Two books of travels in Scandinavia have just appeared in Germany. One is
the _Bilder aus dem Norden_ (Pictures of the North), by Professor OSCAR
SCHMIDT of Jena; and the other _Haegringar_, or a Journey through Sweden,
Lapland, Norway, and Denmark, in 1850, by a young author. Professor
Schmidt amply repays the reader, which is more than can always be said of
the author of _Haegringar_. Both works are, however, especially worthy the
attention of those who wish to study the natural history and ethnography
of the countries in question.

MADAME VON WEBER, widow of the composer, who has for some years resided at
Vienna, has applied to the Emperor of Austria for permission to dispose of
the three original MSS. scores of her husband's operas, _Der Freischuetz,
Eutryanthe_, and _Oberon_. These were in the Royal Library at Vienna; and
she purposes offering them to the three sovereigns of Saxony, Prussia, and
England,--in which respective countries they were originally produced. The
Emperor has caused the MSS. to be delivered to her.

PROFESSOR NUYTZ, whose work on canon law was recently condemned by the
Holy See, has resumed his lectures at Turin. The lecture-room was crowded,
and the learned professor was received with loud applause. He adverted to
the hostility of the clergy, and to the Papal censures of his work, which
censures he declared to be in direct opposition to the rights of the civil
power. He expressed his thanks to the ministry for having refused to
deprive him of his chair.

A valuable contribution to Italian history is _Die Carafa von Maddaloni,
Neapel unter Spanische Herrschaft_ (Naples under Spanish Domination), just
published in Germany, by ALFRED VON REUMONT, a member of the Prussian
Legation at Florence, who, more than almost any other man, has made a
study of the history of that part of Italy, and who in this work has had
access to a great mass of new documents. He writes as a monarchist, but
his facts may be relied on. The work is in two volumes.

Every body remembers the noise made in New-York some fifteen years since
by the revelations of MARIA MONK. We notice a translation of her famous
disclosures advertised, with all sorts of trumpet blowing, in our German
papers.

An edition of the complete works of KEPLER is preparing in Germany, under
the supervision of Prof. FRISCH, of Stuttgart. The manuscripts of the
great astronomer, preserved at St. Petersbu