1804.] 
The following is faid to be a good 
fubttitute for falt of forvel, for remov- 
“Ing ink-fpots and iron-moulds :—Take 
fix paris of cryftals of tartar, in powder ; 
three parts of alum, pulverized; and let 
them be mixed, and ufed in the fame man- 
fer as falt of forre}. 
K@NiGsMaN has written a Treatile 
on the Geography of Ailttotle, in the 
courfe of which he enters into the confi- 
deration of the genuinenefs of the Trea- 
tile <« De Mundo; and pronounces it to 
be fuppolititious, and unjuftly attributed 
to the philofopher whofe name ir bears. 
One of. the moft important military 
works that has been publithed of late 
years on the Continent, is a ‘* Treatife 
on the Art of War,” by Rocns-Aymown, 
a diftinguifhed officer in the Pruffian fer- 
vice. 
A Critical Account of the Manufcripts 
collected in the Eaft by Benzetius, 
Bifhop of Upfal, has been lately publithed 
by AvRivILLius. 
A fplendid edition of KLoprstrock’s 
** Meffiah” is at prefent publifhing in 
Helland. 
MourapbGea D'OussoOn has publith- 
ed an ‘* Hiftorical View of the Eaft.” 
Witcn’s Geographical Di&tionary of 
Ruffia, with capital maps, is going on with 
renewed ({pirit. 
_ A new edition of Luther’s Works, 
with feveral unpublifhed letters and dif- 
courfes of that great man, is printing at 
HRelmftadt. It is intended alfo to ere& a 
monument to the memory of this Reformer 
in Germany. 
A {mall pamphlet has been lately pub- 
lithed in Paris, entitled «‘ Obfervations on 
the Opinion of certain Hellenifts refpeét- 
ing the Modern Greek,’ by P. Cop- 
RIKA, an Athenian; wherein the author 
makes it his bufinefs, firft, to prove the 
falfity of the aflertion of Bonamy, that 
the modern Greck has been conftruéted 
upon the French, or upon the French and 
Ttalian tongues taken together. M. Cop- 
RIKA fhews, on the contrary, thet the ge- 
nius of the modern Greek language has 
no other conformity with French and Ita- 
dian expreffions, than what merely refults 
froin the conformity of thefe two lan- 
guages with the ancient Greek. He then 
Foecifes the thirteen idioms of the Grxco- 
barbarous language: he defignates the 
jargons into which thefe idioms are tubdi- 
vided, and proves that the pure modern 
Greek is derived from the ancient Greek 
language only. Thefe ideas are develop. 
ed more at Jength in the pamphlet, which 
is well worthy the notice of the amateurs 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 243 
of the Greek language, and which is not 
fafceptible of further analyfis, as the fub- 
je& of this folid produGion is handled with 
great precifion, although with perfpicuity. 
Profeflor FroritLo, In‘pettor of the 
Paintings in the Univerfity of Géttingeny 
has lately publifhed twelve very inftruc. 
tive Memonus on different objects of the 
arts. One of theie is entitled, ‘* Frag- 
ments to ferve as a Hittory of Painting 
and of Sculpture in Germany, from Char- 
lemagne to the Beginning of the Fifteenth 
Century.”? Every century in the hiftory 
of Germany from Charlemagne offers us 
fome ifolated examples of artifts, and 
of works of art. hat Emperor him- 
felf had-built the Palaces of Ingelheim 
and of Trebur, conformably to what he 
had feen of the Roman architecture. The 
author has detailed with care all that we 
read concerning the monuments, whether 
of the time of Charlemagne, or of the fol- 
lowing times. He likewife treats of thofe 
that yet remain to us. We owe, he ob 
ferves, almoft every thing to the monks, 
and to thofe who built the churches. It 
was only a few Emperors that protected 
architecture, and held it in confideration. 
Ortho I. for inftance, Charles 1V. and fome 
others. Under a greater number of Em- 
perors, we find prefents made of works of 
{culpture, of painting, and of glyptique. 
Conrad TI. ordained in a fynod, in the 
year 1205, (and the order was renewed 
feveral times in the fequel,) that every 
church fhould be ornamented witha paints 
ing, particularly of the Virgin. This 
picture is named in the wiiters of thofe 
times, Annunziata, Ancona, Cona. We 
Jikewifé find a painting named Majeffas. . 
The formation of the third eftate, by the 
municipal eftablifhments of towns, was 
likewife favourable to the arts. Rome had 
till {ome fuperb monuments in a ftate of 
good prefervation, And laftly, commerce 
becoming more extended, contributed molt 
of all to make the arts flourifh. 
M. De Sacy, of the National Inftitute 
of Fiance, highly celebrated for his inti- 
mate acquaintance with a great number of 
languages, has lately pubtfhed, at Paris, 
the iecond edition, corrected and much 
augmented, (the third part of it being en. 
tirely new,) of a work, which he entitles 
‘© Principes,” &<.3 or Principles of Ge- 
neral Grammar, adapted to the Capacities 
of Young Perions, and proper to ferve for 
an Iatroduétion to the Study of all Lan. 
guages. This General Grammar, which 
is, as it were, the type of ali particular 
grammars, is divided into three partas 
the firt treats of propofition (de la propos 
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