Lew Kin, who, with the other traitors, is at length | from all but those select few who were content to taken and put to death.

Ching Tih returns to his capital with two wives, whom he had picked up in his rambles; one of them the daughter of a little inkeeper, who "sold wine before the furnace."

The tale will familiarize the reader with Chinese habits and manners; in other respects it possesses but little merit.-Asiatic Journal.

2.-Collectanea Antiqua, No. 1. Etchings of Ancient Remains, illustrative of the Habits, Customs, and History of Past Ages. By Charles Roach Smith, F. S. A., one of the Secretaries of the Numismatic Society, &c., 800.-Eight plates, containing, 1, 2. Roman glass vessels in the museum at Boulogne sur Mer; 3, 4. Bronze fibulæ, &c., and pottery, found at Etaples, Pas de Calais.

FOUR of the pots are inscribed, one with AVE, Hail! another with BIBE, Drink! the third with IMPLE, Fill! and the fourth apparently with VIVAS, Your good health! Plates 5 and 6 are British and Roman coins found in Kent; 7,Gold British or Gaulic coins found at Bognor and Alfriston in Sussex; and 8, a Gallo-Roman votive altar, now the baptismal font in the church of Halinghen, Pas de Calais. The inscription on this extraordinary relic is,

EIDEO IOVI

VICVS

DOLVCENS

CVVITALIS

PRISC.

which has been variously interpreted by different French antiquaries. The word EIDEO is apparently the name of a local deity associated with Jupiter, and it is remarkable that three altars have been found dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus, which name has some apparent connection with the word DOLVCENS. As, however, we are unable to elucidate the matter, we will refer the curious antiquary to Mr. Smith's own description, in which he has discussed at length this subject, as well as those of his other plates. The having been at the pains to make these etchings with his own hands, is characteristic of his usual zeal and perseverance, and the antiquarian world may well wish that they possessed more members equally active with Mr. Roach Smith.-Gentleman's Magazine.

3.-Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, and the Rhine. By Michael Quin, Author of "A Steam Voyage down the Danube."

pay the price of pacing its shores on foot. Steam, however, has now made it one of the high-roads of the Continent, and Mr. Quin, (as in the previous case of the Danube,) has been the first Englishman to explore its beauties and attractions, and report on them to the rest of his countrymen, who only require a guide and avant courier of this kind to induce them to flock in shoals to the indicated spot.

For the benefit of all such, of whatever grade or temper, we shall simply describe Mr. Quin's book, and leave them to choose between the threefold course it opens to them.

Seine, in which every point and feature worthy of Its first portion comprises a Steam Voyage up the note is fairly and pleasantly placed before us, and all the appliances and means needful to their enjoy. ment made ready to our hands. The second, and (as we have hinted,) by far the most valuable and interesting division of the work, is a Steam Voyage down the Moselle, from Treves to Coblentz; at which latter point the Moselle falls into the Rhine, as most of our readers doubtless know, though that is in all probability the extent of the knowledge of every one of them touching this beautiful and even famous river-already as famous for its delicious wines as it will henceforth be for its delightful scenery.

A third very useful and pleasant feature of this book is, its "Railroad Visits" to the principal cities of Belgium; a country too little known to English travellers, whether on the score of its singular antiquarian attractions, or its valuable and littleobserved social features.

The remainder of the two volumes comprises brief touch-and-go details of those portions of the Rhine, and its adjacent Spas and Watering-places, to which the course of Mr. Quin's route led him. The whole forms one of the most useful and efficient hand-books that can anywhere be pointed to, even in this age of intelligent guides and of publishing travellers.- United Service Mag.

Germany.

The Socialism and Communism of the present day.
A contribution to contemporary history, by L.
Stein, L. L. D. Leipzig.

The recent aims which have been manifested in the department of political economy, out of the proper school, must be regarded as reactionary and revolutionary. The latest, proceeding from It should seem that steam is ultimately destined basis of society altogether opposed to the existing to be as much an agent of pleasure as of business-one, and attempting to mould the entire organizaas extensively employed in the service of the dulce as it has hitherto been in that of the utile; or, what is still better, it will do the work of both at the same time, as, in fact, it does in the pleasant and useful volumes before us, which, by its aid, open to the traveller entirely new and heretofore unknown roads into the heart of all that is beautiful in scenery and attractive in social novelty, in the districts through which the Seine and the Moselle, but particularly the latter, have hitherto borne few or none but those who are as little qualified to appreciate the one as to take advantage of the other.

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tion of society in accordance with their new principles of national economy, are those, which constitute the subject of this interesting work. It would have been better if the author had confined himself to the pure basis of political science, and divested himself of the philosophy of his own school. This, however, only shows itself occasionally and on the whole, the judgment of the author is correct. He deserves great credit for his very exact and special investigation and representation of all the facts appertaining to the subject, thus qualifying himself to discuss so much, of which we The portion of this work which claims, and will in Germany at present have scarcely a distant attract by far the most attention, is that devoted to knowledge. On the St. Simonians, Fourier, and the Moselle-a river inferior to scarcely any one in his disciples, Pierre Leroux, Proudhou, Louis Europe, for the charms of its scenery and the char-Blanc, Babeuf, and the different phases of communacteristic nature of its social attractions; and yetism we have the most complete account which has the inconveniences and delays that have heretofore appeared in the German language.-Gersdorf's Reattended its navigation have kept it a sealed book pertorium.