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By a Member of the Society. 18. TOPOGRAPHY. The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford; compiled from the best printed Authorities and Original Records, preserved in Public Repositories and Private Collections. By Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A. Folio, embellished with twenty highly-finished Plates, price 81. 8s. A few Copies on large paper, Proof Impressions, 151, 15s. TRAVELS. Peninsular Sketches during a recent Tour, By John Milford, Jun. 8vo. 9s. five Departments, for 1814, were given Foreign Literary Gazette. 139,520. FRANCE. A work in two volumes, 12mo. under the title of L'Europe Tourmentée, &c. Europe tormented by the French Revolution, shaken by eighteen years of numerous expeditions under Napoleon Buonaparte, concludes with a sketch which the author calls with too much cause Inventaire Effrayante, “A Frightful Inventory of the Revolution." The principal results are the following: Two thousand five hundred individuals, or thereabouts, divided among themselves more than a milliard of revenue derived from the State; and contributed to the dilapidation of more than seven milliards of national property, or property belonging to Emigrants, without having paid the creditors of the latter. The legislators of France gave that country twenty-five thousand four hundred and twenty-eight laws; also, eight constitutions, France suffered the loss of seven millions of her sons, of which five millions five hundred have been de The prizes to be adjusted for the best Dissertations on the subject, have been di vided among the competitors. The course of teaching in the school for the living Oriental languages, re-opened December 5, in the following order: Persian, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at half-past two o'clock. Arabic, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, at half past ten o'clock: Vulger Arabic, on Wednesdays at noon. Turkish, Tuesdays Thursdays, and Fridays, at half-past twelve o'clock. Armenian, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and As might be expected, several publications narrating recent events have appeared at Paris: some of them particularly referring to the King's withdrawing on the 19th of March, 1815, and to Buonaparte's return to Paris on the 20th. They relate different anecdotes; but all agree that the Emperor's return was attended with few honours. Among the curiosities of the times-and stroyed under Buonaparte. During the it will be thought so a hundred years hence, fifteen years of the usurpation, the support or even two hundred-we distinguish Le of Buonaparte, and his principal agents, Pâtissier Pittoresque: a Treatise on Pictur deducting all military expences, and what-esque Pastry, composed and designed by ever have been the costs of administration, amounts to nine hundred and forty-four millions, seven hundred and sixty thousand, four hundred and sixty-seven francs. The first cause of all these disasters, of such extensive ruin, of such prodigious expenses, was an annual deficit of fifty-five millions in the receipts of the National Treasury to equal the expences ! So says the author: but, we have, in various parts of our work, pointed out causes long anterior to the existence, or even the supposition of this famous deficit. The evil originated in immorality; and gradually produced effects which displayed that cause, among others, at its maturity. It is impossible not to see in the blood shed in France (as well as by France) the punishment of crimes very distinct in their nature from that of a miserable deficit. At the annual sitting of the Central Society for superintending the administration of Vaccination, several reports were made relative to the progress of that new mode for preventing the spread of the Small Pox. The sitting was held November 20, M. A. Carême (a very unlucky name by the bye, and tout au revers-" Long-Lent," for a Pastry Cook!) It contains no less than one hundred and twenty-five plates, presenting various designs for embellishing the Table, &c. &c. What gentleman, especially what lady, of taste, after this publication, will be content to eat plain tarts and cheesecakes? No: unless their table be decorated with elegant forins, as well as elegant food, they will feel themselves reduced to what is commonly termed "eating of humble pye.' The number of works on various subjects that has appeared in France during the year 1815, is 674. Our readers may recollect, that formerly it approached, or even exceeded, 1,000. The distribution of the subjects has been as follows. N. B. Several of the works are new editions. Natural History No. of Works. Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Surgery Arts and Manufactures E ITALY. Professor Renier, at Padua, has resolved to publish the results of his researches and observations of a Zoological nature, on the Animals living in the Adriatic. His work will be executed in the printing-office of the Seminary of that city, and will be entitled Osservazioni sopra alcuni Animali dell' Adriatico, fatte dal Dottor Stephano Andrea Renier, Professor, &c. The impression will be executed under the inspection of the author, in two languages, Italian and Latin, fronting each other, in large folio, sotto imperiale, with types cast on purpose. The Plates will be also in large folio, on vellum paper, outlines with numbered references in black, the figures themselves, in their natural colours. The author, who executes this work at his own expense, will spare no cost to render it magnificent, and the whole will be conducted with the greatest care. It will appear in numbers, each containing six Plates coloured: price about two Guineas. The following article is entitled to particular attention from our countrymen, among whom, as our pages have recorded, the process has taken place which has engaged the attention of the author. It was by accident that the first attempt to effect the junction of separated parts, was suggested among our medical men; whether the idea had reached Italy, or whether the thought had struck Sig. Baronio, we are unable to determine. Degli Innesti Animali, &c. A Memoir on the process of Animal Grafting, by Joseph Baronio, 2to. pp. 78. Milan, 1814. The author reports in this memoir, the results of sundry experiments made by him on sheep, for the purpose of proving, that, even when certain parts of an animal body have been entirely separated, yet such a part is still susceptible, during a certain time, of being united again, of recovering the animal warmth, sensibility, motion, with all the attributes of life, and of again performing in all respects, all the functions which it performed before. The author says on this occasion, "It is an error to conclude, as has been conceived hitherto, that the vessels which have been cut asunder, continue open, and that by their prolongation, those anastomoses are formed by which the re-union is effected. On attentively examining the cicatrices, these greater vessels are always found collapsed, contracted into themselves, and closed by the clots of blood. It is by the new vessels which are formed in the intermediary substance, that the circulainflammation which calls them into actition resumes its course, assisted by a slight vity. "If the re-united parts are brought into contact with each other, as when a wound is healed by the first intention, one single layer of this repairing substance is sufficient to produce the re-union. If the wound has remained open, and accessible to the air, several layers, succeeding one another, are necessary and it is sometimes necessary to renew the wound by scarifications more or less deep, which furnish a warm blood, and revive the inflammation." All the consequences that result from this theory in practice, have been fully developed by Professor Monteggia, in his Institutiones Chirurgicales. We now leave this subject to the gentlemen of the faculty among us:-we confess, that it appears to us to be very wonderful. MADAGASCAR. The Gazette de l'Ile Maurice, of the 28th October last, contains the following advertisement of a work on Madagascar, to be sold in the French MS. or printed by subscription :-" The Great Dictionary of Madagascar; Part I, containing the Madecasse before the French; and Part II, the French before the Madecasse." work," continues the advertisement, "containing a collection of all publications on down to the present time, respecting the that extensive island, from Flaccourt ancient and modern manners of the inhabitants; its trade, navigation, natural bis "A The Travels of the late Gyldenstaed, in Georgia and Imitetia, have, been throughout revised, compared with his papers, and completed with notes and observations, by Julius Klaproth, to which is added a Map, in one volume, at Berlin. SWITZERLAND. Mr. N. C. Seringe has distributed the tory, hitherto investigated; the most approved political systems for its colonization; sundry projects for forming settlements upon it, &c. &c.; the languages of the several nations now resident on the island; the analysis of every separate word traced back to its primitive origin, in order to enable the learned reader to ascertain from what part of the world each tribe of its present inhabitants formerly emigrated. Arst seven numbers of a collection of dried grammar of the two idionis spoken in the specimens of the Willows of Switzerland, north and south, preceded by an introduc- under the title of Saules de la Suisse; the size of the work is folio, and the author is tory preface, in which is exhibited an analysis of the language, a developement the seller of his performance. These numof its genius and the formation of the bers contain eighty-eight specimens of spewords used in it. By Barthelemi Huet de cies and varieties, the greater part indigeFroberville, ex-Captain of Infantry. The nous in the country. They are preserved extensive plan of this work supersedes all in the most perfect manner, future reference to the former voluminous mounted on paper. They furnish a compublications on the subject, as it complete course of information on the subject prises them all either in abstract, or, if the they illustrate, several species being reobject is important, in the words of the peated as much as five or six times, in their different states, and often accompanied by authors; contradictory testimonies of authors are contrasted; coincidence of re- pieces of their bark. On the cover of each lation reduced to uniformity of system; and number is a list, with a summary of the on contradictory opinions that can lead to plants comprized in it, and one sheet of text no conclusion, doubts are stated. contains the corresponding numbers of the plants, their names, synonyms in different languages, the times of their flowering, and other notices. POLAND. Within about five years, from 1807 to 1812, considerable number of works have been published in this country on subjects intended to promote a taste for letters and instruction. Among others, several translations from the best foreign Works on Natural History, Botany, Agriculture, Mathematics, Mechanics, Geometry, the Fine Arts, and Rural Economy. We cannot pretend to describe to what extent these works may be circulated among the population; but, from the spirit which has offered them to the country, it may be hoped that Poland will resume her place among the learned and liberal nations of Europe. PRUSSIA. Lately has been published at Berlin, portraits of the principal Horses of the Royal Stud, at Neustadt, on the Dosse. We give the names of these; partly to shew the pains taken to obtain a superior breed, and at the same time to shew from what countries the Royal Stud of Prussia has obtained them. 、 Bathyan, an Arab stallion, son of Acrrak. Conde, the favourite horse of Frederic II. How aged 30 years. Gentle Kitty, Arab horse from Barbary. Melicolma, a mare, daughter of an English courser, named Archer. Monak, a horse from the Stud of the Emperor of Morocco, at Tafilet. Nischty, an Arabian horse. Turcoman Ally, an Arabian horse. and are author are comprised in the fo`lowing work. The more particular observations of the Essai d'une Monographie, &c. Essay towards a Monography of the Willows of Switzerland, by N. C. Seringe, Institutor of the College of Berne. This work is in one volume of one hundred pages, in oc tavo, with three plates, and is printed by the Typographic Society, at Berne, 1815. This is a series of critical observations concludes his volume by the following apon the trees referred to. The author peal to botanists. "I entreat every one who pays attention to the cultivation of the willow, to transmit me their remarks, and also specimens, whether already named or not,-to communicate to me whatever works they may publish in reference to this denomination of vegetables, and even to send me living willows. On my side, I shall take a pleasure in giving them specimens of willows not hitherto distinguished by name, or willows drawn out of the ground, or such other subjects from my collection as may be most agreeable to them. "It is only by mutual communications and study, that a good monography can be obtained, or that after much labour, the species may be fixed, and the synonimous nomenclature thoroughly established. DESCRIPTION OF PERSIANS: Persia. The following Extracts comprise the writer's opinion of some of the modern and wilder inhabitants of this extensive kingdom; they are part of what may be considered as an Appendix to Sir John's History of the Persian Monarchy, and are evidently drawn from personal observa tions. After observing on the mutual benefits likely to arise from intercourse and good understanding between Britain and Persia, together with the highly favourable circumstance, that Persia is at present in a happier and more tranquil state than it has been for a long period; that its reigning monarch has already enjoyed the throne seventeen years, that by the comparative mildness and justice of his rule, he has already entitled himself to a high rank among the Kings of Persia, and moreover, that he has a numerous issue; Sir John proceeds to say, The men of the wandering tribes delight to tell or listen to romantic tales: some of them not only make themselves masters of this art, but learn to recite verses, particularly those of Ferdosi. A person who has cultivated this talent enjoys a great share of the respect of his associates, who frequently call upon him to amuse an idle hour by transporting his hearers into the regions of fancy, or to excite their minds to deeds of valour, by repeating lines which celebrate the renown of their ancestors. It has been already stated, that the women of the tribes of Persia who dwell in tents are seldom veiled: their usual occupations have also been described. They are more respected than the females who dwell in cities, because they are more useful to the community, of which they form a part. They not only share the bed, but the fatigues and dangers of their husbands: and the masculine habits which they acquire do not displease, for they seem suited to their condition of life. If they are not of high rank they perform all the domestic and meuial offices of their own home: and strangers, who visit their houses and tents, are certain to receive the kindest and most hos pitable welcome from them. But there A Persian gentleman*, remarkable for 66 were unveiled, were particularly kind; "the daughter of my host, who was about "fifteen years of age, was more beautiful "than I can express. When I said that I "was thirsty, she ran and brought me a cup of pure water. It was a draught "from the fountain of life, brought by an "angel: but it encreased instead of extin"guishing the flame which her bright "dark eyes had kindled in my breast‡." After describing the pain which it gave him to depart from this dwelling without daring to shew, even by a look, the nature of that passion which he entertained for this young beauty, he very sensibly observes:-" A vain and uninformed man "might have mistaken the manner of my "fair cup-bearer; but I had experience "of these Eelliaant ladies, and well knew "that nothing was meant but that kind 66 ness and hospitality with which they "treat all strangers who visit their tents 66 or houses. I believe," he concludes, "they are virtuous beyond all other women "in Persia; and the man who should even "attempt seduction, would be sacrificed Mahomed Hussein Khan, son of the late Medhi Ali Khan, who was sent by the government of Bombay on a mission to the Court of Persia in A. D. 1798. †This village is in Irak. The name is the same as that of the capital of Ardelan. ‡ Mahomed Hussein Khan's MS. Jour nal. |
