Foreign Language Press Service

German publishing in the eastern part of the United States is still in the stage of reprinting and translating in so far as books are concerned. A biography of Barnum, written in German, has been offered by the New York publisher Schmidt, who has no scruples about such matters. It i

"Der Priesterspiegel" (The Priests' Mirror), Mysteries of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the works of the late editor of "Die Fackel", S. Ludwigh, is being sold by Mr. Louis Kind, house-painter, 22 Dusold Street, in commission for the widow Ludwigh who in this way tries to provide for her

Friedrich Kapp has written a book about the relations of Frederick the Great to the United States that will make him few friends either here or even in Germany. Just as Traugott Bromme in his day converted ten-thousand German emigrants to Democrats by a few sentences which he wrote in his Han

Some decades ago the Frenchman Tocqueville, the famed author of the book Democracy in America said:"In no country of the world are there so few ignoramuses and so few scholars as in the United States, and in no country are there so many ignoramuses and so many scholars as in Germany. Even tho

At the start of the meeting, the secretary, Mr. Carl Proebstring, being absent, Mr. Richard Michaelis was elected temporary secretary. Then the election of a board was undertaken. Mr. Georg Schneider was elected president with fourteen votes, against nine for Claussemius, three for Rosenthal.

The Freie Presse, an independent, free-minded daily will appear every day from Monday, February 5 on, at 3 P.M... It will start with a reprint of the novel"In The Bay Window", by Frank Gerstacker and a careful daily market report. Special attention will be paid to municipal affairs and city n

It is much to be regretted that the hope of getting German books for the Public Library has been greatly darkened due to the sterile quarrel between the German Library Association and Messrs. Dyrenfurth and Kihlholz. These two gentlemen insist on the plan to found a special German library, wh

We Norwegians have a lot for which to thank Pastor C.J.P. Peterson. He is trying to uphold Norway and to educate the American people to respect and love our old mother land. For a long time he has written in English, for the various American papers, telling them about Norway of one thousand y

The incurable German hypochondriac Johann Becker- or, John Becker, after the Americanization of his name notwithstanding his dislike for America, published recently in Germany a thick book on the United States, painting it rather black. Things which he pointed out, are for the most part corre

This is the title of a novel description of American Jewish Life, which will begin with the second volume of the Jewish Advance. Those who are interested in the style of the author of "The Kaleidoscope", "The Thoughts & Fancies", "The Diary of a Superfluous Man", etc., etc., and may desir

Such is the unassuming title of a work of more than three hundred pages. The book contains an almost complete collection of Caspar But'z poems. The author is a Chicagoan. We have few poets here. Poetry, somehow, does not thrive on our American soil, and among our German-Americans th

Who would not like to have the works of Lassalle, to which he subscribed, tastefully bound? Surely everybody. Beautiful covers red or brown can be had for the insignificant price of 30 cents for each piece, from Michael Schwab, 107 Fifth Avenue.

Dr. Felsenthal, for many years minister of Zion Congregation of Chicago, was born January 2, 1832, in Munchweiler B avaria, and is the son of Simon Felsenthal, an agriculturist of that place. He gained his preliminary education in the schools of his native town, and afterwards in his fourteen

Messrs. Max Stern, Goldsmith & Company intend publishing a book, "The History of the German-American in Chicago", carefully collected and edited from the best sources and the personal experiences of Mr. Emil Dietsch. For introduction, a detailed history of Chicago up till the year 1836 wi

The Socialists of the Northwest Side held their regular meeting last night at Nutzhorn's Hall at which Comrade Kobitzsch presided. "Agitation in general" was the subject of discussion. Comrade Spies proposed to ask the Central Committee to grant a certain sum of money for the purchase of agit

The Agenda of the day:- 1) Financial Report 2) Other business.

The pamphlet, which contains the discussion of Comrades J. Most and P. Grottkau about the above subject, has just appeared. It can be procured through the carriers of the Arbeiter Zeitung and through the librarian of the I. A. A., M. Schwab, in the office of the Arbeiter Zeitung, 107-5th Aven

William Floto known and esteemed by his fellow citizens of German extraction died yesterday, victim of a heart attack. William Floto was a book merchant and also a member of the School Board. He was born in Kassel in the year 1828, where he learned the watch making trade. He came to America w

A posthumous fame for Joseph Dietzgen as a philosopher of Social Democratic Ideas and Science. Born October 27, 1828 - died April 17, 1888. Came to the United States from the Rhineland in 1851 after acquiring the principles of Marx's and Engel's Theories fought for them in 1848. His

Our thoughts often revert to the aged and revered Jewish priest, Liebmann adler, Chicago pedagogue, who recorded his versatile experiences of a benevolent life in his book, which is now published under the title, "Z'ena Ure'na." We call it "instructions, conduct, admonitions, guide for women