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EDITED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN. By W. T. BRANDE, Esq., F.R.S., Prof. Chem. R.I., &c. This work will in future be conducted upon a more EXTENDED and POPULAR PLAN than hitherto, and instead of being chiefly confined to the abstract Sciences, and principally addressed to the proficient, it is proposed to render its contents more suitable to the GENERAL READER; for it cannot be denied that the elements of many of the Sciences, when treated in a popular manner, are as interesting in the perusal, as they are useful and important in their results. The subjects discussed will, accordingly, consist chiefly of such Sciences and Arts as are cultivated more or less in DOMESTIC CIRCLES, and which consequently number, among their Students, a large body of Amateurs of both sexes in various classes of society, particularly in the highest; as, for example, CHEMISTRY, BOTANY, HORTICULTURE, GEOLOGY, ASTRONOMY, NATURAL HISTORY, in all its divisions (especially the very attractive one of ZOOLOGY), MUSIC, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, and ARCHITECTURE. Popular Treatises on the Medical Art will also be included, particularly as it relates to DIET, AIR, EXERCISE, &c. But although the more Abstract Sciences, which are connected with Mathematical Discussions, will not be of frequent occurrence, they will by no means be entirely neglected, especially where their applications are of a practical nature. Another portion of this Journal will be devoted to the Biographies of Scientific Men, and to Reviews of such Publications as may be considered to have relation to the general design of the work; namely, VOYAGES and TRAVELS, Books connected with ANTIQUITIES, &c. &c. And here it may not be out of place, to call the Public attention to the fact, that the principal Quarterly Reviews are so much under the influence of " PARTY," that a dispassionate judgment, even on matters out of the pale of Politics, can hardly be expected from them. POLITICS will, however, find no place, nor have any influence in our pages. The Journal will embrace a full QUARTERLY ABSTRACT of all that relates to the GENERAL PROGRESS of the ARTS and SCIENCES in this and other Countries. These Abstracts will be carefully selected from original sources, from new Publications, and from the British and Foreign Periodical Works, and will be given more or less in detail, as the general usefulness and interest of the subjects may suggest. THE PROCEEDINGS of LEARNED BODIES, and of SCIENTIFIC and LITERARY INSTITUTIONS, will also form a department of this Journal, in which it is expected that an opportunity will be offered of furnishing much that is new and interesting; and the Editor will not shrink from the occasional duty of critically surveying the measures of these bodies, when they appear to clash with the interests of Science, or to be at variance with literary justice. THE PROCEEDINGS of the ROYAL, the GEOLOGICAL, ASTRONOMICAL, and HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, will thus form subjects of our Journal; but it is expected that the TRANSACTIONS of the MEMBERS of the ROYAL INSTITUTION will not only furnish a prominent article, but that, from their varied nature, and miscellaneous character, as well as from the accuracy with which they will be detailed, they will confer a useful and distinctive character upon the QUARTERLY JOURNAL of SCIENCE, LITERATURE, and ART. COMMUNICATIONS for the EDITOR are requested to be addressed to the ROYAL INSTITUTION, Albemarle Street. (To be continued every Three Months.) No. I. OF THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW AND Continental Literary MISCELLANY. ON introducing this new Journal to the Public, the Editors cannot but feel aware that a case has occurred, in which a Prospectus is almost entirely superfluous. They are not placed in the usual situation of speculators, who have to recommend a new periodical against a host of others, from which perhaps their own may differ only in name and in form, for, strange to say, there exists not one regular Journal of Foreign Literature in Great Britain. That the plans which have formerly been laid for esta blishing such a Work should have rapidly been abandoned, is a result which, from their vague and superficial nature, might easily have been predicted; nor can success in such an undertaking be hoped for, unless when supported by contributors not merely skilled in foreign languages, but who have already been accustomed to grapple with the inevitable difficulties of acquiring an influence over the public mind in their own country, and are therefore competent to decide what can be reasonably admitted as useful and important by the English reader. Hitherto, indeed, it can scarcely be said that even a judicious attempt has been made to keep watch over the advances of literary campaigners abroad; we have not even a summary report of their proceedings, but seem to have contented ourselves with an ex parte decision, that what is not known is not worth knowing,-a climax of self-complacency at which our nearest continental neighbours have not arrived; for they possess at least their "Revue Encyclopedique," "Bibliotheque universelle," and (a work admirable in its own way) the "Bulletin universel des Sciences," by the Baron de Ferussac. Such works as the three last-mentioned are, of course, to be met with occasionally in this country; but, on the changes which have taken place in the French literary character within the last fifteen years, no adequate attention has been bestowed. This might have seemed scarcely possible, yet cannot be denied; and while it may be considered excusable that the veil should not yet have been drawn, and selections made from the multifarious stores that exist in Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Russia and Holland, yet the truth is not to be looked on with so much indifference, that, judging by our London importations, and the notices, such as they are, given in our existing periodicals, it would be concluded, that in the once Hesperian lands of Italy and Spain, Literature for the last fifty years had been, to speak comparatively, altogether dormant or extinct. Least of all is the fact to be considered unimportant, that of the literary produce of the Germans, (of a people amounting to above forty millions, who have, in less than half a century, as it were created a new language, and bibliographical stores of incalculable extent,) no better knowledge has yet been diffused through Great Britain than that derived from the trifling specimens presented by self-styled translators of a few plays and novels, who in nine cases out of every ten seem to have forgotten this most obvious principle, that an author who writes good German may be traduced indeed, but cannot be translated by any one who expresses himself in bad English. Consequently prejudices have arisen, more especially of late years, which may not, without considerable effort and perseverance, be cleared away. Under these circumstances the Editors of this new Journal have the satisfaction to state, that by means of their Correspondents abroad, and the exertions of their Publishers, they have established modes of communication by which all the best Novelties, including those of the last ten years, will be gradually imported, to an extent and with a degree of regularity hitherto unexampled in England. In profiting by the materials thus obtained, their leading object will be to afford a fair and equitable view of Productions likely to interest a British reader, and which have hitherto been unjustly neglected, or misrepresented by hasty and prejudiced critics. At the same time, it is obvious that older sources must not |