Winsen, near Hanover; but not before 1821-23, after a youth of struggles, was he enabled to pursue his studies at the University of Gottingen. In 1823 he entered Goethe's house; after the death of the poet, in 1832, he lived alternately at Hanover and Weimar. His last years were saddened by bad health and social isolation. A correspondent of the Cambridge Chronicle says: Complaints prevail about the times, among literary men; and I see it stated by one of my fellow-laborers that a translator of Bohn's Classical Library' works twelve hours a day for £80 a year. This must be taken cum grano salis. Nor do I place implicit reliance upon precise statements as to what the top sawyers of periodical literature receive for their labors, when it is said that Dickens has £1,500 a year for editing Household Words, Douglas Jerrold £20 a week for doing similar service for Lloyd, and W. J. Fox £10 for each Publicola' letter in the Dispatch. I take leave to doubt the literal exactness of these sums." Redfield announces the "Life of Luther," by the late Archdeacon Hare. 66 "Allison's History of Europe" continued; Huc's "Chinese Empire." Putnam, "Irving's Life of Washington," in three volumes. Scribner, "Historical Sketches of the most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern times," by D. A. Harsha. Dunnigan & Brother, the History and Institutes of Ignatius Loyola," from the Italian, by Madame Calderon de la Barca. M. W. Dodd, a new two volume work by Dr. Spring. Ivison & Phinney, a new edition, in two volumes, of the "Memoir and SerImons of Rev. Daniel A. Clark;" also "Miscellanies and Reviews," by Rev. Albert Barnes. Mr. J. A. Dix, the enterprising publisher of Household Words, and Mr. A. T. Edwards, have become the proprietors of " Putnam's Monthly," and have arranged for an entirely new editorial management. It is said that the price paid by the new firm for the Monthly is $11,000, and that the principal editor is to be Mr. G. W. Curtis. Bell, of Philadelphia, has issued Bishop Percy's "Reliques of English Poetry," consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of the earlier poets, to which are added many curious and rare productions not inserted in any other edition; together with a copious glossary and notes. Among the recent or forthcoming issues of the American press, are the following: By Phillips, Sampson, & Co., Boston, "Thomson" in their series of the British Poets; " 'Japan-as General Jessup is engaged in writing up his it was and is," by Richard Hildreth; and a sur-personal and political memoirs. It will contain gical volume by Dr. Hayward. Heath & Graves have a work called "Scripture Illustration" in press, from Prof. Hackett, of Newton. Harpers, "Bancroft's Miscellanies;" vols. 2 and 3 of a valuable chapter on the Hartford Convention, and is likely to be one of the most interesting additions that has been made for many years to our historical and political literature. Arts and A SARCOPHAGUS has been found near Ancient Sidon. It is covered with inscriptions in the old Phoenician tongue, and promises, if deciphered, to furnish ethnologists with a key to another branch of the Semitic languages. If authentic, a more important antiquarian discovery, says the London Athenæum, has not been made in the present century. The oldest tree in Europe is the cypress of Somma, in Lombardy. It is supposed to have been planted in the year of the birth of Christ, and on that account is looked on with reverence by the inhabitants; but an ancient chronicle in Milan is said to prove that it was a tree in the time of Julius Cæsar, B. C. 42. It is one hundred and twenty-three feet high, and twenty feet in circumference, at one foot from the ground. Napoleon, when laying down the plan for his great road over Simplon, diverged from a straight line to avoid injuring this tree. Botanists report several venerable trees still thriving, whose structure shows an age older than that of our most ancient chronology. The Edinburgh people have already raised £1,100 of the £1,500 required for the colossal bronze statue of Professor Wilson, which is to be shortly erected. | Sciences. The statue which has recently been erected in St. Paul's cathedral, London, to the memory of Bishop Heber, is said to be unsurpassed in beauty of design and excellence of execution. He is kneeling, attired in his robes, with one hand resting on the Bible, as his support, and the other upon his breast. On the pedestal, beautifully done in bas-relief, he is represented in the act of confirming two Indian converts. Mr. Smith, an English chemist, is said to have discovered a means of transferring the impression of natural objects to glass with minute accuracy. Discoveries in Language.-At a late meeting of the Asiatic Society, London, a paper of much interest was read from Mr. Hodgson, from his residence among the Tartar populations of the Himalaya mountains. This letter is intended as a brief statement of what the learned philologer is doing in the Tartar languages, an investigation in relation to which he has published some essays in the "Bengal Journal" of January and February, 1853. The writer has obtained thirty new vocabularies from Tibet, Horsok, and Sifan; and by their aid he has completed a comparative analysis of all the languages of this class, reaching nearly over the whole globe, in which he finds a perfect uni- All Age of Oysters.-A London oysterman can tell the age of his flock to a nicety. The age of an oyster is not to be found by looking into its mouth. It bears its years upon its back. Everybody who has handled an oyster-shell must have observed that it seemed as if composed of successive layers or plates overlapping each other. These are technically termed "shoots," and each of them makes a year's growth; so that, by counting them, we can determine at a glance the year when the creature came into the world. Up to the time of its maturity, the shoots are regular and successive; but after that time they become irregular, and are piled one over the other, so that the shell becomes more and more thickened and bulky. Judging from the great thickness to which some oyster-shells have attained, this mollusc is capable, if left to its natural changes unmolested, of attaining a patriarchal longevity. In the royal bronze foundry of Munich, a statue of Beethoven, by the American sculptor, ford, which is to be a part of the intended Washington monument, will be cast in a very short time. Among the most startling wonders in connection with electricity, is the announcement that M. Bonelli, of Turin, has invented a new electric telegraph, by which trains in motion on a railway are enabled to communicate with each other at all rates of velocity, and, at the same time, with the telegraphic stations on the line; while the latter are, at the same time, able to communicate with the trains. It is added, that M. Bonelli is in possession of a system of telegraphic communication by which wires are entirely dispensed with. The number of miles of railway now in operation in the world is 40,344, of which 21,528 miles are in the United States; 7,744 in Great Britain; 5,340 in Germany; 2,480 in France; 532 in Belgium; 422 in Russia; 170 in Italy; 75 in Sweden; 42 in Norway; 60 in Spain; 25 in Africa; 100 in India: 1,327 in British North America; 359 in Cuba; 60 in Panama; and 60 in South America. The French government has dispatched a ship to convey to France the antiquities discovered by their consul at Nineveh. Of these the more remarkable are, a monumental gate, some extremely ancient statues, and various implements in brass and iron. They have already, with extreme difficulty, been brought to the banks of the Tigris, down which they will be conveyed on the usual native rafts. Pilgrim Monument.-The Boston Post says:"We have had the pleasure of examining a daguerreotype view, taken from a drawing representing a design for the monument proposed to be erected at Plymouth to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrims, offered by Mr. Hammatt Billings, of this city, and now in the hands of the committee. The principal figure in the design, is a statue of Faith, represented in a standing posture with wings. This is supported by a pedestal, at the corners of which are four sitting figures representing Morality, Law, Education, and Freedom. Beneath these are four relievos representing four marked scenes in the Pilgrims' history, viz.: the Departure from Delft Haven; the Signing of the Social Compact; the Landing at Plymouth; and the First Treaty with the Indians. Between the sitting figures are four large panels, designed to be occupied with records from the history of our forefathers, and beneath them four smaller panels which may be occupied with other inscriptions. The whole height of the monument would be one hundred and fifty feet, and the large statue would be seventy feet, thus being elevated eighty feet from the ground. The sitting figures would be each thirty-four feet in eight feet in height. A chamber sixteen feet in height, and the figures in the panels would be diameter, would be placed inside the monument." Crawford-representing the great master more youthful and more jovial than Hahnel's statue on the Münster-platz at Bonn-has been finished, and dispatched for the Music-Hall at Boston, to which it has been presented by an American amateur. At the same establishment a colossal statue of Berzelius, intended for Stockholm, is in the course of progress; and the great equestrian statue of Washington, also by Mr. Craw-reports of Lieutenants Herndon and Gibbon. 20 George Catlin, the famous Indian portrait painter, traveler, and champion of the red men, has been heard from on the head-quarters of the Amazon, painting the portraits and taking notes of the manners of the uncouth tribes in those regions, lately made so interesting by the |