Déterminer par une série d'expériences chimiques et physiologiques, quels sont les phénomènes qui se succèdent dans les organes digestifs durant l'acte de la digestion.

Other prizes are offered of inferior value: the subjects are less important.

Diatribe contre l'Art Oratoire; to which is added Philosophical and Literary Miscellanies, by Felix Boden; with this epigraph from Bruyère" Il faut chercher seulement à penser et à parler juste, il faut exprimer le vrai." Paris. 1824. 18mo. 230

pages.

Voyage de Moscou à Vienne; through Kiow, Odessa, Constantinople, Bucharest, and Hermanstad: or Letters addressed to Julius Griffiths, by the Count de Lagarde. Paris. 1824. 8vo. 440 pages, with a portrait of the author. Although M. de Lagarde announces that no profound reflection or new observation will be found in these letters, they are replete with ingenious ideas elegantly expressed. This work contains sharp anecdotes, and a rich fund of historical and literary intelligence.

Histoire abrégée de l'Inquisition d'Espagne; by Leonard Gallois. 4th edition, with additions. 1824. Paris.

Histoire de la Campagne d'Espagne en 1823; by Abel Hugo and Couché the son. 2 vols. 8vo. embellished with 22 engravings. Paris.

Considérations sur les Enfans-trouvés dans les principaux Etats de l'Europe; by M. Benoiston de Chateauneuf. 8vo. xxii and 106 pages.

The second chapter of this work treats of the number of foundlings in the various states of Europe:

In Rome, in 1810,

1,200

In London, in 1760,

In France, in 1821,

6,000 138,500

In the third chapter the number of foundlings is compared to that of the births: at Paris, in 1820, it was nearly 23 in the hundred; but this calculation includes the foundlings brought in from the country. It was in the whole of France, in 1821, 3 in the hundred. At Rome, between 1801 and 1807, it was about 28 in the hundred of births. The Academy of Sciences have just decreed to M. Benoiston the statistical prize for this work.

Prodromus systematis naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc

usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta, auctore Aug. Pyramo de Candolle; Pars prima, sistens Thalamiflorarum ordines 54. 1824. 8vo. vi and 746 pages. The number of vegetables known at this day amounts to more than 50,000, whilst the most complete botanical works scarcely reckon more than 20,000; and the deficiency daily increasing, which botanists feel for want of a complete enumeration, compiled after the principles of the natural method, has determined M. de Candolle to delay the publication of his Systema, to give, in the most concise form possible, a Prodromus, which will display the actual state of botanical science. The first volume of the Prodromus, which has just appeared, contains the enumeration of the 54 families, now actually comprising the class of Thalamiflores.

M. Klaproth is going to publish a new edition of the Voyage of Marcus Polo. In comparing the geography of the Mongols, who reigned in China, with the narrative of Marc. Polo, M. Klaproth has succeeded in discovering in the Chinese books, and under the very same names, all the places mentioned by the celebrated Venetian traveller. With regard to the distances marked in journeys by the Italian traveller, they are so exact between the principal towns of China, that they correspond in number to the stations as indicated on the Imperial Chinese Road-book, for the use of persons travelling for the Chinese government.

August.

The subject proposed for a prize this month, at the annual meeting of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, is, "de rechercher quelles ont été les attributions successives du Consulat, et les diverses modifications que cette dignité éprouva depuis l'avènement d'Auguste à l'Empire, jusqu'à la fin du 12me siècle, où elle fut abolie à Rome par le Pape Innocent III. On devroit s'attacher à eclaircir, aussi complètement qu'il seroit possible, les difficultés chronologiques que présentent les fastes consulaires pendant cette période de temps."

The prize is 1500 francs (607. sterling); the memoir is to be written in French or Latin, aud to be delivered by the 1st of April, 1825. Other prizes are decreed for other subjects of minor importance (and too voluminous for our limits).

Grammaire Arabe-vulgaire; to which are added, Dialogues, Letters, Acts, &c.; by A. P. Percival, Professor of vulgar Arabic. Paris. 1824. viii, 118, and 22 pages. 4to., with seven Plates or Tables.

Pensées et Maximes inédites de La Rochefoucault; collected and published by E. L. Paris. 32mo. containing 48 pages.

Germany.

Aristotelas de Policia Carthaginensium; a new edition, by Kruge, with a Commentary and a Dissertation on the Life of Hanno and the great men of Carthage; with Tables. Breslaw. 1824. 8vo.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Professor Schlegel's Observations on The History of the Elephant and Sphinx in our next.

Kimchi came too late for our present No.

Pyramids of Egypt will be continued.

The Cambridge English Prize Poem in our next.

Mr. W.'s Biblical Criticism will be continued in our next. Notices of Elora, Scripture Harmony, &c. came too late for the present No.

Commentarii in Demosthenem will not be neglected.

We shall give an early insertion of an article on Fables and the Eastern Sciences.

Excursion to Rome in our next.

Notule in Eurip. Medeam in our next.

Extracts from neglected Books came too late.

The Verses on "Mysorei Tyranni Mors" are ingenious and spirited; but if the author will peruse the rules for Alcaics in No. xxii. of the Classical Journal, he will see that some of the lines are liable to objection in point of metrical strictness.

Mr. Rich's articles are accepted.

Notices of Anti-Tooke, and of Dr. Tilloch on the Apocalypse, in our next.

We will endeavor to do justice to Professor Boissonade's Works in our next No., independent of Holstenius.

Just published, in 12mo. on fine paper, hot-pressed,.
Pr. 7s. 6d. boards,

Designed as an object of laudable Emulation for the Youthful Mind.

By the Author of "PRACTICAL WISDOM," &c. &c.

London: Sold by Messrs. Simpkin and Co., Stationers'-court; Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly; and all Booksellers.

Preparing for publication, in one vol. 8vo.
EXCERPTA ARISTOPHANICA,
For the use of Schools.

By THOMAS MITCHELL, A. M.
Late Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge.
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With a large Map, &c. 8vo. 16s.

JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN ASIA MINOR; With Comparative Remarks on the Ancient and Modern Geography of that Country.

By WILLIAM MARTIN LEAKE, F. 3. S., &c.
Printed for JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle-street.

Just Published,

A DICTIONARY OF LATIN PHRASES: Comprehending a methodical digest of the various phrases from the best authors, which have been collected in all phraseological works hitherto published; for the more speedy progress of students in LATIN COMPOSITION. By W. ROBERTSON, M. A. of Cambridge. A new Edition, with considerable addi tions, alterations, and corrections. For the use of the Midde and Upper Classes in Schools. Price 15s. royal duod. contain ing above 1000 pages.

*** The present edition has this advantage over its predeces sors, that it is enriched with many hundred phrases which have hitherto been unrecorded; and these have been drawn from the purest fountains by actual perusal; from Cicero, Tacitus, Terence, Plautus, &c.

The valuable assistance which it will afford to the Student and School-boy, in Latin Composition, can scarcely fail to obtain for it a distinguished place in the list of School Books.-Class. Journ. No. 57.

If the work in its first estate' was a favorite treatise at our schools, it can have nothing to fear in its renovated form, where its barbarisms have been expunged, and some thousand phrases, drawn from the purest sources, have been added. We shall merely observe that it is an excellent key to Latin Composition.-Literary Chron.

The utility of the work to students in Latin Composition is too evident to need pointing out, and we doubt not that it will readily find a due place in the list of School Books.-Gentleman's Magazine, May, 1824.