ut any regard to their truth and natural form." The French critic
also thinks that on the stage the effect of Hamlet is irresistible.

A Capital work on Paris has just been published at Berlin, from the pen of
FRIEDRICH SZARVADY, a Hungarian, who has resided for several years in
Paris. The titles of the chapters are:--Paris in Paris; Strangers in Paris;
Parisian Women; Street Eloquence; the Temple of Jerusalem (the Bourse);
Salons and Conversation; Dancing, Song, and Flowers; the Ball at the Grand
Opera; Artist Life; the Press; the Feuilleton; History on a Public Square;
Lamartine, Cavaignac, Thiers; Louis Bonaparte. Szarvady observes sharply,
and writes with as much grace and _esprit_ as a Frenchman. Nothing can be
more taking than his pages. They deserve a translation from the German
into English.

VILLERGAS, the Spanish historian, who in one of his recent works drew a
parallel between Espartero and Narvaez which excited great attention at
Madrid and in other parts of Spain, has just been condemned by the court
which has charge of the offences of the press, to a fine of twenty
thousand reals, or twenty-five hundred dollars, for the sin against public
order and private character contained in that parallel.

An interesting and valuable series of articles reviewing historically the
systems of land tenure which have prevailed in different countries, is
appearing in the _Journal des Debats_ from the pen of M. HENRY TRIANON.
The systems of India and China have already been examined.

The termagant wife of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has just published _The
School for Husbands_, a novel founded on the life and times of Moliere.
Probably her own husband is shot at in all the chapters.

The books on modern French history would already fill an Alexandrian
library, and every month produces new ones. M. LEONARD GALLOIS, a
well-known historical writer, announces a _History of the Revolution of
February, 1848_, in _five_ large octavos, with forty-one portraits. M.
BARANTE's _History of the Convention_ will consist of six octavos, of
which three are published, and the last is accompanied by it biographical
sketch of each of the seven hundred and fifty members. The period embraced
in this work is from 1792 to 1795, inclusive. There is a new _History of
the City of Lyons_, in three octavos, by the city librarian.

The _Letters and unpublished Essays of Count_ JOSEPH DE MAISTRE have been