z 997.| — Sixty Articles of original Literary Intelligence. 201 
the fide of herefy) the copy js to be fub- 
mitted to the infpeétion of fome of the 
Syndics. Whether the work will! gain 
fo much by the infpection, as the Author 
will in paper and printing, is much 
doubted by the Caxtabs. Mr. MILNER 
is brother to Dr. Milner, a leading man 
among the Syndics. 
Mr. JoHN HousMAN (the intelligent 
author of the Tour through England, 
publifhed in this Magazine) has in the, 
prefs a Topographical Defcription of 
Lancafhire, Weftmoreland, Yorkthire, 
and of the Lakes of Cumberland. It 
will be publifhed by fubfcription, in large 
oftavo, and be embellifhed with a con- 
fiderable number of Views, and witha 
ficet Map of the Roads, and another of 
the Canals, Soils, &c. &c. 
M. Hurs, Profeffor of the Mathe- 
“Matics at Berlin, hasinvented an Acoutftic 
Inftrument, capable of colleéting Sounds 
from a very confiderable diftance ; and 
has added fome confiderable improve- 
ments to the circular {peaking trumpet, 
by which its powers will be highly mag- 
nified and extended. The ear, there- 
fore, will, it is probable, be fhortly. cal- 
Ted in to affift the eye, in the determina- 
tion of tranfactions at a diftance. 
') The Géconomical Society of Berne, 
Which, fince the death of HALLER, ap- 
eg ina manner fufpended, has pub- 
ihed a new volume of Tranfactions. 
This fociety publifles, every- fortnight, 
2 connected Series of Obfervations de- 
voted to the Inftru€tion of Perfons liy- 
ing inthe country. The fubjeé of their 
firft prize-differtation was, the Natural 
Hiftory of Moths, with the moft effectual 
method cf deftroying thofe noxious in- 
ects. 
- The German botanift, SLEICHER, 
has been thefe two years employed in 
fearching the mountains of Switzerland, 
in queft of {carce plants. : 
The Goettingen Mufeum has expe- 
rienced a freth proof of the munificence 
ef BaronAscn, of Peterfburgh, confifting 
of a large number of natural and arti- 
ficial curiofities, fele@ed during a voyage 
of difcovery undertaken inthe FrozenSea, 
‘and the Northern parts of the Pacific 
Ocean. Profeffor Vorcr defigns to pub- 
Titha defcriptive catalogue of them. 
A fociety of literary characters in Ger- 
“Many have projeéted the vaft defign of 
“Writing an Univerfal Hiffory of the Progre/s 
Wf Civil zation, to the Clofe of the Eighicentb 
miury. “Vhe introduétion is by the au- 
‘Me counfclior J. G. E1CKHORN, and 
Bears the title of Univeral Hyftory- o 
Montary Mac. XX10, a 



Culture and Literature,or Hiffory of Aris and 
Sciences, from their Reftoration till the Clofe 
of the Eighteenth Century, by a Literary 
Society. The author of the introduction 
divides the work into three periods; the - 
firficommencing from the year 1100 to 
1450; the fecond from 1450 to 16503' 
the third and laf&t from 160 to the pretent 
time. It is fpoken of as a work of great 
utility and merit. , 
The OpEON at Paris ‘* was opened, 
for the firft time, on. the igth of laft 
April, by a brillant concert, under the 
diregtion of Navorcit. The company 
was numerous, and feleét. The repairs 
and decorations which this elegance 
building, late the Hall of the nationak 
Company of Comedians, has undergone, 
are {poken of with much applaufe, as 
doing great credit to the tafte and talents 
of the ingenious architect PeYRE. _ 
Men of literary talents, who under the 
old French government were ‘excluded 
from eminent employments in the ftate, 
unlefs their claims were fupported by 
noble birth, are now advanced to the firft 
dignities. MARMONTEL, as one inftance, 
has been lately appointeda deputy tothe 
Council of Ancients for the department of 
Bure. 
Dipor the ‘elder is publithing, by 
fubfcription, his beautiful editions of 
Virgil and Racine, with which he has : 
been occupied during feveral years. His 
Virgil is ia folio, fuperfine wove paper 5 
the type exprefsly caft for the pur- 
pofe. | The engravings, 23 in number, 
are from defigns by.GeRrarD and GE- 
RODET. The price 540 livres. The 
edition of Racine is, if poffible, ftill more 
magnificent, being embellifhed with a 
greater number of prints, and having an 
engraving to each act. A new edition of 
Horace will immediately fucceed to Vir- 
giland'Racine, and thefe will be followed 
by Matberbe and Boileau. 
Among the acquifitions lately made by 
the French in Rome, is a complete fet of 
types of all the exotic characters belong 
ing to the prefs of the Propaganda, which 
amount tO 5511 matrices. Thefe, 
added to the magnificent colleétion of 
Greek and Oriental chara€ters, already in 
the poffeffion of the Repubiic, will form 
the completeft and beft executed typo- 
graphical colle&tion in Europe. 
A complete edition of the Works of 
LEONARD will fpeedily be publithed at 
Paris, under the direction of VINCENT 
* Fora defcription of this Inftitution, fee 
ous Magazine fog Febr; -ry laft, p. 126. 
ft - " CAMPENON, 




