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SWITZERLAND. 
Premiére Heldétienne. Geneva, 1825. 
8vo. pamph.—The spirit of poesy seems to 
revive among the Helvetian youth. We 
know not if the atithor of the present article 
be young—we know not his name even; 
but it is sufficiently apparent that he too 
enters deeply into that noble feeling which 
prompts the nation, by its wise, noble and 
independent coufse, to bury in oblivion 
former faults, baBeness and treasons; a 
feeling which may well revive the slumber- 
ing virtues of the patriot. In every age, 
poetry has been associated with the gene- 
rous raptures of the human heart, and with 
the efforts it has made to preserve or to 
regain its dignity. 
_ The subject of this poem is Helvetic 
Emancipation: many memorable events 
are vividly recorded, and William Tell is 
not forgotten. We cannot, however, say 
that the execution of the poet has been 
always equal to the subject; though the 
neatness of some of the thoughts will excuse 
the wild enthusiasm of other parts. 
Mémoire sur la meilleure Marche a@ suivre 
dans l Enseignement, §:c.- Memoir on the 
best Plan of Instruction in Elementary 
Geometry; by E. Duvetry, Professor of 
Mathematics at Lausanne, 1824. -Pamph. 
8v0o.—M. Develey has felt the necessity of 
deviating from M. Legendre’s elementary 
system ‘of tuition in this science. With 
every demonstration of respect towards M. 
Legendre, a question, which has long been 
agitated elsewhere, is discussed—it may be 
thus stated: “Is the analysis of the 
modern, or the synthesis of the ancient 
school, tobe preferred?” The Lausanne 
professor decides for the former, and will 
find few to contradict him. 
UNITED STATES. __ 
The Sixth Number of the Annals of the 
Lyceum of New York contains a notice of 
the Hirundo Fulva; or, as its habits have 
occasioned it to be called, “‘ The Republi- 
can Swallow’’—which frequents the bor- 
ders of the Ohio, where it usually arrives 
about the 10th of April. These birds are 
only beginning to venture near the habita- 
tions of men, and still preserve the social 
habitudes which distinguish them in soli- 
tudes, where they live in numerous flocks, 
lending mutual assistance in the prosecution 
of joint and commonlabours, or, in concert, 
Domestic Varieties. 
(July 1, 
attacking and defending themselves from the 
approaching foe. These flocks sometimes 
‘contain many hundred couples, and every 
thing combines to show by how close a 
social link they are connected. Another 
article by the same author (M. Audubon) 
contains facts and remarks on the perma- 
nent abode of swallows in Louisiana. - He 
“mentions, that they are found in such heaps 
in New Orleans, that°a ‘single shot will 
bring down fourteen ; and that the markets 
are’ abundantly supplied with this game, 
which the “gourmands”’ greatly bepraise, 
finding it tender, succulent, and of exquisite 
flavour. The fourth article presents some 
observations on the Trilobite, a kind of 
animal of which the species is lost, but of 
which remains are found in formations of 
chalky rock in both continents; and the 
description of (apparently) a new family of 
this class: to which are added some geolo- 
gical notes, by Professor Renwick, on the 
Waterfalls at Trenton; where the waters 
have opened a passage “through’ the chalk- 
rocks, nearly two miles long, and form a 
succession of falls, of which the total height 
is about 300 feet. The fifth and last article 
is “on the Porcupine (Hystria Dorsata) 
of North America.’ 
A System of Universal Geography, &c.— 
and Rudiments of Geography, ona New Plan, 
designed to assist the Memory by the Compa- 
rison and Classification of the Countries ; 
with Prints representing the Manners, Cus- 
toms, Curiosities, §:c. ; and an Atlas, describ- 
ing the prevailing Religions, Forms of Go- 
vernment, &c. By W. C, Woopzrince. 
4th edit. Hartford, 1823. 12mo.—These 
two works are not, as at first glance they 
may appear, the one a mere transcript or 
abridgment of the other. In the preface 
of the first, the author explains the reasons 
that had induced him, in concert with a 
lady residing at Troy, in New York, who 
had conceived the same plan, to write a 
System much more extensive than his 
Rudiments. This lady (Mrs. Witarp), 
the principal of a female seminary, had 
formed her views respecting the instruction 
of young persons in geography on expe- 
rience and precise observation ; which ac- 
corded with those of Professor Woodbridge. 
The similarity, however, of the plan of 
these works and several on the same sub- 
jects that have appeared lately in — 
cannot fail being remarked. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS. 
——— 
DOMESTIC. 
4 hare Private Bills before the present 
Session of Parliament do, or have, 
amounted to the unprecedented number of 
383 :—in the four years ending with 1'794, 
there were only 112 bills on the average. 
Only a-small proportion of the 228 Joint- 
stock speculations enumerated in our 407th 
number, p. 146, have made their début in 
St. Stephen’s chapel; and a still less pro- 
portion of them seem likely to obtain acts 
of incorporation. 
The'exports of Liverpool exceed those of 
London, or any other single port, not only 
in Europe, but in the world. Last year they 
amounted tonot less than Pee, 
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