1825.] 
commentators, he leaves us in the lurch, 
eyen in our “utmost need.” =, 
An unedited MS. of the celebrated Fenelon, 
has lately been found buried among the ar- 
chives of the establishment of St. Anne, in 
the townof Cambray. The discovery of this 
M.S. is due to the enlightened researches 
of Dr. Le Gray, perpetual sercretary of the 
Society of Emulation, of the city of Cam- 
bray. It was composed by Fenelon, in the 
year 1702, and is entitled, Ieponse del’ Ar- 
chevéque de Cambrai au Mémoire qui lui a 
été envoyé sur le Droit du joyeux avenement, 
AMERICA. 
United States.—Letters from Paris, on the 
Causes and Consequences of the French Revo- 
lution, &c. By W. C. Somerville ; Balti- 
more, 1822, 8vo. If this American should 
revisit France, he would write differently ; 
altogether Mr. Somerville’s work is too 
republican for the European market. 
Annals of ihe Lyceum of Natural His- 
tory of New-York. New-York, 8v0.—This 
is a periodical, the nature of which is 
pointed out by its title; sold in London, 
by John Miller, New-Bridge-street, Black- 
friars; and in Paris, by Bailliere, rue de 
l’Ecole de Médecine. 
Haiti. —De St. Domingo, et de son Inde- 
pendance. Of St. Domingo, and of its Indepen- 
dance ; by M, Dogneaux, creole and planter, 
Pamphlet, published in Paris, in May 1824. 
Re-printed at Port-au-Prince, with marginal 
Notes; digested by two young Haitians.— 
Haiti, September 1824. 4to.—The notes 
form a complete refutation to the system of 
M. Dagneaux ; and more of arrangement 
dn the fine ideas of the young Haitians, 
‘would have given us a discourse to be 
compared with the eloquence and energy of 
ancient times. 
Columbia.—Observaciones de J. T. sobre 
da ley de Manumission del sobrano Congruo 
de Colombia. Observations on the Law of 
Manumission, published by the Sovereign Con- 
ress of Colombia ; by Jerome Torres, Bo- 
gota, 1822, 4to.—This is a short commen- 
tary on that act of Congress, which, while 
it secures progressive freedom to the slave, 
‘prevents the licentious abuse of liberty, by 
preparatory instruction, 
' ASIA. 
Verhandelingen, &c. Acts and Memoirs 
of the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Ba- 
tavid, for 1822. T. LX., Batavia, 1824.— 
Printed at the Government Press—contains, 
besides an account of the state and proceed- 
ings of the “ Academy,’’ four interesting 
Memoirs :—the first, by Prof. Reinwardt, 
“On the height and situation of some moun- 
tains of Jaya ;” presents some curious ob- 
servations, on the temperature of the 
Island, its geognosy, and the products of 
its mountains : the second, by Mr. Van 
Steyenhoven, is a topographical, statistical, 
and political description of Palembang: 
and, the third and fourth are, botanical 
articles, communicated by Dr. Blume. 
DENMARK. 
». Dansk Ordbog, &e.—~Danish Dictionary, 
Domestic and Foreign. 
261 
published at the direction of the Society of Sci- 
ence, Copenhagen, from 179% up to the pre- 
sent time ; 4to, at first printed by Moeller, 
then by Schultz, and, since 1820, by Popp, 
Moetter, and Kuiorerrinc.—This work, 
though principally adapted to local -conve- 
nience, cannot but prove interesting to 
every philologist. It will rank with the 
great Dictionary of the Spanish Academy, 
Madrid, 6 vols. folio, 1726 to 1739: the long 
expected New Dictionary of the French 
Academy the Italian De la Cruscan Dic- 
tionary.— Nothing can equal the authen- 
ticity of works emanating from such tribu- 
nals. To this is owing the superiority of 
these over the laborious compilations of 
private diligence; as our great Dictionary, 
by Jounson; the German Dictionary, by 
Apetune; the Polish, by Lixve; the Por- 
tuguese, by Moraes Sitva, &c. The Co- 
penhagen work which is now announced 
is, most probably, very far from perfect ; 
but, it has the sanction of a truly learned 
Society, and may be regarded as an autho- 
rity, as far as it goes. It was commenced 
in 1777, and has, yet, only advanced to the 
letter M. ; but it is greatly to be lamented, 
that the same plan has not been steadily 
and constantly pursued. 
SWEDEN. 
Stockholm.—While Baron Reuterholm 
was at the head of affairs, he amassed a va- 
luable collection of Historical and Political 
Manuscripts, which, to the Swedish histo- 
riographer of the époch 1772 to 1792, will 
be found invaluable. 
Swedish literature has not much to boast 
of, in the line of the tragic drama: ne- 
vertheless, Baron Akerhielm is supposed 
to be the author of a tragedy, lately pro- 
duced, entitled ‘‘ Waldemar,’’ which has 
met with deserved success. 
SPAIN. 
The “ Autographic Journals of. the 
Voyages of Christopher Columbus, and of 
several other illustrious navigators’’ that 
haye been preserved with religious zeal in 
the Escurial; which, up to the present 
time, nobody had been allowed to inspect, 
have now been ordered, by the king, to-be 
published. This work will be.a great aeces- 
sion to the science of geography. 
GERMANY. BOY) 
It is asserted, in the official gazette of 
Berlin, that in the course of the seven 
years, between 1816 and 1822, there has 
been a mortality, throughout the Prussian 
states, of 2,138,024 persons only ; while 
the births have been 3,346,412: so that the 
population had an increase of 1,208,388, of 
which number 237,470 were illegitimate. 
The total population of the Prussian States, 
comprizing the military, amounted, at the 
end of 1822 to 11,663,177. 
Halie.-—The first number of a work has 
just been published, entitled the ** Phisiolo- 
gical Journal.’ It consists of researches 
into the nature of man, of animals, and 
plants. 
FINE 
