DENMARK.

The 8th vol, of the Scriptores Rerum Danicarum has recently appeared at Copenhagen. The 7th vol. was published in 1792, and the printing of the 8th was then commenced; it was far advanced, when the whole impression became the prey of a conflagration which only spared two copies. The 9th vol, will complete the work, and will contain a general index.

FRANCE.

THE second part of the 5th volume of M. Quérard's laborious and admirable Dictionary of French Literature, entitled La France Littéraire, has just made its appearance. It contains a small portion of the letter M; consequently the author may be considered to have completed one half of his undertaking. We sincerely hope that he will live to finish the other half. It is impossible for any one who has not had frequent occasion to consult and refer to this work, to form an idea of the immense labor which it must have required, or sufficiently to appreciate the industry, the patient research, and the minute accuracy which the author has everywhere displayed. The short notices of the little known and obscure authors and their productions have a merit of their own, as great as the larger and more elaborate ones dedicated to celebrated or distinguished names. In this department of literature the French and Germans very much surpass us. It will be long indeed, we fear, before we have a Dictionary of British Authors and their works, that will bear any comparison with the work before us. Captain Sicard has just completed in four 8vo. vols. with an Atlas of 200 plates, a History of the French Military Institutions, followed by a Sketch of the Military Marine. The first three volumes are divided into five parts, comprising-1. History; 2. Dignities and grades; 3. Administration and justice; 4. National and foreign troops; 5. Artillery, engineers, &c. ; hôtel of invalids; military schools. The 4th volume embraces the military orders; wars and systems of tactics; fortified places; arms and machines of war. The work is dedicated to the king,

The autograph MS. of the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz has been recently discovered in the royal library among the papers of Count Réal, and has attracted a good deal of attention. Numerous passages of great interest are marked for erasure, which do not appear in the printed editions.

A History of Corsica, by M. Jacobi, Advocate, will be shortly published, in 2 vols. 8vo. It will include the topography, scenery, and statistics of the island, interspersed with some of those touching and romantic episodes with which its history abounds.

A French translation of Lieutenant Burnes's interesting Travels to Bokhara, &c. has been announced as in preparation at Paris, with notes by Klaproth, the distinguished Orientalist.

Professor Schröder, of Upsal in Sweden, (whose name has been frequently mentioned in this journal in connection with Swedish literature,) is now at Paris for the purpose of searching among the public

libraries for materials to complete the great collection of Swedish Historians of the Middle Ages, edited by him, and of which 3 vols. in folio have already appeared.

chronicles, is announced, in 1 vol. 12mo., by Louis A History of Russia, compiled from the national Paris, the translator of Nestor's Chronicle. The same author has in the press La Chronique de Reims, récit historique de 1238 à 1260; now published for the first time from the unique MS. in the king's library.

A new edition of the Collection of Memoirs relative to the History of France, from the 13th to the end of the 18th century, inclusive, is announced for publication, in 20 vols, royal 8vo, distributed in 80 livraisons, one of which will appear every ten days. M. Michaud, the academician, and M. Poujalat, the companion of his late travels in the east, will discharge the duties of editorship, supply the necessary explanatory and other notes, &c. &c. By means of printing in a smaller type and in double columns, it is calculated (but the accuracy of this calculation is denied in the strongest terms by the proprietors of Petitot) that these 20 volumes will include the whole two series of Petitot's collection, in 130 vols. 8vo. at a price not exceeding one-fourth of that. It will proceed chronologically, beginning with Geoffrey Villehardouin, and ending with Saint Simon.

A new monthly Paris periodical, entitled Revue du Progès Social, under the direction of two young and talented littérateurs, MM.Lechevalier and Mallac, was commenced with the present year, with the professed objects of " uniting under one standard all who are occupied in the reformation of doctrines and institutions; and of enlightening the attempts of innovation by a firm and comprehensive criticism, which shall legiti matize its sympathies for social progress, along with respect for traditions, morality, religion, and existing interests." We have only seen two numbers of this journal, those for July and August last, the perusal of which has impressed us with a very favorable opinion both of the ability and the principles of the conductors. They are, like ourselves, friends of intellectual and political progress or movement, but of peaceful movement; they accept, and are ready to defend, against the attacks of both the extreme parties, the present order of things in France, as better calculated to secure the happiness and moral and political improvement of the nation, than either the old regime or a republic. Zeal in the cause of national education, respect for the best interest of society, and a vigorous and independent tone of politics, are qualities conspicuous in several of the articles we have read. The following short passage, from a cleverly written paper on the works of M. Sainte Beuve, appears to us to give a very satisfactory explanation of the causes of the extraordinary fecundity of French literature since the last revolution, and of its prevailing characteristicsthe cause and the effect are here both clearly indicated.

"The literary profession has become the prey of a whole youthful generation, which has undertaken to depict human life before it had made the least acquaintance with it; to pronounce critical judgments without having acquired the right to possess a judgment; to become the public schoolmaster in reviewa

and newspapers, when it had scarcely quitted school itself. What, therefore, do we see? This young France is already worn out at thirty, before it has produced a single work of any importance; an abortive generation, compounded of ambition, vanity and indolence, which has, during the last four years, in undated France with a mass of printed paper, which it calls its literature."

The royal printing-office of Paris possesses the types of 56 Oriental alphabets, comprehending all the known characters of the languages of Asia, ancient as well as modern; and 16 alphabets of those European nations, who do not employ the Roman character. Of these the royal printing press possesses 46 complete founts of various forms and sizes. All these together weigh at least 750,000lbs. and as the types of an 8vo. page weigh about 6lbs. this establishment is able to compose, simultaneously, 7812 8vo. sheets, forming nearly 260 volumes, or 125,000 pages. The number of presses employed enables it to throw off 278,000 sheets per day, or 556 reams of paper, equal to 9266 volumes in 8vo. of 30 sheets each. The annual consumption of paper by the royal printing-office is from 80 to 100,000 reams, or from 261 to 326 reams per working-day. The number of workmen constantly employed is

about 350.

The 10th volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres has recently appeared, and contains thirteen memoirs on subjects connected with the literature and history of the East; of Egypt and of Greece, of Ancient Rome, and France during the Middle ages. Of four by M. Silvestre de Sacy, on oriental subjects, there is one on the origin of the Thousand and One Nights, which it is incumbent

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us to notice, with reference to the opinion expressed towards the end of the fifth article of our present number. The passage of Massoudi there alluded to, on which the supporters of their Indian or Persian origin mainly rest, is considered by M. de Sacy to be an interpolation, and the conclusions drawn from it to be totally at variance with all the literary and historical data we possess respecting thesc famous tales. He considers it probable that they were originally written in Syria, and that the first author did not complete them; copyists at different times, and perhaps in various places, but especially in Egypt, have attempted to do so, by inserting other tales, either such as were previously known, or written by themselves. Hence arises the extreme variety which has been remarked in the manuscript copies, and especially the two very difierent dénouements with which they are concluded. “I do not think," says M. de Sacy, "that any impartial reader can look upon the Thousand and One Nights in any other light than as a collection of tales made by one or more Arabian or Mussulman writers, at a period not very remote, and when the Arabic was no longer written with purity. What may be said with most certainty as to the date of the collection, is, that at the time it was made, the use of tobacco and coffee was undoubtedly not known, as there is no mention whatever of these throughout. This would prove that they existed about the middle of the 9th century of the Hegira, (the 15th of our era)."

The 19th volume of M. Sismondi's Histoire des Français, just published, comes down to the year 1580, consequently it includes the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. We propose shortly to devote an article to an examination of the volumes of this valuable work which have appeared since our former notice of the first twelve. (VOL. IV. ART. 1.) And in conjunction with it, we may take M. Capefigue's last workHistoire de la Reforme, de la Ligue, et du Regne du Henri IV., of which the fifth and sixth volumes have lately appeared.

NECROLOGY.-Lately, M. Prosper Dondey Dupré, jun., the eminent oriental bookseller and printer. His connection with the most distinguished orientalists of France and of Europe enabled him to set on foot, and carry on with great success, a twofold establishment

of books and printing in the Oriental languages, which in a few years attained a distinguished eminence, and rendered the most valuable services to literature.

A curious little work has recently appeared entituled, Les Amours, les Malheurs, les Ouvrages d'Héloise et d'Abélard'; it is translated from the edition of 1616, now become excessively rare, and is illustrated with notes by M. Villenane, formerly Professor at the Athenæum of Paris.

known in this country by his antiquarian researches,) The work of the venerable Abbé de la Ruc, (well which was announced some time since, has just appeared at Caen, in three volumes, Svo., entituled, Trouvères Normands et Anglo-Normands. We hope Essais Historiques sur les Bardes, les Jongleurs, et les shortly to be enabled to give an account of it, replete

as it is with interest to the amateurs of our own literature and history.

M. Francisque Michel, one of the most zealous and indefatigable inquirers into early French literature, and whose mission to this country, under the patronage of the minister of public instruction, has been the Trouvères, which had been consigned to oblivion means of hunting out many curious MSS. of the under the dust of our public libraries and archives, has published since his return to Paris, copies of two very curious MSS. of the 13th century preserved in in print. The first is the Roman de la Violette, ou de the Royal Library, which had never before appeared Gérard de Nevers, in verse, and the second, the RoSiecle. man d'Eustache le Moine, pirate fameux du xiii.

The third volume of M. Pardessus's valuable Col lection des Lois Maritimes, antérieures au xviii. Siecle, the previous volumes of which we have more than once had occasion to refer to, has just appeared. A continuation of the Introduction continues the historical sketch from the time of the Crusades to the ciscovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope. The body of the work contains the Maritime Laws of Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Bremen, Hamburg, Lubec, the Prussian States, and Russia.

GERMANY.

Professor Ellendt, of Königsberg, has nearly completed a Lexicon Sophoclæum, forming a complete repertory of the labors of grammarians and philolo gists, for the elucidation of the great Greek tragic poet. The work will appear in May next, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Fichte are announced for publication, in 3 vols. 8vo. The Posthumous Works of the German philosopher

by Messrs. Beer and Maedler, which, from the proA Map of the Moon is announced as in preparation mises held out as to its execution, we should judge well worthy of attention of astronomers. The price will be 25s.

An edition of the Hebrew Prophets, with a German translation, and an original and complete Commenta ry, along with those of Jonathan Raschi and the Massora, with Emendations, is announced for publication in 33 parts 8vo. price about 17 rix-dollars. The editor is Dr. Heinemam, of Berlin, whose edition of the Me Kor Chajim forms so valuable an accession to Hebrew literature.

An elegant looking volume, under the title of Euthymia, oder die Freude in Gott, eine Mugabe für das ganze Leben, has just appeared at Ments. It consists of Extracts from the best religious and moral poets of Germany, and of Reflections and Fragments in prose of the same description. The selection is creditable to the editor's taste and feelings, and may be put into the hands of youth, and particularly of the fair sex,

with the utmost confidence. The names of the writers, however, should have been attached to each extract, and not left to be guessed at from the general index.

A Picturesque Tour of the new Austrian Military Road through the Tyrol to Milan, with colored plates and a map of the road, has recently been completed by Messrs. Orell, Fussli and Co. of Zurich. Our readers will recollect the account of this read given in vol. xii. p. 152–156.

Jaek's work is intended to make two volumes in folio.

M. Heinrigs, of Berlin, has also published the first part of a Collection of European Manuscript Alphabets of ancient and modern times.

The first volume of a new edition of Suidas's Greek Lexicon, printed in quarto, from the text of the Milan edition, edited and illustrated by Professor Bernhardy, has just made its appearance at Halle.

M. Braun of Carlsruhe, the publisher of Dr. Hilpert's English-German and German-English Dictionary, announces that he has made arrangements for the speedy completion of that valuable work, which had been suspended in consequence of the author's sudden death. The English-German part was published two years ago, but of the German-English part the author had only prepared the MS. from A. to the article Führen inclusive. M. Ludwig Süpple, an able German philologist, has undertaken to continue and carry it on to a conclusion; and Dr. Ernest Kärcher has agreed to supply the accentuation, etymologies, and synonymes, and to superintend the general arrangement of the words. Mr. Spearman, an English professor, will revise the English words, and translate the etymologies and synonymes into Engentlemen well acquainted with English, wil! assist in correcting the press. The well-merited eulogiums the arrangements now announced for making the which Dr. Hilpert's first volume has obtained, and second equally valuable, lead us to anticipate that, when completed, this Dictionary will prove the best which has yet appeared of the two languages.

lume.

M. Pohl, of Vienna, author of the splendid work entitled Plantarum Brasilia Icones et Descriptiones, died in that city in May last, in his 50th year. He was Conservator of the Brasilian Museum of Natural History, which he formed during his travels in that country, and is one of the finest collections in the world.

A Booksellers' Assistants' Society has recently been formed at Leipzic, the objects of which are stated to be the promotion after the labors of the day of friendly intercourse and improvement, by means of a library, lectures, and a reading-room. Classes will also be formed for instruction in the most useful living languages. The lectures are to embrace the various arts connected with bookselling, such as letter-founding, printing, bookbinding, paper-making, copper and wood engraving, lithography, &c.

A complete edition, in one volume, 8vo. of the Poet ical Works of Voss, is announced for publication. The translations will not be included.

A Physical Description of the Earth is preparing for publication by Baron Humboldt.

A narrative of the first Prussian Voyage round the World, performed by H. M. S. Louise, under the command of Captain Wendt, during the years 1830 to 1832, drawn up by Dr. Meyen, the naturalist attached to the expedition, has just appeared at Berlin, in two volumes quarto.

An institution or endowment is announced to be formed in memory of the celebrated theologian and philologist Schleiermacher, and to be named after him, for the purpose of enabling young men, students of theology in the University of Berlin, who have previously distinguished themselves by their attainments, to devote themselves exclusively, and with minds undisturbed by pecuniary cares, to their studies for the entire period of their university career, and in cases that may be deemed fit, even after that period. The management of this institution to be in the hands of the twelve founders, in whose name an appeal has been lately put forth to the well-wishers of such an institution, for pecuniary assistance to carry its objects into effect. The names of these founders are Messrs. Eichhorn, the two Humboldts, two Neanders, Savigny, Fostner, Nikolovius, Steffens, Hof bach, Pischon, and Strauss.

A neat pocket edition has just appeared at Tübingen of the Nicbelunge Lied, the text of which is taken from the edition lately published (and we believe only privately distributed) by Baron Joseph von Lassberg, from the oldest and purest MS. in existence of this famous poem. A copious glossary is added.

The fourth volume of Raumer's History of Europe since the end of the 15th Century, has just made its appearance.

An important work by M. Keferstein has just appeared at Leipsic in two volumes, on the Physiology of the Earth, Geognosy, Geology, and Palæontology (Fossilogy). The latter part contains a voluminous catalogue, with the Latin names, of all the known fossils of either the animal or vegetable kingdom.

The first volume of M. Erman's Travels round the World, through the North of Asia, and both Oceans, in the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, which has recently appeared at Berlin, contains his Journey from Berlin to the Frozen Ocean. The sequel is looked for with great interest.

Dr. Jungmann's Dictionary of the Bohemian Language, in the compilation of which he has been incessantly engaged for the last 30 years, will shortly appear, in successive parts, at intervals of three months, and will be completed in five volumes, quarto. Few nations, it is said, possess a dictionary so complete, in every respect, as this will be.

ITALY.

NAPLES.-The kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which four years ago possessed only two journals, can now boast of not less than thirty. A French journalist lately asserted, that the Neapolitan journals contained nothing but translations from the French periodicals, than which nothing is more unfounded; the least examination will show that the articles in them are of Most of the writers connected home manufacture. with them belong to the youthful class, a class which

fortunately is likely to realize the hopes which have been long entertained of seeing our literature resume the tone and character of nationality. It will be suffi cient to mark the prominent features in the physiognomy of a few of these publications.

The Annali Civili is the journal of the higher scientific class, the writers in which certainly spare no pains in composing profound and elaborate articles in a pure and elegant style. But they are far too learned to be relished by the multitude. This journal besides, if it remains faithful to the plan on which it set out, can scarcely deviate from the narrow path of eloges.

The Progresso is a good journal, in which there are frequently important articles on science and the belles lettres.

The Omnibus, a name borrowed from the long vehicles which now traverse our streets, no doubt with reference to its matter and spirit, which are calculated for all readers, addresses itself to the great mass, to idle readers, who look to it for an agreeable delassement, to those who are fond of scandalous stories, comic anecdotes, and drolleries of all sorts.

The Mercurio is under the direction of the famous Dominico Babraja, whose object is to attack the anonymous society, who have now the monopoly of the theatres. It is singular enough to see a petty stage-mauager attempting, in imitation of a fallen statesinan, to regain through the press the opinion which he has lost through his own folly.

The Topo Litterato (Literary Mole) frequently contains good articles. Several of its collaborateurs have begun to write in the Giornale del Comercio recently established, which treats of all subjects relative to industry, arts and manufactures, and political economy, and which promises to be a good journal.

The Folletto (The Fairy) is as light as its name. The Giano (Janus) is so mysterious, that no one yet knows what to make of him. He will do well to preserve his incognito.

The Diogene smells too strongly of the tub; he has all the bile of the Greek cynic.

The Verilerio is a miserable journal, the attempt of some novices.

The Vesuvio has none of the fire of the volcano whose name he bears; he is an icy pedant, who is incessantly babbling, and knows not one word which has not been long since forgotten by the meanest of his readers.

The Industriale presents an interesting mélange of news, inventions, discoveries, agricultural processes, and useful knowledge, together with information relative to manufactures, commerce, and statistics.

Besides these there are five or six medical journals of high reputation.

Finally, the desire and the want of publicity are shown, even in the provinces, with the same emulation and the same activity as in the capital. The Capitanate already possesses three journals of its own, one of which, the Poligrafo, publishes all the memoirs signed by the members of the Economical Society of the chief town of the province.-From the Biblioteca Italiana.

RUSSIA.

In no country in Europe does the government take such an active interest in the publication of journals as in Russia. Almost every principal branch of administration possesses a journal through which its proceedings, plans, and means of execution are communicated to the public. During the year 1833 there were published, in the Russian language, 40 journals and newspapers; of which 24 were published at St. Petersburgh, 10 at Moscow, three at Odessa, two at Revel, and one at Kasan. Five of these were devoted to political subjects, 13 to literature, and the remaining 22 to various branches of science; and were edited, for the most part, by individuals, connected with the government. These are independent of the journals that are published in German and in French, of which there are several.

Prince Protojon, the present Hetman of the Cossacks, has just translated the Poems of Parny into the Calmuc language. We think he might have made a more judicious choice.

ORIENTAL LITERATURE.

M. G. Pauthier has announced a translation of the

Political, Moral, and Philosophical Works of Confucius (Kong-fou-tseu) and of Mencius (Meng-tseu), the two most celebrated Chinese philosophers, accompanied with the original Chinese text. These writings are what are called by the Chinese the Sse-Chou, (the Four Books); they form the basis of the instruction of youth in all the colleges of the empire;-they are the books held in the highest estimation by the Chinese literati, of whose contents all who are designed for the career of letters or administration must make themselves masters, and even get by heart. The work will form two volumes in royal 8vo. (price 50 francs, or 21.) and will be sent to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are found to defray the expense of printing.

M. Garcin de Tassy has just published in 4to. an edition of the works of Wali, a Hindoo poet, in the original Hindoostannee. Wali is one of the oldest and most celebrated pocts of his country, and his works have hitherto remained unpublished. A preface by the editor gives a number of details respecting his life, collected from biographical works, and from his own writings. A French translation of these poems, with notes, will shortly be published by the same editor.

M. Von Hammer has published an edition of the Rose and the Nightingale poem, by Fazli, a Turkish poet, in the original, with a German translation.

An edition of the Gulistan of Sadi, in the original Persian, with a French translation, and critical and historical notes by M. Semelet, has just appeared at Paris, in 1 vol. 4to.