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cation with the Jakoiites and Tunguses, without encountering the 

 slightest danger. He likewise traversed the whole of Kamschatka, with 

 a considerable sum of money, and numerous instruments for scientific 

 purposes, which, from their form and dazzling appearance, must have 

 seemed to the eyes of those uncultivated inhabitants of inestimable 

 value, without the slightest attempt being made to dispossess him of his 

 property. 



The scientific portion of the work contains the result of observations 

 made at sea by means of the sextant, and on land by an instrument 

 lately invented by Professor Bessel, to whom geography is already in- 

 debted for several important discoveries. It likewise comprises magnetical 

 and meteorological experiments, and a description of the zoological and 

 botanical objects which the author collected during his travels, and which 

 are deposited in the museums of Koningsberg and Berlin, with drawings, 

 illustrating many new species of birds, insects, and plants. 



Reise durch Deutschland, Ungarn, Holland, Italien, FranJcreich, Gross- 

 Britannien, und Ireland : in Riicksicht auf medicinische und natur- 

 wissenschaftliche Institute, Armenpflege u. s. w. von Wilhelm 

 Horn. — Travels in Germany , Hungary, Holland, Italy, France, Great 

 Britain, and Ireland ; with reference to medical establishments, 

 natural history societies, and charitable institutions, &c., by W. Horn. 



This is a work of great merit, and which we hope to see translated' 

 It is rich in facts collected from welLkept journals. Medical students 

 who travel for professional information, but who too frequently employ 

 their leisure in pleasurable pursuits, would do well to imitate such 

 admirable industry in the collection of medical knowledge. The 

 account of Broussais' new curative system, a la Sangrado, and the dis- 

 graceful contest between him and others of the profession, give no high 

 opinion of French regard for human life, or gentlemanly sentiment. It 

 is truly disgusting to behold this unfeeling exhibition of tables and 

 numbers, this pertinacious and heartless sacrifice of the sick to con- 

 sistency and unalterable opinion — all filling the mind with horror, alike 

 for extravagant theorists and Parisian hospitals. 



Homer und Lycurgus, oder das alter der Iliade und die politische 

 Tendenz ihrer Poesie. Ein Versuch iiber die Glaubwiirdigkeit der 

 Nachricht vom Zeitalter Homer*s. Von Christian Heinecke. 8vo. 

 Leipsic 1833. — Homer and Lycurgus, or the antiquity of the Iliad, 

 and the political tendencies of its poetry ; — being an essay on the 

 credibility of Homer's age. 



This is one of those profound and learned inquiries for which the Ger- 

 mans have become so justly celebrated. It treats of one of the most 

 interesting points in the literary history of Homer, and on which little 

 attention has hitherto been bestowed in the many critical treatises that 

 have appeared on the poems of Homer. The production before us bears 

 the character of an impartial and industrious inquiry, founded on existing 

 materials and credible evidence. — Our space will not admit of our giving 

 a succinct criticism, nor the philological results which have been obtained 

 from grammatical and chronological investigations. 



La Mogonnerie consideree comme resultat des religions Egyptienne, Jnive, 

 et Chretimne, par F. M. R. de Sohio, — a work intended less for the 

 the initiated than the laity. 



