1801.] 
1767 near Frafcati, and has long been 
known by the name of its infcription, 
Sardanapalus, and lately called the Beard- 
éd Bacchus. Mongez gives it to the Em- 
peror Heliogabalus, and this opinion is 
rendered plaufible by the well known affec- 
tation of this prince to take the Affyrian 
Grefs ; by the attributes of Bacchus, which 
he loved to afflume ; the name of Sardana- 
palus, which he {fo .well deferved ; and 
bearded-face, which the artifts were in the 
habit of giving to the fucceflors of the 
philofophic Antonines. 
A report was made on the improvement 
in the mechanifm of the ftereotype, intro- 
duced by C. Heruan. His procefs for 
fetting up the types is the following : ‘* he 
begins by cutting fheets of copper, felected 
for the purpole, into parallelopipedal {trips 
of the fame breadth as common printing 
types: thefe he files and polifhes perfectly 
. fmooth and equal, cuts into pieces. of the 
proper length, and makes them even. He 
then fixes each piece in a. machine, which 
carries them perpendicularly under a fteel 
die, which 1s cut with a letter of the al- 
phabet, where the copper piece is ftamped 
by ftriking the fteel with a hammer, but 
the die is furnifhed with a button, which 
prevents it from cutting beyond a certain 
depth, and by this contrivance the charac- 
ter is flamped in each type exaétly in a uni- 
form manner. The hollow copper types 
are then putin a frame, diftributed, and 
worked like common types, and the copy 
is compofed as ufual, only it is not 1n- 
verted, but direét, and reads from left to 
zight; as when printed. The page is alfo 
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wedged as ufual, and corrected. When 
the types are done with, they are taken 
down, and ferve for future operations. 
C. LEBLOND, in a Hiftory of Ephefus, 
difcuffes a point long debated among the 
learned—tie origin and date of thofe filver 
coins called ci/fophora. After refuting feveral 
Opinions, he gives them their true origin , 
and date. Among thefe coins, which were 
ftruck in fix towns of Afia, thofe ef Ephe- 
fus are diftinguifhed by numeral letters 
upon the face, which are dates of years. 
Thefe were ftruck upon the arrival of 
every new Roman pro-conful in Afi, 
and this was aright peculiar to the Ephe- 
fians, on which they valued themfelves 
highly. 
Tue Society of MEDICINE in Paris, 
which before the revolution rendered fo much 
fervice to the healing art, is about to re- 
fume its labours. The {chool of medicine 
in Paris has laid the foundation of this 
re-organization of the former fociety. 
In the fitting of the Mepicat Society 
oF EMULATION, at Paris,C.RICHERAND 
reada memoir on the ethmoidal nerve,which 
arifes from the nafal branch of the oph- 
thalmic of Willis. The honour of the dif- 
covery of this nerve,attributed toScARPA, 
C. Richerand claims for the French ana- 
tomilts. In LeCat’s Traité des Sens, pub-»: 
lifhed in the middle of the century juit 
expired, is an account of this nerve by two 
furgeons of Strafburg, Nicolai and Au- 
dran, who had demonftrated it for feveral 
years. 
VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PHILOSOPHICAL. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. é 
*,* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. : 
R.. TOULMIN, of Taunton, has 
now in the prefs a new and enlarged 
edition of his ** Letters to Mr. Fuller, Oz 
the Pradtical Efficacy of the Unitarian 
Dofrine;’ with additional iWuftrations 
and proofs; and a general Defence of the 
Arguments, in two Letters toa Friend. 
' The fecond part of Mr. TurRNER’s 
Anglo-Saxon. Hiftory is now in the ‘prefs, 
in two volumes. One will contain a view 
of the political ftate of the North, in the 
ninth century; an account of the Sea- 
Kings and Piracies of the North ; the life, 
of Racnar Lodbrog ; the invafion of Eng- 
land by his children; and the life of Al- 
fred the Great.’ The other yolume will 
- Moatary Mag. No. 69. 
exhibit the hiftory of the Anglo-Saxen 
Kings, from the death of Alfred to the 
Norman Conqueft, which terminates the 
civil hiftory of the Anglo-Saxons. 
The works of the late Mr. Harris, of 
Salisbury, announced in our laft Number, 
as in a train of publication, under the di- 
reCtion of his fon, the Earl of MaumMEs- 
BURY, will make two handfome volumes 
in quarto, illuftrated by two portraits of 
the author, and five decorative engrav- 
ings, Prefixed will be an account of his 
life and writings. 
Mr. Rape FELL is preparing for the 
prefs a work which will contain a parti+ 
cular account of (he prefent Rate of Hol- 
BS land 
