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Intelligence in Literature, and the Arts and Sciences. [Aug. 1,

in general, by John Louis Goldsmid. The impression will be strictly limited to 250, on post 4to. and 50 large paper.

The same booksellers have likewise announced a reprint of Wits Recreations, selected from the Finest Fancies of Moderne Muses, and collated with all the subsequent editions. Also, Wit Restor'd, in several select poems not formerly publish't. London, 1658.

Mr. R. P. GILLIES is engaged in preparing for publication The Poeticall Exercises at Vacant Houres of James the Sixth, King of Scotland, in small 4to. The number will be limited to 150 copies.

An Analysis of Madame de STAEL'S work on Germany, pointing out several striking and incongruous passages, with some historical notices of that country, by a German, will speedily be published. An elegant work of art will shortly appear, under the title of Picturesque Views of Public Edifices in Paris, with appropriate letter-press, drawn by Messrs. Testard and Segard, engraved by Mr. Rosenberg. The size will be medium 4to., and the work consist of 20 exquisite Views, which may be had plain or coloured.

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The Rev. ROBERT MORRISON, Protest ant missionary at Canton, and who has for a few years acted as Chinese translator to the Honourable East India Company's factory there, has now ready for the A Chinese Grammar; to which is added, a volume of Dialogues, Chinese and English.-Mr. Morrison has also in preparation, A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in three parts. 1. The Chinese and English, arranged according to the Chinese Keys, founded on the Imperial Dictionary of Kang-he. 2. The Chinese arranged alphabetically, with a short definition in English. 3. English and Chinese. These will form three or four folio volumes. The Grammar and Dialogues have the pronunciation of the Chinese characters in the Mandarin dialect, according to the powers of the Roman alphabet in the English language they have also both a free and a verbal rendering of each phrase, sentence, and example employed in illustration. To the grammar is added a chapter on the dialect of Canton. The dictionary proceeds on the same plan with respect to pronunciation and definition, and will be completed at no distant period.

Mr. T. WILSON has in the press, The English Dancing Master; being a copious Treatise on Ball Room and Stage Dancing; describing in great variety the

character and use, with instructions for the correct performance, of the dances proper to be used in the English ballroom.

According to the present plan of shipbuilding, in case of a leak at sea that cannot be kept under by pumping, the ship and crew must be inevitably lost, which is an event to the great affliction and loss of thousands, continually taking place. Mr. CADOGAN WILLIAMS has proposed to the public, that every ship should be divided into four equal compartments, by partitions of sufficient strength; the probability is great, that in case of a leak, it would take place in one of them; and even allowing it to fill, the safety of the ship would not be endangered, and three-fourths of the cargo would be undamaged. Packets, as they carry little or no cargo, might with safety be divided into three compartments; and as any of these divisions might be easily inundated, the advantage of this method, in case of fire, is equally obvious.

Some time since, a specific for the gout was imported into this country from France, under the name of the Eau Medicinale d'Husson, which excited considerable discussion among the members of the medical profession. Its effects were universally acknowledged to be very powerful, though in some instances much more dangerous than the disease which it was designed to remove. Mr. WANT, surgeon to the Northern Dispensary, North Crescent, Bedford Square, states, that two years ago he discovered the composition of a medicine which possesses the power of removing the paroxysm of gout in a degree fully equal to the Eau Medicinale. This consists of the fresh sliced root of the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, in proof spirits of wine, sherry, or lisbon, in the proportion of four ounces of the former to eight of the latter. A recent infusion of the fresh or dried root in water is equally efficacious. The dose of the tincture, whether made with water, wine, or spirit, should be two drams (or two ordinary tea-spoonfuls) for an adult, and vary according to the constitution of the patient. Mr. Want's experiments, made in at least forty cases, have been followed by the most satisfactory results, the paroxysms being always removed, and in several instances no return of disease having taken place after an interval of several months.

In the neighbourhood of Highgate resides a married woman, aged 35 years; the whole of whose body is exactly

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divided by a straight line into white and black. The right side, arm and leg, are black, and subject to eruptions; and the left side, arm and leg altogether white. This distinction terminates at the neck, which with her face is white. She has two children, who possess not this peculiarity; for which her mother, although a common ignorant woman, makes no attempt to account in the usual marvellous way.

From experiments made in the East Indies a few years since, it was generally believed that copious bleeding would not fail to have a powerful effect in hydrophobia; but some late cases of that dreadful affliction seem to favour a contrary opinion. One of these was recorded in our number for June (page 492); another occurred a few days since in the Casualty Hospital, at Bath. The subject a child about five years old, the son of an hostler, was bitten about three weeks before the disease manifested itself. Nothing was done at the time the bite was received, for the prevention of this formidable disorder, as it was not then suspected that the dog was rabid. Copious bleeding was resorted to, but with out success. The child died within three days after the first attack. Bleeding has not been attended with the success that was expected, in India. The son of Mr. Leonard, master of the Mission school at Calcutta, was in October last bitten by lap-dog the wound was kept open for some time with caustic, and then healed. Symptoms of hydrophobia, however, appeared about three days before his death; and although bleeding was had recource to, and every other method of cure tried, he fell a sacrifice to the fury of the disorder. The fatality of these melancholy accidents must render it peculiarly desirable that some specific capable of universal application might be made public. Mr. WILLIAM HARTWELL, of the parish of Odell, in the county of Bedford, states in a public advertisement inserted in the Northampton Mercury, that he is "in possession of a recipe for the cure of the hydrophobia, which has been transmitted from father to son for a long series of years, and has been administered with invariable success, in the north of Bedfordshire, and the adjacent parts of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire: that it is infallible in the human species, and cattle of all descriptions: indeed it has never been known to fail, if taken in due time." He mentions numerous cases in proof of the infalli

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bility of his medicine; and assures us, that many of the persons enumerated have requested him to make this public use of their names. In a matter of such universal interest, we would suggest the appointment of a committee of medical gentlemen to investigate the justice of Mr. Hartwell's claims, and in case of their being established, the propriety of a legislative remuneration, on condition of his making known his recipe for the benefit of the public.

FRANCE.

The class of ancient literature of the Institute of France, held its annual public meeting on the 1st of July, when the following papers were read:1. Subjects of the prizes proposed for the years 1815 and 1816. The class has proposed as the subject of the prize to be adjudged at this meeting," to enquire what changes took place in all the departments of the adininistration of the Roman empire during the reign of Dioclesian, and under his successors to the accession of Julian.” As the class was not perfectly satisfied with any of the memoirs transmitted, it proposed the same subject again for 1815. The subject for 1816 is, "to explain the metrical system of Hero of Alexandria, and to compare it with the other measures of length of the ancients." The prize for each question will be a gold medal of the value of 1500 francs, and the essays must be written in Freuch or Latin. 2. Report of the proceedings of the class during the last year, by M. Daunou. 3. Account of the Life and Works of Levesque, by M. Dacier, perpetual secretary. 4. Memoir on the ancient itineraries of Persia and India, and on the Marches of Alexander and of Seleucus Nicator, by M. Walckenaer. 5. Memoirs on the question, Whether the eighth book of the History of the Peloponnesian war is by Thucydides? by M. Gail. 6. Account of the Life of Machiavel, to serve as an introduction to an examination of his works, by M. Guingené. 7. Memoir on the origin and progress of Architecture among the Arabs, by the Count de Laborde. 8. Notice of the Life and Works of M. de Toulongeon, by M. Dacier, perpetual secretary.

Among the books of the late Mr. II. Agasse, printer of the Moniteur, which were to be sold by auction, at Paris, on the 11th of July, was a fine copy of Voltaire's works. The first seven volumes of his dramatic pieces were full of curious remarks, in the hand-writing of

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Laharpe. It contains likewise some
manuscripts and unpublished pieces of
Voltaire's.

M. Delambre, who holds the honour-
able offices of treasurer to the University
of France, perpetual secretary of the
Institute for the mathematical sciences,
and professor of astronomy to the Royal
College of France, has just published
his Complete Treatise on Astronomy,
theoretical and practical, in three large
4to. volumes. An abridgment of this
work was some time since given to the
world by its eminent author, in an 8vo.
volume, which contains the astronomical
lessons given at the College of France,
and is considered the best elementary
treatise on the science that has hitherto
appeared.

A pot, half zinc and half copper, capable of holding about two quarts, was lately discovered, by accident, in digging on the top of a hill in the department of the Jura. It was filled with copper medals edged with silver, bearing the effigies of various emperors, as Dioclesian, Constantine, Maximinus, &c. of excellent workmanship. Several have legends and exergues of various kinds, and were all covered with verdigris. The form of the pot is antique, much contracted towards the top; its colour is whitish, but it has neither inscriptions nor engravings.

GERMANY.

Mr. Soemmering has lately published
at Munich a paper upon a fossil skeleton
eight inches in length, found imbedded in
a calcareous rock near Aichstadt. It is
accompanied by three figures, two of the
fossil as it now exists; and in the third,
the dislocated bones are so arranged as
to form a complete skeleton. He had
the specimen itself in his possession, and
determines it to be the osseous remains
of an animal of the bat tribe approach-
ing to the pteropus pusillus of Lechenault,
and gives it the name of ornithocephalus.
Cuvier had never seen the specimen it-
self, but made his observations on a
figure of it published in 1784, by the
late M. Collini, keeper of the electoral
museum at Manheim. He decides that
it belonged to a new genus in the fa-
mily of lizards. This conclusion Soem-
mering undertakes to refute. He finds
the number of cervical vertebræ to be
seven, a number constantly met with in
mammalia, and not correctly represented
in Collini's figure, where the number of
the phalanges digitorum also appears
greater than it really is. A separate
bone to which the under jaw is articu-

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lated is represented in Collini's figure, and is characteristic of lizards. Upon a careful examination of the fossil, Soemmering could perceive no such bone; the under jaw appeared to be articulated as in mammalia, and he found the intimate substance of the bones to resemble that of the bones of the latter. The museum at Munich contains some other ancient animals discovered in the same situa tion. Among these are a crab and an ichthyolite, the former nearly related to the molucca crab, (monoculus polyphemus;) the latter to stromateus, a genus of fish, all the known species of which are inhabitants of the equatorial seas.

Wahlstadt, which gives the title of prince to the heroic Blucher, is a large village not far from Liegnitz and the Katzbach, where Heury II. Duke of Silesia, had a bloody engagement with the Tartars on the 9th of April, 1241. The duke fell, and the invaders proved victorious. In memory of this event the village was erected and received its present name, which signifies field of battle. The narrative of the conflict is annually read from the pulpit of the Protestant church of the place.

SWEDEN.

plain near the town of Skara, in WestSome persons digging in an extensive rogothia, discovered a great number of tombs at a considerable depth. They resemble catacombs, and are supposed to be of high antiquity. The order in which the skeletons are ranged appears very remarkable.

Sergel, the celebrated Swedish sculptor, died lately at Stockholm, at the age of 74. He had resided near 20 years at Rome, and was a member of the academy of painting and sculpture at Paris, and of the French institute. Elis principal works are the group of Cupid and Psyche, that of Mars and Venus, the monument of Descartes in a church at Stockholm, and the statue of Gustavus III. placed near the palace. It last-mentioned monarch purchased the was at the suggestion of Sergel that the Endymion, one of the master-pieces of antiquity at Rome, and which now forms the chief ornament of the museum of Stockholm.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

During the present interruption of our intercourse with the North American continent, we congratulate our readers on being enabled through the liberality of a correspondent, to present them with the following interesting notices relative

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to the state of literature and science in that country.

The war in America has suspended the progress of learning and peaceful science in an alarming degree. The public newspapers are the chief productions of the press, and the manner in which controversy is conducted in that country affords nothing for imitation: on the contrary, the reader is disgusted with the coarsest epithets and the most slanderous abuse. Literary periodical works are scarce, and made up in a great measure from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. Other publications are occasionally to be seen there in the houses of the opulent-such as the Monthly Review; British Critic; Scottish Review; Monthly Magazine; and latterly, the New Monthly Magazine; the first number of the latter reached Boston about the end of March. In that city, what are called our opposition prints, such as the Morning Chronicle, Cobbett's Register, and a few others of less note, are universally despised. The people of Boston, though the first to commence the revolutionary war, are, in the present contest, much in favour of England, from a principle of innate justice. The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews are regularly reprinted on their arrival in America, but on wretched paper, and in the most slovenly manner. All other new works are the same which bave popularity in this country. The Americans make our literature their own. A new work is announced for publication in the present month to be

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entitled the "Harvard Lyceum," it will be conducted and published by the students of the Harvard university, will contain 24 octavo pages, and the subscription for 20 numbers three dollars; one in advance: the work to appear once a fortnight. This mode of publication differs widely from our's, and shews that literature is not well patronized. A publisher cannot well come forward in such an undertaking on speculation. The "Analectic Magazine" is in much repute-but its chief articles are all British. The Americans pay much attention to steain boats and vessels, in which useful undertakings we should do ourselves much service by imitating them. We have but three or four in Britain, and those chiefly in Scotland. On the 23d of April last, a steam boat called the Vesuvius, intended as a regular trader on the Mississipi, to ply between New Orleans and the falls of Ohio, was established at Pittsburgh. Another boat of the same description was then building at the same place, intended to ply between that place and the falls, which is to meet the Vesuvius on her return from Orleans. The Vesuvius is 480 tons burthen, and when laden will draw about 5 feet of water. The steam boat which has been recently established on the St. Lawrence, above Quebec, has been of the greatest service in the transport, both of troops and other necessaries, with expedition, to Upper Canada, during the war. They work against the stream, tide, or wind, and make great progress.

NEW PUBLICATIONS IN JULY,

WITH CRITICAL REMARKS AND OCCASIONAL EXTRACTS.

At the request of many Correspondents we have been induced, though at a considerable additional expense, to give a new feature to our Literary List, by raising it above the form of a dry catalogue. Without arrogating to ourselves a high judicial character, we shall endeavour to point out the real merits of the leading productions of the day as they are published, steering equally clear of the partiality of friendship, and of the splenetic spirit of satire. Early communications of new works will ensure a speedy notice of their properties in this department, which we trust will prove far more useful, as well as more agreeable, to readers in general, than the former plan, of merely giving extracts from a few particular books.

ARTS, FINE.

VIEWS of the Abbey of Fonthill, Wilts, drawn and engraved by James Storer, with a description of the edifice. 16s. large paper, 11. 5s. proofs, 21. 25.

The Cathedral Antiquities of England. By John Britton, Esq. F. S. A. No, I. 4to. 12s imp. 4to. 11. cr. fol. 11. 11s. 6d. sup. roy. fol. 21. 2s. proofs, 41.

British Gallery of Pictures, second series, No, XII. 10s. 6d. proofs, 11.

A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Pateræ, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c. engraved in outline on 170 plates, with Historical Essays. By Henry Moses. 410. 31. 3s. large paper, 51. 5s.

Ornamental Designs, after the manner of the Antique. By George Smith. 4to. 11. 16s. Pergolesi Ornaments in the Etruscan and Grotesque Style. fol. 51. 5s.

ASTRONOMY.

A Planisphere or Map of the Principal

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New Publications, with Critical Remarks.

Stars of the Northern Hemisphere, with
Tables of their right Ascensions, Declina-
tions, and Meridian Altitudes at Edinburgh,
for 1814. By Geo. G. Catey, teacher of
mathematics.
2s. 6d.

Evening Amusements, or the Beauties of the Heavens displayed, for 1814. By Wm. Frend, Esq. M. A. 3s.

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A Catalogue of a miscellaneous collection of new and second-hand books on sale, by Beilby and Co. of Birmingham. is.

BIOGRAPHY.

Letters on the Writings and Character of J. J. Rousseau. By the Baroness de Stael Holstein. Translated from the French, 12mo. pp. 140.

"I am not like any man whom I have seen; and I believe that I am not like any man in existence." Such was the judgment given of himself by the pseudo-philospher of Geneva, and posterity will approve the saying. Madame de Stael has, however, laboured to make him appear amiable, and his writings as invaluable; but though we must allow that there is much good writing in these letters, we are free to remark that it is thrown away upon a very noworthy subject.

Klopstock and his Friends; a series of familiar Letters, written between the years 1750 and 1803. Translated from the German with a Biographical Introduction. By Miss Benger. 8vo. pp. 309.

A correspondence between the same persons for above half a century must in any case be productive of interesting matter for reflection and amusement. But the parties in this intercourse were of no ordinary stamp, and the rank which they at tained in the world of letters gives a peculiar im. portance to the progress of their sentiments and opinions. Some writer has busied himself in narrating the quarrels of authors, but the present volume

may be read to better advantage, and adduced as a pleasing monument of literary friendship. The translation is executed with fidelity, and the introductory memoir is written with feeling and judg

ment.

An Essay on the Life of Michel de l'Hopital, Chancellor of France. By Charles Butler, Esq. 8vo. 4s.

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the trouble of applying to the cabinets of the curious, or the libraries of the opulent. The editor has discharged his task with equal credit to his taste and judgment, and we sincerely wish success to the laudable undertaking.

The Death of Darnley, Ivan, Zamorin and Zama, the Confession and Orestes; tragedies. By Wm. Sotheby, Esq. 8vo. 125.

The New British Theatre; a Selection of Original Dramas not yet acted. No. 7. containing, The Sailor's Return, a comedy, The Last Act, a farce,; Thermopylæ, a tragic drama. 2s. 6d.

EDUCATION.

Enclytica; being the outlines of a course of Instruction on the Principles of Universal Grammar, as deduced in an analysis of the vernacular tongue. 8vo. pp. 133.

Since the publication of the Epea Pteroenta, which made its appearance near thirty years ago, we have not had any book on the principles of language equal to the essay before us; the only fault of which is that it is too compressed. Should the author think proper to enlarge his work, we think he might avail himself of much useful matter to be found in Bishop Wilkins's real character, and Dr. Gilchrist's Theory of Persian Verbs.

Miscellaneous questions on History and Chronology; with an Explanation of some of the common terms used in both, and a sketch of the State of the World before the coming of Jesus Christ; the Preservation of the Scriptures, and a Sketch of the Evidence of the Truth of Revelation. 12mo. pp. 87.

Multum in patvo; being a very useful compendium of practical knowledge, weil selected and properly arranged for the instruction of young persons and the assistance of tutors.

Original Letter of Advice to a Young
Lady. 2s. 6d.
Child's

The Juvenile Arithmetic, or
Guide to Figures. 1s.

A Continuation of Early Lessons. By
Maria Edgeworth. 2 vols. 18mo. 6s.

Animated Nature, or Elements of the Natural History of Animals. By the Rev. W. Bingley. 6s.

The Traveller in Africa. By Priscilla Wakefield. 5s. 6d.

The English Pronouncing Spelling Book. By Thos. West, late master of the free

Anecdotes of the Empress Josephine. school, Dedham. 1s. 6d. From the French. 1s. 6d.

DRAMA.

Doctor Faustus, and Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen; two tragedies, by Marlowe; being the first two numbers of a series of plays selected from the works of the most celebrated dramatic writers who flourished previous to the Restoration, many of whom are contemporary with Shakspeare,

8vo. pp. 195.

We have often wondered that the plan of Dodsley iu republishing the old plays, had not been long ago taken up, and extended to the revival of those dramas which were passed over by the compiler of that valuable collection. At length, how. ever, the desideratum is about to be supplied, and henceforth the most rare productions of the early English theatre will become accessible without

GEOGRAPHY.

Thomson's General Atlas, No. V. 8s.

HISTORY.

The Chronicles of Scotland. By Rob. Lindsay, of Pittscottie. 2 vols. 11. 85.

The Annual Register for 1813. 8vo. 16s. The Annals of Irish Popery, from the Introduction of the Reformation into Ireland in 1535, to the Rebellion and Massacre of 1641. By John de Falkirk. Vol. I. ss.

The Irish Historical Library, No. I. with an ample preface. By Frederick W. Conway. 1s. sd.

LAW.

A practical Abridgment of the Custom and Excise Laws, relative to the Import, Export, and Coasting Trade of Great Britain

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