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IV.General Literature. 



1. Modern Greek Literature — M. Koumas, first professor in 

 the great college at Smyrna, and distinguished by his learning 

 among the Greeks, has just published at Vienna the two last 

 volumes of his Course of Philosophy. The whole work is a 

 methodical abstract of all the best compositions of the German 

 philosophers. Its object is to instruct the Greeks in modern 

 philosophy, and its circulation is likely to be very consi- 

 derable. 



The printing-office established at Chios has commenced its 

 operations, and is now in full activity. Its first production is 

 an excellent discourse of M. the Professor Bambas, read the 

 year before last, at the opening of tlie course of the great 

 college of Chios. This work is so elegant in its typography, 

 that it might seem to come from the presses of London or 

 Paris. This office will gradually spread through Greece a 

 number of valuable works that may contribute to the regene- 

 ration of this once classical land. 



A college on a large scale is about to be founded at Zagori, 

 in the province of Epirus. The voluntary donations for this 

 establishment amount already to 60,000 francs. M. Neophytos 

 Doucas, a learned Greek ecclesiastic himself gave the sum of 

 10,000 francs. 



2. Philology. — M. Frederick Adelung, counsellor of state to 

 the Emperor of Russia, has lately published, in 153 pages, 

 A View of all known Languages and their Dialects, In this 

 View, we find in all, 987 Asiatic, 587 European, 276 African, 

 and 1,264 American languages and dialects enumerated and 

 classed: a total of 3,064. This remarkable publication is 

 only the introduction to a Bibliotheca Glottica, on which this 

 indefatigable philosopher has been long employed. 



3. Ancient Latin Mayiuscripts. — Baron Niebuhr, Prussian 

 ambassador to the Holy See, has again discovered and pub« 

 lished several ancient MSS. hitherto unknown. They are chiefly 



