ster has composed a Plan of Improvement in Public Worship, which, in the latter end of last year, he submitted in manuscript to the consideration of government, desiring, how ever, that before any resolution should be taken upon it, it might be printed, and intelligent divines called upon to give in their opinions with respect to it. This has accordingly been done, and the bishop of Zealand, professor Munter, of the university of Copenhagen, and Laffen, of the royal chancery, have been appointed commissioners for examining and digesting the whole, the results of whose discussions are ordered to be laid before the king before the end of December in the present year.

A Danish Dictionary, on a plan similar to that of the Dictionaire de l'Academie Francaise, which is intended to fix the orthography and form the standard of the language, has for some time been in hand, and is already in some degree of forwardness. It is undertaken at the expence, and conducted under the direction of the Royal Danish So.. ciety of the Sciences, and the most distinguished literati of the country are engaged in the execution of it, having divided among them the different letters of the alphabet.

The tobacco plantations at Fredericia, in Jutland, are now in a very flourishing state. Last year 83,363 pounds of tobacco, of different qualities, were produced by fifty-six planters.

At a meeting of the Society of Sciences of Drontheim, it was resolved to appoint Arndt, of Altona, to undertake a botanical and antiquarian tour through Norway, agree ably to the will of the late Mr. Hammer, who left a legacy for that purpose.

On the 17th of May, the Polish Society of the Friends of the Sciences held at Warsaw their public meeting, which was opened by the president in a speech, in which he treated of the labours of the society, and the works to be expected from the members. He particularly di

rected their attention to the Travels of prince Alexander Sapieha, the results of which would considerably enrich the literature of his native country. Abbot Woronicz communicated the plan of a Polish epic poem, entitled the Lechiade, and read the first canto. A soaring flight of fancy; an enraptured, enthusiastic, and extremely correct diction, are the distinguishing traits of this production of genius, which is much more perfect than his Jagellonid and Sibyl. Abbot Von Stasic read a continuation of the account of his Geological Tour, which he lately under. took through the whole of the cidevant Poland, during which he made many interesting and important observations and discoveries relative to the natural history of that country, and of geology in general, as the Carpathian mountains had been the principal object of his inquiries. M. Stasic has likewise presented to the society 5000 ducats, for the purpose of erecting a suitable place for holding their meetings.

In Prussia, the potatoe is cultivated with peculiar success. As the stalk grows, the earth is heaped up, leaving only three leaves at top. The roots are thus greatly increased, and the produce is said to be astonishing.

M. Louis de Baczko, is engaged on a work entitled On Myself and my Fellow-Sufferers the Blind. It is divided into ten sections. 1. General remarks on the relations and conduct of the blind. 2. Notices relative to some remarkable and celebrated blind persons. 3. Observations on vision, and on the manner in which the other senses may supply the want of it. 4. On the institute at Paris for the education of the blind; remarks on the chararter, the peculiarities, the advantatages and disadvantages of blind persons. 5. Instructions relative to the first education of all blind persons. 6. The moral and religious education of the blind. 7. Their scientific education. 8. The labours, trades, or professions, in which they

may be employed. 9. The blind considered as friends, as husbands, and fathers. Mr. Baczko lost his sight at the age of twenty-one, and has now suffered twenty-five years' blindness. In his youth he was one of the favourite disciples of the celebrated K ant.

The observatory of Seeberg, near Gotha, which the late duke of Gotha, the founder of it, used to call his only monument, is at present abandoned. The celebrated M. Von Zach has followed the duchess dowager to Eisenberg, where a new observatory is building.

Professor Mayer read at the meeting of the Royal Society of Gottingen, on the 25th of January, the first part of his meteorological researches, which treats of the "Chemical affinity of the celestial bodies;" i. e., of the influence they may exercise uponone another, independently of their gravity, an influence which must be manifested in their atmospheres. He particularly treats of the effects produced by the moon on that of the earth, which led him to a discussion relative to the stones which are said to have fallen from the heavens. He remarks that almost all these phenomena happened when the moon was near one of its nodes, and on the wane. In the cases which seem to contradict this observation, the coincidence of the passage of the moon through one of its nodes with its last quarter had taken place in the preceding lunation. Thus it was in 1803, in the lunation which preceded the shower of stones at L'Aigle.

Verner, professor at the academy of the mines of Friedberg, has lately discovered a new mineral, to which he has given the name of zoysite, in honour of baron de Zoys, an eminent mineralogist who resides at Laybach.

The literary productions of Holland during the year 1805, inclusive of translations, were very numerous. Theology is the department of science which has furnished the greatest quantity of original works, the number amounting to 130, besides

the journals which treat chiefly of theological subjects. A weekly pa per, which contains nothing but dissertations on the Bible, is supported by many contributors and subscribers.

Medicine, physics, and natural history, continue to be cultivated with considerable zeal, where they have already given celebrity to the names of so many eminent scholars.

In 1805, 114 works were published on various parts of these sciences. Of the journals peculiarly devoted to the sciences, the Magazine of the Healing Art, and the Memoirs of the Society of Haarlem, are the most esteemed.

The number of new pieces brought out on the Dutch stage is 58, tragedies and comedies; of which, how. ever, only six were originals.

Holland can boast of several academies and literary societies, more or less celebrated, which are always ready to reward the talents of poets and orators. That which is known by the name of Felix Meritis has lately elected Geysbeck, author of a translation of Esmenard's poem on Navigation, one of its members. Another poet, Kinker, has sung the charms of Ziezenis and Kantian philosophy. There likewise appeared in the course of that year seven or eight original Dutch novels, and some accounts of travels, among which those of M. Vander Willengen in France are favourably spo ken of.

That a taste for literature is generally diffused in Holland, appears from the project of a company of merchants at Amsterdam, who have there established an office for the arts and belles-lettres. They do not confine their views to the produc tions of their country, their aim being to form a point of union for Dutch and foreign literature. They have already completed a considerable collection of the best Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian works.

In Amsterdam, a society of German Jews have acted comic operas

Coray. This collection, printed by Didot, is intended for such of their countrymen as wish to learn the language of their forefathers. It will be delivered gratis in Greece to diligent scholars and active teachers; and a considerable discount allowed to such wealthy patrons of learning as buy copies for the purpose of presenting them to poor students.

The Literary Society of Bombay, sir James Mackintosh president, will shortly publish a volume of transactions. The public library of Bombay has been transferred to the society; and they are about to collect specimens of the natural history and remains of antiquity in the country.

The college of Fort William, in Bengal, has opened new sources of information on all oriental subjects. There are now in that college upwards of one hundred learned men, from different parts of India, Persia, and Arabia.

Under the auspices of marquis Wellesley, a version of the holy scriptures was promised in seven of the oriental tongues, in the Hindoostanee, Persian, Chinese, Malay, Orissa, Mahratta, and Bengalee.

Kollman, the king's German organist, has lately published a New Theory of Musical Harmony, according to a complete and natural system of that science. This work is meant as an improvement or correction of a former publication on the same subject, is elaborate and erudite, and comprizes, as far as it is at present known, the whole science of musical harmony. The author enters on the consideration of his proposed system, of the musical scale, the modern scale, a musical mode, of intervals, the use of intervals in harmony and melody, the fundamental concord and its inversions, accidental chords, fundamental progression, modulation, simple counter-point, double counter-point, imitation and variation, and time and rhythm, in all which he is very minute, clear, and satisfactory. Those musical students who wish to fathom the depths of the science, and see the rationale of their practice, will derive much and rapid improvement from the perusal of this volume, and soon find themselves adequate to the ready comprehension of the most abstruse passages of the classical masters.

For the Literary Magazine.

TO HUBERT,

Possess'd of more than syren's art
To captivate and hold my heart.
Why does the urchin stay?
What can the elf detain ?
He hears not what I say,
Nor deigns to heed my pain,
But leaves me to endure
Pangs time may never cure.
To all my moanings deaf as though
asleep,

My destiny is fix'd, I'm doom'd to weep.

But soft-Ö gently soft-he's near!

He comes, with sweetly laughing eye He comes! a moment brings him here! Ah! 'twas Zephyrus passing by. 'Tis thus the silly brain imparts False hope that agonizes hearts!