VON RAUMER.-A private letter from Berlin of the 25th September says-"Professor von Raumer is very busy in reading up for his proposed journey to the United States, where he intends to spend the months between April and October of next year. He at present thinks very favorably of the Americans, and of their institutions-so that their visitor starts somewhat prejudiced in their favor-let us hope he will return so.-. -Athenæum.

THE CORNEA. On the application of the cornea of one animal to the eye of another-Dr. Plouvier, of Lille, states that he has a rabbit which was blind, but to whose eye he applied the cornea of another rabbit, and that the hitherto blind animal now sees perfectly.-Athenæum.

VENUS BY TITIAN.-In Dresden, the recent discovery of the Venus by Titian, now excellently restored, excites the greatest interest. This magnificent work has been more than 100 years concealed under a mass of rubbish.-Examiner.

stated it as his opinion that more important discoveries may be looked for, the Academy has been induced to request the co-operation of the Government to enable M. Batta to prosecute a work so highly interesting to archæology. The application was so far successful that M. Eugene Flandier, who filled a similar mission in Persia, has been sent out to assist the French Consul in his further researches. From the united labors of these two intelligent Frenchmen, we may look for some further illustrations of the ancient architecture of the Assyrians, and of the sculptures which adorned the palaces of their kings.—Ib.

OBITUARY.

DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. STUART MACKENZIE. -The right hon. gentleman, late Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, died on Sunday, at Southampton, in his 60th year. He was the eldest CANAL OVER THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.-The son of Admiral the Hon. Keith Stuart, second son French Government has just ordered M. Napoleon of the sixth Earl of Galloway, by the daughter of Garella, a young engineer of the Mining Depart-S. D'Aguilar, Esq.; married, 1818, relict of Admiral ment, and M. Courtines, an able member of that of Sir Samuel Hood, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the Pont et Chaussees, to proceed to the Isthmus of the last Lord Seaforth, whose surname he assumed Panama, and seek for the best direction to be given by sign manual; was Commissioner of the India to a canal of communication between the Atlantic Board from 1832 to 1834; represented Cromarty from 1831 to 1837, when he was appointed Governor of Ceylon. In December, 1840, he became Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.Colon. Gaz.

and Pacific Ocean.-Ib.

VOCAL PHENOMENON.-The Times informs us that in a recent number of the Zeitschrift appears an account of an extraordinary vocal phenomenon. The new musical wonder is a boy, who has the power of emitting three vocal sounds at a time, and can therefore execute pieces in three parts. The fact is attested by two names of considerable weight, Kalliwoda and Mayer, from whom letters are published describing the exhibition, and warranting the genuineness of the prodigy. His voice, we are told, extends over two full octaves, from a flat below the line to a flat above, in the key of G; the lower notes being generally weak, those in the middle stronger, but of harsh quality, while the upper notes are soft, and flowing as those of a flageolet. When singing more than one part the lad is unable to pronounce any words, and can only sing songs of the utmost simplicity as regards the harmony.—Ibid.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
Great Britain.
Anatomy of Sleep; or, the Art of procuring sound
and refreshing Slumber at Will. By E. Binns,

M. D.

THAT Dr. Binns has discovered the secret of vol

BLONDLOT ON DIGESTION.-The author has directed his attention principally to the gastric juice, which he regards as the principal agent in the functions of digestion. In order to obtain this juice in abundance, and in a pure state, M. Blondlot made untary sleep we do not feel quite assured; but that an artificial opening into the stomach of a dog, he has kindly afforded to all persons the means of which enabled him to extract the gastric juice, or procuring a sound and durable slumber we are pracalimentary substances, at various periods of diges-tically convinced; for, having placed his volume tion. In his work he announces that his experi-in the hands of a friend, while we were temporarily ments have been perfectly successful, and that he has a dog on which he made his first essay, two years ago, and which can supply him, he says, in the course of an hour or so, with more than three ounces of pure gastric juice.—Ibid.

SCULPTURES FOUND AT NINEVEH.-We hear from Paris, that M. Batta, the French Consul at Moussoul, has recently transmitted to the Academy of Sciences several additional drawings and fragments of curious pieces of sculpture, found in exploring the site of the ancient city of Nineveh, and having

engaged, on our return we found him with the book in his hand, and in a state of the most profound repose, from which he was awakened with difficulty. As for ourselves, by means of sundry applications, as sal volatile, Scotch snuff, and sundry other stimulants, we contrived to keep ourselves pretty well awake in our perusal of the volume, which consists of 394 pages, of which 389 relate to various discussions of scientific subjects, not much connected with the subject matter announced in the title; but at p. 390 the real volume begins, and, filling exactly three pages and a half, then concludes. The au

GREAT BRITAIN.

The Bride of Messina, with Choruses.
By Schiller. Translated by A. Lodge, Esq.,
M. A.

Tragedies. By Serjeant T. N. Talfourd.
Mesmerism, its History, Phenomena, and
Practice.

Abyssinia. Journals of the Rev. Messrs.
Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the
Church Missionary Society.

thor observes that, after 389 pages, the reader will | SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
be enabled to understand the principles upon which
is founded his system of procuring sound and re-
freshing sleep at will. The system, as far as we
understand it, seems to be as follows. First, let the
patient take as large a dose of Dr. Binns's book as
he is able, (see p. 363,) and when he begins to feel
its effects, which will soon show themselves, let
him then put on a warm woollen nightcap, and
flannel socks to his feet; let him have a good fire
in his room, (v. p. 390,) put a flannel blanket be-
tween the sheets, rub himself or herself with a
coarse towel, and get into bed; then let him or her
place his or her head carefully on the pillow (page
391,) so that it occupies exactly the angle a line
drawn from the head to the shoulder would form;
then let him or her take a full inspiration, slightly
closing their lips, breathing as much as they can
through the nostrils; then the lungs are to be left
to themselves (p. 80), the patient must depict to him-
self that he sees the breath pass from his nostrils in a
continuous stream, and the very instant that he
brings his mind to conceive this, apart from all
other ideas, (except, we presume, the idea of Dr.
Binns's book,) and that instant consciousness and
memory depart, and he no longer wakes, but sleeps.
Such, gentle reader, is the sum total of this volume
of near 400 pages, and we pledge ourselves that this
is the only part of the whole relating to the subject.
A more profound piece of confident quackery we
never read in our lives.

A Practical Exposition of the Epistle to
the Philippians, in Twelve Discourses, and
several Sermons on various subjects. By
the late Robert Hall. From shorthand
notes. By John Greene.
Aeschyli Eumenides. Recensuit et illas-
travit Jacobus Scholenfield, A. M.

Julian, or Scenes in Judea. By the Au-
thor of "Letters from Palmyra and Rome."
Fidelity, or a Town to be let unfurnished:
a Poem. By G. Hatton.

Selections from the Kur-án. By E. W.
Lane.

Postscript. If a man attempts to think of his wife and children, we must tell him (p. 384) that be will not attain his purpose,-he will only be able to think of one child at a time; or if he thinks of the National gallery, he cannot think of the whole building, but only of separate parts of it, such as the portico, wings, or perhaps, of Mr. Wilkins, the architect. Upon these facts is founded, we are told, the doctrine of monotism. We forgot to say that brush-Bonn. ing the forehead with a soft shaving brush will be found advantageous. (Vide p. 382.)-Gent's Mag.

Germany.

Lehrbuch der Ungarischer Sprache. (Compendium of the Hungarian Language.) Von J. N. Reméle.

Vienna: Tendler and Schaefer. 1843.

Analyse Ungarischer Classiker. (Analysis of Hungarian Classics.) Von J. N. Reméle. 1842. Ungarischer Geschäftsstyl in Beispielen. (Hungarian Commercial style, in examples.) Von J. N. Reméle. 1843.

Will the English readers, who have just sipped Magyar poetry from Dr. Bowring's translation, feel an inclination to plunge deeper into the literature, now such very inviting books as those of Professor Reméle are before them? We fear not: though indeed the plan upon which his 'Lehrbuch' is constructed, is such as to render them extremely tempting. He does not begin with long tedious rules, but at once introduces the reader to the Hungarian tongue by abundant examples, both of words and sentences, conveying such grammatical information as is not contained in the paradigms by means of notes at the bottom of the page. The Analysis,' which was published before the 'Lehr

GERMANY.

Ueber die christliche und antichristliche Speculation der Gegenwart. Ein philosophisches Gutachten.

Von J. H. Fichte.

Ist Platos Speculation Theismus ? Von
Jak. Bitharz. Carlsruhe.

Geschichte der protestantischen Dog-
matik von Melancthon bis Schleiermacher.
Von D. Wilh. Herrmann. Leipzig.
Vorbericht zu K. Fr. Krunse's Vorlesungen
über die reine Philosophie der Geschichte.
Von H. K. von Leonhardi. Göttingen.

Haudbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.
Von Joh. Müller. 4th, Ed. Berlin.
Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum liber, cum
Scholiis antiquis et prolegomenis. Edidit
Otto Jahn.

FRANCE.

Mémoires touchant la vie et les Ecrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Dame de Bourbilly, Marquise de Sévigné, durant la Régence et la Fronde. Par M. le Baron Walckenaer-Deuxième Partie durant le Ministère du Cardinal Mazarin et la Jeunesse de Louis XIV. Paris.

Fêtes et Souvenirs du Congrès de Vien

buch,' is not exactly on the same plan; as it is in-ne, 1814, 1815. Par le Comte de la Garde.

troduced by grammatical rules shortly stated. The Paris. substance of the work consists of selections from

Magyar authors, with an interlinear translation.

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CONTENTS OF THE DECEMBER NUMBER.

PLATE. THE LAST MAN. Engraved by J. Sartain, from a painting by Geo. Jones, R. A.

12. Louis BLANC'S HISTORY OF TEN YEARS,. Foreign Quarterly Review,

13. MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF FRANCIS

of Literature,

8. REVOLUTION IN GREECE,

9. ESPARTERO,

10. FRANCE AND GREECE,

563

15. RECOLLECTIONS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT,. Tait's Magazine,

POETRY.

Death of my Infant Child, 486; A Tomb in Pompeii, 516, Sestri, 521; Love strong in Death, 530; An Epitaph, 535; The Fate of Polycrates, 557.

MISCELLANY.

Cardinal Fesch,-War against Pews,-Fall of Frogs,-Mode of preventing Horses from running away in harness, 446; Embassies to China,-Electro-meteorological Register, 476; The French at Tahiti, 486; Constantinople, 506; Dr. Chalmers, 516; Dr. Wolff, 530; The Grand Duke Michel,-Arrest of an American, 535; African Discovery, 572; Spain,-Greece,-General Boyer,-Manifesto of Belgian Bishops,-The Sculptor Schwanthaler,-Prison Discipline, -Attempt to assassinate the Emperor of Russia, 573; Algiers,-Emigration in Russia, 574.

SCIENCE AND ARTS.

Ortolans, 442; Photography, 506; Kowdy Gum, 516; Electro-magnet, 517; Dutrochet on Fruits, 530; A new Pavement, 535; Coins, 557; Mosaic Rooms at Dieppe,-Copper in the Human Body, Statistics of Europe,-Flying Machine,-Volcano,-Rich Legacy,-Railways, 574; Von Raumer, The Cornea,-Venus by Titian,-Canal over Panama,-Vocal Phenomenon, -Digestion,-Sculptures at Nineveh, 575.

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OBITUARY.

Hon. Stuart McKenzie,-Professor Bell, 575.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, 575.

SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS, 576.

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