When it is considered that periodical literature now absorbs the best compositions of the great lights of learning and literary art throughout the world,--that Bulwer, Dickens, James, Thackeray, Macaulay, Talfourd, Tennyson, Browning, and persons of corresponding rank in France, Germany, and other countries, address the public through reviews, magazines, and newspapers--the value of such an "abstract and brief chronicle" as it is endeavored to present in _The International_, to every one who would maintain a reputation for intelligence, or who is capable of intellectual enjoyment, will readily be admitted. It is trusted that while these pages will commend themselves to the best judgments, they will gratify the general tastes, and that they will in no instance contain a thought or suggest a feeling inconsistent with the highest refinement and virtue. NEW-YORK, July 1, 1851. CONTENTS: VOLUME III. APRIL TO JULY, 1850-51. Alfieri, History and Genius of 229 American female Poets, Opinions of, by a Frenchman, 452 Anspach, Margravine of 303 American Missions in Ceylon and Sir E. Tennant, 308 American Saint, An, 163 Adventures and Observations in Nicaragua. (Illustrated.) 437 _Arts, The Fine_--Public Works by the King of Prussia, 136.--Herr Hiltensperger, 135.--Picture by Leonardo Da Vinci, 136.--Art-Union of Vienna, 136.--Another Picture by Raffaelle Discovered, 136.--Steinhauser's Group for Philadelphia, 136.--The Hillotype, 136.--Baron Hackett, 137.--Statue of Giovanni de Medici, 137.--Lectures before the New-York Artists, 137.--Belgian Exhibition, 137.--Brady's Gallery of Illustrious Americans, 137.--Portrait of Cervantes, 137.--Portraits by Mr. Osgood, 137.--Discoveries at Prague, 137.--Exhibition of the British Institution, 137.--Lortzing, 137.--Statue of Wallace, 137.--Engravings of the Art-Unions, 180.--Exhibition of the National Academy, 181.--Bulletin of the Art-Union, 181.--Girodet, 181.--Kotzbue, 181.--Mr. Elliott, 181.--Schwanthaler, 181.--Museum of Berlin, 181.--Munich Art-Union, 181.--Kaulbach, 181--French Contribution to the Washington Monument, 181--Widnmann, 181.--The Exhibitions in New-York, 327.--Prizes and Prospects of the Art-Union, 329.--Delaroche, 329.--Mr. Kellogg, 329.--L'Imitation de Jesus Christ, by Depaepes, 330.--New Members of the National Academy, 330.--Sculptures Discovered at Athens, 470.--New Works by Nicholas, 471.--German Criticism of Powers, 471.--Diorama of Hindostan, 471.--Unveiling the Statue of Frederick the Great, 471.--Jenny Lind, 471.--The Opera, 471.