rsion of the Arabian
Nights' tale, "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," both of which were
introduced to the public a quarter of a century ago in _Blackwood's
Magazine_. During his lifetime, he published a portion of his
autobiography, which was very interesting and unaffected; and we can
predict a fair popularity to the now completed work.

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Of German fictions, the one that has made the most noise lately is the
long-announced novel by WOLFGANG MENZEL, the well-known historian,
journalist, and critic, entitled _Furore: Geschichte eines Moenchs und
einer Nonne aus dem dreissigjaehrigen Kriege_ ("Story of a Monk and a Nun
from the period of the Thirty Years' War"), which the German critics
praise as a lively and variegated picture of that period of turmoil and
confusion.

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HEINE'S new work, _Romanzero_, has been prohibited at Berlin, and the
copies in the booksellers, shops confiscated. The sale of eight thousand
copies before it was prohibited is a practical assurance of its brilliant
success. Gay, sarcastic, and poetic, it resembles all his previous works
in spirit, though less finished in form. His _Faust_ turns out to be a
Ballet, with Mephistopheles metamorphosed into a Danseuse! In the letter
which concludes the work there is much interesting matter on the _Faust
Saga_, and its mode of treatment.

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The people of Leipzig have just had their "Schiller-fest," or Schiller's
festival, in honor of the great national poet and tragedian. Schiller was,
indeed, a native of Wuertemberg, and he lived in Mannheim and Weimar. But
Germany, which has no metropolis, enjoys a great many _capitals_: and as
the ancients had a god of the sun, the moon, and the various
constellations, so do the Germans have a capital of poetic art, another of
music, another of painting, and so on. Leipzig is, or pretends to be, the
great literary metropolis, and in this capacity the good city holds an
annual festival in honor of Schiller. On the present occasion there was a
public dinner, with pompous speeches by Messrs. Gutzkow, Bothe, and Apel,
while in the Leipzig theatre Shakspeare's "Macbeth" was given in
Schiller's adaptation to the German stage.

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The Berlin journals announce the arrival in that city of Doctor ZAHN, so
we