1799.] Fefty Articles of Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
ture of Germany, what Athens, Elis, and 
Pifa were to that of ancient Greece. 
Books are inceflantly manufactured and 
fold in them: and amid much mere Logk- 
making there are allo many labours of ge- 
nuine erudition, occafional inventions and 
difcoveries evincing true philofophical pe- 
yetration, and not a few effufions of po- 
etical genius of {uperlative excellence. 
Thotfe Imperial prohibitions which have 
been recently oppofed againft the impor- 
tation of the produétion of foreign lite- 
rature into Ruflia, cannot but very ma- 
terially retard the advancement of know- 
ledge and civilization in that extenfive 
empire. But the eftablifhment of fo many 
of the emigrant nobility of France in the 
Ruffian provinces will, neceffarily, tend 
to counteract this effect to a certain de- 
gree. Nor will it be eafily poffible either 
to drive the literary arts from that footzg 
which they have already gained in Rui- 
fia, or to prevent them from continually 
acquiring there new influence. A new 
Ruffian Atlas is mentioned in the conti- 
nental literary journal as a work worthy 
of applaufe. There is reafon to believe 
that we might yet borrow from the Ruf- 
fians, as from other nations, various im- 
provements in our arts of domettic ac- 
commodation. We have had a recent op- 
portunity of feeing a model of a Ruffian 
itove for warming an apartment, which, 
on account of its equable diffufion of 
heat, its long prefervation of that heat, 
without wafte, and its capacity of affum- 
ing the form, even of any elegant piece 
of furniture, may, perhaps, more than 
vie with any thing of the fame fort that 
has been mentioned in the ingenious and 
beneficent communications of Count Ruzx- 
ford. 
DENMARK does not, juft at this mo- 
ment, prefent to us any thing fo intereft- 
ing in literature as the celebrated ac- 
count by NigBuar of the dilcoveries and 
obfervations of that famous miffion of 
Literat?z, which was fent under the 
aufpices of Count Bernftorff to explore 
the geography and narural hiftory of the 
Ea. But, we have the pleafure of in- 
forming our readers, that Niebuhr, the 
only furvivor of thofe who went upon 
that expedition, ttili lives in comfoct and 
good health at Copenhagen. The fon, avery 
elegant and well-formed young man, 
is now in Britain; is in no mean degree 
a mafter of the Englith, and will, very 
probably, be induced to give to the Britith 
public a complete tranflation of his fa- 
ther’s whole work, which is, in truth, one 
of the moft faithful, the mof scientifically 
Monruty Mac. No. Xiu. 
accurate, and the moft unaffected narra- 
tives of voyages and travels which have 
ever been publifhed in Europe. It is but 
ameagre abridgment of Niebuhr’s tra- 
vels, of which an Englifh tranflation was 
fome years fince publifhed. Of the 
DanisH Drama, there has been recently 
prefented to us an elegantly tranflated fpe- 
cimen, under the title of ** Poverty and 
Wealth,’ which thews it to be, in comedy, 
very nearly ot the fame character with 
that which now prevails on the theatres of 
Britain and France. 
SWEDEN no longer poffeffes a Lin- 
nzus, a Scheele, or a Beroman, but there 
ar? not wanting in it eminent chemiits 
and naturalifts, the pupils of thofe great 
meh. <* The Elements of Chemifiry,” by 
Fourcroy, fo well known by various 
tranflations in the Englifh language, have 
been recently tranflated as well into the 
language ot Sweden as into that of Den- 
mark. The univeriity of Up/al is itill 
adorned by men of diltinguifhed literary 
and {cientific activity. 
A Prcefefor Guruirr, of Klcotcr- 
Bergen, an eminent feminaty of educa- 
tion inthe Pruffian dominions, has recently 
publithed at Magdeburgh a very curious 
production; on the nature and hiftory of 
the ancient art of working in Mojfaics. 
The lovers of the fine arts will, of courfe, 
be eager to procure this erudite and ele- 
gant treatife, and to affien it a ‘place 
in their libraries, befide the writings of 
Winckelman, 
A. French gentleman, refident at Munich, 
it Bavari2, has executed a tranflation of 
the valuable efiays of Count Rumford, 
which is now printing in the prefs of 
Manget at Geneva. 
The FRENCH continue ‘to cultivate 
{cience and literature with much of that 
energy with which they conquer countries. 
and dethrone kings. Some important ex- 
periments cn GALVANIsM, of which‘we 
fhall be able, next month, to prefent 
an abitracted account to our readers, 
evince the national inftitute to pofl{s 
all thofe abilities for {cientific refsarch 
which were formerly difplayed in the me- 
moirs of the academy of fciences. Ata 
late meeting of the faciety for the improve- 
ment of the art of healing, at Nancy, in 
Lorraine, there were read two valuable 
effays on the medicinal prppertics of Iron, 
and on the natural hiftory of feveral va- 
rieties of the Laurel tree. The tormer of 
thefe eflays was the production of Pro- 
feflor Mandel, and was replete with inte- 
.retting mineralogical and medical faéts. 
The civerfities of form under which iron 
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