1809.| Sixty Articles of Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
rious fizés and at various prices, from fixty 
centimes to feventy-two livres. 
Mr. Scherer, a profefior at Vienna, has 
difcovered that beet-root, after it has been 
pounded and deprived of all its juice by 
preflure, is {till capable of furnifhing beer, 
if dried, toafted, and afterwards treated as 
thofe grains of which malt is made, 
From a report made to the National 
Inftitute of France, it appears that im- 
provements have been made-in that coun- 
try on the Pruffian procefs for extraéting 
fugar from. beet-root, whereby that vege- 
table is made to yield a greater quantity 
of fugar. And'it is hoped, that, by more 
careful cultivation, the beet may be made in 
a certain degree to fuperfede the fugar-cane. 
Doéor Almroth, 2 profeffor at Stock- 
holm, has invented a mill for pulverifing 
the Peruvian bark, which he reduces to a 
powder equally fine as that fold in Eng- 
land. i 
At Peterfburg, has come forth from 
the univerfity prefs a Life of Peter the 
Great, in above thirty volumes, contain- 
ing a variety of authentic documents of his 
time. 
A Profpectus has lately been publithed 
in France of a new hiftorical, critical, and 
bibliographical Diétionary of all the French 
authors, dead and living, down to the 
conclufion of the eighteenth century Its 
title is to be Siécles literaires de la France. 
A French tranflation of the Beauties of 
Sterne has appeared at Paris. 
Milfs Edgeworth’s Treatife on Educa- 
tion has been tranflated into French, and 
publithed at Geneva. 
C. Guérin-Sercilly has invented a mode 
of fabricating fleel by cementation. On 
trial, the beft Englifh files were found in- 
capable of touching his fteel, and his files 
cut thofe of Britifh manufacture. 
Mr. Godwin's Saint Leon has been tran{- 
lated into French. 
In the Bibiotheque Francaife, a new li- 
terary review eftablifhed at Paris, and of 
which the editor is C. Pougens of the Na- 
tional Inftitute, the critics fign their 
names to their refpective critiques. 
‘Dr. JouN Otto Tatess, of Altona, 
propofes to publith by fubfcriptiona ** Ge- 
neral Critical Dictionary of the Authors 
and Literary Works which Germany has 
produced during the eighteenth century, 
in a chronological, {cientific, and alpha- 
betical order. 
A Germen literato has ready for the 
prefs a Notitia Codicum Grecorum Mof- 
cuenfium, which will prove a moft accept- 
able prefent to the lovers of Greek litera- 
ture, as no catalogue has yet been printed 
wa, 
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of the Greek MSS. in the library of Mof- 
cow. -. 
The firft volume’ of the late J. G. J. 
Breirxore’s Critical Hiftory of the Art 
of Printing, which has been announced 
ever fince 1799, will be publithed next 
Kafter by J. C.F. Roch, in Leipzic,— 
The fecond and third volumes, the mate= 
rials for which were left ready prepared for 
the prefs by the author, will follow as 
foon as poflible: and the whole work will 
then conclude with a ** Typographical 
Library,”? or ** An Accurate and Com- 
plete Catalogue of all larger and fmaller 
works which have: been publithed on 
the T'ypographic Art, and on the Sciences 
and Arts clofely or remotely therewith 
connected ;""—arranged from the papers 
of the deceafed, and brought down to the 
year 1300 by M. Roch. 
M. Cu. Lup Mursinna, of Berlin, 
Surgeon General to the Pruffian army, in- 
tends, in conjunction with feveral expert 
Regimental Surgeons, to publith a Chi- 
rurgecal ournal. Almof all the Regi- 
mental Surgeons in the Pruffian fervice 
have been the pupils of M. Murfiana; and 
much may be expected from their commu- 
nications, which will all be founded on 
practical experience, efpecially after they 
have been retouched, where neceflary, by 
the mafter-hand of the editor. 
The Freach National Library now yof- 
feffes the manufcripts of the library of St. 
Germiins: to thefe MSS. the fame num- 
bers have been left by which they were: 
betore defignated, fo that thofe who with 
to confult any of them may ufe the older 
catalogues, which are partly to be found 
11 Montfaucon, The fame plan has been 
followed with refpe&t to the MSS. brought 
from Venice and Rome: and when any 
of thefe MSS. is called for, it is neceflary 
to mention not only the number, fize, and 
language, but likewife the library to 
which -it formerly belonged. ‘There are 
500 MSS. from the Vatican, and 241 from 
that of St. Mark; among them are three 
copies of Ptolemy in the original language. 
Aftronomical Tables in Greek and 
Latin: a copy of Le Gentil’s Travels, 
taken from his own MS. which. probably 
contains all the paflages that were fup- 
prefied in the Paris edition, through the 
influence of the Jefuits. A moft impor- 
tant work is No. 378 of the Vatican Li- 
brary: it contains Haphid’s comprehen- 
five alphabetical lift, in Arabic, of all the 
Arabic.works that had been publifhed till 
the year of Chrift 1618; ameunting to 
18,000. 
A Board of Longitude has been efta- 
blifhed 


