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ed with the fine establishment in Paris, called the G 
regrets that there is not in Berlin one of the same kind. 
would enable him to exhibit to the audience ona chart of 
vast dimensions the different voyages of discovery, and give 
a sort of instruction of the terrestrial globe, considered at 
one view both in its locality and in its details. Comparative 
geography is, like comparative anatomy, a new science, em- 
inently calculated to advance the geographical sciences.— 
Rev. Encyc. Oct. 1827. 
- 14, Homage rendered by power to genius.—A short time 
ince the town of Weimar, presented to the literati of Eu- 
e ascene extremely touching. The patriarch of German 
literature, the illustrious GorTHe, received the homage of a 
monarch, a true friend of the arts and sciences, who is him- 
self one of the most enlightened men of Germany, and who 
omits no occasion of manifesting the noble enthusiasm which 
animates him on behalf of generous principles. The kin 
of Bavaria having learned that the anniversary of the birth 
of GorTHE was 
: a, 
about to be celebrated, went to Weimar, 
unexpectedly to the poet, pressed him in his arms, and hung 
around his neck the grand cordon of the order of Bavaria 
15. Marseilles, (France.)—The Society of christian mor- 
als, established at Marseilles, about fifteen months since, 
has, even in this short space of time, by its untiring charity, 
rendered important services to suffering humanity. A stran- 
ger to all party spirit, indifferent to all national rivalships, en- 
quiring into no man’s religious opinions, it advances silently 
to the practice of well-doing, intent only upon the means of 
obtaining some amelioration, moral or hysical in the lot of 
i This society aspires only after a single object— 
the happiness of men; and its generous intentions, which 
embrace at once, the warrior and the man of letters, the la- 
