4810.) 
jig the fair, as contributing new publiea= 
tions on this occasien: of these the total 
number was 777. Seven hundred and 
fifteen were German productions, and: 
sixty-two were written in the other Eu- 
ropean langtiages. ° OF the German 
works 115 were new editions, seventy- 
nine were almanacks, and other pertodi- 
cal works, ‘The rest chiefly consisted of 
compilations and elementary works, for 
the use of schools, {ideed, books of this 
last description, were more numerous 
than at any former fair, 
Of the works which were chiefly called 
for, we have to notice the History of the 
French Nevolution, by M, Backzo, of 
Konigsberg; a History of Poetry and 
Eloquence, by M..Bouterwerk ; a Jour- 
ney from Holstein into Franconia and 
Bavaria, by M. Fevers; M. Etchhorn of 
Gortingen’s Llistory of Literature ; Fer- 
now’s Jife of Ariosto; Lectures on Na- 
tural Phitfosophy by M, Lichtenberg ; 
Travels by M. Neninich, of Hamburg ; 
Private Letters from Vienna,’ by. My 
Reichard, the author of Private Letters 
from Paris; Sermons by M. Reinhard, 
of Dresden: M. Schreiber en the Belles 
Lettres; Travels in Upper Austria, by 
AI. Schultz ; Vater onthe Population vf - 
America; Weinbrennet on Theatrical 
Architecture: to which may be added 
several excellent works on philology, 
bearing the well-known names of Schutz, 
flager, Zimmermann, Schezfer, Lenness, 
lieindort, &c, 
Fifty-seven novels or romances have 
been produced during the year. ‘The 
most popular of these, Die MWauhl-ver- 
sandschaflen, is from the fertieand pathe- 
‘tic penolM, Gethe. The names-of Lafon- 
taine, Wagner, and Voss, also appear in 
the Leipsic catalogue as the authors. of 
several works of this description; and 
M. Kotzebue has favoured his. admirers. 
with a new volume of Tales. Under the 
head of Novels and Romances, we find a 
volume with the title of Sediz/liana;—the 
adventures of the unfortunate Schill-and 
his followers, form the sutiect of theseana. 
Twenty-two new dramatic pieces have 
been introduced to the potice of the 
German public during the preceding year, 
but they are not from the peus of any 
writers of eminence. 
FRANCE, | 
The nse of copper-vessels in cookery 
is justly dreaded, and various articles are, 
nevertheless, dressed, in such yessels, 
without acqitiring any injurious qualities. 
M4, Proust Uetermined to discover, if 
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possible, the cause of these contradictory 
elects. He boiled for above an hour,’ 
in & Copper vessel, a quantity of strong 
vinegar, wich completely filled the vess 
sel, ‘Lhe.most active re-agents, such as 
sulphurated hydrogen, did not discover 
the smallest elfect produced on the kis 
quor by the copper, He found, however, 
that the copper becomes oxided, or 
rusted, only when the vessel is not full; 
in which case, a portion of its surface is 
exposed to the action of the atmosphere, 
r 
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the oxygen of which combines with it. . 
Ly ly ap 
this theory he vertied by many eX pe- 
runents, Lhe heat produced during the 
‘tine of boiling, by greatly dilating the air 
which comes into contact with the cope 
per, prevents this combination, Vhe-ace 
cidents then which sometimes follow the 
use of copper vessels, are occasioned ley 
sultering liquids to cool in them, during. 
which tume the air-has access to the sup. 
face of the copper. ‘Lhis theory certainly 
explains by what means it may happen, 
that one person shall use with safety, wad: 
vessel which another person finds ex- 
tremely deleterious. lence also our 
housewives will perecive the reason, why 
cleanliness Is their security, when their 
culinary vessels become partly untineed 
by continued use : 
A chemist at Paris has lately made 
several curious experiments on tobacco, 
which, if found to be correct, will occa. 
slouoa great innovation inthe trade and 
mautiiacture of that vewetable, dis res 
sults were, that the, acrid’ principle vof 
tobacco differs. from: that ‘ofall other 
vegetables whuse properties are knowns 
that it can by an cary process be sepa- 
rated from the. plant, either screen oer 
dried, and ina liquid state; and thatthe 
juice thus extracted, may be combined 
with the dried leaves of any tree, and 
thus form tobacco. Lhe -remains-of the 
plant, after the acrid principle, is thus 
separated, have neither smell nor taste. 
M. Vauqguelin has analysed.a meteoric. 
Sstone,, which fell on the 22d of May, 
1808," at Stannern, in Moravia,. and 
found w one hundred parts of it the fols 
lowing substances; 
UX - mite Rise: SEBO 
Lime - Bi saying ee 42 
Alumine - ‘ " Q 
Oxide of iran. - > mas ioe 
Oxide of Manvanese - - 1 
Oxide of Nickel, a slight trace, % 
scarcely to be estimated at Ut f 
puilpbur, an atem > ie SO 
400 
-cousider as not unwholesome, the sate 
