WE are enabled to state, says the _Athenæum_, that a popular edition of Her Majesty's recent work, “More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands,” is in the press, and will be ready for publication in the course of a few weeks. The new edition will contain all the woodcut illustrations which appeared in the original edition, together with wood-engravings of the portraits, and will be uniform with the popular edition of the Queen's previous work, “Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands.” * * * * * MR. ALEXANDER DEL MAR, according to the _Academy_, formerly Director of the Bureau of Statistics of the United States, whose _History of the Precious Metals_ was published in 1880, has in the press a work on _The History of Money from the Earliest Times to the Middle Ages_, upon which he has been occupied for many years past. It will shortly be published by Messrs. Bell & Sons. * * * * * FROM the _Academy_ we quote the following amusing paragraph: “The _Magazin für die Literatur des In- und Auslandes_ continues to be unfortunate when it meddles with the English language. Many of our readers will be acquainted with Victor Scheffel's charming German song—referring, we believe, to Heinrich von Ofterdingen—which has the refrain, 'Der Heini von Steier ist wieder im Land.' The _Magazin_ of January 10 publishes an 'English' translation of this poem, by Johanna Baltz, from which we quote the following specimen:— “'To finches and swallows tells sweet nightingale: “The song of a violin fills woodland and vale! Ye twitt'ners, ye singers, now silence your cant— Hark, Heini von Steier returned to his land!” “'Shoemaker is waving his furcap in glee: “The merciful heaven forgets neven me! Now shoes will be costly, soleleather gets scant— Hark, Heini von Steier returned to his land.“'” * * * * * THE eighty-ninth birthday of Dr. Ranke (December 21st) has excited interest throughout Germany, and elicited many expressions of the respect universally felt for him. The strength of the venerable historian defies the increase of years, and he works daily at his home in Berlin on the history which he hopes to complete. * * * * *