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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. ['^"g* ' i 



Early in Aii^^ust will be piiblisiied, in 



sriiiill folio, a Genealogical iMytliology, 



aiul Classical Tables of the Roman Ein- 



perors; by Mt. W. Bkrry, late of the 



' College of Anns, London. 



Ill appljiiif;- the leech, it appears that, 

 •when it does not evince a disposition to 

 bite, puncturing the part with a lancet, 

 oR'ers the only chance of success. \\ heu 

 the leech drops off. instead of applying 

 salt, which generally destroysthe anininl, 

 a little vinegar ponied on the head will 

 make it disgorge the blood, and it will 

 bite aliro t inmudiatcly afterwards. 



The following table .-vhcws the gradual 

 decrease in weight which the siMer 

 penny has sustained since the time of 

 ■\\ illiam the First : — Grains Troy. 



William 1 2'2l 



Edward III 20 



Kichard 13 18 



HenrvV 16 



Heniv VI 12 



Henry YII Hi 



Henry VIII 10 



Edward VI 8 



Elizaheih 7| 



The weight of the silver penny coined 

 by George III. is exactly the game as 

 that of Elizabeth. 



Gr.RMANY. 



Mr. Oswald, bookseller, of Hcidel- 

 bei"-, has announced a publication which 

 has excilcd the atlention of the learned 

 public throughout all Germany, in the 

 Iiiirhest degree. Voss, the celebrated 

 Iraiisiator of Homer and He: iod, Virgil, 

 Horace, and Ovid, &c. Sec. whose me- 

 trical versions (all in the metre of the 

 original writers) form the most remark- 

 able triumph of the German over the 

 other European modern languages, has 

 completed a translation of the Comedies 

 of Aristophanes. These arc to be pub- 

 lished ill the course of tiie next winter, 

 in three octavo volumes, and the trans- 

 lation is to be accompanied with exjda- 

 iiatory notes, by llie translator's son, 

 Professor Voss, of Heidelberg, who has 

 also honorably pursued the career of his 

 Kithei', and i,s known as ■•he translator of 

 iEschyhis and of Othello and other tra- 

 f^edies of Shal.i'speare. 'J'he complete 

 success which has attended all the other 

 Ivanslations of the elder Voss, justifies 

 cxpeclations which no oiher man could 

 jaisc concerning a writer who presents 

 gnch peculiar diflieulties as Aristo- 

 p'.ianos, and who, at the same time, is so 

 jiitere.iliiig to the learned investigator 

 of the histoiy, religion, manners, and 

 t;is1e of tiie (;V eks. 'I'iie younger Voss 

 La* made it one of tiie objects of his 



iiclos to render his work useful, even to 

 foreigners, by verbal criticisms on dis- 

 puted passages and difficult expres- 

 sions. 



FRANCE. 



M. dc CuATEAunRiAND is engaged 

 upon an liisiorieal Poem, iu the style of 

 his Martyrs. The su!)ject is taken from 

 the History of the Bloors in Spain : 

 and the work will be entitled Les Aben- 

 cerran; s. 



Tlic Ibllowing arrangement is adopt- 

 ed, by the Erench anatomists of the pre- 

 sent day. The whole of anatomy is di- 

 vided in three classes ; i\u-/irst of which 

 comprehends — 1. the organs of loco-mo- 

 tioti; 2. the organs of the voice; and, 3. 

 those of s< jsibility: the second, 1. the 

 organs of 'tigestiou; 2. the organs of 

 respiration , 3. the organs of circulation ; 

 4. the organs of absorption; and, 5. the 

 organs of secretion: whilst the thinl is 

 altogether confined to the organs of ge- 

 neration. Bone, say they, is composed 

 of two elementary parts — an organized 

 parenchyma formed of gelatin, which, 

 « ith fatty matter, constitutes more than 

 one half of the weight of bones ; and an 

 inert, saliuoterrene matter, that fills the 

 cells and meshes of the ]>arenchyma. 

 Cartilage and ligament arc formed of 

 cellular tissue, filled with a gelatinous 

 pulpy matter. The synovial fluid is of 

 greater specific gravity than water, with 

 v\hichit readily mixes: it froths when 

 agitated, and is thready and consistent 

 like albumen; the existence of which in 

 it is demonstrated by the action of ca- 

 loric, alcohol, and the mineral acids. It 

 also contains fibrine, soda in a free state, 

 »!ul muriate and carbonate of soda. 

 Muscle is a kind of reservoir of fibrine, 

 to which it owes its contractility, and 

 which is enclosed in the |Kirenehyma of 

 this species of organ, in Ihesame man- 

 ner as calcareous phosphate is enclosed 

 in that of bone. 'I'he cliemical elements 

 of muscle are fat, albumen, much fibrine, 

 osmazom, phosphate and muriate of 

 soda, ))hospha1e of lime, oxyd of iron, 

 azote, hydrogen, and oxygen. Cellular 

 tissue is an assemblage of \ cry fine moist, 

 whitish plates, and filaments, which in- 

 terlace and form irregular ceils, that com- 

 municate with each other. 



ITALY. 



The Florence Gazette attributes the 

 original invention of the steam-engine to 

 D. Sekaphin Scratti, monk of Mount 

 Cassino; and tiuol(;s, in support of this 

 assertion, a letter extracted from the 

 work of this monk, euliluled, Letters on 

 Yuriuu* 



