The _Gotha Almanac_ is an indispensable book for those who follow the history and look after the statistics of the royal families and governments of Europe. It contains perfect genealogical lists of the former, and tables of the diplomatic corps, the debt, the revenues, the expenses, the commercial system, the military and naval forces, the population, ecclesiastical organization, &c., of the latter. In no other manual is so much information of the sort condensed into so brief and convenient a form. The governments and statistics of the new world are also included. The portraits given for 1852, are Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Crown Prince Charles of Sweden, Count Leo Thun, Lord Palmerston, Prince Wolkonski, and Cardinal Schwarzenberg. This is the eighty-ninth year of the publication. * * * * * One of the best evidences of the value of Humboldt's _Kosmos_, is the vast number of popular treatises on various branches of science to which it has given rise in Germany, and which must exert a powerful influence in the formation of the growing age. A more solid and extensive undertaking is an _Atlas_ intended to illustrate the entire original work. It is by TRAUGOTT BROUVE, and will contain forty-two plates with explanatory text. The cost will be $4,50 in Germany. The first part has appeared at Stuttgardt, and is praised as worthy of the great work it illustrates. * * * * * Of AUERBACH's _Dorfgeschichten_ (Village Stories), 25,000 copies have been sold in Germany. He has just published a three-volume novel called _Neues Leben_ (New Life). * * * * * A new religious and philosophical novel is _Das Pfarrhaus zu Hallungen_ (The Parsonage at Hallungen), by LUDWIG STORCH. It is said to be full of exciting interest, but we confess that we have not read it, and do not mean to. Our taste is for novels of less elaborate purpose. * * * * * We give our tribute of commendation to the _Haus-Chronik_ (House Chronicles), which CASPAR BRAUN and FREDERICK SCHNEIDER are now publishing at Munich. These gentlemen are well known to all readers of that excellent comic paper, the _Fliegende Blaetter_, and here appeal to all who can enjoy humor and have a taste for studies in the history of German life in the middle ages. * * * * * MUGGE, whose romance on _Toussaint L'Ouverture_ was translated by the Rev. Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, has published at Leipzig the third volume of his annual _Vielliebchen_ (My Darling). It contains two tales and several poems, and is illustrated with seven steel engravings. It is worthy of notice that this word _Vielliebchen_ is the original of our mysterious _Filopine_. * * * * *