ure.

HOLTEI, the German poet, has published a four-volume novel, called _Die
Vagabunden_ (The Vagabonds). It is a curious and successful book. It
treats of the various classes that get their living by amusing others, not
merely of theatrical and musical artists, but of circus-riders,
ventriloquists, jugglers, rope-dancers, puppet-showmen, &c. Indeed, actors
and musicians are only introduced casually, while the lower classes, if we
may so call them, of wandering artists, make up the book; and they make it
up not in the form of caricatures or exaggerations, but as genuine living
characters, with the faults and virtues that really belong to men of their
respective professions The story is a good one, and is varied with all
sorts of strange adventures.

In poetry we observe the attractive title of _The AEolian Harp of the
World's Poetry_, a collection of poems of all countries and ages,
"dedicated to German ladies and maidens," by FERD. SCHMIDT. Also by the
same collector, a Household Treasury of the most beautiful Ballads,
Romances, and Poetic Legends of all Times and Nations; by BRUNO LINDNER,
_Four Tales_, and from the Countess AGNES SCHWERIN, a new edition of _What
I heard from the bird_. Were we confident that the Countess were
intimately familiar with English poetry, we should feel half inclined to
accuse her of having taken this title from

"High diddle ding, I heard a bird sing."

G. PUSLITZ has "thrown forth," as Bacchus threw the wreath of Ariadne, a
"garland of Stories," entitled _What the Forest Tells_. Whether, like the
wreath alluded to, it will reach the stars, we must leave our readers or
his to decide.

In Science, we observe the publication of a piece of eccentric nonsense
such as emanates at the present day only from a weak brother in Germany,
or occasionally from a would-be _original_ in New England. The work to
which we refer is the _Natur und Geist_ (or _Nature and Spirit_) of DR.
JOHANN RIOHERS. In the second volume he attempts to utterly overwhelm,
confound, and destroy Newton's Theory of Attraction, by such an argument
as the following. "Let any man jump from a height, in descending he feels
no _attraction_ to the Earth. How hasty and absurd therefore is it to
attribute the movement in question to such an attraction."

A new collection of German Domestic Legends (_Haus Maehrchen_) has been
published at Leipzig, by J.W. WOLF, a distinguished German philologist.