f 821.] Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



Schools of mutual Instraction 

 projxj^a(iiig in Italy, patronize 



361 



are 

 lid by 

 pcirsous of distinguislied rank and ta- 

 lents. Tiie Normal School, at Flo- 

 rence, in the first year, !iad 379 pupils, 

 19 of whom were adults: of this num- 

 ber, 98, at the enA of eleven mouth?, 

 had risen to the eiijhth class, and soon 

 after left the school. It has been re- 

 marlied of these pupils, that thej car- 

 ried with them habits of order, indus- 

 try, obedience, acquired in the school, 

 into theii- families, or the manufacto- 

 ries wherein they were place:!. At 



■Florence there are two schools; at 

 Sieuua, one; at I'isa, one ; at Pistoia, 

 one ; at Montevarchi, one ; at Stia, one ; 

 at Caviglia, one; at (laiola, one; at 

 Percta, two; at Liinita, one; and one 

 at Montalaino, — founded and main- 

 tained at the charge of the bishop. 

 Now schools are in a course of prepara- 

 tion at Florence, St. Cassano, Santa 

 Maria, IMoute, Pescia, S. Croce, Fuse- 

 einio, and Leghorn. Four Normal 



/Schools, on tlie jjlan of tliat at Flo- 



TSence, have been constriicted within 

 ttie papal territories, by the liberality 



sdP enlightened citizens ; a measure 

 iT^ich will tend to remove prejudices, 



^and dift"ii';e knowledge throngli the 

 .rest of Italy. The Duchess of Parma 

 has founded and maintains four schools. 



• in Lombard)'', also, 5000 learners were 

 lately counted in different Normal 



Ischools, besides others more ancient in 

 the kingdom of Naples, Piedmont, and 



i4he duchy of Genoa. The Italians have 



fMOt been the earliest to adopt this mode 



>4)i culture ; but, having witnessed its 

 utility, they evince an anxious concern 

 for its establishment. 



UNITED STATES, 



The following is a list of Greek 

 MSS. purchased by Professor Everett, 

 in tlie month of June, last j'^ear, from 

 a Greek prince residing in Constanti- 

 nople, anil which liave since arrived at 

 Boston, United States: — 1. A quarto 

 MS. containing sixteen discourses of 

 Giegory Nazianzen ; the writing is of 

 the i:]th or 14th century. 2. A large 

 quarto MS. containing the Gospels ar- 

 ranged in lessons as they are now read 

 in the Greek Church. The writing of 

 the greater part is of the l^th centurj^, 

 but a small portion, to supply some 

 leaves lost, is more recent. .1. An 

 Evangel istarion and an Apostolion; or 

 the whole New Testament, divided 

 into lessons for the use of the Greek 

 (httrch. This MS. i« in two quarto 

 volumes, very well written. The vig- 



nette and the titltis'ai'^' iii-'goltf'lst- 

 ters. This MS. has iiCver yet' been 

 consulted for any edition of tlie Neyv 

 Testament. The ie-s^t of John, I Ep. 

 ch. 5i V. 7. is wanting, as in many other 

 Greek MS. It appears to be of the 

 12th centTiry. 4. A qu.arto MS. con- 

 taining the Psalms, veiy well written, 

 and in good preservation. It has also 

 an explanation of the title of the 

 Psalms, by Psellus, and a Menologia, 

 o\- Greek Missal, with astronomical 

 tables and diagrams to fix the returns 

 of Easter. It is of the I3th century. 



5. A fragment, containing some leaves 

 of a large qnarto, written in Roman 

 letters, and apparentl)'^ of the 8th or 

 9th century. It contains a part of the 

 Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John. 



6. A quarto MS., very beautiful and 

 well written, containing the chronicle 

 of Michael Glycus, a Sicilian of the 

 12th century. This chronicle, M'hich 

 comprises the history of the World, 

 from the creation to the death of 

 Alexis Comines, in 1118, was first 

 published by Leunclavias, in 1572, 

 from a veiy incorrect MS. It is of 

 the 12th century. All these MSS. are 

 of parchment, and in excellent preser- 

 vation. ' .' - 1^' 



NORTH AMERICA, ',"'r''r^ 

 A discovery has been made in^A>'i. 

 foundlaud, during the last summer, 

 which has exercised the conjectures of 

 antiquarians. About half a mile from 

 the shores of Gander Bay, there has 

 been found a fragment of a small pillar 

 of white marble of octangular form ; 

 about 18 inches long, and 10 inches 

 in diameter. Its surface is much cor- 

 roded by the effects of the weather, and 

 it is probable has lain tliere for a con- 

 siderable time. It cannot have been 

 left in ballast, because it is half a mile 

 inland, and because no ships can come 

 within three quarters of a mile of the 

 shore of this place. This part of the 

 country is not inhabited, and no simi- 

 lar stones, or works of art have been 

 found on searching in the same neigh- 

 bourhood. The texture of the marble 

 is perfectly different from any of those 

 used in sculpture or architecture, being 

 of a yellowish white colour, and the 

 texture is in some places crystalline 

 granular, of a large grain ; but there 

 aie every ivhere intermixed Mith it 

 parts of v(!ry complicated curvatures; 

 capable of being separated in suc(;ession 

 in parallel curveci laminae as thin as 



paper. 



..v-q. 



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