16!2 Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, [Sept, 
Tiler®, by the attentions of literature and 
science, 
D) . Aikin has in the press, and 
^vill speedily publish in an octavo vo¬ 
lume, the Lives of John Seldon and 
Arclibishop Usher; with notices of the 
literary characters with whom those great 
men were connected. 
The author of “ The Battles of the 
Danube and Barrosa,” will shortly pub® 
lish a poem, entitled The Conflict of 
AlbueraJ’ 
Mr. Wright is preparing for the 
press, an octavo volume on the Philo¬ 
sophy of Elocution, and on the Anatomy 
of Oratorical Expression. 
A second volume of Sermons, by the 
Kev. Dr. Buchan, is in the press, and 
may be expected by the end of October, 
and at the same time a new etlition of 
the first volume. 
Mr. Holstein has finished a Novel 
in two volumes, entitled “ The Modern 
State, or a Husband Perplexed. 
A new work, consisting of Poems, 
Essays, &c. &c, said to be the produc¬ 
tion of a late amiable Viscountess, is 
preparing for the press, and will shortly 
appear under the title of Selections 
from the Portfolio of the Lady Ursula,” 
Lord Somerville points out the fol¬ 
lowing remedy for the foot rot in sheep. 
Butter of antimony rubbed into the foot 
w'ith a small stick cut flat, after it is 
carefully pared, and so as to leave no 
cavity in the liorn. The sheep must 
then be left in a dry place for thYee or 
four hours, and separated from the flock 
for a few days afterwards. 
Mr. Nightingale is about to publish 
a Letter to a Friend, containing a com¬ 
parative view of two systems of short 
hand. 
A tortoise in the possession of Mr. 
Brand, collector of the customs, at 
Boston, has laid four eggs. I’hey are the 
size of w'ood-pigeon’s eggs, are nearly 
round, and resemble a crystallization, or 
what is called a Deibyshire spar. Mr, 
Brand has in his possession two tortoises, 
male and female; the former from the 
West Indies, and the latter from the 
island of Mogadore. 
About two months ago, a young cuckoo 
was taken from a hedge-sparrow’s nest in 
the neighbourhood of Liskeard, and car¬ 
ried to the house of Mr. Moon, of that 
town. In this room was a canary bird, 
which, upon seeing the cuckoo, became 
niJich agitated. The young bird was 
then put into the cage with the canary 
bird, w'hich instantly began to feed it, 
and has continued that maternal office 
to the present time. 
GERMANY. 
No part of Germany possesses so many 
institutions for the instruction of youth, 
as the kingdom of Westphalia, The 
school of Klosterbergen, founded by Otho 
the Great, is still continued, and not¬ 
withstanding the changes produced by 
the new constitution, in respect to the 
plan of the universities; those of Got¬ 
tingen, Halle, Helinstadt, Marbourg, 
and Rintein, contain no fewer than 1207 
students. There are also fifty-twm gym¬ 
nasia, among which the most distin- 
guisiied are that of Iplefeld, under the 
direction ofM. Heyne, and that of Halle, 
under the superintendence of M. Nie- 
meyer, which calculate on 6,831 scho¬ 
lars: while the lower schools in number 
about 3,600, are frequented by upw^ards 
of 253,338 children. Each of the cities 
of Brunswick and Magdebourg, possesses 
thirty-five public institutes, without men¬ 
tioning private schools. In these 
cities 900 scholars are instructed in the 
sciences. The richer the country, the 
greater is the number of the schools: 
along the banks of the Elbe, they esti¬ 
mate one master for every forty-nine 
children; on the Oder, one for fifty; on 
the Harz, one for thirty six; and on the 
Weser, one for every seventy-nine. 
Doctor Augustus Zeune, professor 
of the first public institution ever erected 
in Germany, for the instruction of the 
blind, has just published a work entitled, 
Belisarius, accompanied with figures. 
This book not only contains his own ideas 
on this subject, but also the celebrated 
letter of Diderot, sur les Aveugles p* 
extracts from the works of Grant and 
Cheselden, respecting the cataract; an 
account of the method employed by 
Hiiuy, and others, for teaching blind 
persons, &c. In addition to these he 
has given a copy of the machine made 
use of by Sanderson, for teaching calcu¬ 
lation, and a geographical chart, which 
the author has constructed for his pupils. 
In the village of Philipsthal, situate in 
Eastern Prussia, an attempt has been 
made to convei t one of the most terrible 
phenomena of nature, to the use of man. 
It is that of splitting an immense stone 
into a multitude of pieces, by means of 
lightning; a bar of iron, in form of a 
conductor, being previously fixed to the 
same. This experiment was attended 
with the most complete success, for du- 
