the poetry, recent and ancient, of the Slavonic races."

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The Council of the Shakspeare Society have received a very welcome and
unexpected present, in the shape of a translation of Shakspeare, in twelve
volumes 8vo., into Swedish verse. This laborious work has been
accomplished by Professor HAGBERG, of the University of Lund, and it was
transmitted through the Swedish Minister resident in London.

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A Signor ANTONIO CACCIA, an Italian exile, sends from the freer press of
Leipzig, a book of practical and philosophic travel: _Europa ed America.
Scene della Vita dal 1848 al 1850_ ("Europe and America, Scenes from Life
in both hemispheres during the years 1848-50"), which contains, besides a
notice of California, a good many useful hints to travelers.

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The librarian of the Emperor of Russia has purchased, for the Imperial
Library, a complete collection of all the pamphlets, placards,
caricatures, songs, &c, published at Berlin during the revolutionary
movement of 1848.

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Dr. SMITH, bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, has sent to the library of the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, a Chinese work _On the
Geography and History of Foreign Nations_, by SEU-KE-YU, Governor of the
province of Fokeen. Seu-ke-yu is a man of high official station, a
distinguished scholar, and very liberal in his views. He commences the
geographical part of his book with a statement of the spherical form of
the earth, as opposed to the universal belief in China of its being a vast
level area, of which the Celestial Empire occupies the central and most
considerable part. Numerous maps illustrate the text, being tolerably
correct copies from European atlases, the names given in Chinese
characters. The work is in six volumes, very well printed, and instead of
binding, each part is contained in a wooden case, ingeniously folding, and
fastened with ivory pins.

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When the department of the Ministry of Public Instruction was created some
four or five years ago in Constantinople, it became apparent that there
existed a great desideratum of Moslem civilization, necessary to be
supplied as soon as possible--a Turkish Vocabulary and a Turkish Grammar
compiled according to