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France, written in December 1815, and | sistence for the Labouring Classes, in FisheOctober 1816. With etchings by the au- ries, Manufactures, and the Cultivation of thor, and numerous vignettes. 2 vols. 8vo. Waste Lands: with remarks on the operation of the salt duties, and a proposal for their repeal. By Sir Thomas Bernard, Bart. 8vo. 38.

11. 11s. 6d.

MUSIC.

The Principles of Harmony; containing a complete and compendious illustration of the theory of music, on a new and original plan, in which every part of that science, from its most simple to its highest branches, is progressively exhibited, and so arranged as to render the whole familiar to performers on the piano-forte. By J. Relfe, Musician in Ordinary to his Majesty. Folio, 11. is. half-bound.

A separate Key of Reference to the above, 3s.

NATURAL HISTORY.

The Elements of Conchology, or Natural History of Shells, according to the Linnean System, with observations on modern arrangements. By Thomas Brown, Esq. Capt. Forfar Regt. Fellow of the Linnean Society, Member of the Wernerian Natural History Society, &c. 8vo. 8s. With the plates of the genera coloured, 10s; with all the plates full coloured, 12s..

NOVELS AND ROMANCES. Les Battuecas.-Par Madame de Genlis. 2 vols. 12mo. 75.

The Cavern of Roseville: or, the Two Sisters; a Tale: being a translation of le Souterrain, ou les Deux Sœurs, by Madame Herbster. By Alexander Jamieson, author of a Treatise on the Constraction of Maps, &c. 12mo. 3s. 6d.

PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

The Correspondent; consisting of Let ters, Moral, Political, and Literary, be tween eminent Writers in France and Eng, Jand. The English articles collected and arranged, by Dr. Stoddart. No. I. to be continued monthly. 58.

PHILOLOGY.

THEOLOGY.

Christian Morality; or, a Hint to Gospel Preachers: a sermon delivered in the Cathedral church of Lincoln, October 13, 1816. By the Rev. Williain Hett, M. A. 1s.

Sermons on Important Subjects. By the Rev. Charles Coleman, A. M. M. R.I.A. lately curate of Grange, in the parish of Atmagh, diocese of Armagh. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Scriptural Essays, adapted to the Holydays of the Church of England: with medi tations on the prescribed services. By Mrs. West, author of Letters to a Young Mau, &c. 2 vols. 12mo. 12s.

Sermons preached at Welbeck Chapel, St. Mary-le-Bone. By the Rev. T. White, M.A, minister of that Chapel, and late vicar of Feckenham, Worcester. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Practical Reflections on the Ordination Services for Deacons and Priests, in the United Church of England and Ireland: for the use of candidates for orders, and of those who renew their ordination vows; and respectfully proposed as a manual for ministers of all ages. To which are added, appropriate prayers for clergymen, selected and original. By John Brewster, M.A. rector of Egglescliffe, and vicar of Greatham, in the county of Durham. 8vo. 8s.

VETERINARY SCIENCE.

Observations, chiefly Practical, on some of the more common Diseases of the Horse; together with remarks upon the general articles of diet, and the ordinary stable_ma nagement of that animal. By Thomas Beal, veterinary professor, and lecturer to the Right Hon. the Dublin Society, Honorary Member of the Cork Institution, and Veterinary Surgeon in the Royal Artillery. 4to. 11. 1s.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

A new Grammar of the French Language, on a plan perfectly original, intended for the - use of those who wish to acquire a speedy and grammatical knowledge of modern An Account of the singular Habits and French; interspersed with ingenious exer- Circumstances of the Peopie of the Tonga cises, and examples, illustrative of the pe- Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. By culiar construction and idiom of the lan-William Mariner, of the Port au Prince guage: the whole calculated to facilite the private ship of war. To which is added a acquirement of grammnatical knowledge, grammar and copious vocabulary of the without the unnecessary fatigue and per- language. 2 vols. 8vo. portrait, 11. 4s. plexity of the old system. By Charles Peter Whitaker, formerly of the University of Gottingen, professor of languages. 6s. 6d. half bound,

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POETRY.

A Tour through Belgium, Holland, along the Rhine, and through the North of France, in the summer of 1816. In which is given an account of the civil and ecclesiastical polity, and of the system of education of

The Persecutor, and other poems, Svo. the kingdom of the Netherlands: with re6s. 6d.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

marks on the fine arts, commerce, and manufactures. By Jarnes Mitchell, M.A. 840.

On the Supply of Einployment and Sub- 125.

Foreign Literary Gazette.

AMERICA: UNITED STATES.

Travels in Chili.

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lars:-A Lyceum of twenty-six persons, who deliver instruction;-au Academy of seven professional members ;--Nine School Establishments, superintended by fifty-. nine superiors;-Seventeen great Schools, established for more extensive districts, having one hundred and one superinten-,

Lieut. Johuson, of Marines, U. S. navy, | dants;-Fifteen principal Schools, under has published at Erie, N. Y. Letters from the direction of fifty-eight masters;-SixChili. The author resided more than two teen Schools for Females, having forty suyears in Chili, and entered the Essex fri-perintendants;-Two Hundred and Six gate before its contest with the Phabe. The Primary Schools, under the guidance of work consists of revolutionary documents two hundred and ten teachers." and remarks on the population, manners and customs, climate, commerce, &c.

Travels in all parts.

Cap. A. Delano, of Boston, has issued proposals for printing a Summary of Voyages and Travels performed by himself in Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

Proposals have been issued to publish by Subscription a work on the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia. By Stephen Elliot, Esq.

The History of Virginia, commenced by John Buck, on his death continued by Skelton Jones, and on the decease of the latter, completed by L. H. Girardin, is so far advanced, that it will be published on the 1st of December next. Mr. Jefferson, who has perused the manuscript of the latter author, commends it. It is to be comprised in 4 volumes octavo.

Interesting anniversary.

The New-York Historical Society met On Tuesday Sept. 4, to celebrate the 206th anniversay of the discovery of Hudson's River in 1609. Hon. Governor Morris who succeeds Hon. Judge Benson as Presi- | dent, delivered an Inaugural address, which is published.

The total of this is, five hundred aud one masters, giving instruction, or patrons of these establishments, benefitting them by personal superintendance: without including the directors of the Lyceums and. School Establishments.

In Austria on the Ens, the number of scholars which frequented the superior schools in 1814, was 1337;-in Austria below the Eas, the number was 351;—in Styria, the number was 683;-in Carinthia, the number was 282;-in Bohemia, the number was 1407;-in Moravia and Silesia the number was 2580;-and in Gallicia, the number was 1551. The total number of students was 10,941.

The establishments of Public Instruction in Hungary, are,

1. The Philosophical Lyceum of Kesthely, to which, in 1814, resorted fortythree students.

2. The Protestant Gymnasium of Rosepan; which had three hundred and fourteen students.

3. The Protestant Lyceum of Koesmark; in which five professors give Lectures on the Laws of Nations, the Civil Law, the History of Hungary, the Political The Legislature of Connecticut, have Scicuces, Theology, and Mathematics." granted to Yale College and the Congrega-Natural History and Natural Philosophy, tional Churches, $68,000; to the Episco palians, 20,000; Methodists, 12,000; and Baptists, 18,000.

Style of Writing, and the Laws, civil and criminal, of Hungary, are also included in the number of Studies promoted at this Protestant Lyceum.

This is an allotment of money which 4. The Georgicon of Kesthely, princihas not yet been received: it forms part of pally intended for the purposes of affording the advances made by the State of Massa-instruction in Rural Economy, in Domestic chusetts, &c. to the National Treasury for public service, during the war, which the National Treasury has not yet repaid.

AUSTRIA.

affairs, and in Analogous Studies, such as Chemistry, Natural History as it concerns Domestic Management, Physiology, Technology, Experimental Philosophy, the Ve terinary Art, Medical Police, Mathematics, Book-keeping, Civil Architecture, Drawing, Practical Geometry, the Management of Lands and Soils, &c. &c. The whole Public instruction in the province of of the Courses of Lectures on these subGallicia, presents the following particu-jects is delivered in the Latin language.

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION:

Establishments fur.

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5. The Catholic Gymnasium of Leva, | dern names of the streets, courts, passages in the comitat of Bar. In this institution are four classes. The direction and instruction are entrusted to the Piarist Fa

thers.

6. The Protestant Gymnasium of Hermanstadt, in Transylvania,

Champignon resembling trees.

Dr. Joseph Liboschutz, Physician of the Court of Russia, has published at Vienna a Description of a new Champignon which is a native of the sandy plains of the Wolga, whence it was sent to the author by M. de Steven, who has named it Dendromycis, on account of the resemblance of its interior structure to that of trees. The species is therefore denominated Dendromycis Stevenii. The character is marked as follows:-Pileus conicus subtus lavis, superius hymenio cellaluri paleaceo. Sporis pulverulentis, stipice longissimo. The work is in folio; and a plate, which accompanies it, represents the different parts of this new species of Champignon.

BELGIUM.

British Literati chosen Associates. The 2d class of the Royal Institute of science, literature, and the fine arts at Amsterdam, has chosen as associates of that class, among others, Mr. Robert Southey, and Mr. Werniuck, preacher at London. The 8d class has chosen as correspondent, among others, Wm. Hamilton, Professor of the Eastern languages at Hertford; and the 4th class has named Iwan Muller, of Londou, one of their correspondents.

squares, bridges, public walks, &c. with the names of the wards and districts in which they are situated. By J. De la Tynna, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, &c. It is a thick volume in 12mo, with a

map.

To these particulars are added the number of houses, as marked, in each street, [which, are, mostly, in a double series of even and odd; oue being marked in red, the other in black.] The etymology of the ancient names of the streets, and also of the modern names,-of gates, places, squares, &c.-The measures of the streets in length and breadth, succinct notice of all the existing monuments, religious or civil, ancient or modern, especially of such as are distinguished by their architecture; or have been the scenes of remarkable events, &c. &c.

Nothing could be more useful to an inhabitant of London, or to a visitor of the great Metropolis, than such information in a volume of a portable size. So great has been the change in the denomination of streets, that some are not cognizable. Who would discover, in Gutter Lane, the lane leading to the palace of Earl Guthred?in Addle Street, the street leading to the palace of King Athelstan? And within these few years we have seen Duck Lane in Smithfield, become Duke Street; Mag. pie Alley assume the more polite appellation of Palsgrave Place; Skinner Street take precedency of Snow Hill; and as to Butcher Row, Blow bladder Street, and other ancient appellatious, they have fairly vanished from the interior of the Metropolis It would be well, also, if some explanations Royal Honours to Literary Men. were given of our ancient Signs. The The King of France has created a large Bolt in Tun, is little understood, the Bell number of Knights of St. Michael, for the Sauvage, the Bull and Month, [Boulogne purpose of distinguishing men who have Mouth, or Mouth of Boulogue Harbour. rendered themselves celebrated in litera-These, with a thousand others, corrupted ture, science and the arts, or by useful dis- among us, by vulgar pronunciation, adaptcoveries. This does him great honour.-ed to the ear, and by degrees, to the orthoIt is the only Order of Knighthood, we be-graphy, would be extremely useful, and lieve, in Europe, that pays such a tribute to those who may well be called the real benefactors of mankind.

FRANCE.

Metropolitan Dictionary.

A work has lately been published at Paris, a counterpart to which, is not, that we recollect, in general circulation in London; and yet, we are certain, that no city on the globe can stand in greater need of it than the British Metropolis. It is an nounced as a.“ Dictionary Topographical. Historical, and Etymological of the Streets of Paris," containing the ancient and mo

amusing; for though it be true that a porter sweating under his burden, has no desire to receive such information, yet is it also true that London contains a number of ingenuous youths, who would be glad to acquire a species of knowledge, which cannot overburthen the memory, and which, when once acquired, is rarely or never lost.

Varieties. The last number of the Jour nal de la Librairie, in Paris, announces a new edition complete of Voltaire's works, in twelve volumes octavo. The bookseller apprises the public, that each volume

will contain a thousand pages, each page | another commentary from his own pen, fifty lines, and each line fifty five letters. but including whatever the learned and saBy means of a little simple calculation. wegacious of Germany, have hinted or procan thus ascertain, that the literature, mulgated on the subject. The first vopoetry, philosophy, and history of Voltaire, lume contains the Commentary of M. A. are comprised in thirty-three millions of Majus, (112 pages) Epistulæ ad Antoninum letters. Pium-Epistula ad Marcum Aurelium— The Mercure de France, which is to apferis Alsiensibus-de Nepote amisso. The ad Verum, imperatorem-ad Amicos-de pear every fortnight, includes among its volume is embellished with well executed new contributors Messrs. Benjamin Constant, Esmenard, Jay, Jouy, and Lacretelle, sen. They propose to give, periodically, a literary and political sketch of the improvements, the legislation, and the literature of the age.

State of Elementary Instruction. Every additional inquiry, which those really liberal men and philanthropists, who compose the "Society for Elementary Instruction," formed at Paris, have made, gives new proofs of the neglected state of popular education in that country; and sets the great extent of the advantages likely to result from a general adoption of the British system, in a still clearer light.

portraits of the Emperors Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, Verus; and a plate containing eight medals.

ITALY.

Conchiologia Fossile, &c. Fossil Conchology sub Appennine, accompanied with Geological Observations on the Ap pennines, and the soil in their neighbourhood.

2 vols. 4to. with plates. Milan.
By G. Brocchi inspector of mines.

This work is preceded by a memoir on the progress of the Study of Conchology in Italy. The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries produced nothing better in this department of science, than vague discourses and useless conjectures. In the From the report of that Society, read at eighteenth century this study was qultitheir General Meeting, on the 19th of Fe-vated, and introduced as a new branch of bruary last, it appears, that two-thirds of the children of age to attend schools, amounting at all times to upwards of two millions, are growing up in ignorance; and, of the whole mass of the inhabitants of France, about sixteen millions are unable to read or write.

natural science, by the labours of Vallisnieri, Zanichelli, Spada, Baldassari, Targioui, Douati, Fortis and others. Beccari and Bianchi forwarded this science, and were eventually surpassed by Soldani, who published his Testaceographia et Zoophytographia parva et Microscopica, a work ou which the labour of thirty years of observations, and microscopical investigations had been bestowed.

The Ordonnances of the Government of the 19th of March and 4th of April, have put an obstacle in the way of the success of the New Schools, by ordering the Roman The author proceeds to deliver his own Catholic Religion to be exclusively taught geological observations on the Appenines; in them, and every master not professing he begins by examining the structure of the that religion, to be immediately dismissed.highest summits of these mountains. The Mr. Martin, Mr. Frossard, and Mr. Bellot, being Protestants, are prevented from exerting their distinguished talents, with the greatest effect. Nevertheless, benefits bave been bestowed on France, which neither He proceeds to examine this rock; detime nor circumstances will be able entirely scribes its characters, its structure, its strato destroy. Masters have been trained tification, and the substances which usually and qualified, by Mc. Martin and his asso-accompany it, such as black argillaceous ciates, for carrying on the great cause. And, in fact, the system has been exhibited to the view of the French uation.

GERMANY.

The discoveries of Sig. Angelus Majus, have been reprinted in several parts of Europe. (Coru. Fronto, Antoninus Pius, &c.) Among others, M. Rupkopf has pub fished these pieces, at Frankfort, in continuation with the notes of Sig. Majus, and proposes to publish, in a reasonable time,

principal rock which composes the mass of these summits is a mixture of quartz and argentine mica, united by a species of argillaceous cement.

schist, manganese, pyrites, and the oxide of iron, several remains of organized vegetable substances, and sometimes fossil coal. From all these circumstances he concludes, that there is a perfect similarity, which he even ventures to call identity, between this rock, and that which the Germans call Grauwacke, and which is placed first among the transition rocks.

The author, subsequently, endeavours to meet a question much more difficult to determine satisfactorily-that of the

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the work will fail of its purpose, and do very little good. Connected with other publications, now in progress, on the Hebrew language and literature, we augur well of the project, and wish success, if it be deserving, to the Systema Grammatico-criticum Linguæ Hebraica of the learned G. F.

nature of the primary soil, which now
remains covered by these transition and
secondary rocks. He concludes with
very interesting dissertation on ser-
pentine marble, and on the substances
united with it, particularly the Smaragdita
of Saussure, or Dialogio of Hauy, and the
Tenacious gravel of Saussure, which is al-Hezel.
ways found in the depots of the serpeutine
in Italy; and this, the author, adopting
the opinion of Hauy, considers as a sub-
stance analogous to Feldspath.

PRUSSIA.

Ancient writing; Hebrew, &c. It is extremely difficult to form the slightest judgment, of which correctness is the basis, on works of which we have only heard, but have 1.ot seen them. If the authorities cited in the following work may be allowed, it cannot fail of being interesting to every student: if they may be depended on, the author has laid every critic under obligations to him. Palæographische Fragmente, &c. Paleographic Fragments, on the Writing of the Greeks and Hebrews. By G. F. Hezel. 1 vol. 8vo. Berlin. 1816.

RUSSIA.

Ambassador's observations: Caucasus, &c.

Late years have seen considerable and repeated additions made to the stock of general knowledge extant in Europe respecting the Empire of Persia, the extensive Moun tains of Caucasus, and the now Russian province of Georgia. Our own country has published several splendid works on these subjects. France has had the same countries in view; and we have now to announce "Letters on Caucasus and Georgia, to which is annexed an Account of a Journey in Persia, in 1812." Published at Hamburgh, 1816. One volume, large Svo.

After spending several months in Persia, and settling the basis of peace, he returned to Teflis, whence he visited the mineral waters of Caucasus.

casus, Georgia, and Teflis-Account of
Baku, and the perpetual Fire maintained
there-of the Baths of Teflis-of those of
Caucasus- Return to Petersburgh.
whole of this part is in the form of Letters.

The author was sent in 1811, as Diplo matic Agent of the Russian Government in Georgia, in which country he resided nearly two years. He afterwards went as It should seem that the author has pub-Tauris, for the purpose of restoring peace. envoy to the Hereditary Prince of Persia at lished these Fragments as a kind of foretaste of a Systema Grammatico-Criticum Lingue Hebraica, which he proposes, at bo distant time, to publish. The principal subjects treated on are, Researches on the question, The work contains the results of his obwhether the Hebrew Language may be servations; and is divided into two parts: admitted as an ancient Shemite dialect?On the Antiquity of Writing among the The first part contains-Details of the Hebrews that Debrew Writing originalJourney from Petersburgh to Teflis-Noly, consisted in Syllables; not in literal tice of the Don Cossacks-Historical, Stacharacters-from what cause the Hebrewstistical, and Political Description of Cauwrote from right to left, and the Greeks from left to right-on the Alphabet of the Hebrews and Greeks, with its use in the Arithmetic of the latter-on the Antiquity of the Names given to the Greek Characters-Explanation of the names given to The second part treats principally of the Phenecian-Hebraic Characters-on the Persia, beginning with the relation of the Antiquity of the order of the Characters, author's journey to Tauris, and his attendin the Hebrew Alphabet-on the Autiquity ance in that royal residence, in his official of the final Letters of the Hebrew Alpha- capacity, on Shah Zada. Then follows a bet-on the representatives of the Hebrew sketch of Observations on Armenia-anoVowels-on the origin of the System of ther on the manners of the Persians-with Vowel Points-on the Diacritical Signs a parallel between the character of the adopted in Hebrew Writing-on the Pro-Persians and that of the Turks. nunciation of the Vowels, among the Hebrews-on the Hebrew Accents. +4† The reader is aware of the necessity for recurring to the best sources of information on these subjects: they deeply affect us on more points than one; but, if there be the smallest indulgence of the imagination, at the expence of the strictest and driest truth,

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The work concludes with an abridged History of Persia, from the days of Nadir Shah to the present time.

The author's labours furnish a complete view of the actual State of Persia, Georgia, and Caucasus. He has consulted the accounts of ancient travellers, to examine and verify their descriptions on the very places

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