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The French have reason to be satisfied with their literary journals . The jtfinerve Littiraire has changed its name to L' Abeille , but without changing its plan , its principles or its editors . Madame Dufresnoy is the
principal conductor . She has lately associated with herself in the work Messrs . P . F- Tissot and A . Jay . An obituary notice from her pen of Camille Jordan is highly praised , And the work generally is said to be entitled to the countenance of the enlightened friends of letters .
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GERMANY . . An Historical Account of the Public library in Vienna has lately been pub-^ hed , by which it appear * to have
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originated in 1440 , consisting only at that period of some MSS . which the Emperor Frederic IV . had purchased . The immense building which it occupies at present was constructed in 1723 , by the Emperor Charles VI ., and since its transfer thither it has
been made public . The literary treasures it contains are divided into four principal classes : the collection of MSS . ; that of engravings ; the zncunabala , or princeps editions ; and modern works . Among the MSS . is Hilarius Pictaviensis de Trinitate
on Egyptian paper of the fourth century . The total number of printed volumes amounts to 300 , 000 . The library is open to the public for six hours every day , but in the true spirit
of the present Austrian monarchy , the curiosity of readers is thwarted by a prohibition to read many of the books and the persons in attendance see strictly to the observance of the injunction .
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Frederic Leopold , Count of Holberg , who ranked thirty years ago amongst the principal German poets , and who , as is well known , renounced the Protestant religion for the Catholic , has published " A Little Book of Heavenly Love / ' the result of his long and zealous devotion to sacred things .
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M . Jacob , Professor of Philosophy at Halle , one of the most distinguished disciples of Kant , has expounded , or attempted to expound , his master ' s system , in a work in the French language , entitled Essah P hilosophiques sur V Homme . The literati of France
feel themselves flattered by this homage to the French nation and tongue . It is now proved , they say , that the national idiom of Malebranche , and the adopted idiom of Leibnitz , is not so poor as the Germans have sometimes hastily said , in philosophic terms and distinctions .
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At Moerkisch-Frledland , in Western Prussia , a school of a superior order has been established for the Jews . The institution , divided into four classes , will be carried on by a
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Notices of Foreign Literature . 417
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ITALY . Dr . Cajetan Bugati , of Milan , who is lately deceased , had prepared an edition of the Psalms in Syriac , with a translation , from an ancient
manuscript in the rich Ambrosian Library at Milan . Bugati was a distinguished oriental scholar , and eminently skilled in the Syriac tongue , and his labours are characterized
equally by correctness and erudition . He is said to differ considerably in his version from the Vulgate and the LXX . He had been honourably known before b a translation of Daniel . The editor of his posthumous work is Dr . ^ ighera , the Ambrosian Librarian , who has given an account of the life a&d writings of the translator .
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On the 30 th of April , M . Cuvier presented to the Academy the Head of Descartes , which M . Berzelius , Secretary of the Academy at Stockholm , has had an opportunity of gaining possession of in Sweden , and has hastened
to send back to the native country of this great man . He exhibited the letter , in which M . Berzelius gives a detail of the particulars known with regard to this head , and which ascertain its genuineness . At the same time , M . Cuvier presented an
engraved portrait of Descartes , and pointed out that all the features determined by the bones resemble the characters of the head sent by M . Berzelius . The Academy has deferred pronouncing finally upon the means of preserving in a fit place this precious relic .
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The National University of Tubingen , in Wurtemberg , has proposed , as the subject of a prize-dissertation , a dissertation on * ' Trial by Jury . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/37/
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