It gives us great pleasure to hear that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have in consequence of an application made to them by the Zoological Society, granted an extensive piece of land, on the northern verge of Regent’s Park, to be added to the Gardens.  It will be speedily laid out in walks and shrubberies, and in habitations for the numerous animals for which the society have at present little room, and has, in fact, caused the application for the grant.  It is also in contemplation to erect a superb Museum on part of it, and to remove the Society’s present one from Bruton-street.

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GERMAN WINES.

Nassau is rich in mineral waters, and richer in generous wines—­its Johannesberger, Hockheimer, Rudesheimer, Markbrenner, Asmanshaeuser, Steinberger, Shiersteiner, &c. are the most noble juice of the grape.  The Steinberger, in the mark of Hottenheim, belongs to the Court exclusively.  In 1811 the cask (Stueckfass,) containing 7-1/2 sums, equal to 600 measures, or 1,200 bottles, was sold for 6,000 florins, and at Wisbaden a common green bottle-full sells at a ducat, or 9s. 6d. sterling.  From Mentz to Coblentz the German Bacchus has pitched his throne on the territory and soil of Nassau.

Letter from Germany, in the Morning Herald.

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NEW BOOKS.

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[THE FORGET-ME-NOT,

The first-born of the Annuals, comes to woo us with the kindred charms of poetry and playful humour—­romance and real life—­full of kindly feelings, sighs and tears, such as Niobe shed, and smiles that with their witchery light up the finest affections to cherish drooping nature, and guide our footsteps along this world of weal and woe.  To be more explicit, the character of the present volume is well told by Mr. Haynes Bayly in its second page:—­

        a gift that friend to friend
    At parting will deliver;
  And love with his own name will blend
    The dear name of the giver. 
  So pure, so blameless is this book,
    That wise and wary sages
  Will lead young Innocence to look
    Upon its tasteful pages.

We can only particularize a few of the most striking papers.  Among the metrical gems is Conradin, a fine battle-piece, by Mr. Charles Swain; an Every-day Tale, by Montgomery—­one of “the short and simple annals of the poor,” written in behalf of a Society for relieving distressed females in the first month of their widowhood, to save their little households from being broken up before they can provide means for their future maintenance:  and Far-off Visions, by Mary Howitt.  The prose gem of the volume, to our taste, is

    Giulietta, a Tale of the Fourteenth Century, by L.E.L.,