370 _ Miscellanies. “eae 
_ Had he lived to perform his purposed tour of two years in this coun= 
try, and to give lectures in its principal cities, there can be no doubt 
that he would have produced a powerful impulse in favor of moral 
and physical education, which, whether his views of phrenology had 
piel ground or not, would hardly have failed to be very servicea- 
ble. Except detached notices of his lectures published in the for- 
eign journals, we have not read his writings, and therefore do not 
pretend to give any opinion of them. The most important are now 
in a course of republication at Boston, and will, doubtless, be exten- 
si read. . : devon 
MISCELLANIES. 
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. RRS Sas 
Extracted and translated by Prof. Griscom. 
NECROLOGY. 
<n Within the first six months of the year 1832, the { allowing 
distinguished individuals have paid the debt ofnature. 
| - England. elastic 
ais Crabie, one of the best poets of the age, sia 63. 
Andrew Bell, D. D., well known as the founder of the ane 
instruction pursued in the national schools of England. Born in 17 
at St. Andrews. His remains were deposited in Westminster Abbey. ; 
_ Sir James Mackintosh, a distinguished jurist and writer, aged 62. 
Jeremy Betthem, a noted philanthropist, and geen pape vA 
Sweden. sane 
T. Ornie, a éelbbraiteu writer. ee himself by ok : 
attributed to domestic grief. 
Switzerland. eis 
_L. De Bonstétten, a metapbysician and politician, ae 86, — 
Nacf, founder of a school for the deaf and dumb at. Yverdun. a 
‘ ltaly. aa ae 
: Genii Borghése, brother-in-law. to Napoleon. toe See 
Abbé Angelo Cesaris, first Astronomer of the observatory. alin i 
lan; editor x the Ephemerides eens de Milan, 
