have been productive for some years past. In 1814, the royal academy of sciences of Stockholm published two new volumes of its Memoirs. Several new poems have made their appearance, and are highly praised; among them, a dramatic composition entitled Blofogel, or the Blue Bird, which is extolled as a chef d'œuvre of Swedish poetry. Adlerbeth the .translator of Virgil has published a good version of the epistles and satires of Horace. A complete translation of the Theatre' of Schiller is about to appear.-Madame de Stael's work on Germany produced a lively sensation in Sweden. Four editions of the original, besides a Swedish translation, were announced at once. A Lexicon of the Dalecarlian tongue is also announced. ments drawn from tombs of from 400 to 1100 years duration. These monuments consist of vases of metal, arms, coin, ornaments of dress-many are embellished with human figures and hieroglyphics. The ruins of ancient cities and fortresses have also been traced. The celebrated mineralogist Werner has disposed of his precious collection of minerals to the academy of Mines of Freiberg. It was at first valued at the sum of 56,000 rix dollars-but, in consideration of the state of the times the proprietor has himself lowered the estimate to 40,000 rix dollars; on the following conditions, that the sum of 7000 be paid to him in in hand; that 33,000 remain secured to him for life, with an interest of 5 per cent., the 33,000 however to fall to the academy of Mines after his death. The academy means to publish a systematic catalogue of the collection. All the institutions for public instruction at Rome, which enjoyed much credit before the revolution, are re-established. The col Professor Goldberg of Copenhagen has published, (in Danish,) a translation of Plautus; printed at the expense of the government. The medical society of Copenhagen has been exceedingly active in researches and memoirs. Three of its most distinguished profes-lege of the Sapienza; that of the sors publish annually two volumes Propaganda, &c. of "a New Medical Library." The Royal Society of Science of Copenhagen has also, been prolific of Memoirs and Tracts, in the Physical Sciences and Political Philosophy. Among the memoirs read to it in 1814, we observe one by the minister of state, Count de Reventlow, entitled Observations on the influence of the reciprocal distance of trees on the greater or less abundance of their vegetation.' There has been discovered in the vast territories of the government of Koliwah and Tobolsk a multitude of antient Tartar monu There is a very valuable collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the royal library of Copenhagen. The University of Kasan, in Russia, has published a new edition of the Koran and the Elements of the Tartar language. The Danish society of Scandinavian literature has already published 20 volumes of Memoirs relating to the history and antiquities of the North. The founder of this society, professor Jens Krage Hoest, delivered, in the winter of The masonic lodge of Mittau possesses a library of 16,000 volumes in all branches of knowledge, and many important manuscripts concerning the History of Courland. In 1815, the number of students in the university of Upsala was 1200-of whom 93 were of the nobility-300 sons of clergymen -175 of peasants-262 of public functionaries, &c.-269 were students of theology-150 of law-lic of Poland, has been, at length, 123 of medicine, &c. M. Dinochowsky has published a Polish translation of the Aeneid of Virgil. Professor Metternich of Mayence announces that he has found an exact geometrical demonstration of the eleventh principle of the elements of Euclid, which has remained for 2000 years a desideratum in science. He is publishing this discovery under the title The library of Zalusky, which belonged formerly to the Repub placed in one of the finest edifices of Petersburg, with the inscription" Imperial Library." It is one of the richest of Europe; contains 300,000 volumes, and a multitude of precious manuscripts and rare editions. By Storch's Systematic View of Russian Literature, it appears that in 1805 the works in Russia amounted to 1304, including Pamphlets, and of which 756 were Original and 548 Translations. The works in Theology 218, of which 195 original. There were eight Critical Journals. Thirtyseven foreigners had written in Russia, and there were five female authors. The Emperor Alexander has purchased the Cabinet of Natural History of Professor Pallas, and placed it in the palace of the Hermitage at St. Petersburg, which has also, a Library of 60,000 volumes. There has been established in St. Petersburg, a Medical Philanthropic Society, under the immediate protection of the Emperor. It has placed a physician, with a salary of 600 rubles, in each ward of the city, to watch gratuitously over the sick. Irkutsk, the capital of Siberia, has 16,000 inhabitants, an Archbishoprick, an Ecclesiastical Seminary, many Academies, a public library, and a school of navigation, in which the Chinese, Japanese, and Tartar Languages are taught for the trade of China and the Islands of the South Sea. Tobolsk has about the same number of inhabitants and the same establishments. The two Swedish professors of the university of Upsala, Knoes and Traner, have published Translations in Swedish of Demosthenes and Homer. Three "Methodologies" for the sciences were published at Vienna in 1815. The Hungarian Count Leopold D'Andrassi, has given his splendid Library, Cabinet of Medals and VOL. I. Minerals, &c. to the Protestant Library of Gomer. The opulent Russian Demidow has founded, with 200,000 rubles, an Athenæum, with five professors attached, &c.. Some tea plants have been imported, and Chinese gardeners introduced into the Brazils, by the first minister, M. D'Araujo, and and gave an abundant harvest. The decoction of the Brazils leaf was found to bear comparison with the Chinese. The family of Solomon Gessner, the Swiss Poet, Author of the Death of Abel, &c. being obliged to dispose of his cabinet of paintings and drawings, it has been purchased by his townsmen by subscription. The object of the subscription was, not only to secure these valuable productions to his place of nativity, but to put his family at ease in their circum stances. A work is now issuing from the the Italian press of Milan, entitled" Lives and Portraits of Illustrious Italians." The literary execution is excellent. There existed at Venice an Academy dei Peregrini, whose chief purpose it was to write the lives of the worthies of Italy. M. Londoni, a Milanese, has published in three volumes in Italian, "A History of the English Colonies in America down to the period of their Independence." Storia delle Colonie Inglesi in America." The work is highly extolled by the Italian critics. 3 A The press of Rome has given | after that term. Premium-a gold medal of 3000 francs. a new and much improved edition of the Poetical Translation of the Paradise Lost of Felice Mariottini, first published in London, in 1796, and then highly applauded. M. Baggessen, the celebrated Danish poet, is about to publish a Poem entitled the Fall of Adam. He has in hands another in twenty cantos drawn from the travels of captain Cooke. The annual prize of Astromony founded by M. la Lande for the most useful Memoir on that Science, was assigned by the French Institute, in 1815, to M. Piazzi, Astronomer Royal of Palermo, for his Catalogue of 7500 Stars. Preparing for publication in England, a work to be entitled State Papers illustrating the relations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with the United States of America, from the peace of Paris of 1783, to the peace of Ghent:-by E. A. Kendall, F.S. Armenia is, without doubt, the country of Asia, of which the annals include most directly those of the whole Continent. It was, indeed, of old, to the whole world, what Colchis was to the Greek princes. Its history, therefore, is that, under the most interesting points of view, of the ancient orien-Neophytos Bambas--pursuing tal nations. It has been so considered and treated in a most elaborate and methodical work lately published in Paris, and entitled " A General Picture of Armenia," by M. Chahande Cirbried, professor of Armenian in the royal special school of oriental living languages. The author is an Armenian, and has communicated much curious information new to Europe. An Academy of Agriculture has been founded in Stockholm, with an endowment from the Swedish government of 200,000 rix dollars. The prince royal is the president of the institution. It has already published memoirs and proposed prizes on subjects affecting the prosperity of agriculture. A native of the Island of Chios his studies at Paris, has published there in modern Greek, a complete system of Rhetoric, illustrated by passages from the most eloquent of ancient and modern authors. The expenses of the work were without solicitation, assumed by the Greeks of Chios. It is highly praised by the Parisian critics, and cited as a refutation of the aspersions cast upon the intellect of the modern Greeks. The literature of Hungary though but very little known, is by no means poor or uninteresting. Hungary can boast of many men of the first order in science and literature; poetry is cultivated there with great success; the Hungarian language is rich and harmonious, and alone of all the European tongues, One of the prize subjects pro- enjoys a prosody resembling that of posed by the First Class of the the Greek and Latin. If the HunFrench Institute, for the year garians are not quite so far ad1817, is to determine the chemi-vanced in the culture of language cal changes which take place in fruits during their maturation, and and the sciences as their German neighbours, it is owing to their con tinual early wars against the Turks. is engaged, in conjunction with M. Lindé, a professor of Warsaw, one of the most profound linguists of Europe, has been employed for many years on a Polish dictionary, which is singulm its kind. Each word is explained in the ancient Russian, in modern Russian, in Bohemian, and in the other Slavonian languages to the number of thirteen. Every one of these has examples to each word taken from its own literature. The emperor Alexander gave five hundred ducats to defray the first expenses of the undertaking; to which the Czartorinskis, the Asolinskis, the Radzivils, the Zamoyskis, and the Potockis have constantly contributed, with a liberality worthy of the affection which these great families manifest towards literature and its cultivators. The brothers KapétanakiGreeks of Smyrna, have published a Universal Geography. That part which treats of the Ottoman empire furnishes particulars entirely new and of much interest. Vienna abounds with Greeks of vast erudition, and indefatigable activity in authorship. The professor of philology in the gymnasium of Smyrna, Oiknosomos, has published a Treatise on Oratory, which is, in itself, sufficient to prove that the modern Greek even in its present state is one of the finest languages of Europe. The gymnasium of Smyrna is an excellent establishment, and can boast of several learned professors both in the sciences and letters. A modern Greek poet, Michael Perdicaris, is employed upon an epic poem in his native language, entitled the Diomediad. Among the late productions of the Spanish press, the following work deserves particularly to be noted, as furnishing much valuable information. "Of the Commerce of the Romans from the first Punic War down to the reign of Constantine the Great." By Anthony de Malcorra y Azana, secretary of the royal society of Valladolid. 1 vol. 4to. The poem of Carlo Botta, eutitled La Camilleide, or the Destruction of Veii, in 12 cantos, is described by the critics as of the highest order of excellence. A copy of this work has lately A French scholar of eminence been presented by the author to |