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Literary and Philosophical"Intelligence, 
Happiness, a Tale for the Grave and 
the Gay, also Mary Nelson, a narra¬ 
tive. 
A new edition, being the third, is in 
the press, of Rolle’s Trader’s Safeguard 
and Counting-House Guide. 
Moses Samuel, Esq. of Liverpool, has 
presented to fheLibraryof theAthenaeum 
a Manuscript Pentateuch, or Sacred 
Law of the Jews. This curiosity is 
written on a roll of fine vellum, four 
inches wide, and upwards of forty- 
five feet long ; it is attached at each end 
to an ivory roller, and the whole is en¬ 
closed in a splendid case of crimson 
velvet. A special meeting of the com¬ 
mittee was summoned for the purpose 
of receiving this valuable present; and 
an ark was ordered to be prepared for 
its preservation, under Mr. Samuel’s 
directions. 
Count Melzi’s celebrated library has 
been bought by Frank Hall Standish, 
Esq. author of a Life of Voltaire. It 
possesses, among other rarities, the 
Livii Historia , Spires , 1470, printed 
upon vellum, with capitals, tastefully 
illuminated : the Lucre tins,Brixiee^Fer- 
randi , the first edition, of which there 
are only three copies. 
A new and improved edition will 
be shortly published of the Rev. David 
W lLLlAMS’sLawsrelating to theClergy, 
including instructions to candidates for 
holy orders. 
The Rev. T. Broadhurst. of Bath, 
will shortly publish a third edition of 
his Advice to Young Ladies on the Im¬ 
provement of the Mind and the Conduct 
of Life, carefully revised, with some 
additions. The work has been for 
several years out of print. 
Mr- Frend’s annual volume of 
Evening’s Amusements on Astronomy, 
will appear at the usual period of its 
publication. 
An annual volume is commenced 
called the Wit’s Red Book ; or. Calen¬ 
der of Gaiety, for the year 1822, a col¬ 
lection of original anecdotes, facetiae, 
epigrams, &c. 18mo. price 2s. 6d. 
A new metrical version of the Psalms 
of David, is in the press, with an Appen¬ 
dix of select psalms and hymns, adapted 
to the service of the united church of 
England ami Ireland, for every Sun¬ 
day in the year, festival days, saints’ 
days, &c. by the Rev. Basil Wood, 
A.M. of Trinity College, Oxford, and 
Rector of Drayton-Beauchamp, Bucks. 
Mr. Wilson will publish in a few 
days a new dramatic piece, entitled A 
Masquerade Rehearsal. 
FRANCE. 
M. Tedenat, son of M. T. French 
Consul at Alexandria, has just arrived 
at Marseilles, with a number of anti¬ 
quities from Upper Egypt, which he 
has been exploring. He ascended as 
far as to the first cataracts of the Nile, 
and visited the famous city with the 
hundred gates. He made excava¬ 
tions in the granitic mountain near 
Thebes, which stretches in front of 
the Great Temple. Here he found 
some beautiful mummies,and MSS. on 
paper, of the finest lustre and in the 
best preservation. It is thought that, 
in this last respect, they yield to no MS. 
in any library whatever. It was in the 
mountainous part called Gourna that 
he made the greatest discoveries. 
He had also the good fortune to meet 
with a rope made of the leaves of the 
palm tree : this was used for letting 
down into a cavern the bodies of rich 
individuals tliat were afterwards to be 
interred in the large chambers cut out 
in the granitic flank of the mountain, 
at a depth of more than 60 toises. These 
profundities seem as if intended to con¬ 
ceal the interior tombs; and now, to get 
at them, is frequently a hazardous 
undertaking. The burial chambers, or 
vaults, of Gourna, exhibit exquisite 
specimens of art, as well in the hiero¬ 
glyphic paintings, as in the saliant 
reliefs, sculptured on all the interior 
walls. We may judge of the patience, 
the tools, and the talents of the Egyp¬ 
tian artists, when even in the bowels ol 
the earth, they could construct immor¬ 
tal works, and not content with erect¬ 
ing those towering pyramids, which, 
after so many thousand years, weary 
out time itself, could excavate, in a 
mountain more than thirty leagues m 
extent, depositories for their mummies 
—thus preserving bodies in opposition 
to the laws of nature, which ever tend 
to their dissolution. M. Tedenat is 
bringing his rich collections to Paris, 
and intends shortly to return to Egypt. 
The academy at Marseilles has admitted 
him to be a corresponding member. 
On tiie 17th of July, Capt. Rey, of 
the ship Henri, who formerly made a 
voyage to Cochin China, arrived in the 
river of Bourdeaux, from the isle ol 
Bourbon. Among his passengers, was 
the Baron Milius, late governor and 
commander of the colony. lie has 
brought with him oue of the richest 
collections of vegetables that have ever 
been introduced into Europe. He has 
also various fruits of the torrid zone- 
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