MITTERMAIER, the eminent German jurist, has just published at Erlangen an elaborate work upon _The English, Scotch, and American Criminal Practice_, in its relations with the political, moral, and social situation of those countries. The work goes into the minute details of the subject. It is calculated to exercise a profound influence upon criminal practice in Germany. * * * * * Mr. HERMANN WEISS is about to publish in Germany _A History of the Costumes of all Ages and Nations_. * * * * * A very valuable and interesting chapter of French literary history, is M. DE BLIGNIERE'S _Essay on Amyot and on the French Translators of the Sixteenth Century_, lately published at Paris in an octavo volume. Amyot was the first to render Heliodorus, Plutarch, and Lenginus into French, and his excellence consists in a naive sincerity, which, while it seeks only the true version of his author, lends to it unconsciously the most pleasing impression of the translator himself. * * * * * A new French translation of the works of _Silvio Pellico_ has appeared at Paris, from the pen of M. LEZAUD. It includes the Memoirs of the celebrated Italian, and his _Discourses upon Duties_. The translation is praised by no less a critic than Saint Marc Girardin. * * * * * A FRENCH translation of the _Rig-Veda_, that is, of the most ancient of all the _Vedas_, is just finished at Paris, where the fourth and last volume appeared about the middle of January. The translator is M. LANGLOIS of the Institute. * * * * * In the year 1851 there were published in France 7,350 works in different languages; the average yearly product of the previous ten years was only 6,456; of musical works in 1851, there were 485. * * * * *