OBITUARY.

one of the earliest and most extensive Greek tra-
vellers of the present generation, and after two
years spent in the interesting countries of the East,
he returned with a mind replete with classical in-
formation, and a taste for every liberal art.
It was
during his residence abroad that Bryant promulga-
ted his fanciful theories on the site of Troy. On
his return, with Chevalier and others, he entered
keenly into the Trojan controversy, and became
one of the most successful supporters of Homer, and
able vindicators of his location of the Troad. His
two dissertations are familiar to ever classical scho-
lar, and went as far towards the settlement of that
"rexata quæstio" as any of the productions of the
period.-Times.

MR. MORRIT.-We are sorry to have to announce the death of Mr. J. B. S. Morrit, of Rokeby-park, JOHN MURRAY, Esq.-On Tuesday morning, a Yorkshire, who died on the 12th inst., after a linfew minutes past eight o'clock, this eminent pub-gering illness, in the 72nd year of his age. He was lisher and bookseller breathed his last; having been in but indifferent health for several months, but only alarmingly ill from the Friday preceding. Mr. Murray would have been sixty-five if he had lived to November next. His situation in the literary world has long been most prominent; and there is hardly one author of high reputation, either now living or dead within the last quarter of a century, who has not enjoyed his intimacy and regard. With the majority his social intercourse was most gratifying, and his liberality towards their public undertakings such as merited their esteem and gratitude. It is too early a day to dilate upon even his good qualities. That he was warm-hearted and generous will be allowed by all who ever knew him; whilst those who had the pleasure of a more genial acquaintance with him, will long remember his lively conversation, and the ready humor which often set the table in a roar. He was, indeed, on such occasions, a very agreeable companion, and his ready wit was only an indication of the acuteness and judgment which he carried into his professional concerns. His clear mind in this respect AN EXPEDITION TO THE CAUCASUS is about to led him to enterprises of great pith and moment; be undertaken, at the expense of the King of Prusand we owe to it some of the most celebrated works sia, by Prof. Koch, the Asiatic traveller, and Dr. in our language. He originally began business Rose. Their instructions are to commence their about forty years ago in Fleet-street, nearly oppo-researches at Trebisond, to trace to their sources site old St. Dunstan's giant-guarded clock, and then in the high lands of Erzerum, the Western Eusucceeded Mr. Miller in Albemarle-street. Among his earliest literary connexions were D'Israeli and W. Gifford; and in later years, Scott, Southey, Moore, Byron, Barrow, Lockhart, nearly all our illustrious travellers, and authors in every branch of publication. He was a true friend to the arts, which he largely employed; and, in short, we may sum up this brief notice by saying, that in all the relations of society, few men will make a greater blank, or be more truly regretted, than John Murray. Mr. M. has left a widow, we are sorry to hear, in very indifferent health, daughters, and a son and successor, who, we hope, will emulate the friendly and liberal traits of his father's character.-Literary

Gazette.

SCIENCE AND ARTS.

phrates, the Araxes, and the Tschorock. From thence they are to proceed to the second high lands of Armenia, and so on to the ruins of Ani. They are also to visit and examine the range of mountains which connects in one unbroken line the ranges of the Caucasus and the Armenian Taurus. They are directed to investigate the question, as to whether there ever was a wall extending over the whole of the Caucasus, similar to the great wall of China. Prof. Koch will then proceed to the Tartarian Circassia, and the sources of the Kuban: he will also make an attempt to ascend the Elbrus, and examine the numerous monuments in the valleys of the Karatschai —Athenæum.

those whom it may interest, with the view of promulgating principles which he believes capable of general application. We must add, that M. Leonard appears anxious not to be confounded with those who exhibit tricks for pecuniary profit; his desire apparently being, to bring what he conceives an important discovery before some of the scientific bodies, for philanthropic purposes.-Ibid.

DOGS. Two years ago, we noticed the experiDR. HAHNEMANN, the founder of homeopathy, ments of M. Leonard, in which that gentleman exdied at Paris on Sunday, 2d July, aged eighty-hibited two dogs under a degree of command which eight. The Commerce sketches his lifeimplied a higher development of faculties than had "Dr. Hahnemann was born in 1755, at Meissen, of hitherto been witnessed. M. Leonard is here again, poor parents; and owed his education to the great having in the interim, he informs us, tested his aptitude for learning he gave evidence of at the lit-theories and the skill of his methods, by applying the school where he was first placed. He was re- them to the education (if it may be so styled) of ceived doctor in physic at Heidelberg in 1781, and horses; and he is now anxious to go, step by step, discovered in 1790 the new system which he after-through his process of training, in the presence of wards designated homeopathy. He continued until 1820 his experiments and researches on his new system, and then published the results of his labors under the title of Matiere Medicale Pure. In 1829 he published his Theory of Chronic Diseases, and their Remedies; of which he gave a second edition in 1840. To those works must be added his Organon de l'Art de Guerir, which ran through five editions. He also published nearly 200 Dissertations on different medical subjects; and he did all "A statement of Experiments showing that Carthis whilst occupied with patients, which took up bon and Nitrogen are compound bodies, and are from ten to twelve hours a day. He had the satis-made by Plants during their growth." By R. Rigg, faction of seeing his system, after half a century's Esq.-The author, finding that sprigs of succulent existence, spread over every part of the globe; and plants, such as mint, placed in a bottle containing just before his death he learned that homeopathy perfectly pure water, and having no communication was about to have a chair at the University of Vi-with the atmosphere except through the medium of enna, and hospitals in all the Austrian States, at water, or mercury and water, in a few weeks grow. Berlin, and at London."-Spectator. to more than double their size, with a proportionate

increase of weight of all the chemical elements | had no effect in diminishing the motion of the which enter into their composition, is thence dis-waves, for they were many times abundantly sprinposed to infer that all plants make carbon and kled with the spray. It is unnecessary to add, that nitrogen; and that the quantity made by any plant those who remained on land had remarked nothing varies with the circumstances in which it is placed. at all which could be attributed to the effusion of the oil. After all that has been said and written at the negative result of their experiments, and, limon this subject, the Commissioners are astonished iting themselves to the account of them, they add no observations. They believe themselves, however, authorized to assert, as their personal opinion, that the idea of protecting our piers by means of oil, is not a happy one.-Åthenæum.

Lew Kin, who, with the other traitors, is at length | from all but those select few who were content to taken and put to death.

Ching Tih returns to his capital with two wives, whom he had picked up in his rambles; one of them the daughter of a little inkeeper, who "sold wine before the furnace."

The tale will familiarize the reader with Chinese habits and manners; in other respects it possesses but little merit.-Asiatic Journal.

2.-Collectanea Antiqua, No. 1. Etchings of Ancient Remains, illustrative of the Habits, Customs, and History of Past Ages. By Charles Roach Smith, F. S. A., one of the Secretaries of the Numismatic Society, &c., 800.-Eight plates, containing, 1, 2. Roman glass vessels in the museum at Boulogne sur Mer; 3, 4. Bronze fibula, &c., and pottery, found at Etaples, Pas de Calais.

FOUR of the pots are inscribed, one with AVE, Hail! another with BIBE, Drink! the third with IMPLE, Fill! and the fourth apparently with VIVAS, Your good health! Plates 5 and 6 are British and Roman coins found in Kent; 7,Gold British or Gaulic coins found at Bognor and Alfriston in Sussex; and 8, a Gallo-Roman votive altar, now the baptismal font in the church of Halinghen, Pas de Calais. The inscription on this extraordinary relic is,

EIDEO IOVI

VICVS

DOLVCENS

CVVITALIS

PRISC.

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pay the price of pacing its shores on foot. Steam, however, has now made it one of the high-roads of the Continent, and Mr. Quin, (as in the previous case of the Danube,) has been the first Englishman to explore its beauties and attractions, and report on them to the rest of his countrymen, who only require a guide and avant courier of this kind to induce them to flock in shoals to the indicated spot.

For the benefit of all such, of whatever grade or temper, we shall simply describe Mr. Quin's book, and leave them to choose between the threefold course it opens to them.

Seine, in which every point and feature worthy of Its first portion comprises a Steam Voyage up the note is fairly and pleasantly placed before us, and all the appliances and means needful to their enjoy: ment made ready to our hands. The second, and (as we have hinted,) by far the most valuable and interesting division of the work, is a Steam Voyage down the Moselle, from Treves to Coblentz; at which latter point the Moselle falls into the Rhine, as most of our readers doubtless know, though that is in all probability the extent of the knowledge of every one of them touching this beautiful and even famous river-already as famous for its delicious wines as it will henceforth be for its delightful

scenery.

A third very useful and pleasant feature of this book is, its "Railroad Visits" to the principal cities of Belgium; a country too little known to English travellers, whether on the score of its singular antiquarian attractions, or its valuable and littleobserved social features.

which has been variously interpreted by different French antiquaries. The word EIDEO is apparently the name of a local deity associated with Jupiter, The remainder of the two volumes comprises and it is remarkable that three altars have been brief touch-and-go details of those portions of the found dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus, which name Rhine, and its adjacent Spas and Watering-places, has some apparent connection with the word to which the course of Mr. Quin's route led him. DOLVCENS. As, however, we are unable to eluci- The whole forms one of the most useful and effidate the matter, we will refer the curious antiquarycient hand-books that can anywhere be pointed to, to Mr. Smith's own description, in which he has even in this age of intelligent guides and of pubdiscussed at length this subject, as well as those of lishing travellers.- United Service Mag. his other plates. The having been at the pains to make these etchings with his own hands, is characteristic of his usual zeal and perseverance, and the antiquarian world may well wish that they possessed more members equally active with Mr. Roach Smith.-Gentleman's Magazine.

Germa. p.

The Socialism and Communism of the present day.
A contribution to contemporary history, by L.
Stein, L. L. D. Leipzig.

The recent aims which have been manifested in 3.-Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, and the | the department of political economy, out of the Rhine. By Michael Quin, Author of "A Steam proper school, must be regarded as reactionary Voyage down the Danube." and revolutionary. The latest, proceeding from a

It should seem that steam is ultimately destined basis of society altogether opposed to the existing to be as much an agent of pleasure as of business-one, and attempting to mould the entire organizaas extensively employed in the service of the dulcetion of society in accordance with their new prinas it has hitherto been in that of the utile; or, what is still better, it will do the work of both at the same time, as, in fact, it does in the pleasant and useful volumes before us, which, by its aid, open to the traveller entirely new and heretofore unknown roads into the heart of all that is beautiful in scenery and attractive in social novelty, in the districts through which the Seine and the Moselle, but particularly the latter, have hitherto borne few or none but those who are as little qualified to appreciate the one as to take advantage of the other.

ciples of national economy, are those, which constitute the subject of this interesting work. It would have been better if the author had confined himself to the pure basis of political science, and divested himself of the philosophy of his own school. This, however, only shows itself occasionally and on the whole, the judgment of the author is correct. He deserves great credit for his very exact and special investigation and representation of all the facts appertaining to the subject, thus qualifying himself to discuss so much, of which we in Germany at present have scarcely a distant knowledge. On the St. Simonians, Fourier, and his disciples, Pierre Leroux, Proudhou, Louis Blanc, Babeuf, and the different phases of communism we have the most complete account which has appeared in the German language.—Gersdorf's Re

The portion of this work which claims, and will attract by far the most attention, is that devoted to the Moselle-a river inferior to scarcely any one in Europe, for the charms of its scenery and the characteristic nature of its social attractions; and yet the inconveniences and delays that have heretofore attended its navigation have kept it a sealed book | përtorium.