ll known for his researches in Pompeii and Herculaneum. His work thereon
is one of the most important archaeological productions extant. He has
passed not fewer than twenty-five years of his life among those ancient
ruins.

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The foreign obituary includes the name of Dr. MEINHOLD--a name which will
live in connection with _The Amber Witch_ and with the singular
circumstances attending the reception of that powerful tale.

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The English admirers of HUMBOLDT'S _Kosmos_ will be glad to learn that an
important addition has been made to the commentaries on that great work,
by Herr Bronne's "Collection of Maps for the Kosmos." The first series,
containing six plates, has just been published by Krais and Hoffmann, at
Stuttgardt. These six plates are to be followed by thirty-six others, and
contain the planetary, solar, and lunar systems, the plain globes, and the
body of the earth, and the elevations of its surface, with a variety of
diagrams, and a set of explanatory notes.

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An intelligent and appreciative German, SIEGFRIED KUPPER, has been
attracted by the fine simplicities and interests of the popular poetry of
Servia, and has woven together, out of the lays which commemorate the
Achilles-Ulysses-Hercules-Leonidas of Servia, _Lazar, der Serbenczar. Ein
Helden-gedicht_ "Lazar, the Czar of the Serbs. A Heroic poem." "Among the
earliest announcers of the beauty of the Servian popular poetry," says the
_London Literary Journal_, "was THERESA JAKOB, the daughter of the
well-known German Professor, and now for many years married to the
American Dr. ROBINSON, the author of _Biblical Researches in Palestine_.
This lady (a translation of whose History of the Colonization of America
we lately reviewed) published, five-and-twenty years ago, some translated
specimens of Servian song, which quite took captive the heart of old
GOETHE, whose praises introduced them to the notice of educated Europe.
Other Germans, and even some Frenchmen, followed in the same direction;
and our own BOWRING'S _Specimens of Servian Poetry_, is probably familiar
to many readers. With the growing importance of the Slavonian tribes, a
new interest attaches to their copious literature; and to any enterprising
young _litterateur_, in quest of an unexplored field of research, we would
recommend