And yet to leave a weary earth For higher life, is well, we know, Our being is a constant flow, And death itself is newer birth; The seed decays that it may grow; A world sublime awaits the dying Who purely lived. Away with sighing; The Past is passed; 'tis well to go. A GERMAN HAND-BOOK OF AMERICA. We have at present in our hands several recently published European works relative to America, all of which possess more than ordinary claims to attention. We have, however, chosen the most unpretending as the subject of our present remarks, since, for the thinking majority of our readers, it will undoubtedly prove the most interesting. The volume to which we allude is entitled, _Des Auswanderers' Handbuch_, or, _The Emigrants' Hand-book: a True Sketch of the United States of North America, and Reliable Counsellor for Men of every Rank and Condition who propose Emigrating Thither: by_ GEORGE M. VON ROSS, of North America, Editor of the "_Allgemeinen Auswanderungs-Zeitung_" (Universal Emigration Journal). Published at Elberfeld and Iserlohn, by Julius Baedeker. The author, according to his preface, is an American by birth, and was for many years a farmer in the eastern, western, and southwestern sections of the United States. That he is not without learning and ability is evinced by his remarkably excellent work entitled _Taschen-Fremdwörterbuch, oder Verdeutschung von mehr als 16,000 Fremdwörter_--(_i. e._ a Pocket Dictionary of Foreign Words, or the adoption into German of more than Sixteen Thousand Foreign Words). This book is familiar in Germany, and exhibits great philological acumen, as well as a thorough knowledge of German in its minutest difficulties. At one time Mr. Ross distinguished himself by attacking Schröter's well-known pamphlet relative to the Catholic emigration to St. Mary's, in Pennsylvania, and he has since published a smaller work for emigrants, entitled _Rathschlage und Warnungen_, or, Counsels and Warning.