LUDWIG BAUER has published through G. Jonghaus of Darmstadt, a work which reminds us of the _Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda_, being the _Urkundenbuch des Klosters Arnsburg in d. Wetterau_, containing as yet unprinted documents of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, relating to the history of the monastery. We are happy to observe that notwithstanding the check given to general literature by the recent political troubles in Germany, this department of mediæval antiquity is rapidly advancing. When we remember the immense amount of material as yet unavailable which is still requisite to form an accurate history of the middle ages, with _reliable_ accounts of its varied literature and customs, or when we reflect on the spoil and devastation which every day brings to the ancient hoard, we should feel grateful to those untiring antiquaries, who thus rescue a few literary gems from the flood of time. * * * * * The _Manuscripts of Peter Schlemil_, naturally awakens attention, but proves to be an extravaganza of LOUIS BECHSTEIN, humorous and intelligent withal. But the humor is not intelligible, and the intelligence is not humorous, says a sharp reviewer. * * * * * PROF. O. L. B. WOLFF, well known to every amateur German scholar in this country and England, as the publisher of the celebrated _Poetischer und Prosaischer Hausschatz_, or Poetic and Prosaic Home Treasury, has edited and published by Otto Wigand of Leipsic, that singular romance of _Caspar von Grimmelshausen_, first printed in 1669, which is, as a picture of German social life during the period of the thirty years' war, extremely interesting. We need, however, hardly caution our lady readers against its perusal. Its title is as follows: _Der abenteuerliche Simplicius Simplicissimus_. The adventurous Simplicius Simplicissimus. That is the true, copious, and very remarkable biography of an odd, wonderful and singular man, STERNFELS VON FUCHSHEIM, how he passed his youth in Spessart, of his varied and remarkable destinies in the thirty years' war, and of the numerous sufferings, sorrows and dangers which he experienced, with his ultimate good fortune. * * * * *