2. Lettre à l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Lisbonne sur les 3. Histoire du Bas-Empire, par Cha. Lebeau, corrigée, et aug- 4. Analecta Arabica edidit, Latine vertit, et illustravit Ern. 5. Histoire des Croisades, première, seconde, et troisième par- · 6. Nouvelles Littéraires. 564 pages. SELECTION OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. De Imitatione Christi, libri quatuor, ad pervetustum exemplar Bibliographie Russe.-We extract from the learned work of M. which The Fair of Leipsic. Autumn, 1826. 328 Booksellers have philosophy 32; on the military art 10; on commerce 15; gazettes and journals 145; almanacks 66. Mappemonde des Langues, a Universal Map of Languages, by M. Jarry de Manoy. In this work is represented the result of a system which will be developed in a work not yet published, but now in the press, by M. A. Balbi, which has had, it is said, the approbation and even the co-operation of learned men of the most distinguished class, such as MM. Hase, de Humboldt, AbelRémusat, Saint Martin, &c. &c. This mappe-monde of languages divides them into two grand classes, European and extra-European; the 1st class comprehends the Iberian language the Celtic, German, Greco-Latin, Sclavonian, Ouralian; and the 2d, the Asiatic languages-the Oceanic, African and American: every one of these great families is subdivided into several groups, in which are found the positive idioms of all the ancient and modern nations, with distinction between the living and dead languages, dialects, and subdialects. Essai sur l'origine unique et hieroglyphique des chiffres et des lettres de tous les peuples: An Essay on the remarkable and hieroglyphic origin of arithmetical figures, or ciphers and letters of all peoples. A work accompanied with copious plates, and preceded by a view of the history of the world, between the epoch of the creation and the era of Nabonassar; and by some reflections on the formation of the first of all writings, which existed before the deluge, and which writing was hieroglyphic, by M. de Paravey, one of the founders of the Asiatic Society of France. Paris, 8vo. with a lithographic frontispiece, viz. Taaut, the Phenician, imitating Heaven, made the portrait of the Gods and the sacred characters of letters.-Sanchoniaton. The work contains 136 pages; after which are seven plates. 1st, Pôle or gnomon, solar dial, compass brought from Babylon. 2d, The relation which the two cycles have to that of animals, seasons, elements, &c. 3rd and 4th, First and second part of the cycles of the twelve hours. 5th and 6th, First and second part of the cycle of the ten days. 7th, The cycle of the first two numbers, &c. Les mille et un jours: The thousand and one days. Oriental fales, translated from the Turkish, Persian, Arabic. 5 vols. in 8vo. Paris. Restitution du tombeau de Porsenna, or a dissertation to explain and to justify the description of this monument by Varro, and reported in Pliny, accompanied with a plate by Quatremère de Quincy. Paris, 4to.. *De l'utilité de l'étude de la poësie Arabe: Of the utility of the study of Arabian poetry, by the Baron Silvestre de Sacy. Paris, 1826. 23 pages, 8vo. The late Mr. Jefferson, who was President of the United States, was one of the eight foreign associate members of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres of Paris. The French Academy at its annual meeting on the 25th August last, was occupied on the prize for Eloquence, the subject of which was the praise of Bossuet, which is postponed till 1827: the principal objection made by the Academy to the aspirants was, that of too many quotations from Bossuet himself.-L'affranchissement des Grecs is the subject of the prize for Poetry for next year. The candidates for this prize, as well as for that left open, should send their works and letters, free of expense, to the Secretary of the Institute before the 16th May, 1827. Each work is to be preceded by an Epigraph, which is to be repeated in a sealed note, containing also the name of the author, who is not to make known WHO he is. The prize for each of these works is a gold medal of 1500 francs. The Academy announces its intention to propose as a subject for prose composition, to be decreed in 1828,-A Discourse on the state and progress of French Literature, from the beginning of the 16th century till 1610. Biographie universelle classique; containing in alphabetical order, an epitome of the history of celebrated persons in all ages and in all countries; containing also, articles consecrated to the general history of nations and peoples, to religious orders and sects, to memorable battles, &c. a work entirely new, by General Beauvais and a Society of Literati; in one vol. 8vo. containing about 2500 pages, in minion character, in two columns, on fine paper. This work will be published in eight numbers, (the first of which has been published,) at 6 francs each, by Gosselin. The prospectus presents a list of the principal authors. Voyage dans la Marmarique et la Cyrénaïque, and in several Oases south of those countries, performed in the years 1824 and 1825, by J. R. Pachô, member of the Asiatic Society of France, &c. with geographical and topographical maps, plates representing the monuments of those countries, an account of the natural history of those countries, &c. The Atlas will be published in 10 numbers, of 10 plates each number: the price of each number, including 10 plates, is 10 francs. M. Tullii Ciceronis de Republica libri; editio nova, cura G. H. Moseri, cum notis Creuzeri, Francofurti, 1826, 8vo. Legum XII. Tabularum Fragmenta, cum variarum lectionum delectu, paraphrasi, et indicatis singulorum fragmentorum fontibus, Prælectionum in usum edidit C. Zell, Friburgi-Brisgoviæ, Wagner, 1825. 4to. END OF NO. LXVIII. DR/55 |