In Science, we observe the publication of a piece of eccentric nonsense such as emanates at the present day only from a weak brother in Germany, or occasionally from a would-be _original_ in New England. The work to which we refer is the _Natur und Geist_ (or _Nature and Spirit_) of DR. JOHANN RIOHERS. In the second volume he attempts to utterly overwhelm, confound, and destroy Newton’s Theory of Attraction, by such an argument as the following. "Let any man jump from a height, in descending he feels no _attraction_ to the Earth. How hasty and absurd therefore is it to attribute the movement in question to such an attraction." A new collection of German Domestic Legends (_Haus Mährchen_) has been published at Leipzig, by J.W. WOLF, a distinguished German philologist. His Legends closely resemble those collected by Grimm, and, like them, are curious and instructive. He obtained them, one from a Gipsey, others from peasants in the mountain districts, and others from some companies of Hessian soldiers. He remarks that many such ancient legends are yet floating about among the German people, and that they ought to be collected before they are lost. ZEND AVESTA, or On the things of Heaven and the World beyond the Grave, is the title of a new book in three volumes just published at Leipzig, in German, of course, by GUSTAV THEODOR FECHNOR. The author attempts to prove the possibility, if not the certainty, of a future life of the individual after death. His demonstrations are drawn from the analogies of the natural world. He exhibits a wide acquaintance with nature and with literature, but is not thought to have made any positive additions to psychological science. Those who are conversant with the curiosities of the Middle Ages, and have read the entertaining history of "_Ye Nigromancer Virgilius_," in which the Mantuan bard lives no longer in the magic of song, but that of literal sorcery, will peruse with pleasure the _Virgil’s Fortleben im Mittelalter_, or The Life of Virgil continued in the Middle Ages, by G. RAPPERT. Of all the wild romantic legends which the romantic time brought forth, none surpass in singularity and interest this singular narration. TEMPERANCE TALES are produced in Germany as well as elsewhere. JEREMIAS GOTTHELF is the best author who there cultivates this style of composition. His _Dürsli, the Brandy drinker_, has just passed through a fourth edition, and _How five Maidens miserably perished in Brandy_, to a second. Gotthelf has the talent of combining great dramatic interest and artistic freshness of narration, with a moral purpose. Hence the popularity of these little books.