The Press.
London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

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SANSCRIT AND PANSLAVISM.—Professor Schleicher,
of Prague, who has made the Lithuanian language
his especial study, lately read his report thereon
before the philological section of the Czechian Society
of Science. According to the professor's opinion the
Lithuanian is no Slavic dialect (?), and has only a
sound-relation to the Sanscrit; while the Slavic lan-
guages, if considered in all their combined dialects,
have retained a greater similitude of form with the
Sanscrit than the Lithuanian.
MOST RARE BOOKS ON AMERICA.—The great com-
mercial and literary activity now prevailing in the
social system of Europe brings forth and congregates
books rarely to be met with even in the greatest
libraries. Thus, an Augsburg antiquarian lately
advertised the famous cosmographic tract of Hyla-
comylus, where the name of Anteriga was first foisted
on the continent of Columbia, the editions of lan
and 1509 ; the first edition of the third letter of
Amerigo Vespucci, Paris, 1503; the Mundus Novus,
Augsburg, Otmar, 1504; and the Neven Welt of
Ruchhammer, 1507 ; to which invaluable rarities the
attention of amateurs is now directed. It has been
calculated that collectors from the United States pay
a crown (55.) for each leaf of every rarity relative to
their native country.
MINISTER FRANCIS COrNT STADION, one of the
Coriphees of the Vienna revolution of 184$, has died,
and his funeral was attended by a large concourse of
all classes of society. His taking office at the above
period so shook his nerves that he lingered ever
since, and never recovered.
MUNICH ART EXHIBITION.—M. de Kaulbach has
just issued a notice, in his capacity of director of the
Royal Art Academy, relative to the exhibition to be
held in the Bavarian capital from the 25th of August

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to the •25th of October next. The exhibition will
comprise oil paintings, sculpture, cartoons, architec-
tural and other drawings, copperplate engravings,
superior lithographs, .tc., winch must be at the
Academy Local of Munich on or before the 10th of
August. The exhibition is open to artists of the
whole world.
STRANGE NUMISMATIC Discovicay.—The Panama
Echo of a late date contains a notice of the discovery
of a great number of Roman copper coins, found in
an earthen vessel under ground at Old Panama, viz.,
the place where the former Spanish Panama stood.
They are of the third and fourth centuries, and on
some the names of Maximizing, Diocletian, and Con-
stantin are pretty legible. They are the first Roman
coins found in America, but nothing certain is known
how they came there. On the north-east coast of
Ireland, also, it is known Roman coins had been
found, although the Romans had never reached
Hibernia, while they could see the shores from some
parts of the British coast occupied by them. The
American coins are in the possession of Dr. Auten-
rieth, of Panama, of whom some detailed notice of
the circumstances under which they were found is

expected.
dusicu Aar News.—The stained windows for the
chapel of St. Peter at Cambridge, which have been
ordered at the royal glass painting establishment,
are iu a fair way of progress. Their dimensions are
thirteen English feet by seven, and they represent
the Nativity and Resurrection of Christ, as the window
already existing, at the sides of which they are to be
placed, represents the Crucifixion. The design is by
M. Claudius Schraudolf, and the execution has been
confided to M. Ainmiiller, the well-known director of
the glass-painting establishment at Munich. The
colours exhibit all that astonishing brilliancy for
which the Bavarian glass paintings at the Great
Exhibition of London were conspicuous.—During
the middle of May a uew sort of photographs on
glass were exhibited at the Art-Union. Several
persons claim the honour of discovery, and it is in-
tended to employ it in the publication of a gallery of
contemporaries ; still the expense will be very great
until the transferring of the photographs on a plate
for impression has been found.—The royal brass
foundry has been lately engaged in several works of
great import—the casting of the statue of Gustave
Adolph of Sweden, the colossal statue of Henry for
the Washington monument in the United States, and
some great relievos. all which works have been
finished with that precision and tact characteristic
of that great atelier of art.—The new building of the
Physiological Institution, which will be erected after
the plan of Professor von Siebold by the architect,
M. Voit, in the) Singeratrasse, has been begun, and
will be pit under roof at the end of summer.
THE MSS. OF LUDWIG Tiecx.—The arrangement
of the MSS. left behind by the departed poet has
been confided to a younger savant, with whom Tieck
had communicated on the subject some time pre-
vious to his death. Instructions he left none, and
no more has been hitherto done than to have copied
the correspondence of his friends and some other works,
with the addition of such subsequent notes as may have
been added thereto by the author. Although Tieck was
very averse to writing letters, and did not correspond
but with persons who stood in close relation to him,
still, by the lapse of years, a voluminous mass of
letters has been accumulated. To publish it entire
would be impracticable, even if it were intended to
do so. But the selection and arrangement will re-
quire years of labour ; and it is, after all, pleasing to
know that the task has devolved on a gentleman to
whom the departed poet had communicated his in-
tentions and views, at least in a general way. Many
letters have, however, reached the editing gentleman
of late to suppress some or other correspondence, or
to return it altogether. Of new works ot' importance
nothing has been found, except some sketches of
Tieek's younger years, when, if we were to believe
Goethe, man is better than at any subsequent period
of his life.
STOCKHOLM.—M. Uppstrum, one of the Docents of
the University of Upside, is occupied in a new edition
of the Codex Argenteus of Ulphilas. This work, and
the Sweaska Sprateks Lagar of the King's librarian,
31. Rydvist, will be great additions to the latest lite-
rature of Scandinavia.