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Efchweiller, to the mines of calamine, in 
the ct-dewant Duchy of Limbourg ; they 
will follow the proceffes relative to the al- 
lying of this fubftance to copper, in the 
brafs manufactures of Stolberg 5 and, 
lafily, the Departments of Ourthe, of Je- 
mappes, and of the North, will offer to 
them, independently of many faline prepa- 
rations, great works for the extraction 
of coal, where they will fee the appli- 
cation of the powerful means where- 
by art can furmount the greateft difficul- 
ties. ‘Thefe two practical {chools will 
form an union of all that can be defired, 
in order to form miners and metailurgifts. 
That of Pezay is already organized. The 
talents, the experience, and the zeal of the 
perfons, who have been appointed to it, 
give reafon to hope for all imaginable fuc- 
cefs from this eftablifhment. The Firt 
Conful has named, on the propofal of the 
Minifter of the Interior, and the prefenta- 
tion of the Council of Mines, Citizen 
SCHREIBER Engineer in Chief and Di- 
rector General of the Eftablifhment of Pe- 
zay;—Citizens HassENFRATz and BaliL- 
LET, alfo Engineers in Chief of the 
Mines, Profeffors, the one of Metallurgy, 
the other of Exploitation ;—Citizen Bro- 
CHANT, Engineer, Profeffor of Geology 
and of Mineralogy. The Affemblage of 
the Diregtor General and of the Profef- 
fors forms an Executive Committee, both 
for the conduét of the mine of Pezay, and 
for the inftruétion of the pupils; this 
committee to correfpond with the Coun- 
cil of Mines at Paris. The praétical 
f{chool of Geiflautern to be organized ina 
fimilar manner ; but it will have more par- 
ticularly for its objeét the treatment of 
iron, the labours of extraétion, certain 
preparations of faline fubftances, that of 
metalkic oxydes, and of the earths proper 
for painting,for glafs- works and potteries, 
and for the coloration of enamels. Thefe 
two eftablifhments will fpeedily lead to 
fenfible ameliorations in the art of extraét- 
ing and of preparing minerals ; they will 
likewife give birth to a more profperous 
and active management in the multiplied 
fabrics which depend on them. 
The firft number of a very fuperb work 
has been lately publithed in French, at 
| Metz and Paris, (a tranflation from 
_ the German), entitled Figures d’Homere, 
&c, or Figures of Homer, defign- 
ed after the antique, by H. G.Tiscu- 
BeIN, Director of the Royal Academy of 
Painting and Sculpture at Naples, with 
the Explications of Cur. G. Heyne, 
Profeffor of the Belles Lettres at the Uni- 
Veifity of Gottingen.. This colleétion, fo 
Monruiy Mac. No. 94. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 439 
interefting for the arts, is in one volume 
in folio, on large fun vellum paper, with 
very beautiful characters. Its author is 
well known as one of the moft diftinguifh- 
ed and laborious artifts of our age— 
When the work is completed, it will form 
two confiderable volumes, one of which 
will contain a collection of all the monu- 
ments which have a relation to the Iliad 5 
and the other, of all thofe which have a 
relation to the Odyfley. It will be the 
Homer of painters and fculptors; and, 
confidered in this point of view, a clafficak 
work for artifts. It will be claffical alfo 
for all the friends of- antiquity and of the 
Prince of Poets, who will find in it a vi- 
fible commentary cn the Iliad and Odyf- 
fey, in the reprefentation of the events, 
the arms, the coftume, and the utenfils 
of thofe remote times. The number here 
announced, and which is the firft of the 
Tliad, contains the fix following plates, 
three of which are appropriated to the 
perfon of the poet, and form a fort of in- 
troduction :—-1. A head of Hamer, after 
the buft of Farnefe, defigned by Tifch- 
bein, and engraved by Raphael Morghen, 
firft engraver to the King of Naples.— 
This engraving, executed in the moft fu- 
perb ftyle, renders with fpirit and fidelity 
the charaéter and the majefty of the ori- 
ginal.—2, Homer inftructed by the Mu- 
fes, after a cameo in the pofleflion of Sir 
William Hamilton.—3. The apotheofis of 
Homer, after a filver cup in the Hercula~ 
neum Mufeum. This valuable morceau 
had been copied in Winckelmann’s Hif= 
tory of the Arts, where it forms the firft 
vignette of the fecond volume ; but it is 
eafy to fee how much it had been dish- 
gured, and with what perfection it is ren- 
dered in the prefent colleétion.—4. He- 
len conduéted to the tomb of Paris; after 
an Etrufcan farcophagus in the Gallery of 
Florence: the defign is of exquifite puri- 
ty and grace.—5. ‘The heads of the feven 
principal heroes of the Iliad ; defigned 
and grouped in a charaéteriftic manner 
by Tifchbein, after feven beautiful an- 
tique bufts. This plate is allo from the 
graver of Raphael Morghen: it has a 
very capital effe&t. Tifchbein has dif- 
played much judgment and {pirit in the 
oppefitions and the relations of the cha- 
raéter of the different heads. ‘That of 
Menelaus contrafts with that of Agamem- 
non—that of Diomed with that of Ulyf- 
fes—and fo of the others. We perceive, 
in al! the traits of thefe heads, how much 
the artifis who produced them were filled 
with the genius of Homer; and all that 
the poet fays of his herges, is found here 
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