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DE LAPLACE has brought to light the sixteenth and last book of the Celestial Mechanism, a book which treats of the movements of the satellites, viz. of the Moon in the four first chapters; of the satellites of Jupiter in the fifth and sixth chapters, and of those of Saturn and Uranus in the seventh or last chapter. SELECTION OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Tables de la Bibliographie de la France, or General Journal of printing and books, &c. by M. Beuchot, Paris, in 8vo. The total of literary works which have appeared in France during the year 1825, amounts to 7,605; besides 3,000 articles of lithographic engraving, maps, and plans, and 1,000 of music; which amount to thirty-two publications each day. The subscription to Mhis work is twenty francs. Dictionnaire Hindostanie; in which is rectifiedia a great number of errors spread over Europe, on the religion, manners, customs, and knowlege of the Hindoos; preceded by a grammar, and a collection of Indian etymologies, containing upwards of 1,000 European words, whose etymology is from the Sanscrit and other languages of India, by J. Morenas, Paris, 3 vol. in 8vo. Subscription 21 francs, and 4 franes for the collection of ety mologies, which will be published before the dictionary and grammar. Dictionnaire François-Arabe. French and Arabic Dictionary: by Ellious Botchor, an Egyptian, and professor of modern Arabic at the Royal College of living Oriental languages at Paris, revised and enlarged by M. A. Caussin de Percival, professor of the same language at the same school; to which is added an Index; 2 vol. in 4to., which will appear in 6 deliveries at 12 francs each. anois CV. Catullus, ex Editione Frid. Guil. Doering, cui suas et aliorum Adnotationes adjecit Jos. 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The University of Upsal in 1825, contained 1,340 students, of which 112 were gentlemen. 312 were sons of Lutheran ministers. of the class of citizens. sons of peasants. sons of the military and public functionaries. The theological department contained 215 195 506 That of jurisprudence faculty of medicine - philosophy 283 students. 274 81 411 Undecided what scientific career they should take 291 The University of Moscow contained in the beginning of 1825, 800 students: the number of pupils who frequent the various schools dependent on this University is now 11,940. The increase of pupils of late years is very remarkable, since in 1815 the University and all the schools dependent thereon reckoned only 7,410 pupils and students. Wurtemburgh. It appears that the public schools of industry in the kingdom of Wurtemburgh make great progress; in 1823, there were 260, containing 10,064 students; in 1825, the number of these institutions amounted to 342, and that of the scholars to 14,087. 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Mémoire des Pays, ou relation des Voyages de Sidi Aly fils de Hosain, commonly called Katibi Roumi, Admiral of Soliman II. Translated from the German version of M. de Diez, by M. Moris. Rudimenta Hieroglyphices; Auctore Seyffurth. Accedunt Explicationes Speciminum Hieroglyphicorum, Glossarium, atque Alphabeta, cum 36 tabulis lithographicis. Lipsia, 1826, 1 vol. in 4to. 50 francs. The Kou Kin Thou Chu, or Grand Chinese Encyclopædia, begun in 1680, and finished about the close of the last century, contains ten thousand kiuen or sections, forming 32 tian, or grand subdivisions: there are, in all, 6,109 volumes, contained in 520 envelopes, with an index in 2 envelopes. Histoire de la Sixième Croisade et de la Prise de Damiette, according to the Arabian writers, 1 vol. in 8vo., Paris, 1826. By M. Reinaud, of the Royal Library of Oriental Mss. at Paris. De l'utilité de l'étude de la Poésie Arabe, par M. le B. S. de Sacy. Paris, 1826, 8vo. APIZTOPANHZ. Aristophanes, curante J. F. 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Edited, with Notes and a Translation, By W. M. LEAKE, F. R. S. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. END OF NO. LXVII. |