Notices in the later numbers of the _Europa_, of KARL QUENTIN in America, and _The Art Journal_, are not without interest. The Grenzboten also contains interesting articles on THOMAS MOORE, and OERSTED. * * * * * Of Ritter's great work, the _History of Philosophy_, of which only earlier volumes have appeared in English, a tenth volume is shortly to be published. * * * * * A new and compendious history of philosophy has been published at Leipzic in two octavo volumes, called _Das Buch der Weltweisheit_. It gives in the most succinct form a statement of the doctrines of the leading philosophical thinkers of all times, and is designed for the cultivated among the German people. Men of other nations are however not forbidden to derive from it what advantage they can. * * * * * DE FLOTTE, whose election to the French Assembly made such a stir a year since, has lately published a thick volume entitled _De la Souveraineté du Peuple_. It is a series of essays in which he discusses with great penetration and remarkable power of abstract thought, the spirit, ends, and present results of the great general revolution, of which all the special revolutions that have hitherto occurred, are merely incidents and phases. De Flotte considers that humanity is advancing toward liberty absolute and universal, in politics, religion, industry, and every department of life. "One thing," he says, "has ever astonished me; this is that some men presume to accuse the revolution of denying tradition, because they think only of one age, or of one dynasty, while we think of all sovereigns and of all ages; they oppose, with a curious good faith, the history of a single epoch or a single party, to the history of all epochs and of all men. Strange ignorance and singular forgetfulness! Why do they fail to do in space, what they do in time, in geography what they do in history? Why do they not deny the existence of negroes and of the Chinese because none of them come to France? The reason is that life in space strikes the bodily eye, while life in time strikes the eye of the mind, and theirs is blinded!" * * * * * In France, 78,000 francs have been voted by the National Assembly for excavations at Nineveh. Mr. LAYARD, without further means for the prosecution of his researches there, is in England, and we are sorry to learn, in ill health. His new book, _Fresh Discoveries in Nineveh_, will soon be published by Mr. Putnam. Dr. H. WEISSENBORN has printed in Stuttgart, _Nineveh and its Territory, in respect to the latest excavations in the valley of the Tigris_. Some specimens of the exhumed sculptures of Nineveh have been sent to New-York by Rev. D. W. Marsh, of the American mission at Mosul. * * * * *