of his dramas, the last of
which was entitled _Maximilian Robespierre_, a five act tragedy. He has
also a variety of unpublished manuscripts, which it is feared will never
see the light.

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Students and amateurs of music will find their account in taking the
_Rheinische Musikzeitung_ (Rhine Musical Gazette), published at Cologne,
under the editorial care of Prof. Bisehof. Its criticism is impartial,
intelligent, and free from the prejudices of the schools. German musical
criticism has no better organ.

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The German poet SIMROCK has just published a new version of the two
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