Schiller he could not so well understand, and often the attempt adequately to translate this poet had to be given up in despair. However, Mirza Shaffy admitted that some of his poems had substance in them. Uhland and Geibel were not much to his mind. One day, Bodenstedt translated into Tartar a song by the latter, which we in our turn thus render into English: The silent water lily Springs from the earth below, The leaves all greenly glitter, The cup is white as snow. The moon her golden radiance Pours from the heavens down, Pours all her beams of glory This virgin flower to crown. And, in the azure water, A swan of dazzling white Floats longing round the lily, That trances all his sight. Ah low he sings, ah sadly, Fainting with sweetest pain; O lily, snow white lily, Hear'st thou the dying strain? Mirza Shaffy cast the song aside, with the words, "A foolish swan!" "Don't the song please you?" asked the translator. "The conclusion is foolish," replied the Tartar; "what does the swan gain by fainting?--he only suffers himself, and does no good to the rose. I would have ended-- "Then in his beak he takes it, And bears it with him home." * * * * * Mr. Ross, the editor of _Allgemeine Auswanderungszeitung_ (Universal Journal of Emigration), an excellent and useful German periodical, has just published in Germany the _Auswanderer's Handbuch_ (Emigrant's Manual), devoted especially to the service of those who design emigrating to the United States. His manual is a valuable collection of whatever a new comer into this country should know. The constitution and political arrangements of the Union, its legislation, its means of intercourse, the peculiarities of soil and climate proper to different sections, the state of agriculture, and the chances of employment for persons of different classes, professions, and degrees of education, are all given. Mr. Ross was himself born in the United States, and understands what he writes about. At the same time his book gives a fair and thorough view of the difficulties with which the emigrant to this country must contend. * * * * * At Pesth, Hungary, is about to appear a biographical work on Hungarian statesmen and orators who were prominent before the revolutionary period. Paul Nagy, Eugen Beoethy, Franz Deak, Stephan Bezeredy, Bartholomaus Szemere, the two Wesselenyis, the two Dionys Pazmandys, Stephan Szechenyi, and Joseph Eoetvos (the last known in the United States by translations of his novels), are among the characters described. * * * * * A new book on the new world is the _Europa ed America_, by Dr. ANT. CACCIA, an Italian litterateur, who has apparently been in this country and describes it, as he professes to do, from nature. He says that he found the people of New-York occupied mainly in making money.