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from the preffes of Guttenberg, or from 
thofe of Fauft and Scheffer. On this 
queftion, however, depends another, whe- 
ther we muf attribute or refufe to Gut- 
tenburg a number cf works printed with 
the charaéters of the Catholicon. Gut- 
tenburg appears to have died before the 
end of February r498.. Citizen Oberlin 
has collected his epitaph. His portrait is 
in the Public velpiie ua Strafburg. Such 
are the general nocices to be found in 
the above differt atton 3 1p the work itfelf, 
the learned will find-a number of cu- 
rious details given by the author, on each 
article. 
Jacques Frry, a Roman engraver, 
grandfon of him who acquired a jaft ce- 
Icbrity in the exercife cf his graver_ on 
the works of Raphael, is now employ ed in 
engraving the Eucharift of Leonardo da 
Vinci, painted in frefco, in the refeGory 
of the convent Delle Grazie, at Milan, 
but which is fo much altered by time 
and moifture as to be no longer diftin- 
guifhable. 
covered an excellent copy, pamted in oil, 
by Mark Uglon, one of the pupils of Leo- 
nardo. Itis this unique copy which ferves 
him fer a model, and according to which 
he hopes to be able to reftore the hairs of 
the head, the expreffion, and, in fhort, the 
grand ftyle of Leonardo. 
There are in Paris no le(s than ten pub- 
Jic-libraries, moft.of them open every day; 
but the Bzbliothéque Nationale, in the Rue 
de Richelieu, furpafles al] the reft, and is 
defervedly confidered as the pride and or- 
nament of that metropolis. The printed 
books alone fill the firft floors of three 
fides of a large court. The gallery of 
ranuicripts contains 37,000 upon events 
o the Hittory of France, chiefly fince the 
reign of Louis XI. of which number are 
about 25,000 in learned or foreign lan- 
guages. Three hundred thoufand is the 
whole number of volumes. contained in 
this depot, 
who Gack however, only by computa- 
tion ; and whether their etiimate be exag- 
gerated or not, the collection is certainly 
increafed by many pieces not ftrictly be- 
longing to a library. Among thele are 
Exeres) port- -folies of titles and genealogies, 
and as many of engravings, divided into 
twelve clafies, of which that of portraits 
alone is faid tocontain 50,000. ‘There is 
alfo one very curious article which is 
fhewn to vifitors, the port-folio of Gaig- 
niers, an extenfive collection of prints of 
French drefles and fafhions, from the time 
of Clovis to the pre efent day. Of thefe, 
the moft ancient nave been copied irom 
paintings on glafs, tapeftries, and tombs; 
3 
Literary and Philofoshical Intelligence. 
Happily Citizen Frey has dif- 
according to the librarians, — 
[March fs 
This library is open to ¢afual vifitora 
three days in a decade; and to ftudents, 
who take notes, every day. ‘There is alfo 
the City’ library, rich in herbals and bo- 
tanical works, to which belong nine pro- 
feffors of languages and fciences, who. 
read le€tures almoft daily. The Library- 
of St. Viétor is remarkable for French 
manu{cripts, one of which is a record of 
the proceedings fo difgraceful to our 
countrymen againft La Pucelle, or the 
Maid of Orleans. It alfo contains an ac- 
count of the expences of Philippe le Bel, 
written on tables of wax: but this is ne- 
ver fhewn to perfons who vilit the library 
in the hours allotted to ftrangers.. The 
Library uf the Pantheon contains about 
30,000 volumes, and, what attraéts curi- © 
ofity ftill’ more, a model of the city of © 
Rome, finifhed about twenty years fince. 
Several of the other libraries are valuable, 
and have profeffors- of languages and feis 
ences attached to them, - 
Some interefting remains of antiquity 
have been lately difcovered at the town of 
Neuwied, on the banks of the Rhine, in 
Germany.- They confit of the remains 
of 2 Roman town and caffrum, which have 
hitherto been entirely. covered under a 
piece of uncultivated ground. The caf- 
trum is a'reCtangular figure 850 feet in 
length, and 631 feet in breadth, furround- 
ed by a wall five feet thick, with turvets 
built on it at regular intervals.’ Gevei~} 
houles, a palace,, and a facellum, have bezn 
found entire. The coins,-bufts, &c. hi- 
therto obtained have been arranged into a 
cabinet by the Princefs of Neuwied. 
A wild rhinoceros was lately killed at 
the Cape of Good Hope, near CapeTownsg. 
whofe height was feven feet, fix inches, 
and its length, from the fnout to the roo: 
of the tail, eleven feet and a half. This 
animal is fuppofed to have been one of? 
the largeft ever feen of its fpecies. 
M. NicoLar Katucin, a citizen of 
Mofcow, has lately prefented to the Em- 
peror Alexander an-account of a method 
or procefs, by which he can give a dark 
green colour to cloth, by means of burned: 
nettles, ard for which he has received the 
fum of 500 rubles. 
» The following is the order in which the 
celebrated remains of ancient fculpture, 
lately brought from Italy (the difpofition 
of them being now completed), decorate: 
the National Palace of the Thuilleries. 
Upon the terrace fronting the river, are 
the Venus Anadyomene, the Belvidere 
Apollo, the groupe of the Laecoon, the 
Diana, calied Lucina, and the Hercules 
carrying Ajax. In front of the palace 
are the Dying Gladiator, the Gladiator ia 
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