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      sent these universities reckon 1055 professors , and 14 , 746 students , distributed as follows : Prague .... 55 professors .. 1449 students Vienna .... 77 1688 Heidelberg 55 .. 626 Wertzburg 31 660 Leipzig .... 81 1384 Rostock .. 34 201 Friburg .. 35 556 Griefswald 30 227 Basle .... 24 214 Tubingen . . 44 827 Marburg .. 38 304 Koeuigsberg 23 303 Jena 51 432 Giessen .. 39 371 Kiel 26 238 Halle .... 64 1119 Breslau .. 49 710 Gottingen 89 1545 Erlangen .. 34 498 Landshut .. 48 623 Berlin .... 86 1245 Bonn .... 42 ,..., 526

      This statement comprises not only the ordinary and extraordinary professors , but also all the individual masters , whose courses are announced in the half-yearly programmes . Catholic Germany , which contains nineteen millions of inhabitants , has only six universities ; whilst Protestaut Germany has no less than seventeen for a population of seventeen millions .

      It is calculated , also , that the proportion of the individuals who study , is 149 in a population of 250 , 000 , in the Protestant countries , and only sixty-eight on the same number in the Catholic States . It is , however , fair to observe , that this account does not include the Catholic ecclesiastics , who do not prosecute their studies in the universities , but in the schools .

      Many other cities formerly possessed universities which were successively suppressed at the periods here named , viz . Mayence founded 1477 , suppressed 1790 Stutgard 1784 1794 Cologne ........ 1388 1798 Bomberg , Bavaria , 1648 1803 Dittengen , Bavaria , 1549 1804 Altdorf , Hanover , 1678 1809 Ilinteln , Hesse Cassel , 1623 1809 Saltzburg , Austria , 1623 , 1809 Ingolstadt , Bavaria , 1472 united with Landshut .. 1803 Erfurt Prusaia , .. 139 * 1 ^^ Wittenberg , > H n m 6 Prussia 1502 J HaIle '" lblb The universities of Paderborn and

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      Munster , both belonging to Prussia , and having only two faculties each , those of theology and philosophy , were suppressed , the former in 1818 , the latter in 1819 . But the University of Munster was re-established , in the course of the last year , with the three faculties of theology , philosophy , and medicine , — Revue Encyclopddique .

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      German and French Book Trade . The Michaelmas book-fair , at Leipzig , this year , has furnished a greater number of books than any preceding one . The sum total of the works that have actually been published by German

      houses is 2125 ; the number of the houses publishing , 338 . In the mass are 2221 new editions , including the 23 d edition of Bogatzky ' s Golden Treasury , aud the 86 th edition of Wilmsen ' s German Children ' s Friend . There are in the

      catalogue 239 works in foreign languages , of which 160 are Latin , and 37 Greek ; also 156 translations from foreign languages , among which are 54 from the French , and 65 from the English . There are no fewer than six editions ( one iu English ) of the complete works of Sir W . Scott . According to the subjects , we find amongst 2125 books , 337

      theological ; 21 philosophical ; 167 historical ; 116 political and juristical ; 160 pedagogical ; 50 grammatical ; 208 technical ; 88 on natural history and philosophy ; 159 medical ; 44 geographical ; 11 epic ; 58 lyric ; 38 dramatic , and 27 musical ; 186 romances and novels ; 87 ancient classics ; 69 maps . The remainder are miscellaneous .

      The Bibliographic de la France gives a view of the new books published in France as it appeared to be in the first six months of the years 1814 to 1826 ; i . e . since the restoration . If we compare these with the number of book *

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      Intelligence *—Foreign . 145

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      Goethe's Works . Goethe is about to print , under his personal supervision , a complete colleo tion of his works , in 40 volumes , comprising , with reprints of former pieces , many new productions . There are to be two editions , one in 16 mo ., and the other in 8 vo ., which are to be published at

      the same time , by Cotta , of Stuttgard The Diet , in their sitting at Frankfort , have paid him the extraordinary compliment of securing for him , by a decree , the copyright of all his productions against piracy and reprints throughout the whole of the territory under the controul of the Germanic Confederation .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/65/