37? : 
compofed in the Spanifh language. 
Painting. 
Citizen HENNEQUIN, of Lyon, a pupil 
of David, authoiof an allegorical painting, 
reprefenting the triumph of the French 
people on the 10th of Auguft, exhibited - 
in the hall of the Mufeum. 
; Sculpture. 
Citizen J. J. Foucovu, of Riez, de- 
partment of the Lower Alps, pupil of 
Caffieri, author of a marble ftatue of Dz- 
guefclia, placed in the Mufeum. 
_ Mufic and Declamation. 
Citizen DaLEYRAC, department of the 
Upper Garonne, author of the mufic of 
two operas, intitled: Te Ca/fle of Monie- 
nero, and The Twa Prifoners. 
Profeffor Smith has publifhed at Bre- 
men, the two firft numbers of a German 
periodical work, fignifying the Hanfeatic 
Magazine. ‘This celleétion embraces no 
other objeéts than fuch as concern the towns 
of Hamburg, Lubec and Bremen; towns, 
which in many refpects delerve to be par- 
ticularly known. The work commences 
with the hiftory of the Hanfeatic Compact, 
written by profeflor Buscu, a man not 
only diftinguifhed for his learning in ge- 
neral, but for his knowledge in hiftery, 
and efpecially of that which relates to com- 
‘merce. The laft number contains a trea- 
tife upon the prefent fiate of the fine arts 
at Hamburg, by Doctor Mayer, known, 
among other writings, for his Fragmente 
aus Paris. (¥ragments upon Pans), 
The bookiellers Breitkopfand Hertel of 
Leipfic, the editors of the Mufical Ga- 
zette, announce a complete edition of the 
works of HaybN, publifhed by confent of 
this compoler. 
The king of Sweden has juft ordered 
that’ the academy of painting, &c. of 
Stockholm fhall hence forward havea pro-— 
feflor for the {choe]l of architecture, and 
another for the branch of mechanics. A 
monument has juft been erected in the ca- 
thedral of the city of Upfal, to the memo- 
ry ofthe great Linnaeus. It is compoled 
entirely of porphyry of Elfwedal. It is 
properly in form of an altar, whofe fteps 
- are a brown ftone of Oeland, and which 
fupport. a medallion, in which its the but 
of -Linnzus. The following is the in- 
fcription : 
CAROLO A LINNE, BOTANICORUM PRIN- 
CiPI, AMIC1 ET DSICIFULi. 
MDCCXCVIIII. 
The premium propofed at Copenhagen. 
for the jolution of a queftion relative to 
the teaching the theory of trades, has been 
adjudged to’ Mr. Willaume, an author 
Literary and Philfophical Iutelligence. 
«fo remarkable for the cuftom of employing 
Arabian charaéters to write difcoveries 
[May :, 
very well known by feveral tra&s upon 
education, as well as for his great expe- 
rience on the above fubject. It is he who 
fuperintends the excellent inftitution in’ 
Fionia, founded by the Count de Revent- 
low for the gratuitous education of the 
young people in his domains. 
IckLanp. There was a time when the 
Icelanders attracted the attention of Ea- 
rope by their bravery and their love of 
literature and the fciences. They have 
neither loft the one nor the other, but they 
have been left behind at the epocha when 
the. other people of Europe, profiting by 
their more happy local fituations, and 
‘by more favourable external relations, 
made too rapid a progrefs to be followed 
by a people infulated, and who had to 
firuggle conftantly againit the moft rigo- 
rous influence of climate. 
In 1794, there was formed in Iceland a 
literary fociety, which diftinguithed itfelf 
by zeal for diffusing knowledge among the- 
inhabitants of the ifland. We fhould 
however be miftaken, were we to expect 
rare difcoveries, great efforts of genius, or 
proofs of corfummate experience, from a 
nation fo ceftitute of every kind of means, 
particularly thofe of communication, from 
a people in fhort, whofe very laws do but 
too much cramp commerce. In1798, this 
literary fociety publithed at Leiregorda 
-feveral works in the Icelandic tongue. Firft 
a tranflation of a.Catechifm of Nature, by 
MartTTNET, with notes by the tranflator. 
This elementary,work on natural hiftory 
was originally written in Dutch; it was 
profeflor EBERT at Wittenberg who gave 
a German tranflation of it. Second.—Me- 
ditatioas upox Pasion, by STURM, tranfla- 
ted from the German. Third.—Sewveral 
Sermons. Fourth.—The Continuation of a 
Journal,byM. STEPHENSEN, in which the 
author inftructs bis countrymen, the grea- 
ter part fifhermen or fhepherds, concerning 
the latter political events of Europe: ard 
latlly, fifth, a Fournal of Law Proceedings, 
which held up a confiderable intereft to 
the views of the country. 
A Fourney from Amfferdam, through 
Madrid and Cadiz, to Génoa, in 1797 
and 1798, by C. A. FiscHEeR, has lately 
been publifhed at Berlin. Bourgomg’s 
Travels through Spain is juftly confi- 
dered as the bett account of that kingdom, 
which we are wont to contemplate through 
the mift of prejudices and fiétion. To 
Bourgoing we were indebted for almoft all 
we know of the modern ftate of literature 
in Spain, efpecially with refpect to the 
drama. . But however diligent and acute 
that obferver, a rich gleaning of obferva- 
tions was Jeft to be gathered by his fuc- 
ceffors, 
