1825.] 
more than a twenty-fifth part, so abundant 
and efficacious have been the means of in- 
struction, even among adults. The Lan- 
easterian schools are very active, and the 
establishments, for the higher branches of 
learning, surpass, in number and prosperity, 
those of the same description in Europe, 
—eyen.in Germany, so. celebrated for its 
learning. .This:volume relates the intestine 
divisions, which, long retarded the con- 
struction of the.grand canal, and the im- 
mense benefits arising from interior naviga- 
tion. Discord, that pest of all republics, 
seems to haye acquired new strength, with 
the growth of public prosperity, and private 
riches: we only know the animosities, thus 
roused and corroborated, by distant reports 
that have spread to this side of the ocean, 
and by the hopes that are thus sustained 
among the. partizans ofabsolute power. Let 
America beware! despotism is more vigi- 
lant and less ignorant than is supposed ; 
and eyen the wide Atlantic presents not an 
impassable barrier. Should America be- 
come too old for liberty, and too frail for 
absolute power,—the chains that will en- 
thral her are already linked; her days of 
honour and of glory will not long fail of 
disappearing. —It also contains an account 
of the population, the schools, the naviga- 
tion, and the finances of the state, up to 
the year 1823. The militia, then, consisted 
of 146,709 men. The interior navigation 
was extending still further and further, as 
well by the continuation of the grand canal, 
as of its branches. The number of children 
who frequented the schools, was about a 
“fourth of the whole population. 
RUSSIA. 
Schole semestres in Caesarea Universi- 
tate, &c.—Programme of the Studies pur- 
sued in the University of Dorpat. By C. 
MorcGEnsteERn, Frepestor of Archeology in 
that University. lorpat, 1824. Pamph. 
in folio.—In the Russian empire, there are 
_ six establishments of this kind—in the cities 
of Moscow, Petersburgh, Kasan, Dorpt or 
Dorpat, Charkow, and Wilna: which are the 
more necessary, as the subjects of this em- 
pire are not suffered to go into foreign 
lands for education, till they have studied, 
at least three years, in one of these insti- 
tutions. Nevertheless, the professors’ chairs 
are few; many branches of learning are en- 
tirely interdicted, and a strict surveillance is 
exerc over those that are allowed; 
while the students are restrained by strict 
rules and ‘statutes. The university of 
Dorpt is principally resorted to by the 
youth “of the three Baltic provinces, and 
_ German is the prevailing language. Many 
tutors, attached to the university, teach 
modern languages, as well as arts and 
sciences, more strictly academic. To this 
programme, Dr. M. has added a long dis- 
sertation on the grand golden medal, found, 
in the month of May 1821, near Tscheri- 
gof, sfruck in commemoration of the intro- 
duction of Christianity into Russia, in the 
Montitty Mac Novai6: 
ony 
Domestic. and Foreign. 
353 
latter end of the tenth century. This opi- 
nion has found. many adversaries. 
DENMARK 
Danske Odrsprog 0 Taglemaader.—Pro- 
verbs and Popular Sayings among the 
Danish ; collected and edited by M. J. H. 
Smiptu. Odensee, 1st No.—Beaumarchais 
says, “ Proverbs compose the wisdom of 
nations.”’—In this case, Denmark and Nor- 
way may rank among the wisest of nations: 
for not satisfied with their own great stores, 
they have gleaned this kind of wisdom > 
from all the languages of Europe. M. 
Smidth, following the example of olden 
time, proposes to make his work a vehicle 
of handing down to posterity those of more 
recent date, and presenting a collection of 
the proverbs of all the people of Europe : 
but the order M. S. has adopted, does not 
give much reason to hope the accomplish- 
ment of this object. 
GERMANY. 
M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationum pro Scauro, 
pro Tullio, etin Clodium, fragmenta inedita, 
&c.— Unpublished Fragments of the Ora- 
tions of M. T. Cicero, for Scaurus and 
Tullius, and against Clodius ; with various 
Readings of the Orations for Cluentius, 
for Colus, and for Cocina, &c.—The Ora- 
tion for Milo, completed after the Palimpseste 
MSS. of the Library of the Turin Athenée 
Royal, compared with the Fragments in the 
Ambrossian Library, by AMEDEE PEYRON, 
Professor_of Oriental Languages, at the 
Athenée Royal of Turin, and Associate of 
the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 
with preparatory Remarks, &c. &c. Vol. I, 
4to. — This interesting work has been 
long expected—It may be divided into 
two parts; comprehending the history of 
the monastery of Babbio, founded in the 
seventh century, by St. Columban, and 
an index of the codices, which, in 1461, © 
were found in that solitude, and whiclr — 
were afterwards dispersed in the libraries 
of Rome, Milan, Turin, or negligently mis- 
laid and lost. The most useful researches 
in the book are those respecting the frag- 
ments of Cicero’s Orations; but M. Pey- ° 
ron should have confined himself, as did 
M. Mai, in his edition of the De Repub- 
licain, to the text of the fragments, with mar- 
ginal notes, and the variations derived from 
the MSS. of Milan and Turin. 
NETHERLANDS. 
Correspondence, Mathematical and Phy- 
sical, between M. M. Garnier, Mathematical 
and Astronomical Professor in the University 
of Ghent, and M. Quitelet, Professor of Ma- 
thematics, Physics, and Astronomy at the, » 
Athénée at Brussels, §c. Ghent, 1825.— 
This promises to be a periodical work, 
somewhat analogous to the Philosophical... 
Magazine among us, and combining the, 
attributes of the Annales des Mathématiques,. » 
and the Annales des Physiques et de. 
Chimie: but we lament the contracted «| 
space to which the editors intend to con- 
fine themselyes. ive ve son ival 
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