GREAT HONOR’S TO THE FRENCH NATION. 
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customs of nations, as to that of political 
events, which have hitherto been thought 
alone worthy of detailed notice. The number 
ofthe articles will of course be very great; 
but a simple classification will greatly lessen 
the labour, and prevent repetitions. The ar- 
ticles are of three kinds. Those of the third 
class are very short notices, often only larger 
definitions with reference to the greater arti- 
cles. Those of the second class relate to 
Facts, Men, Ideas, remarkable historical 
Epochs. Those of the first class are devoted 
to Events and Men that changed the face of a 
great part of the world (Alexander, Char- 
lemagne), to a great historical period (the 
Middle Ages), to a great aggregate of coun- 
tries (Russia, India), to some important social 
relation (Islainism, Languages, &c.), or lastly 
to a great class of Nations, or of Mankind in 
general (the Priesthood, Races). In general 
the articles relative to Men (i. e. individuals) 
will be much less numerous than those on 
Events, Ideas, and Things, otherwise history 
becomes biography. It is impossible to enter 
into details respecting the contents of this 
part of the work ; the following are the pro- 
minent features: — 1. Dynasties ; 2. Great 
Historical Periods ; 3. States, Provinces, 
Cities, and their History ; 4. Confederations, 
Corporations, Religious and Military Orders; 
5. Wars, Treaties of Peace, Conventions, 
Battles, Diplomacy ; 6. Governments, Dig- 
nities, Offices ; 7. Legislation, Laws, Cus- 
toms, Codes; 8. Finances, Taxation, Loans, 
EXTRA LIMITES. 
DVVARKANAUTH TAGORE AND THE MEDICAL COLLEGE. 
Mv Dear Bramlev, — I am unwilling to offer you my congratulations upon the 
success which has attended your undertaking in the Medical College, without shewing 
that my feelings towards the Institution are more substantial than those which words only 
can expre ss. 
Should all your expectations be realized, and there is every reason to believe they 
will, the Medical College cannot fail to produce the happiest results amongst my country- 
men. No man, I assure you, is more sensible than I am ofthe benefits which such an 
Institution is calculated to dispense ; but I know also that you have many very great dif- 
ficulties before you, and the greater part of these you will have to contend with at the 
onset. My own experience enables me to tell you that no inducement to native exertion 
is so strong as that of pecuniary reward, and 1 am convinced you will find difficulties 
disappear in proportion to the encouragement offered to the students in this particular. 
As an individual member of the native community, I feel it belongs to us to aid, as far 
as lies in our power, the promotion of your good cause. At present this can hardly be ex- 
pected on any very great scale ; but as example may be of service to you, 1, for one, will 
not be backward to accept your invitation to my countrymen to support the College. 
I beg, therefore, as an inducement to the native pupils now studying in the institution, 
and to those who may hereafter enter, to offer the annual sum of rupees 2,000 for the 
ensuing three years, to be distributed in the form of prizes. In order that these may be 
of substantial value to the candidates, I propose that the prizes should not exceed eight or 
ten in number, and that they should be available only to foundation students and natives 
Money ; 9. Manufactures, Commerce, Navi- 
gation, Mines, &c. ; 10. Churches, Popes, 
Councils, Ecclesiastical administration, &c. ; 
11. Nobility, 'I'hird Estate, Peasantry, 
&o. ; 12. Chivalry, Heraldry, Feudalism, 
Arms, Armies Art of War ; 13. Ordinary 
Life, Liberty, Personal Security, Habitation, 
Dress, Costumes. Fashions, Furniture, Luxury, 
Poverty, &c. ; 14. Religions, Ceremonies, 
Festivals ; 15. Monuments, Archaeology, Cathe- 
drals, &c. : 16. The fine Ars ; 17. Literary 
Activity, Printing, Progress of Philosophy, 
Theology, Sciences, Discoveries, &c. ; 18, 
Sources and Documents, to facilitate the stu- 
dy of history. The extent of the work is calcu- 
lated at forty volumes in large 8vo., each of 
thirty-two sheets, printed in double columns 
four volumes to be published every year. Such 
is a general, but very imperfect, outline of this 
great enterprise. Avery remarkable circum- 
stance is, that the Institute has i-esolved to 
commit the printing of the work to a German 
House, and commissioned a German member 
ofthe society to negociate that business with 
some eminent German firm. So extraordinary 
a sacrifice of French national pride seems to 
indicate that the French book trade must be in 
a very different state from what it is generally 
supposed to be. 
* It seems to us that these volumes (50U pages 
each) will he too small. Our Edinburgh Ga- 
zetteer of 50 sheets or 800 pages is by no means 
an inconvenient size.— Foreign Quarterly for 
Oct, 1835.. 
