cuanha. It appears that these gentlemen have succeeded in separating the principal substance to which the good effects of ipecacuanha in medicine are owing, from those adjuncts which give it that odour and taste so disagreeable to invalids. They have named this principal substance hemetine. A great number of experiments and observations have been made, which fully confirm the truth of the discovery.

The recent sale of the library of the late Count Macarthy affords a standard for judging of the force of the bibliomania in France. Among articles which fetched the highest prices were the following: Psalmorum Codex, Mogunt. 1457, fol. sold for 12,000 francs. Psalmorum Codex, Mogunt. 1459, fol. 3350 fr.

G. Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, Mogunt. 1459, fol. 2000 fr. Speculum Humanæ Salvationis, fol. 1320 fr. (The same copy sold in 1769 for 1600 fr.) Historia Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, per figuras, fol. 1560 fr. (Sold in 1769 for 352 fr.) Ciceronis Officiorum, libri iii. Mogunt. 1465, sm. fol. 801 fr.

Ciceronis Officiorum, libri iii. Mogunt. 1466, sm. fol. 1190 fr. Gul. Ficheti Rhetorica, 4to. (One of the first books printed at Paris about 1470.) 501 fr.

Biblia in Lingua Vulgare, 1471, 2 vols fol. 1199 fr. (Sold at the Duke de la Vallière's sale, in 1784, for 720 fr.) Quinctiliani Instit. Orator. Venet. 1471, fol. 1515 fr.

Virgilii Opera, 1472, fol. 2440 fr. Anthologia Græca, 4to, Florent. 1494, 1000 fr.

Apollonia Rhodia Argonauticon, libri iv. 4to, Florent. 1496. 1755 fr. La Bible Historiée, traduite du Latin de Pierre Comestor, par Guyard Desmoulins, Paris, fol. with 410 miniatures. 1202 fr. Missale Mozarab. fol. Toleti, 1500, et Breviarum Mozarab, ib. 1502, fol. 1020 fr. Euripidii Opera, studio Jos. Barnes, Cantab. 1694, fol. 1800 fr.

Xenophontis Opera, Oxon. 1703, 5 tom. in 6 vols 8vo, large paper. 1960 fr. Xenophontis Cyropædia, Oxon. 1727, fol. et Xenophontis de Cyri Expeditione, libri vii. Oxon. 1735, fol. large paper. 2550 fr. Thuani Historiæ, Lond. 1733, 7 tom. fol. bound in 14 vols, large paper. 1225 fr.

GERMANY.

Professor Kanngiesser of Breslaw has announced an extensive work, in Latin, on archaiology, in which he promises some important discoveries in that science.

Goëthe has produced the fourth volume of his Life, which he is publishing under the whimsical title of Truth and Fiction.

Professor Berzelius has just discovered a new earth, to which he has given the name of thorite, from the Scandinavian god Thor.

ITALY.

M. Niebuhr, the Prussian envoy at Rome, has discovered, in the Vatican Library, the fragment yet wanting in Cicero's Oration pro Marco Rabiro, and a fragment of the Oration pro Plancio. These two fragments were discovered in the same MS. from which Amaduzzi has already extracted an unpublished fragment of Livy. The learned Prussian envoy has also found some passages of the Works of Seneca.

There is reason to hope that the researches, which are actively continued at Pompeji, will soon lead to important discoveries. The works in the interior of the Forum of that ancient town, have already begun to lay open a peristyle of six columns, which must doubtless have belonged to some temple. The number of labourers has been increased. The portico around the arena of the amphitheatre is already completely cleared; and Padiglione, an able artist, has received directions to make a model of that monument on a small scale.

By more recent accounts we learn, that magnificent monuments of ancient splendour still continue to be discovered in searching the ruins of Pompeji. Behind the temple lately noticed, a public building has been found, built at right angles, 260 Neapolitan palms long, and 120 broad, and surrounded in the interior by a portico of 50 columns. It is ornamented with beautiful paintings, some of which are very valuable; among others one which represents a warrior precipitated from a car drawn by fiery horses. The pavement is of Mosaic, formed in part of small white and coloured stones, and in part of large slabs of marble of various colours. Several inscriptions have been traced that ascertained the use of this monument. One of them indicates, that the right, luminum obstruendorum (a right es tablished by the Roman laws, preventing, in certain cases, neighbouring proprietors from having lights or prospects over the contiguous estates) had been purchased at the price of several thousand sesterces. This discovery has afforded new riches to sculpture-several statues have been found. A Venus, five palms high, and a Hermaphrodite, may be placed among the finest specimens of the Greek chisel that have come down to us. Several distinguished artists think, that in this Venus they have discovered one worthy to dispute pre-eminence with the Venus de Medicis. This opinion, inspired perhaps by the pleasure of the discovery, may be, before long, discussed, as these precious monuments of sculpture are to be transported to the Musée Bourbon. In the same place have been found two arms of bronze, adorned with bracelets. The Chevalier Ardite, who directs the search, hopes to be enabled, in a short time, to expose the whole extent of Pompeji, which will probably be a mine fruitful in objects of the fine arts.

Andrea Mustoxidi, a young native of

Corcyra, who has already obtained some literary distinction, has addressed a letter to the Abbaté Morelli, the learned librarian of St Mark, on the four celebrated Venetian horses, commonly supposed to be the work of Lysippus. In this tract, printed at Padua, and dedicated to Lord Holland, the author successfully combats the opinion which gives a Roman origin to these monuments, and employs all his erudition and sagacity to prove that they came originally from the isle of Chio. This notion has since been adopted by the celebrated German writer, F. Schlegel.

NETHERLANDS.

Safety Lamp.-Mr Van Mons has communicated the gratifying intelligence, that the safety lamp of Davy has completely succeeded in the Netherlands. "Fortified with it," he says, "we can penetrate into the foulest mines. We have even opened depots of gas, and procured its mixture with the proportion of atmospheric air, calculated to produce the most prompt inflammation and the strongest explosion, but the gas has never taken fire. We use gauze made of stronger wire than with you, in order to guard against any exterior damage from the awkwardness of workmen, and to prevent the men from opening the lamp; we have also adopted the expedient of a small pad lock, with the key of which the master miner is intrusted. The heating of the gauze cloth, however intense it may be, is not attended with any danger, for iron the most incandescent will not affect gas; nothing but flame will kindle it. Some attempts have been made to light a mine by means of its gas, but I am not acquainted with the result. I should think that such a project would be attended with many diffi culties."

Hydrophobia.-Mr Van Mons has succeeded in curing all cases of hydrophobia by means of oxygenated muriatic acid, employed both internally and externally; which proves that in this malady the moral holds in dependence the physical powers. All cases of tardy hydrophobia may be considered as the effect of imagination. Examples have occurred of the disease reaching its last stage, when it has been completely dissipated by the sight of the animal by which the patient was bitten.

RUSSIA.

Baron Ungern-Sternberg began, many years since, to search the archives and private libraries in Livonia for documents tending to complete or illustrate the history of that province. Of these he collected several thousands, and had them printed, with the assistance of Professor Brotze of Riga, under the title of Diplomatic Codex of Livonia. This work, however, left several chasms, which it was the more difficult to fill up, as many of the archives of this province had been destroyed by fire, war, and VOL. I.

other accidents. In 1807, Dr Hennig proposed that copies should be procured of all the original acts relative to Livonia, Esthonia, and the island of Oesel, preserved at Konigsberg, in the archives of the grandmaster of the order to which these provinces formerly belonged. The proposal was approved by the nobility of the provinces, and Dr Hennig appointed to carry it into execution. With the permission of the Prussian government, that scholar proceeded to Konigsberg in 1809, and in 1812 had sent off copies of 2000 documents. As the undertaking proved too burdensome for the nobility, by whom it was previously supported, the Emperor Alexander, at the instance of Karamsin, the historiographer, granted a yearly sum for its prosecution. The copies have since that time been forwarded to Petersburgh, to be employed by Karamsin for his history of the Russian empire, and then deposited in the archives of foreign affairs. This enterprise is now completed, and 3160 documents, on subjects of interest for the history of the north, have been rescued from oblivion, to furnish new sources for the historian.

The Bible Society of Petersburg has received from England the stereotype plates for printing the New Testament in modern Greek, with which 300,000 copies may be taken off. The sphere of action of this society is rapidly extending. At Tula and Woronesch, the auxiliary societies formed there have opened shops for the special purpose of selling the Holy Scriptures. Paul, the Armenian patriarch at Constantinople, has also declared his willingness to co-operate in the object of the Bible Society; and even the heathen Buraits of Siberia have intimated their ardent wish to possess "the word of the only God," (according to their own expression in their memorial addressed to the civil governor of Irkutsk), in the Mongol language, and have voluntarily subscribed more than 9000 rubles towards

the expense of printing it. The emperor has granted to the Bible Society of this city the privilege of establishing a printing-office at Abo.

M.

The Berlin Gazette gives the following account of Von Kotzebue's voyage round the world, which has been received from Kamschatka. Letters of an earlier date, which, after having doubled Cape Horn, he sent from the coast of Chili, have been lost, or at least are not yet come to hand. Von Kotzebue discovered three new islands in the South Sea, in 14° of latitude, and 144° of longitude, to which he gave the names of Romanzow (the author of the expedition), Spiridon, and Krusenstern. Besides these, he discovered a long chain of islands in the same quarter, and two clusters of islands in the 11th degree of latitude and 190th degree of longitude. (It is not specified whether the latitude is N. or S. or the longitude E. or W.) These he called after his ships, Rurich's Chain; the two 2 B

latter, Kutusof's Cluster (a group), and Suwarrof's Cluster. All these islands are covered with wood, partly uninhabited, and dangerous for navigators. The discoverer has sent to Count Romanzof a great many maps and drawings. On the 12th July O. S. Kotzebue designed to sail from Kamschatka to Behring's Straits, according to his instructions. He hopes to return to Kamschatka in September 1817. On the whole voyage from Chili to that place, he had not a single person sick on board. He touched at Easter Island, but did not find the inhabitants so friendly as La Peyrouse describes them. He thinks that something must have hap,

pened since that time, which has made them distrustful of the Europeans: perhaps it may be the overturning of their surpris ingly large statues, which Kotzebue looked for in vain, and found only the ruins of one of them near its base, which still remains He saw no fruits from the seeds left by La Peyrouse, nor any sheep or hogs, which by this time must have multiplied exceedingly. A single fowl was brought him for sale. It seems we may hope much from this young seaman, who is not yet thirty years of age. He was obliged, for many reasons, to leave the learned Dane, Wormskrald, behind in Kamschatka.

DR DRAKE, the elegant author of the Literary Hours, has a new work in the press, entitled, Shakspeare and his Times: including the biography of the poet, criticisms on his genius and writings, a disquisition on the object of his sonnets, a new chronology of his plays, and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements-su

perstitions, poetry, and elegant literature, of his age.

Mr John Bell has in the press a new work, in royal octavo, entitled, The Consulting Surgeon.

Dr J. A. Paris is preparing a Descriptive Catalogue of the Geological Specimens deposited in the Museum of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall; interspersed with observations tending to shew the economical application of geology to the agricultural, mining, and commercial interests of the county of Cornwall.

Mr Parkinson of Hoxton, intends to publish, in the course of May, an Essay on the Disease called the Shaking Palsy.

Sir William Adams has in the press an Inquiry into the Causes of the frequent failure of the Operations of extracting and depressing the Cataract, and the description of an improved series of operations.

Dr Coote is printing the History of Europe, from the Peace of Amiens in 1802 to the Peace of Paris in 1815.

A History of Whitby, with a Statistical Survey of the Vicinity to the distance of twenty-five miles, by the Rev. George Young; with the assistance of some papers left by the late Mr R. Winter, and some materials furnished by Mr John Bird; is in the press, and will be published early in July.

Shortly will be published, an Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations; including a comparison of the ancients and moderns, in regard to their intellectual and social state; by Mr John Bigland,

A Poem will speedily be published, by the Right Hon. Sir Wm Drummond, under the title of Odin. This poem is connected with the most interesting era of the northern mythology, and refers principally to the origin of the Gothic empire, which the author, availing himself of the privilege of the poet, and offering besides some probable conjectures, supposes to have been founded by Pharnaces.

The third part of Neale's Illustrated History of Westminster Abbey will be pub lished the 1st of July.

A new edition of Philidor on Chess is nearly ready, with considerable improvements, and an original portrait of the author.

The fifth edition is nearly ready for publication of "The Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers, St Barnabas, St Ignatius, St Clement, St Polycarp, Shepherd of Hermas, and Martyrdoms of St Ignatius and St Polycarp;" translated and published, with a preliminary discourse, by William, late Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Rev. Henry Rutter has in the press a Key to the Old Testament, or a summary View of its several Books, pointing out the persons, events, and ordinances, that were figurative of Christ and his Church; with a more minute detail of the Psalms and the Prophetic Writings.

An Essay is printing, on Capacity and Genius; endeavouring to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind; and that no genius, whether individual or national, is innate, but solely produced by, and dependent on, circumstances; followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Ghosts, and other Appearances supposed to be supernatural.

Speedily will be published, in foolscap 8vo, Evening Hours, a collection of original poems.

Speedily will be published, a Medicochirurgical and Biographical Chart of Medical Science, from Hippocrates to the pre

sent time. It exhibits, in a condensed form, the progress and present state of that Science, with Short Notices of the most eminent Authors in this and other countries.

Mr Bagster has been engaged for some time in printing a Polyglott Bible, in one 4to volume. He proceeds with the care which so important a work demands; the First Part, containing the Pentateuch, is now ready for delivery. It had been considered a desideratum in literature, for a Student to have a Polyglott Bible, contain ing the original texts and the versions used by the ancient churches, in a portable form, and at a moderate price; and the present minor Polyglott Bible, it is expected, will fully answer these wishes. Another class of readers will be gratified, by the above work being printed in four small pocket volumes, each language a complete volume, possessing this peculiar excellence, that by the pages of each volume agreeing with every other, any two languages may be interleaved together; and thus united in one volume, will not exceed the thickness of the common Pocket Bible. A fuller display of the whole work is exhibited in a Prospectus of 32 pages, which is delivered gratis; and which also details the nature of a supplementary volume, entitled "Scrip ture Harmony;" being a Concordance of parallel passages, agreeing page with page with the pocket volumes.

Mr Thomas Taylor is engaged in writing a Treatise on Infinite Series, in which he professes, by a notation somewhat analogous to that of decimals, to have discovered expressions, which, when expanded, will give infinite series, not to be obtained by any other method at present known. One among these is an expression, the expansion of which produces the series 1—}+}~} + {−1, &c., invented by Leibnitz, and which is equal to the area of a circle whose diameter is 1. Another expression, when expanded, gives the series 1+1+1+1+2s, &c. equal to the sixth part of the square of the circumference when the diameter is one.

Mr Ackerman will shortly publish the first number of a series of Incidents of English Bravery during the late Campaigns on the Continent, printed by the lithographic process, from drawings by A. Atkinson; which will form six monthly numbers.

The author of the amusing Tour of Dr

Syntax, is engaged upon a new poetical work, entitled The Dance of Life, which will be accomplished with 24 engravings from Rowlandson.

The First Volume of the Elgin Marbles, with an Historical and Topographical Account of Athens, illustrated by about 40 plates, drawn from the original sculptures, and etched by the Rev. F. J. Burrow, will speedily appear.

Dr Brown of St Germains, Cornwall, is preparing for the press a work on the Irrigation of Land, which he will treat in a perfectly novel manner.

The Rev. Edward Cooper has in the press, in a 12mo volume, Letters addressed to a serious and humble Inquirer after Divine Truth, with a peculiar aspect to the circumstances of the present times.

Mr Merrick has nearly ready for the press, a Translation of a Treatise on the General Principles of Chemical Analysis, in 1 volume 8vo.

Dr Wilson Phillips is about to publish an Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of the Vital Functions, with some Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Internal Diseases.

Mr Thomas Gurton of Alcester is about to publish a Midland Flora, which will comprise descriptions of Plants indigenous to the central counties of England; it will be illustrated by plates engraved by Mr James Sowerby.

Mr Kendall has in the press, a Proposal for establishing in London a New Philan thropical and Patriotic Institution, to be called the PATRIOTIC METROPOLITAN COLONIAL INSTITUTION, for assisting New Settlers in his Majesty's Colonies, and for encouraging New Branches of Colonial Trade; with a Postscript on the Benefits to be derived from establishing Free Drawing Schools, and Schools of the Mathematics, and on other means of advancing the National Industry and Population.

Mr William Mackenzie has in the press, the Swiss Patriots, a new Poem; also, a new edition, with additions, of the Sorrows of Seduction, and other Poems.

The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue; revised by the Rev. John Muckersy, West Calder, 18mo.

A Short Introduction to Arithmetic; by John Christison, house-governor of Heriot's hospital, Edinburgh, 18mo.

ANTIQUITIES.

Memoir of the Early Life of W. Cowper, Esq.; by himself, 8vo. 4s.

Biographical Dictionary; by Alexander Chalmers. Vol. XXXII. 8vo. 12s. BOTANY.

Pomona Britannica; by Geo. Brookshaw, Esq. Part XI. royal 4to. £1, 1s.

Floræ Græcæ Prodromus et Flora Græca Libthorpiana; 4th and last Fasciculi.

The Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, Part V. (containing six coloured, and two other engravings) of Vol. II. 4to. £1:11:6.

The Innkeeper's Daughter, a Melo-drama, in two acts; by G. Soane, A. B. 2s. 6d. Robinson Crusoe, a grand Romantic Melo-drama; by J. Pocock, 8vo. 2s.

Adelgitha, or the Fruits of a Single ErFor; by M. G. Lewis. Now first published

as acted at Covent-Garden Theatre. 3s. 6d. Elphi Bey, or the Arab's Faith, a Musical Drama, in three acts. First performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, April 17th, 1817, 8vo. 2s. 6d.

The Apostate, a Tragedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, CoventGarden; by Robert Shiel, Esq. 8vo. 3s.

EDUCATION.

An Account of the Origin, Principles,

Proceedings, and Results, of an Institution for Teaching Adults to Read, established in Bucks and Berks in 1814, 8vo.

On Public Education; by the late Dean of Westminster. 5s.

Correspondence between a Mother and her Daughter; by Mrs Taylor of Ongar.

A Key to Dr Noehden's Exercises for Writing German; by J. R. Schultz. 3s. 6d.

A New Analytical Table of the Gender of all the French Substantives generally used; by C. Gros. 3s.

A Grammar of the English Language; by J. Sutcliffe, 12mo. 3s.

Classical Reading Lessons for every Day in the Year, selected chiefly from the best English Writers of the reign of George the Third; by G. Sharpe, 12mo. 5s. 6d.

The Grammatical Remembrancer; to which are added, Geographical Pronunciation, or an attempt to give the Pronunciation of difficult names of Places, domestic and foreign, and Terms peculiar to the Arts and Sciences. 2s. 6d.

FINE ARTS.

An Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving upon copper and on wood; by W. G. Ottley, F.S.A. 2 vols 4to. £8, 8s.

HISTORY.

A Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries of North America, since the connexion of the Earl of Selkirk with the Hudson's Bay Company, and his attempt to es tablish a Colony on the Red River. 5s.

A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos; by the Rev. W. Ward, 2 vols 8vo. 18s.

Ormerod's History of Cheshire. Part III. £2:12:6.

Cobbet's Parliamentary History. Vol. XXIX. £1:11: 6.

New Chart of History; by F. Baily. 7s The Lockhart Papers; containing Memoirs and Commentaries upon the Affairs of Scotland, from 1702 to 1715; by George Lockhart, Esq. of Carnwath. His Secret Correspondence with the Son of King James II. from 1718 to 1728, and his other Political Writings; also Journals and Memoirs of the Young Pretender's Expedition in 1745, by Highland Officers in his Army. Published from Original Manuscripts in the possession of Anthony Aufrere, Esq. of Hoveton, Norfolk, 2 vols 4to. £5, 5s.

LAW.

Points in Manumission, and Cases of Contested Freedom; by J. Henry King, Esq. late President of the Court of Criminal and Civil Justice of Demerara and Issequibo. 6s.

Observations on the present state of Cri