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Rare Collection of Books on the Early History of America. One of the greatest Bibliographical curiosities which for a long time has claimed public attention, is the Catalogue of Rare Books connected with the Discovery and History of America, lately printed at Paris, by Mr Warden. The Books are on sale at Paris, but the Catalogue is in possession of the Editor, and may be had of the French booksellers in London.

Duplex Typograph.-An ingenious mechanical invention has lately been completed, called a Duplex Typograph, which enables the blind to receive and communicate ideas by means of letters. The inventor is Mr J. Purkis, brother of a well known musical character, who, by the aid of a skilful oculist, obtained the blessings of sight, at the age of thirty, after hav. ing been blind from the time of his birth. On the same subject it is just to add, that Dr Edmund Fry has printed a sheet, on which the letters are raised on the paper, and capable of being felt and read by the fingers' ends.

The Assassins.-A history of the Assas sins, drawn from oriental sources, has appeared lately at Stuttgard. From this work we learn, that the Assassins, a confederate people or society, which, in the time of the Crusades, for two centuries, acted an important part in Asiatic history, were, originally, a branch of the Ismaelites. The author, M. de Hammer, illustrates many of the events of the middle ages, and shews, at the same time, the advantageous use that might be made of oriental literature, if its cultivation were more generally attended to. The Assassins were a secret society, originally organized at Cairo, wherein the adepts took an oath to obey implicitly, a chief that was even unknown to them. Their horrible dogmas inculcated murder, and one of their fundamental positions was

the principle that all human authority, including kings, magistrates, and priests, was superfluous and pernicious. The author draws a parallel between these assassins and the society of Jesuits, who, though deprived of their former influence, persevere to maintain their order. The princes of the east were frequently so imprudent as to make common cause with Hassan Sabah, chief of the order, a headstrong adventurer, who soon after became a terror to all princes and governments, polluting thrones, tribunals, and altars, with blood.

To the materials collected from Arabian, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts, M. de H. adds what Sylvestre de Sacy and others have written before him on the same subject. His work is divided into seven books. The first treats of Mahomet, as the founder of Islamism, and only dwells on such principal points as have not been noticed by Voltaire, Gibbon, and Muller. It contains a synopsis of the doctrines of Mahomet.. The second book narrates the foundation of the order of Assassins, in the year 1004 of the Christian æra, and under the government of the first grand master, Hassan Sabah. One of his deys, Hassan Ben Sabah Homairi, a competitor for the throne, became, towards the end of the eleventh century, the founder of a new sect. He seized on the strong castle of Alamut, between Dilem and Irak, and made it the seat of his power. The third book is an account of the reigns of Kia Busurgomid, and of his son Mahomet, and the wars which they had to maintain. The fourth book contains the reigns of Hassan II. and of Mahomet II. both of whom upheld the doctrine of the impunity of crimes. Their history is interspersed with curious details relative to the literature of some contemporary oriental and western authors. Also, documents hitherto unnoticed, of the Templars, who, at that period, appear to have been actuated with the spirit of Ismaelites. A charge is laid to Richard, King of England, that he resorted to the assistance of the Assassins, to effect the destruction of the Margrave Conrad de Montferrat. The fifth book contains the reigns of three Assassin princes, the former of whom, Dschelaleddin, had his sovereignty acknowledged by the Caliph of Bagdad. His son committed a parricide, but perpetrated no crime, according to the established principles of the Assassins. This book has also the reign of Rockneddin Charschah, the last grand master of their order, with an account of his wars with the Mogul Hulagu, and the taking of Alamut and the rest of their castles, in 1256. The extermination of this horde of Ismaelites forms the subject of the sixth book. It contains also the description of the taking and plundering of Bagdad, by the Moguls, in 1258, with the punishment of the Caliph. In short, it details the defeat of the Assassins in Syria, by Bibras, the sultan of Egypt, and the gradual extirpation of the doctrine of the Ismaelites. The au

thor concludes, by a summary retrospect of the remains of this sect, which yet exist in Persia and Syria, though unable to realise their horrible system of politics.

Norway and Sweden. In the "Annals of Literature," published at Vienna, by M. Gerold, is a notice relative to the Norwegian, Swedish, and Iceland language and literature. The Norwegians both speak and write the same language as the Danes; but in both countries the people have retained words of the ancient Scandinavian language, more or less. These words are not in use in the politer classes, which, in both kingdoms, speak the Danish language, just as it is written. Since the Reformation, the Norwegians have not been without their men of letters. The first great Danish literateur, Baron Holberg, the dramatic poet, was a native of Bergen, in Norway, and the names of Pram and Steffens are advantageously known as living authors. To these may be added, that of Heilberg, who has resided in Paris the last 20 years, and has been styled, the Aristophanes of the North.

The Swedish language, in its construction and inflections, bears affinity to the ancient Scandinavian, though it has adopted many foreign words. The pronunciation is somewhat like that of the German, while that of the Danes more strongly resembles the Ice

land language. The merits of Linnæus, Celsius, and other learned Swedes, is well known. Kellgren now holds the first rank among the poets. Lidner is in great esteem for his lyrical productions, and Bellman for his anacreontics. The metrical translation of Horace and Virgil, by the Baron Adlarbeth, is considered as a master-piece.

The Iceland tongue is the true Scandinavian, and forms the principal basis of the Danish and Swedish languages. The inhabitants speak it in a degree of purity, both in conversation, and in their public acts. In Denmark and Sweden, a few Runic inscriptions are the only monuments remaining of the ancient primitive language, but in Norway, certain ancient codes of law are yet extant, written in the pure Icelandic language, before it underwent any changes. The grammar of this language is not at all complicated; simplicity and precision mark the syntax; the rules are easily known and observed, the slightest solecism will detect a stranger. The Sagas, which_recount the historical facts of Iceland, are the favourite reading of the inhabitants. They have now a distinguished author in that kind of literature, M. Espolia, whose sagas have brought down the Icelandic history to our own times. Its poetry has, in all times, been held in great esteem.

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