MADAGASOAR. 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 Madacasse before the French; and Part II, the French before the Madacasse." "A work," continues the advertisement, " containing a collection of all publications on that extensive island, from Flaccourt down to the present time, respecting the ancient and modern manners of the inhabitants; its trade, navigation, natural history, 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. A grammar of the two idioms spoken in the north and south, preceded by an introductory preface, in which is exhibited an analysis of the language, a development of its genius, and the formation of the words used in it. By Barthelemi Huet de Froberville, excaptain of infantry. The extensive plan of this work supersedes all future reference to the former voluminous publications on the subject, as it comprises them all either in abstract, or, if the object is important, in the words of the authors; contradictory testimonies of authors are contrasted; coincidence of relation reduced to uniformity of system; and on contradictory opinions that can lead to no conclusion, doubts are stated. POLAND. Within about five years, from 1807 to 1812, a 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 popula tion; 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. M. Malte Brun, known as the able author of a system of geography, and of a valuable collection of travels, announces at Paris a new periodical work under the title of Minerva, or Varieties in History, Geography, Literature, and Philosophy. His prospectus gives the idea of a most comprehensive plan, and he proposes t draw his materials from all modern languages, particularly the English. M. CAREY has in press, Travels Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, by himself, and translated into En iaga "son >tt is leshy and Dured on of far as much efixed y take nesses face. <pect a al; and t unfre e occa We can say ive been so almost con |