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MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 
first number contains 12 lithographic plates 
in 4to. The work will be completed in three 
numbers, representing nearly 500 species of 
petrifactions, with a geological introduction. 
The same house has published Monumenta 
Germaniae Historica, from the year 500 to 
1500, under the auspices of the Society for 
publishing the Sources of the Alfairs of 
Germany in the Middle Ages, edited by Dr. 
Geo. H. Pertz, tom. iii. being the first 
volume of the laws of Germany in the Middle 
Ages. 
“ A young German army physician has 
discovered in a convent here a complete copy 
of the nine books of the Phoenician History 
of Philo-Byblius, which he translated into 
Greek from the Phoenician of Sanchoniatho. 
It is properly a cliromicle of the town of 
Byblos ; but as that town was in alliance 
with Sidon, and in the sequel became depen- 
dent on Tyre, the history of these cities is 
very circumstantially related. Neither are 
neighbouring cities, people, or dynasties 
neglected, or the coasts of the islands occu- 
pied by Phoenician colonies. The eighth book 
is particularly important ; a catalogue of all 
the troops, war chariots, and ships of each 
town, and of each of the many dependent 
colonies. Only the colonies in Spain were 
independent, and allowed no persons from 
the mother country to visit their ports, except 
the merchants from Tyre.” (Another letter 
adds that it will be published in Germany.) 
The University of Gottingen has received 
a valuable present of Chinese books from Dr. 
Velthausen in London, which he purchased 
at Canton. There is with them a very large 
and accurate map of the Chinese Empire. 
HOLLAND. 
M. Noorda van Eyringa, who is well known 
to the learned world by his valuable labours 
in the Malay languages, has just presented to 
the king his Dictionaries and Grammar of 
the Languages of Kromo. Ngoko, Modjo and 
Karri (gwery Kawi?)in the island of Java. 
These works will be of infinite use to the 
Dutch civil and military officers, as well as 
to strangers visiting that island. 
The Chevaler Rifaud, celebrated for his 
Travels in Egypt, Nubia, and the neighbouring 
countries, in which he spent twenty-two 
years, has brought back with him to Amster- 
dam a collection of more than six thousand 
drawings made on the spot, and embracing 
every thing connected with art that presented 
itself to his view. He has already commenced 
the publication of his Travels, and says, in 
the announcement, that he discovered, among 
other things, sixty statues, the smallest of 
which is of the natural size : and that he 
copied numerous inscriptions and tables of 
hieroglyphics. 
PRUSSIA. 
Two works, which might as properly be 
led one work, from their connection with 
each other, by Dr. Gottfried Schadow, 
Director of the Royal Academy of Arts at 
Berlin, have just been published, with the 
titles of Polyclet & Polycletes, or Measures 
of the Human Body, according to the Sex 
and Age, &c. German and French, 4to, with 
29 lithographic plates, folio ; and ” National 
Physiognomies, or Observations on the Dif- 
ferences of the Features, and of the External 
Conformation of the Human Head,” a con- 
tinuation of Polycletes, 4to, with 28 litho- 
graphic plates, fol. They must be highly in- 
teresting to anatomists and artists. 
“ Der Preusische Staat, in alien seinen 
Beziehungen,” compiled by a society of men, 
of learning and friends of national topo- 
graphy, statistics, &c. under the direction of 
Baron L. von Zedlitz Neukirch, is destined 
to fill a desideratum that has long been felt. 
It appears periodically, and has now' reached 
its 7th number. 
RUSSIA. 
A very important work has just been pub- 
lished by M. Schnitzler, author of the much 
esteemed “ Statistique G^n^rale de I’Empire 
de Russie.” This new work is “ La Russie, 
la Pologne, et la Finlande ; Tableau statis- 
tique, geographique, et historique, de toutes les 
parties de la Monarchic Russe, prises isole- 
ment. 1 vol. 8vo, 720 pages, with three 
plans. 
On the proposal of the Minister of Public 
Instruction, the Emperor has been pleased 
to extend to the end of the year 1836 the 
scientific expedition of M. Feodorof, in | 
Siberia, at the public expense, the chief object 
of which is to ascertain the exact position of 
several places between the 30th and 60th de- 
grees of latitude. 
Mr. A. J. Sjoegren, who has been travelling 
for some years in the northern parts of 
Russia, with a view to historical and philo- 
logical researches, and who has collected a 
vast number of valuable MSS. and most 
cui'ious information, is now gone to pursue 
his researches in the Caucasian provinces. 
The Imperial Academy of Sciences has just 
lost its first vice-president, Mr .Henry Fr. 
Storch, privy councillor, and grand cross of 
several orders, w'ho died in the night of the 
13th of November, at the age of 69 years. He 
acquired desei'ved reputation by the publication 
of several useful w'orks, among wffiich are the 
Statistical and Historical View of the Russian 
Empire, and his Course of Political Economy, 
SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
Mr. Tinker, an American missionary, has 
commenced a periodical work at Honoruru, 
in Woahoo, one of the Sandwich Islands. 
This capital now contains 7,000 inhabitants, 
and the missionaries keep three presses 
going there. 
