The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852Various
History
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
M. PULSZKY, who is now in this country in the suite of KOSSUTH, has just
published a historical romance at Berlin called _Die Jakobiner in
Ungarn_ (The Jacobines in Hungary). It is in two volumes, and meets a
favorable reception from the critics, and we doubt not, from the public
also. It fared equally well when it was published in English at London
some time since.
* * * * *
The _Middle Kingdom_, of our countryman, Mr. S. WELLS WILLIAMS, is the
subject of a most favorable notice in the Augsburg _Allgemeine Zeitung_.
Of this careful and very comprehensive work--the most elaborate and
reliable that has ever appeared in the English language respecting China
and the Chinese--Mr. Wiley has just published a new edition.
* * * * *
The public are solemnly warned in a number of the Leipzig _Central
Blatt_, against a lately published work, entitled _Tabula Geographica
Italiae Antiquae_, as swarming with errors. Divers towns are cited
therein, at different times under different names, and as standing in
different places, while the names themselves are declared to be sadly
corrupted.
* * * * *
PROF. NEUMANN, of Munich, will publish in the course of a year, a
_History of the British Empire in India_, on which he has been long
engaged. It will be as thorough and able as it is impartial, and in
Germany is expected with great interest. The author proposes also to
write the History of Russian domination in Asia.
* * * * *
In noticing the poems lately published by GOETHE's nephew (mentioned in
the last _International_), a German reviewer remarks, that the reverence
which he (the reviewer), bears for the name of the uncle, "forbids any
illusion to the book in question."
* * * * *
ADOLF STAHR is publishing at Berlin a second edition of his _History of
the Russian Revolution_; it is dedicated to Macauley.
* * * * *
The celebrated Countess IDA HAHN-HAHN who was formerly as thorough an
infidel as any member of the Worcester Women's Rights Convention, and as
indecently licentious in her novels as the author of _Alban_, is thus
described in a late number of the _Weser Zeitung_:
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