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in his work on education and public instruction, and certainly they will 

 not be disappointed. The Society Industriellef at Miihlhausen, a manufac- 

 turing town of some importance in France, offered, in the year 1832, a 

 gold medal for the best essay on the establishment of a commercial school 

 and school of industry, most suited to the wants of the people at the present 

 time. Mr. Siebenpfeiffer was amongst the competitors^ and obtained the 

 prize, which was conveyed to him by a member of the society, whilst in 

 prison : but the Bavarian Government hearing of the circumstance im- 

 mediately issued an order for the Deputy to leave the country. The 

 work we have announced at the head of this article is an enlarged and 

 improved edition of the treatise for which the prize was awarded. It 

 would exceed our limits to give a detailed analysis of the book. 

 Chemistry, Physics, Natural History, Mathematics, History, Drawing, 

 the acquisition of an easy style of writing, and gymnastic exercises, 

 are the principal subjects which compose Mr. Siebenpfeiffer's plan. 

 These subjects are so happily blended, and so ingenious a method is 

 suggested for the acquisition of every branch of knowledge, that we 

 must refer such of our readers as understand German, and feel an 

 interest in the important science of popular and public instruction, to the 

 work itself. 



Reise urn die Erde durch Nord Asien und die beiden Oceane in den Jahren 

 1828 — 9, and 30, ausgefuhrt von AdolpJi Erman. — Travels round the 

 World, through Northern Asia, and across the two Oceans, in the years 

 1828—9, and 30, by Adolphus Erman. Vol. 1, 8vo. p. p. 748 ; 

 illustrated with Plates and Maps. Berlin, Reimer ; London, Halin- 

 bourg. 



Three years ago the celebrated Humboldt introduced Mr. Erman to 

 public notice, by the insertion of two very interesting articles from the 

 Journal of the latter in the German Review, Hertha, and which 

 subsequently appeared in the Revue des deux Mondes. During his 

 travels over the two hemispheres, which occupied a period of 91 G 

 days, he crossed all the meridians of the earth, and traversed 8,100 

 German miles, about 40,500 English. In 1828 this enterprizing traveller 

 proceeded from Berlin to Petersburg, from thence to Jekatarinburg, and 

 travelled along the northern Ural mountains to Tobolsk, Obdorsk, 

 visiting the nations of the Ostiaks, and Samoyedes. In 1829 he visited 

 Irkoutsk, Kiakhta, the Buddha Temple of the Burates, Jakuzk, Okhotzk, 

 over the Aldane mountains to Tunguses, the Marekanian mountains, 

 crossed the Penjine and Tiguil rivers to Kamschatka ; and returned to the 

 island of Sitcha, Koljusks, California, San Francesco, and Otaheite ; and 

 in the following year proceeded round Cape Horn to Rio Janeiro, crossed 

 the Atlantic to Portsmouth, and from thence back to Berlin by way of 

 Cronstadt. 



The first volume, now before us, describes the author's travels on land, 

 in a line from Berlin, passing over Tobolsk to the mouth of the river 

 Obi, back to Tobolsk, and thence along the river to Obdorsk, on the 

 bay of Obi ; and embraces a highly interesting description of the Ostiaks 

 and Samoyedes. 



Siberia, which is generally represented as an inhospitable country^ 

 replete with dangers to the traveller, is here depicted as a pastoral 

 country, and the author's description has something in it which reminds 

 us of Homer's Odyssey. We are the more ready to confide in this de- 

 scription from the assurance of his having ' travelled from Irkutsk 

 to Okhotsk, attended only by a single Cossack, in constant communi- 



