L alighted on a new and distant planet. The first sensations, therefore, which fill the visitor of Palestine, are those of lassitude and dejection; but as he progressively advances in these sacred precincts, and perceives an interminable plain spread out on all sides, those sensations are eventually succeeded by feelings more exalt ed. A mixed emotion of surprise and awe takes possession of his faculties, which. far from depressing the spirit, elevates the mind, and gives vigour to the heart. The stupendous scenes that are every where unfolded, announce to the spectator, that he surveys those regions which were once the chosen theatre of wonders. The burning climate, the impetuous eagle, the blighted fig-tree-all the poetry, all the painting of the sacred writings, are present to his view. Improvements in Modern Greece. All Greece admires the ardent and well directed patriotism of the Inhabitants of Chios. This charming place continues to enjoy perfect tranquillity, which may be attributed to the wise government of the magistracy, which consists entirely of Greeks. The great college of Chios bas become so celebrated, that youths crowd thither from all parts of Greece. The first professors in this institution are Messrs. Vardalachos, John Sélépi, and Bamba. The latter has spent some time in Paris, and studied natural philosophy and the mathematics. He is about to publish, in modern Greek, an elementary treatise on chemistry, after Thenard. He has already published a compendium on rhetoric, which was received with particular approbation by the Greek literati. From the pen of the respectable professor Vardalachos, have appeared a philosophical essay on elocution, and a very able compendium on experimental philosophy. A course of mathematics, by professor Sélépi, remains in MS. The number of pupils at present, clean, unless indeed they have been too often played with-but who dares look at them till they are dealt? Many a man has sat down with great expectations, and when he looks at what he has got, he says half aside, I pass.' amounts to seven hundred, and will very probably, in the course of a year, exceed one thousand. Some time since, a printing office was established at Chios, for which the presses, types, and other apparatus, were purchased in Paris. A German of the name of Bayrhoffer, is at the head of this establishment. The Greeks of Chios distinguish themselves particularly by their humanity. They have several hospitals upon European models; nor is there any want of benevolent institutions. A remarkable event in the annals of Modern Greece, is the erection of a public library at Chios. It already contains about 30,000 volumes; and the funds, which are supplied by the liberality of private individuals, will speedily augment the number. It is to the advice of Mr. Covay, that the patriotic men, who direct this institution, are particularly indebted. The bust of this venerable man has been put up in the large saloon of the college, that the youths may always remember him with gratitude and respect. Lit. Gaz. Kotzbuana.-A Mr. Muchler, at Berlin, has extracted from 107 works of Kotzebue, a collection of 905 thoughts, observations, &c. which will doubtless be very popular: we select a few 217. Grateful men are like fruitful fields; they return what they have received ten-fold. 366. People become ill by drinking healths: he who drinks the health of every body, drinks away his own. 377. A tolerant spirit acquires the love of high and low. Tale-bearing is a carrion fly, that buzzes at every one's windows, and dirties every thing. 35. Poetry ought to be the handmaid of truth, and dress her mistress, 255. The road to marriage is as rough as a highway in Saxony. 80. Cards and hearts have much resemblance to each other: on the one side they all seem smooth and 332. Men are like cards in the hand of fate; there they figure for a time, till they are played, and trumped by death. 763. A girl is often a bill of exchange, which the father indorses, and the bridegroom accepts. The girl pays the value according to the law of bills of exchange. 246. To kill the defenceless, brings no glory: revenge, to become a man, must be public. 731. The splendor which surrounds a martyr has condemned many a one to the scaffold, who might have become the saviour of his nation. ib. Enormous Bird.-Mr. Henderson has discovered, in New Siberia, the claws of a bird measuring each a yard in length; and the Yaknts assured him, they had frequently, in their hunting excursions, met with skeletons, and even feathers, of this bird, the quills of which were large enough to admit a man's arm. Blackwood's Mag. Effectual prayer. A fat fellow mounting a horse, one near him cried jocularly, Heaven help you. By an over-balance our Falstaff tumbled on the other side. Curse your prayers (said he, as soon as he could speak,) for they got me more help than I wanted!' Lit. Gaz. A Minister. An eastern Vizier was reproached with not being sufficiently firm. ' It is by that alone, (said he,) that I have so long remained in office: I am sixty years old, and my teeth, which were inflexible and firm enough, are almost all gone; while my tongue, which was always supple, remains the same the Holy Scriptures. This year, 101,500 copies will be printed in various languages, namely, in in the Chewoshian, Ostiakian, and Vogulian. ib. There has been published at Warsaw the first volume of a work entitled, Dzieie panowania Zygmunta III, Krola Polskiego. Ad. Z. Wizerunkami, Przez J. & U. Niemuwicza:'-The History of the Reign of Sigismund III, King of Poland, &c. by Jul. Ursin. Niemuwicza. It is the precursor to a great historical work upon Poland, which the Society of Sciences of Warsaw intends to produce, as a continuation of the work of Naruszeioicz, and which is but little known to foreign countries. Several members of the Society, who have made themselves advantageously known by their literary labours, have undertaken this task. Lit. Gaz. The last Leipsick Fair Catalogue, which has just been published, includes 370 pages. The number of new and republished books, which have appeared during the last six months at the literary market of Leipsick, amounts to 3194. ib. New British Publications. A publication by Buonaparte's secretary during that period, and embracing the history of the two years from the banishment to Elba to the battle of Waterloo, is among our forthcoming novelties. We understand that it furnishes some remarkable particulars respecting the invitation sent to Elba, and the defection of Ney, whom Napoleon treated with great contumely after he got him to commit himself. ib. Montholon's MS. is also in England, and may be expected to appear this winter. Madame M. brought it from St. Helena. ib. 'Travels in Africa' by Mr. Mollien, who has, it seems, been able to pursue a new and unknown track, are, we hear, about to be published in French and English. It will be seen from our present number, that im Miscellaneous Articles. have been the Holy Scriptures. Th 101,500 copies will be p e le. ne, the this t by -ates of My by J. Ingle. 1 vol. erica and the British colonies,' a abstract of all the most useful information relative to the U. S. of A. and the British colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales and Van Dieman's Isiand exhibiting at one view the comparative advantages and disadvantages each country offers for emigration, &c By William Kingdom junr. 4 The Cyclopedia of Commerce,' and the arts; also in the habitual Law, Practice, Customs, and Inforuse he made of his imagination, mation, and exhibiting the present either as a source of consolation, or state of Commerce, Home, Foreign Sketch of the Life, Character, of baroness de Stael Holstein.' By Madame Necker de Saussure. Letters from Palestine,' descriptive of a tour through Galilee and Judea, with some account of the Dead sea, and of Jerusalem. 1 vol. 8vo. History of the Anglo Saxons,' comprising the history of England, from the earliest period, to the Norman conquest. By Sharon Turner, F.A.S. 3d ed. 3 vols. 8vo. and Colonial; with the shipping, manufactures and products, both natural and artificial of the various commercial nations of the world &c. By Samuel Clarke and John Williams. 4to. 2 l. 10 8. in boards. A Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout and Rheumatism, &c. and practical observations on Grayel. By Charles Scudamore M. D. &c. (a work spoken of very favourably.) 'King Coal's Levee' or Geological etiquette, a poem, with explanatory notes, &c. To which is added 'Badalt's Tour.' [A work not only of seductive scientific usefulness but of very considerable humour and poetical merit.] Lit. Gaz. History of the Crusades,' &c. by Charles Mills, Esq. author of a treatise on Mahommedanism, 2 vols. 8vo. 'Memoirs of the Life of John Wes 'Germany and the Revolution.' By Goerres late Editor of the Miscellaneous Articles. have Scriptures. who 101,500 copies will be print the an, Ostiakian, and Vogu hshed at War a work en Memoirs of a he close of the er poems.' า [The favour poe maps and illustrations-it is an acquisition of great value to the Scotish scholar, and to science in general.') The following is one of the excerpta. He that is contented with a first answer in the Highlands will indeed never be at a loss for at least the appearance of information. Unfortunately it will seldom bear a scrutiny, a second question generally rendering void the effect of the first. " How long is this Loch?"-" It will be *2 about twenty mile."-" Twenty ▲miles! surely it cannot be so much." -"May be it will be twelve.""It does not seem more than four." -" Indeed I'm thinking ye're right."-" Really you seem to know nothing about the matter "-"Troth I canna say I do." This trait of character is universal, and the answer is always so decided, that the inquirer, unless he is a strenuous doubter, is not induced to verify the statement by this mode of crossexamination." Collected the South of mes Hogg. 2 vols. liar lessons in Mineralogy' a Geology, &c. by J. Maure, 12 mo. pp. 78, with engravings. (This work is recommended by the editors of the Journal of Belles Letters.) 'History of Brazil,' pt. 3d, by Robert Southey. (A very curious and interesting work, by an author whose literary character is not appreciated in this country, and who is unjustly supposed to entertain illiberal views towards the United States.) The Delphin and Variorum classics, parts 1 to 10; Containing the whole of Virgil, and a portion of Cæsar, with an authentic portrait of Cæsar, and numerous wood cuts. (a splendid edition, printed in a very expensive style.) ، Don Juan,' with a biographical account of Lord Byron and his family, &c. canto 3d, 8vo. pp. 156. (This is one of the catch-pennies of the times; at once vulgar, unjust, injurious, and expensive.' Such is the judgment of the English critic.) A description of the western islands of Scotland, including the Isle of Man, &c. By John Maculloch, M.D. 3 vols. 4to. (The Literary Gazette observes of this work, Its geology is ample and minute, and the third volume presents many clever engravings, Cape of Good Hope and its Dependencies. An accurate and truly interesting description of those delightful Regions, situated 500 miles north of the Cape, &c. By captain Benjamin Stout, late commander of the American East Indian, named the Hercules, lost on the coast of Caffraria, within a few miles of the river Infanta, where the Grosvenor perished in 1782. Likewise a luminous and affecting detail of Captain Stout's Travels, &c. &c. London, 1820. 8vo. pp. 144. (This is pronounced to be a clumsy and extravagant forgery.) The Eskdale herd-boy,' rd-boy, a Scotish tale, by Mrs. Blackford, 12mo. pp. 260. (A moral tale, intended for the improvement of readers in the lower orders of life, the work of a writer who could do better things, if any thing is superior to teaching our fellow pilgrims the nearest way to the purest happiness.") Life of Wm. lord Russell,' with some account of the times in which portant lights are darting across this dark quarter of the globe. ib. The Parisian catalogue of books published this year, up to the end of October, contains 3828 new works and new editions, a list of 732 engravings, and 375 musical pieces, since the first of January. ib. Petrarque et Laure. By madame de Gentis, 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1819. This work, it is said, terminates the literary labours of Madame de Genlis; if so few writers could take leave of the public with a fairer title to its esteem and gratitude, whether touching the feelings or instructing the understanding, and she has done both with no common power, she has never forgotten to advocate the cause of piety and virtue. It appears she has long meditated on the subject of such a work, and has thought that a certain sympathy between her character and that of her hero, gives her a facility in the execution of a task otherwise so difficult. Inferior in all things,' she says, 'with regard to talents, I have nevertheless found myself in harmony with him as to character, fondness for study, love of solitude and the arts; also in the habitual use he made of his imagination, either as a source of consolation, or of happiness.' Sketch of the Life, Character, and Writings of baroness de Stael Holstein.' By Madame Necker de Saussure. Translated from the French. 1 vol 8vo. ley,' the founder of the English Methodists, by Robt. Southey. 2 vols. 8vo. Travels invarious countries in the East,' being a continuation of memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey. By Robt. Walpole. Memoirs of the protector Oliver Cromwell, and his sons Richard and Henry,' &c. By Oliver Cromwell, Esq. a descendant of the family. Tales of My Landlord, 'fourth series, containing Pontefract castle. (Mr. Constable and Mr. Ballantyne, the publisher and the printer of the preceding series, advertise that this is a spurious publication, and not by the author of the real Tales of My Landlord.) &c. By J. Ingle. 1 vol. 12mo. 'America and the British colonies,' an abstract of all the most useful information relative to the U. S. of A. and the British colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales and Van Dieman's Island exhibiting at one view the comparative advantages and disadvantages each country offers for emigration, &c By William Kingdom junr. 4 vol. 8 vo. The Cyclopedia of Commerce,' comprising a Code of Commercial Law, Practice, Customs, and Information, and exhibiting the present state of Commerce, Home, Foreign and Colonial; with the shipping, manufactures and products, both natural and artificial of the various commercial nations of the world &c. By Samuel Clarke and John Williams. 4to. 2 l. 10 s. in boards. A Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout and Rheumatism,' &c. and practical observations on Gravel. By Charles Scudamore M. D. &c. (a work spoken of very favourably.) • History of the Anglo Saxons,' comprising the history of England, from the earliest period, to the Norman conquest. By Sharon Turner, F.A.S. 3d ed. 3 vols. 8vo. History of the Crusades,' &c. by Charles Mills, Esq. author of a treatise on Mahommedanism, 2 vols. 8vo. 'Memoirs of the Life of John Wes King Coal's Levee' or Geological etiquette, a poem, with explanatory notes, &c. To which is added 'Badalt's Tour.' [A work not only of seductive scientific usefulness but of very considerable humour and poetical merit.] Lit. Gaz. 'Germany and the Revolution.' By |