1802.] 
directed, free of poftage, to the Secretary- 
general.of the Society. 
A French tranflation of Wieland’s Ari- 
Rippus will fhortly be publifhed by Porc- 
ner. “Iwo other tranflations of the fame 
work are announced, 
CHARDON-LA-ROCHETTE, is prepar- 
ing a complete edition of the celebrated 
Vatican Codex of the Anthology, with a 
Commentary, in feven vols. : 
CuaussarpD has lately printed ‘at 
Paris, a Hifforie des Courtifannes Grecques, 
which he announces as a Continuation of 
the Voyages of Anacharfis and of An- 
tenor! !! 
Mr. AKERBLAD, a Swedifh gentleman 
who belonged to the Swedifh embafly at 
Conftantinople, and thereby had an op- 
portunity to make a literary tour in feve- 
ral parts of the Levant, is now diligently 
employed in examining the treafures in 
the National Library at Paris, efpecially 
the numerous Coptic manufcripts. 
A circumftantial account of all the 
manu{cripts in the National Library at 
Paris is now printing. A part thereof 
will appear in the 6th, and the remainder 
in the 7th volume of the Notices des Manu- 
Jerits de la Bibliotheque Nationale ; {o that 
the curiofity of thole will foon be grati- 
fied, who with to become acquainted with 
the contents of the treafures with which 
that rich colle&ion has been augmented. 
A. catalogue has been-long ago prepared 
for the ufe of thofe who vite the Nationah 
Library to collate or confult manufcripts, 
for literary purpofes: and every thing is 
there acceffible. 
In the Dukedom of Mecklenburg-Stre- 
litz, an infticution has been formed, by 
order of the Duke, for the inftruétion of 
future fchool-mafters. Of feveral plans 
propoefed for this purpofe, the preference 
was given to that of Paffor F. L. Reinhold, 
of Woldegt : and acommiffion given him 
to eftablith the fehool at Michaelinas 
z80r, in his place of refidence, himielf 
being appointed Direétor thereof. - 
The prize fubjeéts, viz. ¢* Achilles in 
Scyros” and-‘* Achilles combating with 
the River-gods”, propofed by Goruz in 
the Propylaen (a journal publithed by 
hins) vol. Iif., No. 2, page 163, pro- 
duced an interefting and inttruétive exhi- 
bition at Weimar. The produétions of 
thofe who contended for the prizes, were 
hung in the exterior hall; and in the fe- 
cond the {peétators found a feleét and well 
arranged colle€tion of ‘drawings and pain- 
tings by ancient and modern mafers. 
4 whole feries of drawings and paintings 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 533% 
dor nf the fame year, and fhould be by Nahl of Caffel, in particular, attracted 
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the attention of the connoiffeur ; as likes 
wife feyeral fketches and two well-finithed 
heads, after Rafaclle’s Transfiguration, 
by Tick of Berlin; Portraits by Bury ; 
paintings in oil by Kolbe of Duffeldorf 5 
two portrait-bufts by Dannecker; a re- 
lievo by Wolf of Caflel; and fome 
works of the ancient mafters, among 
which are a Rubens and a Vandyke of 
extraordinary beauty. The happiett 
confequences are expected to follow in 
the reviving of the true fpirit of the art, 
from fuch an exhibition, under the fofter- 
ing guidance of fo competent a judge, 
whom Germany is proud to boaft of, as the 
firft of her poets and connoiffeurs, and on 
whofe decifions neither the jealous zeal of 
rival fchools nor little by-views will have 
any influence. 
The lionefs of the Menagerie at Paris, 
mother of the three young lions, has lately 
whelped two females ; this is her third 
geftation. She fuckles them with the fame 
care, and always appears gentle and caref-' 
fing to the keeper. The three young ones 
are well; the one that was caftrated is 
grown very furly ; it ts kept ina feparate 
den ; the two others are very gentle. 
Citizen ANToiNe ALEXIS CADET DE 
Vaux has lately addreffed a letter to the 
Minifter of the Interior, in which he coms 
municates a cheap and efficacious procefs, 
to deftroy, and above all to prevent, the 
mephitifm with which walls are penetrated, 
wherever a number of people are, whether 
in a ftate of health or ficknefs. Walls 
under fuch circumftances, become infenfi- 
bly impregnated with infeCtious exhala- 
tions, which they re-exhale, wherever 
there is an atmofpherical motion 3 in faét 
there is both an alpiration and a refpira- 
tion. Currents of air, when admitted, 
{weep and cleanfe the atmofphere ; but 
they do not carry away the miafmata con- 
cealed inthe porofity of the walls, and 
which retain the infectious humidity of 
the perfpiration of bodies, which gradu- 
ally condenfes on their furface. In the 
fouthern climates, and particularly in 
Ttaly, where the pulmonary phthifis ac- 
quires a charaéter of energy which renders 
it very communicative, experience has 
proved, that not only the whole wardrobe 
fhould be burnt, all the moveable effeéts 
placed in contaét with the phthifis, bus 
likewife, that the fuperficial coating of 
wallz-and of floors fhould he done away, 
to prevent the contagion which they con- 
cea! and re-exhale, Citizen Cadet de 
Vaux is of opinion, that quicklume may, 
be fubftituted for this purpofe and become, 
32% a fuficiens, 
