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its value should not be estimated until the paper itself has been 

 read, for which, see Annales de Chiniie, xii. p. 172. 



IV. Genekal Literature. 



1. Grecian University. — An University has been established at 

 Corfu, by Lord Guildford, under the auspices of the British 

 Government. His Lordship has appointed to the different schools 

 Greeks of the first abilities, and his attentions have been se- 

 conded with much effect by Count Capo d'Istria, a native of 

 Corfu, who, being apprised that M. Polito, a young Leucadian, 

 possessed of knowledge and talents, desired to profess che- 

 mistry in the Ionian islands, remitted to him funds sufficient 

 to procure the apparatus necessary for the laboratory, S(c. 



2. Homers Iliad. — There has been discovered in the Ambrosian 

 library, at Milan, a manuscript copy of the Iliad of Homer, which 

 has attracted the attention of the learned for its antiquity, 

 appearing to border on the fourth century; and, by 60 pic- 

 tures in it equally ancient. It is more ancient by about six ages 

 than the one on which the editions of Homer are founded. The 

 characters are square capitals, according to the usage of the best 

 ages, without distinction of words, without accents, or the aspi- 

 rates; that is to say, without any sign of the modern Greek or- 

 thography. The pictures are upon vellum, and represent the 

 principal circumstances mentioned in the Iliad. These pictures 

 being antique and rare, copies of them have been engraved with 

 the greatest exactness. They are not perfect in the execution, 

 but they possess a certain degree of merit, for they give ex- 

 act representations of the vestments, the furniture, the usages, 

 the edifices, the arms, the vessels, the sacrifices, the games, the 

 banquets, and the trades of the time, with the precise characters 

 of the gods and heroes, and other numerous marks of their an- 

 tiquity. M. Angelo Maio, a professor at the Ambrosian College, 

 has caused tlie manuscript to be printed in one volume, with the 

 engravings from the pictures, and the numerous scholia attached 

 to the manuscript. These new scholia fill more than 36 pages 

 ill large folio; they arc all of a very antient period, and the 



