330 Foreign Literature and Science. 
him-Bey, (situated between Cairo and the Nile,) will re- 
ceive twelve hundred pupils. Seven hundred were entered 
during the last year. 
Impressed with the results of his first efforts, Mohammed 
Ali iene to send to Paris forty two young men, select- 
ed from the city of Cairo, under the care of three Effendis, 
in order that they may diffuse on their return, the knowledge 
they have acquired, and increase the means of civilization 
and instruction. These young persons are now installed in 
the situation which has been chosen for them in the Rue de 
Clicky, Paris, where they are under the eee of M. 
M. Jomard, Jaubert, Agoub, &c.—JIdem 
15. Napoleon’s literary taste—In a biographical notice- 
of A. A. Barbier, Napoleon’s private librarian, the follow- 
ing. statement occurs 
‘*‘ The Emperor having remarked that there were wanting 
in his private travelling library, many i t works, and 
that the ordinary size of the books did not allow of their be- 
ing placed in it, conceived at various times, the design of 
tas printed, for his own use, a library, the plan of which 
he traced with his own hand in the two following notes, which 
were sent to M. Barbier, by the Baron Meneval, secretary 
of Napoleon’s port-folio. 
“* Bayonne, 17th sledy 1808. 
Fe Same Snes te form a portable library of a 
thousand volumes, in small-12mo. printed on beautiful type. 
The intention of H. M. isto print these works for his own 
private use, without margin, in order to save space, The 
volumes to contain from five to six hundred pages, bound 
with open backs, with as thin a cover as possible. This libra- 
ry musi be composes of about forty volumes on religion ; for- 
ty Epict ; forty plays; sixty poetry ; one hundred Romanees ; 
sixty history ; and the remainder, to complete the il 
yo consist of esr! memoirs of all ages or pe 
‘The works on re/igion must be the old and ot testa- 
ment, taking the best translations ;. some epistles, - and other 
most important works of the Fathers of the chureh ; the 
Koran ; ; the Mythology ; some dissertations chosen tom the 
_ different sects which have had the greatest influence in histo- 
pa such as Arians, Calvinists, Reformers, &c.; a history 
_of the Church, if it can be compressed in the 3 bes) num- 
see haga are to be Homer, Lucan, Tasso. 
