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      aiyioiiiic ^ a as , * comple , te # , i » tfie . h&ptig Catalogue , of . piesame years , we find the following result : ,..,....,. Year . France . PjS ^ Michaelmas 1814 979 1 * 90 1039 1815 1712 1777 9 Z 3 1816 1851 199 7 1 200 1817 2126 2 a 45 1187 1818 2431 2294 1487 1815 2441 W $ 126 $ l $ 0 2405 2640 1318 1821 2617 m % 985 1822 3 lj 4 2 / 2 P 1554 1823 2687 255 J 3 1751 i& 24 343 £ 2 f 870 1641 1 # 25 3 ^ 69 £ i $ 6 1640 1826 4347 2648 , 2 ° 56 ^ 3 , 774 3 ^ 204 13 , 099 32 , 204 50 , 303

      Thus it appears that far more books are published in . Germany than in France , especially when we recollect that the books announced as not ready , which , with a few exceptions , have , really issued frjojn the presai witjioujt bejng again announced , fili . 7 b 5 pages In the twenty-six catalogues t for the years , under consideration ; . and we j » ay reckoi ^ ten . works per page ; . and , thafcaraong thefopks in foreign modern , languages uo ^ iEe cJkpned here , many arer published by . fter . man princes . We also see , thatjhe produjQtiofi of books has augmented .. ware rapliAy | n France than in Germany ; the French haying increased from 979 tQJ 4347 > vaRd the German from 2529 in 1814 to . 4 . 7 p 4 in 1826 . The largest number ia Germany , for pne year , was that of la «* Jb . year , viz . 4836 works , and the . smallest . that of 1814 ; the largest catalogueJhatt of Easter 1825 , and the . smallest that of Michaelmas 1815 .. - If to ' the ; . 5 M 03 toofca announced as ready , wei add , 7 j 3 S 0 stated to Ibe not ready ,, and the woi $ & in ipreign languages , published Sxk Germany , we shall h ^ ve about € 0 , 000 works printed in Germany since Iff 14 ( inclusive ) .

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      ministrative Sciences , Phjlpsophy , Theology , Philology an ^ d Medicine;—an Academy of the Fine Arts , for Miislc , Civil Architecture , Painting and Sculpture ; a Catholic School ; . a School for the Coustruction of Bridges and Embankments ; a School for the Dramatic Art ; a Forester School ; a School of Agriculture ; an

      Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , under the management of its benevolent founder Falkowski ; a Polytechnic School , on the plan of that of Vienna ; a Pedagogical Institution , and several Military Schools . The city contains three Palatiual Schools or Colleges of the first order ; and two of the second order ; sixty-six elementary schools ; and many secondary schools ;

      sunday-schools for young persons . employed in mechanic trades ; five schools for young citizens ; five schools , for girls ; ten boarding schools ; sixteen primary and % six secondary schools . for young ladies ; twenty printing establishments , besides that of the Government ; ten booksellers of respectability ; and one type foundery , recently established by M . Glucksberg ,

      printer and bookseller to the University . The National Library contains above 1 ^ 0 , 000 volumes , besides a cabinet of engravings . The Library of the Philo . mathic Society contains 5 ft , 00 p volumes . It has also a collection of medals , of ancient arms , and other national antiquities . In , a saloon , which bears the name of Dombrowski , are deposited the

      nu-^ erous curiosities which that Commander bequeathed to the . Society ,, ainorijg which is the great Standard of Mahomet , taken at the battle , of Vienna , by the Polish King John Sobieski the Thud , ttue saviour of the Austrian capital . Warsaw contains also the Library of the Council of State ; an Observatory ; a Botanical Garden ; several cabinets of natural

      history and natural philosophy ; a gallery of pictures , which belongs to Count Ossolinski j another at Villanov , the property of the Counts Potoki ; at the Royal Palace is another , called the Marble Hall , together with a cabinet of Medals , &c \

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      Public insCitutldns . - Wajisaw contains at ) present , a Royal Philomathic Society , a . Society for Elementary instruction , a ^ Council of JVl ^ dlcUie ^ a « Dftrectbi # . of Public , KxhibitLo 119 , a National Theatre , a French Theatre , a Rbynl University , . with 600 . students , comprisiug the faculties of Law , the Ad-

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      PqUqH Periodical Literature . Since the year 1 ^ 19 , Various causes have occasioned the suppression in the single town of Warsaw 6 f fto less than three scientific , two political , -two gatir-Ical > seven Hteraiy , two ladies ' , one musical

      , one agricultural , and one Jewish periodical ' publications . Those which remain ,, are t | je Bulletin , of tlie Laws ; Trapsactions of the Royal Philomathic Society of Warsaw j Memoirs of Science an 4 the Arts ^ Forest Journal * ,: AVarsaw Journal ; Polish Isis ; Children ' s Maga *

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      146 IfaeW&ence , —Foreign .

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      POLAND .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/66/