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Its weight of cares upon the weary heart;
Though baleful passions poison in their spring
The sources of our being, and impart

To the galled bosom their envenomed smart;
How sweet to turn awhile from these, and reign
Lord of each change of wonder-working art;
Nor ask the beam of truth-nor feel how vain
That long, long, polar day, whose very light is
pain!

metre that have been introduced no way lessening the fidelity of the translator. We take from the Book of Love one single speci

men.

Beauty, like the full moon fair;
Eyes, that match the lily's beaming;
Dark, as clustering bees, the hair,
Hues, more bright than golden gleaming;
Flowing lines for hips and breast,
Like the front of elephants;
Speech, as odours sweet contest;
These are charms a maiden wants."

Forschungen in Gebiete der Heb. Egyyt, Archäologie. Erster Theil. Zur Geschichte der Buchstabenschrift, in besonderer Beziehung der Hebräer, Phönicier, Griechen, und Aegypter. (Researches in the Fields of Hebræo-Egyptian Archaiology, Part I. On the History of Letters, and particularly those of the Hebrews, Phoni cians, Greeks, and Egyptians.) Von Dr. J. L. Saalschütx, Königsberg. 1838.

Much of the nightmare that oppressed our judgment as to the supposed extravagance and impossibility of this collection has vanished with the darkness of past hours; the fidelity of the descriptions has been recognized as giving the very best picture possible of Eastern manners: and this adherence to truth on one, and so material a point, gives earnest of accuracy on others upon which we cannot be so well informed. Much of this information, however, Mr. Lane has undertaken to supply, and no one who is acquainted with his unrivalled and delightful volumes on Egypt, can doubt that he was absolutely the fittest of writers for the task he has undertaken. The doubtful and obscure become truth and elucidation in his hands: we are improved, in spite of ourselves, and even by the very means we seek to avoid it; and cus- THIS commencing part is of good augury. toms, and manners, and habits of thought, Authorities, though referred to with due become familiarized to us, even as amongst deference, are not too implicitly or blindly the chosen playthings of indolent recreation. followed. There is considerable merit in the The grossness too of eastern manners is wide view taken of the circumstances unentirely avoided in this beautiful and useful der which this interesting inquiry presents edition of a work which must have readers so itself to the eyes and mind. The labours of long as the heart is human. The parent Gesenius form a broad and novel basis for need no longer fear, the maiden no longer such investigations, and will evince how blush, to take up the work or place it in the rashly on one hand theorists have argued, hands of a child. Were this the only praise, and how still more unfoundedly the probait would be no ordinary recommendation; bilities they have brought forward have been but the beauty of the type, correct picto- denied and ridiculed, as we have lately mainrial embellishment, and faithful expression, tained. We can recommend the work to render this one of the most delightful of general readers, and feel anxious to see more works-a waking dream, to sooth and wile of it. the listless and vacant hours that creep along during "the long siesta of a summer's day!"

Die Sprüche des Bhartriharis. Aus dem Sanskrit metrisch übertragen. (The Proverbs of Bhartriharis: rendered into verse from the Sanscrit.) Von P. von Bohlen, Professor der Orientalischen Sprachen, Konigsberg. Hamburg, 1835.

Asiatische Studien. Von Carl Friederich Neumann. Erster Theil. (Asiatic Studies, by C. F. Neumann, Vol. 1.) Leipzig. 1837.

A WORK which we eagerly and gladly hail as the first of a series, and trust that the remainder will bear out the promise of the present volume. Judgment and variety of research are so rarely united that we feel THE Indian proverbs and sayings known un- great pleasure in noticing their combination der this title, were, about 200 years since, here. An elaborate view of Chinese speech loosely translated into Dutch by the Mission- and writing, in which the most recent authorary Abraham Roger, who obtained them ities are carefully consulted, is the fitting infrom the mouth of a Brahmin on the Coro- troduction to many curious details, from Chimandel coast. They were paraphrased by nese sources, respecting the natives of the Herder in his "Gedanken eines Brahminen." empire and the neighbouring nations and The volume contains also some noThis interesting collection, which from its tribes. refined and ethical tendency assumes a high tices of Tartar speech, and a view of the place in morals, and is singularly character- present trade of China.

istic of its origin, is now placed before Europeans in an authentic and accurate shape :

the slight and requisite changes of form and

A New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the German Language in six Months. By H. G. Ollendorff. Translated from the fifth French edition, by G. J. Bertinchamp, A. B. London: Bailliere; and Black and Armstrong.

THIS is the only mode; the way in which infants are taught; to learn whatever is need. ful for the one lesson before them, and no more: the men, of but larger growth, require | only a larger lesson, and in the same easy form. German, to be understood properly, must be attacked exactly like mathematics,

and there is no "royal road" to knowledge. Ollendorff's method well deserves the title of Euclid of the German. After six months close application by this method alone, can this very difficult, but very charming language, be taught without confusion. Such a method is quite invaluable. By it the scholar advances step by step.

The opinion of Captain Basil Hall, and he confesses himself a slow scholar, in favour of Mr. Ollendorff's system, both for effectiveness and speed, is the best eulogium, for it is from a practical man.

MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY NOTICES.

GERMANY.

THE Talmud is the Corpus Juris Civilis et Ecclesiastici of the Jews. A lexicon or key to such a work—the compilation of a hundred writers during a thousand years-must be a treasure to those who are engaged in the study of the Jewish religion and antiquities, and as such we recommend Dessauer's Handwörterbuch als Hilfsmittel zur Erlur. nung des Talmuds, der Thargumim und Mi draschim. The price is only two dollars.

The union of science with literature is the object of "Braga," a new national journal for art and science, commenced with this year, at Heidelberg, by Winter. in this publication, and in the Quarterly Review just started at Stuttgart, by Cotta, we are rejoiced to find an attempt made to divest the German language of that too philosophical garb which has made it so repulsive to those foreign nations-and they are not a few-who are uninitiated into the one-sided diction of Kant and Hegel; and to bring down literature and science to the comprehension of the many. Keeping this object steadily in view, the study of the German language will acquire, by such means, a new impulse throughout the world, and the language itself will gain in power and clearness.

A Saxon Glossary, by Schmeller, is preparing, being a continuation of the Heliand.

In the press, Test imentum Novum CoptoMemphiticum_ex_MSS. Reg. Bibl. Berol. emendatum a M. Schwartze.

Winer is about to publish a new Greek and German Lexicon to the New-Testament.

Died, at Jena, on the 17th of April, the Baroness Schopenhauer. She was born at Dantzig, in 1770, and was the daughter of the senator H. Trosina. She was married very young to the Banker Schopenhauer, with whom she travelled through many countries of Europe. After her husband's death, she chiefly resided, since 1806, in Weimar, where she collected around her many of the most remarkable characters of the day, who eagerly courted her society. Her works, in 1834, were collected in 24 volumes. In them the reader will find much amusement and instruction, the fruits of a mind delicately sensitive to the higher duties of women, and evincing great strength and refined moral feeling. Gabriele-her best work-Sidonia, and her travelling Sketches, are her most popular productions. Latterly she was engaged in writing her own Memoirs, of which only the first part is completed, containiug her childhood and youth.

A second edition of Hoffman's BibliograDr. Möhler, one of the most learned oppophy of the Greek Writers is in the press, thoroughly revised and considerably aug-nents of Protestantism in modern days, died mented.

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at Munich, on the 12th of April. His " Athanasius der Grosse und seine Zeit, (2 vols. 1827,) displayed profound learning, and deep sympathy with church matters; but the work which attracted attention in Germany, in an extraordinary degree, was his "Symbolik, oder Darstellung der dogmatischen Gegensätze der Katholiken und Protestanten." He was only in his 42d year, and was engaged,

at the time of his death, on a commentary on the Romans, a Church History, and an extensive work on the History of Monachism in Europe.

Leitfaden zur Nordischen Alterthumskunde, herausgegeben von der köiglichen Gesselschaft für nordische Alterthumskunde. 8vo. Kopenhagen, 1837.

Died, Feb. 24, 1838, at Leipsic, the Privy Councillor, Chevalier and Professor of Statistics, Carl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz, for many years esteemed one of the first writers on statistics, history and politics, as also professor at the Leipsic university. He was unmarried, and has left considerable property. His library, which is very considerable, is bequeathed to the library of the city council of Leipsic, of which he was a member.

BONN.-Professor C. W. Freytag, having finished his Arabic and Latin Dictionary, has

publishing, entitled "Meidani's Arabian Pro. verbs." Arabic and Latin; together with those of other Arabian writers, with illustra tive notes, &c.

The Northern Society of Antiquaries, by whom this valuable little Guide is published, has of late attracted considerable attention to its labours, by the unexpected disclosure of its interesting records relative to American opened a subscription for a work he intends antiquities, a field apparently so remote from the proper scene of its investigations. Such researches into past times, and regard shown for the works and deeds of the ancestors of our common race, betoken a healthy state of Of all the productions of the human mind, public feeling, and a generous sympathy with none better deserve the attention of men of man, that cannot be too widely shared and letters than national proverbs,bearing as they propagated. Hence we look with affection necessarily do, the stamp of a people's chaupon works like the present, the particular racter. The more strongly this is reflected object of which is to point out the most im- in their Proverbs, the more interesting and portant branches of the antiquities of the valuable must be the latter; and those of north, and to guard the public against that Arabia possess this excellence in a superior too frequent destruction or mutilation of degree. Proverbs are there the favourite them, when discovered in the shape of relics mode of expression, which accounts for the of the arts, which so frequently takes place, extraordinary cumber of these in the lanby ignorant workmen, or barbarians of high-guage. They are whimsically quoted by er pretensions. The first chapter of this their authors; and whoever wishes to obtain Guide is on the extent and importance of old anything beyond a superficial knowledge of northern literature; the next presents an Arabic, will not omit examining them. Ever abridged review of the monuments and anti- since the study of the Oriental languages quities of the north, and in this part many was introduced into Europe, the most distinwood-cuts are given, representing articles of guished persons have so applied themselves. ornament and dress, and of use in domestic Erpenius, who especially contributed to turn economy; of instruments used in war and attention towards Oriental literature, was music, &c.; of runic and other inscriptions, also the first to make a collection of Arabian and of coins; the whole opening up a field of proverbs, (1623). Golius, Leunert, and Reisne, most curious and interesting research. The followed his example. Pocock, so profoundremains of Heathen and Christian antiquity ly versed in Eastern tongues, translated all are properly discriminated, and their various the Proverbs of Meidana, probably with the periods assigned. The work is concluded intention of publishing them. Albert Schulwith some observations on the discovery and tens having copied that translation atOxford, preservation of antiquities, and a recom. in 1772, determined to execute the design mendation that the workmen employed on abandoned by Pocock, and bring out the such occasions should be superintended by whole by subscription, in three quarto vothe clergyman of the parish, or the school-lumes, with the addition of Latin notes. His master. Museums are established in various death put an end to the undertaking. His parts of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, celebrated pupil, Schroder, published, in for the reception and preservation of ancient 1795, only 454 proverbs out of the entire colrelics; rewards are bestowed by govern.lection.

ment; and the full value given for such arti- Professor Freytag, receiving some years cles as are brought to them. The effect of since a copy of Meidani from the Baron de all this on the nationality and character of a Sacy, determined to publish it; and for this people need not be dwelt upon here; for our purpose he went to Leyden to compare his readers, we hope, consist of that class who need no inducement, beyond the impulses of their own enlightened understandings, to urge them to take the lead in every useful and patriotic enterprize.

Böttiger's Literarische Zustände und Zeitgenossen promise to be a rich mine of literary anecdote and criticism, and to afford valuable materials for contemporary history and biography. As the work advances, we hope to make it the subject of an interesting article.

manuscript with the copy preserved there. But finding Hamaker engaged on the same task, he relinquished in consequence his own intention. Several years elapsed, and Hamaker died, bequeathing M. Freytag his manuscripts, which were enriched with many notes by M. Weyers, his successor at Leyden. The publication is now announced upon the following plan:

1st. To give the collection of Meidani with the vowels, and a translation for those who do not understand Arabic.

2dly. To give as concisely as possible the

substance of Meidani's Commentary, con- the rare appearance of a Frenchman writing taining grammatical, critical, historical, and on English poetry with knowledge, discrimi poetical notes; also extracts from the works nation and taste. The genius and character, of Scharef-Aldin Samaschari,* and other writers.

3dly. Although the collection of Meidani is very extensive, containing nearly 6000 proverbs, it is still far from complete. M. Freytag intends therefore to add to it all the ancient and modern proverbs he can pro-ed by M. de Vericour for his subject, that it

cure.

4thly. To give two Indexes; Latin and Arabic.

5thly. To add a treatise a Arabian Proverbs, and on the writers who have collected and commented upon them.

An edition of Schiller's Works is just published in small pocket volumes, printed on a very fine paper, and exceedingly cheap; the price not being more than the commonest edition has hitherto been sold for.

indeed, of Milton, have been so fully discussed by his countrymen, that any further remarks by a foreign writer might, if we could overlook the extraordinary discovery of Guizot, be supposed to possess little interest; but such is the love and veneration entertainbecomes, under his hands, replete with inte. rest, and to us, at least, invested with all the charm of novelty. Much of this, no doubt, arises from the gratifying and unexpected style in which the work is written. Hitherto such a subject was considered forbidden ground for a Frenchman, above all others; but such has been the rapid course of events since the peace, and so great the change produced by the free intercourse of nations, that the literature and intellectual character of each have been studied and appreciated free from the prejudices of bygone days, and in a Dr.Görres and Dr. Phillips, in Munich, have spirit of philosophic contemplation and im published a new periodical entitled Historisch- partiality. The results, on the literature of Politische Blatter für das Katolische Deutsch-Europe and of the world, are manifest. Every land, with contributions from Bayer, Döllin- day we see the common domain enriched ger, Baron Freyberg, Professor Görres, Möh- with the intellectual fertility of different lands, Ier, and Von Moy. It is to appear twice a and yielding a return of increased knowledge month, and will contain a short chronicle of and happiness. Every hour adds to the posthe most interesting events; a second part sessions and enjoyments of all-in rich argosies will be devoted to articles on Politics, Politi-wafted from the shores of nations; not hurlcal Economy and History, also to Theology, ing at each other, as of yore, the thunderbolts so far as this is interesting to the public at of war, but the welcome missives of books and large; a third part will contain short Notices book-projects. May the friends of man, in all of the most interesting Literary Novelties, nations, labour to prolong such a state of with Miscellaneous Remarks, Historical and things, and avert the demon of discord from Literary. his unwearied task! Ours is done when we thus briefly, but conscientiously, recommend The third Volume of Niehbuhr's Travels in to our readers the work of M. de Vericour, so Arabia was destroyed by fire in the printing-honourable to his study and just appreciation office at Copenhagen. It is in the press now of Milton. at Hamburgh, and will appear at the close of the present year.

We may notice, though somewhat out of our usual course, that the recent work of Mr. Hawkins, Travels in Germany, contains details usually omitted in books of travels, such as the actual condition of the several German states, their institutions, regulations, and all those particulars, statistical and other, which are so necessary for every reader, but for which he has to search in vain, except in works expressly devoted to scientific details, and which are not often found in the libraries of light readers.

FRANCE.

Milton et la Poésie Epique. Cours professé à l'Athénée Royal de Paris par M. Raymond de Véricour. 8vo. Paris, 1838.

This work may fairly be called a phenomenon in the literary world, for it exhibits

M. von Hammer published a small volume of Samascharı about four years since.

A splendid work is now in course of publication at Paris, on Ancient Tapestry. The object is to give, by means of first-rate copperplate engravings, such representations of the most remarkable specimens extant, as will convey to the lovers of the fine arts a correct and elegant picture of those curious products of the most unwearied industry and taste. The work will be completed in 4 vols. folio, each consisting of ten livraisons, price 15 francs, plain; 40 on India paper, and 70 coloured. Engravings on wood will also be given, consisting of portraits, head and tail pieces, &c. serving to embellish and illustrate the work.

Since the Révue Encyclopédique was given up, we have seen no work that fills its place so well as the Révue Universelle, which is conducted on the same plan, as the former; and to those who subscribed to it and regret its loss, will prove a welcome substitute.

A new edition of Brunet's Manuel du Libraire is announced as nearly ready for the press, with the supplement incorporated, and the whole so revised and improved as to form

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