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on the Griffin, concludes; from a paflage 
in Herodotus, lib. 4. that the Griffins 
were not a {pecies of beafts, but a people 
of Scythia who: .imhabited a country 
where gold was found in the “beds of 
rivers. f 
A bookfeller of Halle, in Germany, has 
publifhed a profpeétus of a new literary 
journal, to commence on the firft of Ja- 
nuary, 1805, in which authors are to give 
notices and-reviews of their owx works! 
i however, aS good as that 
jous reviews, in which an 
author? as trequently reviewed bya 
litera val, or by a fecret, malignant, 
and-unprincipled enemy. 
Jean Bapr. MONTGOLFIER, one of 
the brothers who invented the air-balloon, 
has been appointed to the piace of the 
Jately decealed Leroi, in the Confervatory 
of Arts, &c. in Paris. 
Travellers, of every nation, who re- 
turn from France, ace lavifh of their praifes 
of the exceilent and judicious adminiftra- 
tion of Bonaparte. He appears to be ido- 
lized throughout France, and the French 
people are at length defcribed as being 
contented and happy. 
The celebrated natural philofopher and 




_-ymathematician, Van SWiNDEN, who was 
fent as deputy from Holland to the com- 
mittee at Paris for eftablifhing equal 
weights and meafures, has been eleéted to 
fill the vacancy in the Direftory of the 
Batavian republic. 
Mr. J. Fr. Uncer, member of the 
enate of the Academy of Arts and. Me- 
chanical Sciences, at Berlin, known to the 
German public by his types cut in fteel, 
and his maps engraved in wood, has been 
appointed projefjor of the art ef engraving 
in wood to that academy. 
In the Alzemeiner Literarifcher Auxeiger, 
a German literato requefis to be informed 
whether there be any good biography of 
the famous Robin Hood; and if any tuch 
exift, when, and where it was printed, 
and where it may now be found ? 
The Empercr of Germany having ap- 
pointed a new committee for education and 
public inftrugtion in his dominions, has 
iffued a decree by which his proteftant 
fubjeéts who with to ftudy in foreign uni- 
verfities, are forbidden to go to any other 
than that of Gottingen, Wittenberg, 
Leipzig, and Tubingen. -A general hope 
is, however, entertained that an exception 
will be made in favour of Jena, as proofs 
can be given that no revolutionary princi- 
ples are now fuffered there. 
Dr. GrigsBaCH has compiled his new 
critical edition of the New Teltament, 
which will be put to prefs inftantly, An- 
other very fplendid edition of the Greek 
Teftament, according to the text confti- 
tuted by Dr. Gricfbach, and enriched with 
prefatory difcourfes and. introduétions te 
every book, by the fame, is now pre- 
paring at Leipfig, by that eminent book- 
feller, Mr. Gofchen, the editor of Wie- 
land?s and Klopftock’s works. A new 
Greek type has been cut exprefsly for the 
purpofe, under the infpection of Dr. 
Griefbach, which may be adopted, in fu- 
ture, as the ftandard for an elegant Greek 
type. “ » 
_Dr.Pau.us,a fkilful Orientalift, and a 
man of great ingenuity and learning, is pub-~ 
lifhing aCommentary, in four volumes, for 
the New Teftament in German, enriched 
with all the new refearches and oBferva- 
tions of divines and literary men. — 
Mr. ScumipT has completed his ex- 
cellent work on empirical pfychology, in 
which the tenets of the Kantean philofo- 
phy are blended with the fineft remains 
and diicoveries lately made in that ufeful 
part of philofcphical enquiry. 
- Mr. UGEN, profeffor of the Oriental 
languages, is publifhing the fecond vo- 
lume ot the Illuftration of the Gld Tefta- 
ment. 
M. E1pESTAEDT is clofely engaged 
upon tne edition of Diodorus Siculus, pro- 
ceeding, at the fame time, witha repub- 
lication of Mr. Wakefield’s admired Lu- 
cretius, with additional notes and obfer- 
vations. . 
Dr. Erscu, the moft laborious and ac- 
curate compiler of literature, not only in 
Germany, but in all Europe, the author 
of the Repertory of Literature, which is an 
index to every work publifhed in ever 
country in Europe, within the Jaft fifteen 
years, and the publither of da France Li- 
teraire, from 1771—96, inthree volumes, 
received with approbation by the National 
Inftitute, has left Hamburgh, where he 
refided heretofore, being engaged as fe. 
cretary to the Univer/ai Literary Gazetie, 
at Jena. He is confidered as a very ufe- 
ful acquifition to the moft extenfive literary 
review in Europe (more than 8eo0e copies 
being printed daily, in 4to.) in which 
more than goo correfpondents and critics 
are engaged. 
_ The Greek Anthology has of late had 
the good fortune to attract the attention of 
feveral diftinguifhed commentators. Be- 
fides the fplendid edition of the Anthole- 
gia Greca by Mr. De Bofch, of Amfter. 
dam, publithed at Utrecht, 3 vol. in 4to. 
which is particularly valuable fromthe me- 
trical Latin iranflaticn of Hugo Grotius, 
and 
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