first article bears the quaint and singular title "Egyptian Nights -a romantic garland, from secret memoirs," by Salvatorello; after which, the only productions worthy of notice are "Memoirs of Contessa," by Houwald-a fragment from a new tragedy entitled "Belisarius," and a dramatic sketch by the Editor.

XIV. Proves to be the "Urania," which has been in circulation since 1815, and continues to be well deserving of its extensive reputation. This year presents us with "Debora," a novel in 132 pages, by Wilhelm Muller, the justly celebrated poet,"The Ring," another romance, from the inexhaustible Thirty years war, by the indefatigable Tromlitz; "Gianetto, the African," by Baron Von Miltitz: two other narratives, entitled "A Friend's Will" and "Clara Von Cossuergue," followed by some good verses, by Tiedge and others. The embellishments consist of Thorvaldsen's portrait, and some caricatures by Stöber, after Opitz.

XV. According to old custom, we have kept one volume in reserve, on which we are glad to say that we can bestow our most cordial and unqualified approbation. It is entitled "Vielliebchen," and is altogether new, being not edited, but from beginning to end written, we believe, by Tromlitz, to whose high character as a novelist we have already alluded. Within 412 very closely printed pages he has comprized three historical romances, entitled, "Johanna Lavil" "The Three Wishes," and "The Battle of Marignano." We do not say that his productions are always correct or highly finished, but his conceptions of character are particularly bold and spirited, while, in the contrivance of a plot he has rarely been equalled, nor do we remember any young author, (whether Mr. T. is young in years we know not,) who in the same space of time has invented so many stories as he has done, which would admit of successful adaptation for the stage.

We have received also XVI. " Aurora," edited by Jacob Glatz; XVII. Kotzebue's (Lebrun's)" Almanach dramatischer Spiele;" XVIII.“ Kürlander dramatischer Almanach;" XIX. "Aurora," edited by J. G. Seidl; XX. "Das Veilchen;" XXI." Der Freund des Schönen Geschlechts;" of which, as they are of minor importance, we add the names only to this catalogue raisonné. On the whole, many consider Numbers I. XIV. and XV. as the best in our present collection. We shall welcome the arrival of the " Cornelia," the "Aglaia," the " Berlinische," the " Alpenrosen," and others, which will of course reach us within the present month, and, perhaps, recur to the subject in a future number.

MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY NOTICES.

No. II.

AUSTRIA.

THE Abbé Dobrowsky has discovered at Prague a chronicle containing an account of the crusade of the year 1190, by Ansbert, an Austrian monk, who had served on that occasion. It contains among other things, an explanation of the manner in which Richard Coeur-de-Lion was detained in Austria: Sup. 46

the author narrates facts relating to that hero, which were unknown, and are consequently not to be found even in the great work of Rymer.

The Austrian chronicler relates, in a way entirely to the advantage of his master, the treachery by which Richard-who was sufficiently guilty in other respects-became his victim. According to the chronicler, it was a special manifestation of Providence that delivered the King of England into the hands of the Duke, for the expiation of the crimes he had been guilty of towards the family of his captor: Judicio Dei tactus in laqueum incidit ejus quem prius illaqueare voluit. Richard, who had been stript on the road, was concealed with his travelling companions in a public-house near Vienna, when the spies of the Duke of Austria seized him and delivered him up to their master: in vili hospitio per exploratores inventus et captus est ab hominibus ducis Austria.

Leopold delivered up, or rather sold, his prisoner to Henry, Emperor of Germany, by a treaty which the Austrian monk has given at full length, and which resembles a convention between the chiefs of two savage hordes, who have stopped travellers on the highway for the purpose of selling them as slaves. .. The articles of this treaty bear, that the Duke of Austria should receive one half of the 100,000 marcs, which Richard was to pay for his ransom to the emperor; as security for this payment the emperor should deliver to the duke 200 hostages, as, on the other hand, Richard was to give 200 hostages to the emperor. The 50,000 marcs destined for the Duke of Austria, were to serve as a marriage-portion to Eleonora, Richard's niece, whom the Duke of Austria proposed to bestow in marriage on one of his sons. Richard was to furnish

50 gallies, manned and equipped, and to lead this fleet himself to assist the emperor in subduing Sicily; he agreed to release the King of Cyprus and his daughter, and when these conditions were fulfilled, he was also to obtain pardon from the Pope for the Duke of Austria, for what crime is not stated; "but it was no doubt to take off the interdict incurred by Duke Leopold, for his treacherous conduct toward a prince engaged in the Holy-Wars.

Another curiosity contained in this chronicle is a letter from Philip le Bel, King of France, to his dear friend the Duke of Austria, begging him to keep Richard securely, and not to allow him any liberty. The following is a complete copy of this letter.

"Phylippus Dei gratia Franc. Rex, karissimo amico suo duci Austria, salųtem, et sinceræ dilectionis plenitudinem. Quoniam quam perverse, et contra Deum et contra homines, Rich. impiissimus Rex Angliæ in transmarinis partibus vixerit et fecerit, oculo ad oculum vidistis et audistis, singula nobis ad

memoriam non oportet reducere. Verum scimus vos fixâ tenere memoria quod Rich. Chunr. marchionem et dominum Tyri, qui usque ad supremum diei exitium defensor et columpna Christianitatis exstitit, sine causa et nullis præcedentibus meritis, consanguineum quondam vestrum karissimum et nostrum, per assassinos crudeliter fecerit interfici. Modis igitur omnibus quibus possumus, preces ex intimo cordis affectu procedentes vobis porrigimus, quatenus intuitu misericordiæ Dei et respectu cujusque servitii quod unquam vobis potuerimus exhibere, prædictum Richardum sub arcta teneatis custodia; nec aliquo modo eum liberetis, donec vobis et nos, cum illustri Rom. imperatore ore ad os, aut per nuncios de latere nostro, locuti fuerimus."

The XXXIXth No. of the Vienna Jahrbücher, just published, contains the first part of a review by Mr. von Hammer of 63 recent works on Arabic and Persian literature, published in Germany, France, England, &c. The list includes works published by Professors Nicoll of Oxford, and Lee of Cambridge, Dr. Gilchrist, Major Stewart, Major Price, and Mr. Marsden, in England; by Silvestre de Sacy, Jaubert, Caussin de Perceval, &c., in France; von Hammer, Freytag, Hamaker, &c., in Germany, &c.; Fraehn, in Russia. Generally speaking, the article notices every work of importance published on Arabian or Persian lite rature during the last six years. This number also contains reviews of Frayssinous' Defence of Christianity; a continuation of the article on the New Persian Dictionary, by the Sultan of Oude, called the Seven Seas, by von Hammer; the concluding part of the review of Meier's History of the Fine Arts in Greece; Raumer's History of the Hohenstaufen; Aug. Neander's Church History; Commentaries on Dante, by Abeken, (Berlin, 1826,) and Taafe's Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, published by Mr. Murray in 1822.

BAVARIA.

THE University of Munich now reckons in its establishment five Professors in the various branches of Theology; twelve of Jurisprudence; seven of Political Economy; sixteen of Medicine; and thirty-six of the various other sciences. Among these Professors are many very celebrated men, and it is confidently expected that this University will soon realize to their fullest extent, the exalted ideas of its illustrious renovator.

Dr. Frank, of Munich, has lately established a Sanscrit printing press at Munich; and from the first number of his new Journal, entitled " Vjasa," on the Philosophy, Mythology, Literature, and Language of the Hindoos, we are led to anticipate a new era in Sanscrit literature. It contains a dissertation on the scientific importance of Sanscrit lucubrations, and a fragment of Jadschurnada, with a Latin translation.

Dr. Ehrenberg intends publishing the materials collected by himself and the late Dr. Hemprich, his travelling companion, under the title of "Travels by two Naturalists in Northern Africa and Western Asia." The first part will consist of two volumes, containing a map of the Red Sea, an outline of all its eastern and part of the western coasts; a catalogue of the islands on the east side and on the west; a view of Mount Sinai; a map relative to the expedition before the last of the Pasha of Egypt's troops in the Hedjaz; the route from Beroath to Balbeck by the snowy mountain of Sanin, in Libania, and the route back to the coast by another snowy mountain called Makmel;

a catalogue in Arabic and Latin characters of 619 places in the north-east part of Libania; a series of 763 observations by the thermometer, made for the most part between the tropics; vocabularies of the various dialects of the Arabic, the language of the Berbers, of the Massana, the Amharic, the Tigric, the Gaho, and the Joenke, unknown to the present time, and spoken by a negro tribe of Upper Senaar; various portraits, and plates representing utensils, and new plants, &c. The second part, as it will contain many plates of natural history, cannot be published till the author is enabled to defray the expense.

A selection from the works of the old German Poet Hans Sachs is announced to appear at Nürnberg, edited by Professor Büsching.

BOHEMIA.

BOHEMIAN Literature at the present day is far from being in a state of inactivity. Tschelakowsky has translated Göthe's Play, “ Die Geschwister," and Rhesa's collection of popular national songs of the Lithuanians. Machatschek, who many years ago translated Göthe's "Iphigenia in Tauris," is the author of a comedy entitled "The Wooer," which is esteemed the best in the Bohemian language. Tschelakowsky has also published a collection of the most popular national songs of the various Slavonian nations, of which the first volume appeared in 1822, the second in 1825, and the third during the present year. A collection of Bohemian songs, accompanied with music, also appeared in 1825, but the want of explanatory and critical remarks is to be regretted. Some excellent observations on the National Songs of Bohemia, by Prof. Anton Müller, are contained in the August No. of the Quarterly Museum. Hollmann published the Poems of Ossian in Bohemian, and Tomsa has translated Clauren's Tales. The same publication contains extracts in the Bohemian language, as well as specimens of the Poems of Kollar, the best Bohemian poet.

Führich has just published five prints to Bürger's "Wild Huntsman," of surpassing excellence. The subject has afforded him ample scope for the display of his wonderful powers, which delight in depicting the contending elements of good and evil. These prints display extraordinary life and animation. The perdition of the wild Count, the deepening fiendishness of the evil spirit, and the increasing grief in the countenance of the good angel, are pourtrayed with the hand of a master.

DENMARK.

DR. HARSCH, professor of the University of Soröe, has, after a residence of six years in France, Italy, and Germany, returned to Copenhagen, and has brought with him four plays, composed while he was abroad, and written both in German and Danish. According to Dr. Heiberg's Flyvende Post, Tieck, who superintended the German edition, is stated to have given it as his opinion, "that since Göthe's best time nothing more excellent in dramatic literature has appeared than these four plays."

Professor Rask has brought from Ceylon a collection of fifty Cingalese MSS. which have been deposited in the Royal Library of Copenhagen.

Among them are several in the Pali language; the rest are all in the vulgar dialect of Ceylon. These MSS. form the subject of an article in the first No. of the Nordisk Tidskrift, published at Copenhagen, by M. Chr. Molbeck. Mr. Rask has also just published (in Danish), a work on the Ancient Egyptian Chronology.

FRANCE.

THE Royal Academy of Medicine has distributed the prizes founded by the will of the late M. De Montyon for those who shall have contributed to the improvement of the healing art. Ten thousand francs have been awarded to Messrs. Pelletier and Caventou for the discovery of the sulphate of quinine. The other 10,000 francs have been adjudged to M. Civiale, as the first who has practised Lithotritie, being a method of crushing, by means of an instrument, the stone in the bladder, and extracting it, and in this manner for having effected many cures. Medals were also distributed to several other medical men for having published works of great utility; and to the late M. Laennec 5000 francs were awarded for the second edition of his work on Auscultation, which has lately been translated into English.

The Academy proposed, as a subject for a prize of 1000 francs to be awarded in 1828, the following question:-" How far it appears possible from experience and observation to prevent, by mechanical means, the absorption of deleterious substances in general, and in particular of the rabid virus?"

The annual prize founded by the late M. Montyon for the work most useful to public morals, has been awarded this year as follows; 8000 francs to the work of the late Mme. Guizot, intitled Education Domestique, ou Lettres de Famille sur l'Education, 2 vols. 8vo. ; 4000 francs to the work of Dr. Alibert, intitled Physiologie des Passions, ou Nouvelle Doctrine des Sentimens Moraux, 2 vols. 8vo.; and 3000 francs to the novel of M. Merville, intitled Les Deur Apprentis, 4 vols. 12mo., a work intended by the author for the class of young mechanics, whom it seeks to dissuade from the dissipation and vice produced by keeping bad company.

An annual Prize, for the best Statistical Treatise, was also founded by the late Baron Montyon, to be awarded by the Academy. The principal object of this prize was to encourage inquiries into authentic facts relating to public economy, and to diffuse the knowledge of these facts. This year has produced several remarkable productions of this nature, and the Academy has seen with great satisfaction that the science of Statistics and its numerous applications has made great advances of late years. The government offices have freely allowed access to their stores, and have even published some important works, which have been taken as a model.

The prize was this year assigned to two works, of equal merit-The Statis tics of the Department of L'Aisne, by M. Brayer, head of the Prefecture of that department; and to a work entitled Oenologie Française, by M. Cavoleau.

We observe by the newspapers, that M. Civiale has proved the efficacy of his method on the Baron de Zach, the celebrated astronomer, whom he has completely cured. The Baron had no less than forty small stones, all of which were crushed and extracted by the natural passages without the least accident.