, and the other on the
attempt of Henry VI. to render the German empire hereditary; ARNTHEN'S
_History of Carinthia_; RINK'S _Tirol_; PALAZKY'S _History of Bohemia_;
MINUTOLI'S _History of the Elector Frederic I._; RIEDEL'S _Ten years of
the History of the Ancestors of the Royal House of Prussia_; the _History
of Schleswig Holstein_, by GEORGE WAITZ; RUCKERT'S _Annals of German
History_; G. PHILIP'S _Outlines of the History of the German Empire and
German Law_; GENGLER'S _History of German Law_; the _Coins of the German
Emperors and Kings in the Middle Ages_, a large work by CAPPE; the _Celts
and Ancient Helvetians_, by J. B. BROZI; and the _Campaigns of the
Bavarians_ from 1643 to 1645, by J. HELLMANN; MAYR'S _Mann von Rinn_ (Man
of Rinn) deserves special mention. The man of Rinn is Joseph Speckbacher,
the hero of the war of 1809 in the Tyrol. His deeds, and those of his
countrymen, are here narrated in a style as attractive as the facts are
authentic.

In all the States of the German Confederation there are 2,651 booksellers,
400 of whom deal only in their own publications, 2,200 sell books, but do
not publish, and 451 keep general assortments of books, and publish also.
At Berlin there are 129 booksellers, at Leipzic, 145, at Vienna, 52, at
Stuttgard, 50, and at Frankfort, 36. A hundred years ago there were only
31 at Leipzic and 6 at Berlin, and at two fairs held at Leipzic in 1750,
only 350 German booksellers' establishments were represented. No one is
allowed in Germany to become a bookseller without a license from the
government, and in Prussia the applicant has to pass a special
examination.

Those desirous of acquiring languages by wholesale, may try a recent work
by Captain J. NEPOMUK SZOeLLOeZY, with which the scholar can learn,
according to the Ollendorffian system, French, German, English, Italian,
Russian, Spanish, Hungarian, Wallachian and Turkish. Phrases and
vocabularies of all the languages are appended.

A second edition of ADOLF STAHR'S _Preussische Revolution_, has appeared
in Germany, revised by the author and dedicated to Macaulay. No recent
book in Germany has been more successful than this.

MAX SCHLESINGER'S _Wanderings through London_ are announced at Berlin; the
first volume is already published. One of the chapters treats of
"Linkoln's-In-Fields."

We learn from the last number of the _Journal Asiatique_, that M. WOePCKE,
a mathematician who devot