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of grooves. This is produced by the water ri sing in the narrow capillary tubes with which the wood is filled. If the diameter of one of these tubes be only 100th part of a line, the inclination of the sides one second, and the impulse with which the water ascends into the tube the fourth part of a grain, this force will tend to separate the flexible sides to the tube, with a force of about 50,000 grains, which makes about 8 pounds in the length of an inch. If there be only fifty of these tubes, giving 2500 in a square inch, the result will be an effort of 21,875 pounds. As the head of a wedge of the kind above mentioned may contain four or five Square inches, the force it exerts will be equal to about 90 or 100,000 pounds. If we suppose ten of these wedges in the whole circumference of the cylinder intended to form millstones, they will exercise together an effort of 900,000 or 100,000 pounds. It needs therefore excite no surprise, that they should separate the block into the portions between which they are introduced. The twisted threads of which cloth are fabricated, may be considered as small cords, which experience, in like manner, a contraction from humidity; whence it happens that cloth contracts in the two directions of their intersecting threads.

Natural Philosophy-Fine Arts.

dye, it then acquires a beautiful permanent
green colour.

This discovery is very important, because it is within the reach of the poorest classes, both as to the material and mode of execution; but it is evident that it requires to pass through the hands of a chemist, or skilful dyer, to derive all the advantages it is capable of furnishing. Substitute for Cochineal.-M. Drapiez, of Lille, in France, has discovered in the insects of the feverfew, or mother-wort, (matricaria parthenium,) a substance to re-place cochineal in fine scarlet dyes. In order to detach the insects from the plant without bruising them, and thus losing the colouring matter, he put sixteen pounds of stalks in a case nearly air-tight, and heated it in the oven, whereby the insects were suffocated: this quantity yielded above a drachm of dried insects. M. Drapiez then essayed the compari-❘ son with cochineal: he took two similar pieces of woollen cloth, which he passed through the common mordant bath of muriate of tin, and then one of the pieces in a cochineal bath, and the other in a bath prepared with mother-wort insects. This able chemist assures us, that the difference between the two dyes was scarcely perceptible, and they equally resisted The expansion of paper by mois-the chemical reagents, nor were destroyed by ture is owing to the same cause; for paper, which is only an assemblage of filaments, very thin, short, and disposed irregularly in all directions, lengthens in the dimensions of its surface in proportion as the water, by insinuating itself between the intervals of those filaments, acts, by placing them farther asunder, proceeding froin the middle towards the edges.

Fall of Fyers.-The general aspect of the surrounding scenery is such as to impress the mind with the idea of some vast convulsion of nature having torn the rocks asunder, and shattered them into gigantic fragments; rugged crags and abrupt precipices present themselves on all sides, and the river rushes with tremendous impetuosity through deep and abstracted chasms. A rude bridge is thrown over the upper fall, whence the spectator beholds the waters of the Fyers, at the distance of 200 feet, beneath him, rushing into a cavity of 70 feet in depth, whence they again emerge in perfect stillness, and running over an uneven and fragmented channel, approach the lower or grand waterfall. Here the country strikes the imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of the Siberian solitude, and overlooking the stream from a small rocky prominence that overhangs it, we observe the channel torn through black piles and masses of stone, which obstructs the current till it comes to a descent of dreadful steepness and depth; here the wa ters, previously pent up and exasperated, suddenly discharge all their violence, and are lost in a horrid abyss. The depth of the chasm in which the river flows is 400 feet, and it bursts forth in an unbroken stream, constituting a fall of 212 feet. At times, every gleam of sun which penetrates the foliage of the surrounding fir and birch trees, is refracted by the sprays into rainbows, that seem to dance in the chasm.Brandt's Lectures.

Discovery of a fine Dycing Matter in PotatoTops.-A Chemist of Copenhagen has discovered a brilliant yellow matter for dyeing, in potatotops. The mode of obtaining it is by cutting the top when it is in flower; and bruising and pressing it, to extract the juice. Linen or woollen imbibed in this liquor forty-eight hours, takes a fine, solid, and permanent yellow colour. If the cloth be afterwards plunged in a blue

sulphuric acid or oxigenized muriatic acid. It
is to be observed, that M. Drapiez has discover-
ed a mode of nourishing the plant, so that the
insects breed much faster.

FINE ARTS.

Lithography-The rapid improvements in the art of Lithography, or Engraving on Stone, to which we have repeatedly directed public attention, have now advanced so far as to claim the notice of the Continental Governments. On the 18th, the King of France issued an ordonnance on the subject, which sets forth that, "the art of Lithography has, during a very recent period, been rendered applicable in such a manner as to assimilate it entirely to impressions by moveable characters, and to those by copperplates; and that there have been formed, for carrying on this art, establishments of the same kind as printing-offices, subject to the law of Oct. 21, 1814." To prevent the mischiefs that might result from the clandestine use of the lithographic press, it is therefore placed, like its fellows, under the statute and the general police. But we have alluded to this procedure, not so much for any interest we have in the application of French laws to the controul of the press,

[November 22, 1817

manacks, passports, &c. &c. On one of the impressions we have seen, it is witnessed under the hand of Mr Muller, that between 30 and 40,000 engravings had previously been taken from the same stone; and yet its sharpness and force are as distinct as in a first proof. We believe Mr Ackerman is trying experiments to bring Lithography to perfection in this country: its importance well merits the exercise of all our na tional ingenuity, for it bids fair to make a complete revolution in the arts with which it is connected.-Lit. Gazette.

Venice, Aug. 10, 1817.-Yesterday the prizes
of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts were distri-
buted to those artists whose works were adjudg-
ed to be the most worthy. The Governor-Ge-
neral, Count Goes, General Chasteller, and the
most distinguished persons of the government
and the city, were assembled in the former Scuo-
la de la Carita, which was assigned by the
French to the Academy of Arts. After Count
Leopold Cicognara, President of the Institution,
had made a speech, in which he pronounced a
warm panegyric upon the Emperor, who had
done much for the Academy, and upon the Go-
vernor-General, who interests himself so deeply
in its success, and upon his own zeal, which no
body disputes, he turned his eyes on two works,
which attracted general attention, and the ex-
cellence of which he duly extolled. The first
was the statue of the muse Polyhymnia, by Ca
nova, (originally the portrait of a lady of Bo-
naparte's family, the head of which is changed);
Count Cicognara took this opportunity, not
only to pay a just tribute of praise to his
friend Canova, of whom his country, Ve.
nice, is proud, but also to proclaim aloud to the
rest of Europe, "that Italy was still the soil in
which the greatest talents for the Arts and
Sciences flourished, and that nobody but Canova
was able to furnish so suitable a present for
their Imperial Majesties of Austria, to whom
the statue had been respectfully offered by the
States of Venice." The second work, which, as
it were, illumined the hall with its splendor, was
an immensely large and magnificent picture by
Titian, which represents the Ascension of the
Virgin; it was in a very dirty and neglected
condition in the Church of de' Frati, where
Count Cicognara perceived its beauty; and by
the care of old Baldaccini, (who was chosen at
this sitting a member of the Academy,) it is re-
stored in the highest perfection. After Cicog-
nara, Messrs Diedo and Gamba (Noble Vene-
tians, Secretaries of the Academy,) spoke; the
former on the importance of the Fine Arts, and
the latter upon Cornaro, (celebrated for his tem-

as to show that in the cultivation of this valu-
able art, Britain is strangely behind her neigh-perance,) as the Mecenas of the Arts. After
bours. We were not wont to be the last in use.
ful inventions, and yet Lithography, which has
reached such a pitch of forwardness in France,
and of perfection in Germany, is still in its in-
fancy in England. Perhaps the generality of
readers are not aware of the extraordinary
powers of stone engraving, to depict the most
beautiful effects of landscape, and even of hu-
man expression, as well as to execute printing
and writing on every scale, from the largest to
the most minute. We have seen specimens
from the press of Muller, at Carlscrube, which
possess, in a degree which cannot be equalled by
any other process, the opposite qualities of clear-
ness and softness. A Plan of the Duke of Ba-
den's Palace, and Woods, Gardens, &c. has
some of the finest touches that can be conceived.
In this part of Germany, the art is also applied
to every purpose of printing ;-bills of fare, al-

this, Count Von Goes made a short and suitable speech to the young artists, and then distributed the prize medals. After the ceremony was concluded, the company visited the five rooms filled with the specimens of sculpture, painting, &c. which were opened to-day for the first time. That in which the prizes were distributed contained the finest productions of the old Venetian school. The natural splendour of their colouring was heightened by the richly-gilded ceiling. These Scuole, of which there were formerly seven in Venice, were the meeting-places of lay Fraternities, for religious exercises, and are mostly adorned with the finest paintings and the most magnificent ornaments. Count Cicognara gave hopes, that in a short time new rooms would be opened to the public. The interior of the church of St Giovanni e Paolo has a richness of ornament and decoration uncommon in our times.

The History and Practice of Vaccination by James Moore, Esq. director of the National Vac-morning service, from the first to the thirteenth

ters, a View of the History of Scotland, from the earliest records to the rebellion in the year 1745.

Mr W. Wright, of Bristol, has a work on the Human Ear nearly ready for publication; in which the structure and functions of that organ will be anatomically and physically explained.

Shortly will be published, the History of the City of Dublin, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military; from the earliest account to the present period; its charters, grants, privileges, extent, population, public buildings, societies, charities, &c. extracted from the national records, approv. ed historians, many curious and valuable manuscripts, and other authentic materials; by the late John Warburton, Esq., the late Rev. James Whitelaw, and the Rev. R. Walsh, M.R.I.H. In a few days will be published, "Family Suppers, or Evening Stories, for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons;" by Lady Mary H******; illustrated by sixteen beautiful engravings: and, in the course of a fortnight, the same will be published in French.

[November 22, 1817

tion, select works of Plotinus, accompanied by extracts from the Treatise of Synesius on Providence; translated from the Greek, by Mr Thomas Taylor.

Major Wyvill, late of the third Royal Veterans, will shortly publish by subscription, " Hig Military Life," containing descriptions of vari ous parts of the world where he has served; anecdotes of many officers of rank, now living a and some account of the courtmartial by which he was tried when major of the battalion which he commanded above six years.

Speedily will be published, a novel, under the title of," The Actress of the Present Day, or Scenes and Portraits from Real Life."

The number of German periodical works published at Vienna is more than a dozen. Two of them deserve to rank among the most celebrated in Germany. The first and most Letters of William first Duke of Queensbo- important of these publications is the Archiv rough, lord high treasurer of Scotland, are print-fur Geographic, Historie, Staats-und Kriegsing from the originals, with portraits and fac- kunst, conducted by Baron von Hormayr, which similes. contains, not only very excellent historical es

Mr John Brown has a poem in the press, in says by the best writers of the Austrian mofive cantos, entitled, Psyche, or the Soul.

November 22, 1817.]

journals that might well be dispensed with. At the head of the political papers is the Oestreichische Beobachter, perhaps the most important German journal for the future historian on account of the documents connected with

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8vo. volumes. It is said that government has
granted him 40,000 francs for this undertaking,
and that he owes this truly princely donation to
the interference of Count de Blacas, to whom it
was represented that one of his ancestors had
highly distinguished himself among the Pro
vencal troubadours, and would occupy a con-
spicuous place in the collection.

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vain. Comprising all the nations of German race, it affords the Englishman, the Swede. the Dane, and the Hollander, as well as the German, the easiest view of every thing that has been published, since the revival of the study of German antiquities, (i. e. since the middle of the last century), both in monuments of their languages, and contributions to facilitate the knowledge of them. Nay, the author has even performed more than the main object of his. undertaking could lead us to expect; for he has taken into his plan the literature of the French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages, related, though but distantly, with the German; and has also prefixed to his book a sketch, short, indeed, but uncommonly rich in information, of the course which the antiquarian literature, properly belonging to the western nations, has hitherto taken.

the history of the times, which it gives in a more complete form than any other similar publication. Nothing can be more tedious than the Wiener Zeitung, which is in general so oc- Professor Von der Hagen, of Breslau, is just cupied with promotions, honorary distinctions, returned from a literary tour of more than a and charitable contributions, that very little space year through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy; is left for political events; indeed the conduc- and besides a great number of notices, extracts, tors seem to care very little whether it circu- and drawings relative to ancient German litera. lates or not. A popular political publication, ture, he has brought with him several hitherto the Wanderer, seems designed to make that undiscovered MSS. for instance the Heldenpart of the public for whom the newspapers pro- buch, Nithert's poems, a translation of the Bible perly so called are too dry, acquainted with the anterior to Luther's; also an ancient French history of the times in an entertaining manner : MS. with the heroic poems of Charlemagne, but besides political transactions, it contains so Beuves d'Houtone, Aubri, &c. Among the many kinds of essays, and its plan is so com- new discoveries is an extensive poem on the A valuable addition has just been made to prehensive, that it would be difficult to deter- Round Table, of the 14th century, the MS. the ancient Scandinavian literature, by the apmine its precise limits. Many of the papers in of which is at Rome, where is also a poetic pearance of the first part of Sturlunga Saga edr. it, however, possess great merit. Die Briefe translation of the same in Middle Greek. At Islendinga-Saga hin mikla, Part 1, published des Eipeldauers is a satirical work written in the Florence the most ancient MS. of Tristan was vulgar dialect. In addition to the above, there accurately collated, preparatory to a new edi hagen. This remarkable monument of ancient by the Iceland Society established at Copenappear at Vienna one Greek and two Bohemian tion. It was chiefly on account of the Helden- times gives a faithful and circumstantial descripnewspapers, a French and an Italian journal, buch and Nibelungen that M. von der Hagen tion of the manners and opinions of the middle a Literatur-Zeitung, Kleine Schriften historish undertook this tour; and he has not only col-ages, as well as minute and authentic accounts statistischen Inhalts, with plates and maps in lected copies of the former, but corrected his of the civil wars of Iceland, to the latest period monthly numbers, and Abendunterhaltungen.- earlier copy of the latter throughout at St. Gall, of the republic and first of the monarchy. The number of periodical works, and the rich- and collated it at Munich and Heillgenberg, ness of those which consist of original matter, with the two Hohenems MSS. of the great bespeak the great number of literati resident at heroic poem. It is not unlikely that the ProVienna, for it is singular enough that the wri-fessor will gratify the literary world by publishters in the provinces contribute very little to ing the results of this tour. these literary enterprizes.

Weigeil, the bookseller of Leipzic, has announced his intention of publishing a series of Greek poets, and prose-writers, under the title of, Bibliotheca classica Scriptorum Græcorum. The correction of the press has been undertaken by the celebrated Professor Scheafer, and many of the works will be revised expressly for this collection by eminent philologists.

Among the publications which have lately appeared at Petersburg, are Ephemerides Russes, politiques, litteraires, historiqués et necrolo giques, par Spada, and Description des Objets les plus remarquables de la Ville de Petersbourg et de ses Environs, par Paul Swinin, author of Picturesque Travels in North America. The designs are neat and faithful, and the text, in Russian and French, entertaining. An English translation of Alala, by the chaplain of the English factory at Cronstadt, is just published. An Essai critique sur l'Histoire de Livonic, in 3 vols., by Count de Bray, Bavarian ambassador to the court of Russia, is in the press. The whole edition of this performance is destined as a present to the university of Dorpat, the produce to be laid out on historical works for its library. General Jomini is engaged upon a history of the last two campaigns, for which Field Marshal Barclay de Tolly has, among others, contributed very interesting materials. As the climate of Russia does not agree with him, he has availed himself of the leave of ab. sence granted him for two years, and returned to Switzerland.

M. Raynouard is at present engaged in the study of the Romance language, that is, the language which forms the intermediate step between the Latin and the Provencal or French, and was employed by the troubadours or minstrels. He designs to publish a collection of the principal poems in that language, with an notations, which will probably extend to four

Mithridates. The fourth part of this celebrated work is now published in Germany. This great undertaking, comprising the Lord's Prayer in near five hundred languages and dialicts, is thus happily brought to the desired conclusion. Conceived and begun by the great lexicographer John Christopher Adelung, who, we believe, completed only the first part (which was published in 1806) and part of the second, it has had the good fortune to be continued by a man fully adequate to the task, Dr. John Severin Vater of Konigsberg, one of the most learned philologers in Europe. The contents of this fourth and last part are-1. Additions to the first part, by the Russian counsellor of state, Adelung: and additions to the second volume.-2. Corrections and additions respecting the Basque language, by his Excellency the Prussian minister of state, Baron William Von Humboldt, now ambassador from his Majesty the King of Prussia, to the court of Great Britain.-3. Additions by the counsellor of state, Von Adelung, and the editor; and lastly, additions by the latter to the third volume,

M. Giuseppe Boccanera, already known by his Neopolitan Biography, is translating Guingené's excellent History of Italian Literature, to which he adds notes and observations.

The Abbé Jannelli has discovered in the royal library at Naples a MS. of Dracontius, a Christian poet of the 5th century. It contains ten short Latin poems, not only inedited, but absolutely unknown. This collection has furnished Jannelli with interesting particulars, various circumstances of the life of Dracontius, which enable him to speak with precision of concerning whom other writers have recorded so many fables.

lish all these pieces, because most of them
He has not thought fit to pub-
ought rather to be called declamations, resem-
bling those of Aristides and Libanius in Greek
prose; but merely quotes the principal passages
in his life of Dracontius. He has introduced
entire only two of the best and most interesting:
these are also the longest. The subjects of them
the other the Rape of Helen.
are mythological; one is entitled Medea, and

Among the MSS. recently discovered in the be published, are the following:-Treatise on same library, and since published or about to the Pulse, by Mercury, the monk. The Greek text is translated into Latin, and illustrated with a commentary by M. Salvadore Cirillo, seRestoration of the Science of Politics, or Theory cretary of the royal library. The same M. of the natural State of Society, by C. L. Von Cirillo has also published-A Homily of St. Haller, vol. ii.-This second volume contains John Chrysostom, held on Whit-sunday, transchapters 23 to 43 inclusive, most of which lated from the original Greek and Latin. A treat on subjects of the highest importance-Monody for the Queen (Irene Paleologa) writsuch as the origin of sovereignty, the duties of ten in Latin, by George Gemistius Pletho princes, the rights and duties of subjects, the with commentaries. means possessed by subjects to secure their Manual of Geography, by rights, the loss of independence or the ruin of from the Greek MS. At press. Complete TreaNicephorus Blemmidas, translated into Latin states, &c. tise on Urine, by Albizziano, translated into Greek by John Actuarius, from the original Greek version. Arabic of Avicenna, and into Latin from the Patriarch of Constantinople, to the Questions of At press. Answers of Photius, Latin, with commentaries by the Abbé AngelAmphilochus, translated from the Greek into Antonio Scotti.

Bibliotheca Germano-glottica, or View of the Literature of the Antiquities of the Languages and People of the Kingdoms of German, or partly German, race, by Dr. Nicolaus Heinrich Julius. -This small treatise, or rather catalogue, con. sisting of only 100 pages, and 24 pages of introduction, contains a treasure of valuable information, that might he elsewhere sought for in

Professor Ewers has published in German

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at Petersburgh, the first volume of his History of Russia, in which particular regard is paid to the internal development of the Russian monarchy. This volume comes down to Peter the Great. The same writer, in association with M. von Engelhardt, has also published the first part of the first volume of Contributions to the Knowledge of Russia and its History. M. von Engelhardt has moreover given to the public an Introduction to Geognosy.

Professor Woyiekoff has put to the press, at Petersburgh, his Russian metrical translation of Delille's didactic poem, Les Jardins, in which he is acknowledged to have been very successful. He is now engaged upon a translation of Virgil's Georgics, Like Schukovsky, he received his earlier education at the seminary of the university of Moscow. He afterwards embraced the military profession, which he quitted to devote himself entirely to letters. Since 1814 he has been Professor of the Russian language and literature at Dorpat. His poetic fame is not founded on translations alone, for he is the author of several original pieces. His knowledge of language also is profound and extensive. Mr S. R. Brown has published an 8vo volume, which is warmly recommended in the American papers to emigrants to the United States. It is entitled the Western Gazetteer, and embraces the States of Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohno, and Tennessee; the Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi and North West Territories; some of the western parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, &c.

The prospectus of a statistical and historical account of the United States of America, from the period of the first establishments to the present day, has been published by Mr D. B. War. den, who was for many years Secretary to the American Minister, and Consul of the U. S. at Paris. Such a work, ably and impartially written, is a desideratum.

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dowing a college, in which professors of every
branch of learning and science are to be estab
lished, and liberally rewarded. It is no small
advantage to England, that they will be nearly
all chosen from this country, and that we shall
then have an increased probability of standing
upon a favourable footing with a Sovereign,
whose friendship is highly beneficial to us in
commercial respects. In the establishment of
this college, as well as in some other matters,
Christophe has had the good sense to solicit the
advice of Mr Wilberforce.

The Norwegian government has taken lau-
dable measures to promote the study of the
sciences. The university library, which, though
not inconsiderable, was really poor in several
departments, has received at once a sum of
£.7000 sterling, in order to make good the de.
ficiencies as far as possible. The library has
been faithfully promised a sum annually, as
soon as the finances of the state are in some
measure regulated. £.1000 have been given
for the formation of a physical and chemical ca-
binet, and a travelling stipend granted to the
professor of physics and chemistry, in order that
he may pass some years abroad. £.1000 are
likewise granted to purchase astronotnical in
struments for the observatory at Christinia.
The university has rather more than one hun-
dred students, among whom there are no fo-
reigners. The system of education is exactly
the same as at the university of Copenhagen.

FRENCH LITERATURE.

[November 22, 1817.

Lingua Grace, a new edition of which is printing in London. M. Gael intends likewise to establish a new monthly journal in Paris, to be entitled the Philologue, the first number of which, containing 240 pages, will appear on the first of January 1818, if a sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained before that time. As in the second volume of his Researches, above noticed, the disquisitions in the Journal will relate principally to grammar and lexicology, but without neglecting a cient literature, history, tactics, and geography; and with reference to Herodotus, Thucydides, Zenophon, and the Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ.-M. Gael has proved that he is eminently qualified for conducting such a jour nal, by several erudite articles in the London Classical Journal; by his editions of Zenophon, and Thucydides, in Greek, Latin, and French. with elucidatory maps and plates; and by his Atlas to facilitate the study of ancient historywhich have met with the approbation of all Greek scholars in Europe.

The third volume of the History of the Cru. sades, by M. Michaud, is recently published: it is a very finely written performance, and displays vast research.

The History of Joan of Arc, by M. Le Brun des Charmettes, has just appeared. The author may fairly be said to have exhausted his subject: not content with the documents furnished by the public libraries at Paris, he spent six months in London, in examining the inanuscripts at the Tower, and in the British Museum. His work is of great historical importance, and throws

After mentioning a number of new publica-new light on the history of that age.
tions in the press, or recently issued, the last
No. of the Journal de l'Imprerie, &c. says,
"These works form only a portion of those
which are in progress in Paris: never, perhaps,
did so much activity prevail in our printing
houses. It too often happens that there is not
sufficient employment for the workmen ; at pre-
sent there are not enough of workmen for de-
mand. There is a want of Pressmen."

The third and last part of the Description of
Egypt, of which the two first were published
under Bonaparte, being a great desideratum, the
Minister of the Interior, to expedite its publica-
tion, has ordered it to be divided into two sec-
tions, one of which will be published immediate

The Transactions of the Historical Society of Massachusetts continue to be published, with much attention. These Volumes contain several interesting documents relating to the early times of the Confederation of the United States. The Historical Society of New York also has published a Second Volume of Memoirs, containing, among other things, very curious details respecting the Confederation of the Fively. Nations, and Association of Indians known under this appellation;-and who are frequently alluded to as" the Romans of the New World." The Society for the encouragement of useful Arts at New York, has also published an additional Volume of its Transactions, in which a paper by Dr Beck, on the Mineral Waters of Ahe United States, is particularly distinguished. The Agricultural Society of Philadelphia has published another Volume of its Transactions.

This first section of the third part contains two hundred copper-plates, and four parts of text. The second section of the third part will be published in the course of the year 1818, and will contain two hundred copper-plates, which will complete the three parts of antiquities, modern objects, and natural history; and besides these, of fifty-three plates, composing the geographical atlas of Egypt, including the general map of that country.

A small, but very curious work, was published in 1815, by Christopher Leo, entitled, Remarks on the Traditions of the Rabbins: the object of the pamphlet being to announce and tojustify the author's renunciation of Judaism for Christianity. A second work has appeared by the same pen, entitled, An Examination of the fourteen Verses selected from the Scripture by Mr J. Bellamy. This controversial dissertation again displays that profound Hebrew learning. and that comprehensive familiarity with rabbinical literature, so conspicuous in his prior publication. It is much to be wished that he would consecrate bis truly rare acquirements to editing in English some of those German repositories of Hebrew erudition, with which he displays so intimate a conversancy. If private booksellers shrink from aiding such enterprizes, surely college patronage would be vouchsafed to his exertions.

At Milan, in 1814, was printed a collection of hitherto inedited passages from Cicero's orations, for Scaurus, for Tullius, and for Flaccus. The bibliothecary of the Ambrosian library found these fragments on a roll apparently containing Mr Well's Essay on Dew, which has, it seems, the works of the Christian poet Sedulius: but The first number of a new periodical work been translated into French by a Mr A. I. Tor- the poetry was a rescript, and the parchment entitled "Journal of the Academy of Natural deux, is analysed at great length by Mr Dalony, had originally served for a Cicero. Means were Sciences of Philadelphia," has just reached this in the Journal des Savans who speaks in the high found to wash away the newer ink, and to recountry from America. It contains, 1st, De- terms of the rare sagacity with which the inge-store in parts the visibility of the pristine text; seriptions of six new species of the genus Firola nious author has succeeded in unveiling the real and thus these lost portions of the most eloquent from the Mediterranean, by MM. de Sueur and causes of the phenomenon of dew, and in dedu- of the Latin writers have been dragged once Peron, with a plate. 2d, An account of thecing from one principle the explanation of several more into the reading world. There is one new mountain sheep, Ovis montana, by Mr G. passage which seems written to describe a recent Ord; with a wood engraving of the horn of the report of the British senate relative to the sedianimal. 3d, A description of seven American tious societies :—in quo nihil moderate, nihil conwater and land shells, by Mr Thomas Say. siderate, nihil integre; contra improbe, turbide, festinanter rapide; omnia conspiratione, imperio, auctoritate, spe, minis, videtis esse suscepta.

curious facts which have been either fogotten or
misunderstood.

The learned M. Gael announces the continuation of his Historical, Military, Geographical, and Christophe, the Chieftain of Hayti, is wisely Philological researches, under the general title of providing for the future civilization and moral Le Philologue. Volume II. contains many gramimprovement of his country. He has appropri-matical and lexicological contributions towards ated an immense sum to the building and en. the improvement of H. Stephens's Thesaurus

A decree of the Congregation of Index, on the 23d of last June, since approved by the