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world has not possessed a genuine copy, although in
the translation published in 1822 by Mr. Roscoe was
carefully collated what was generally acknowledged to
be the best version extant. The present translation,
however, possesses the advantage of having been care-
fully compared with a copy of the original manuscript in
the handwriting of Cellini himself, which was accidentally
discovered in 1810 at the shop of a bookseller in Florence,
and is now deposited in the Laurentian Library, in com-
pliance with the will of its discoverer, and has been pub-
lished verbatim by Signor Molini of Florence, and 'forms
one of the volumes of the Biblioteca Banana Portatile.
Mr. Roscoe's well-known talent as a translator is a suffi-
cient guarantee of the faithfulness of the English version,
which is well worthy of a place in a " standard library."
This addition is enriched by numerous valuable notes by
the translator.

The Medical Times for November last contains its
usual amount of original and compiled matter. Amongst
the former will be found articles of current interest—one
by Dr. Orpen, of Birkenhead, giving his experience of
the follies of homoeopathy ; another by Dr. Daunt, enti-
tled " Hints on Medical Emigration," in a series of
letters. Medical ramblers from home would be interested
by a perusal of its useful suggestions. It appears that
there is such a thing as a preference to be made in the quali-
ties of medical degrees : for peripatetic medicals Edinburgh
has the above recommendation before others. As in the
New World, the New Athens of the Old World is the most
famed for its science of the healing art. Other seats of
learning may be grown hoary with the wisdom accumu-
lated from earlier dates ; but the university of modern
Athens enjoys the credit of having the elastic powers of
youth combined with the vigour of maturity ; and, as the
world goes, these qualities are more generally usefill for
ordinary contingencies of life, than the ornate crown of
grey hairs powdered and courtly, which our aristocratic
English universities rear with so complacent and bland-
ishing a smile. Ambitious of the future and envious
superstition of the past, may be said to characterise the
contending national seats of instruction. The one
adapts itself to the requirements of the present ad-
vancing age, the other hugs the past, and like a
certain crustacean insect of the deep progresses
sideways—" Festina lente" dramatised in educational move-
ments—The elastic onward stride of the one renders it
the more worthy of the practical student, the mouldy
literature of the other may attract the literary and luxu-
rious son of wearying out old England. The engineer
stops not to trace out monkery. The monk lags far be-
hind the former, and picks up his classic bouquet on the
road, with which on some single brilliant occasion in his
life, he will adorn his pallid brows, there to be laid aside for
the most part, converted thereby, as he opines, into an ama-
ranth wreath of everlastings. It is easy to see which
seat of learning will best furnish the medical ad-

numerous, but the Lectures are reported with spirit. The
causes of epidemic fever are discussed in one paper. The
evidence brought forward is quite of a piece with the
facts so recently reported in our columns, and also set forth
in Dr. Duncan's able pamphlet, and systematised in our
Health of Towns' Advocate. We cannot extract, but we
wish the public could only know the accumulating evi-
dence in the experience and scrutiny of the medical world.

The Pharmaceutical Times, a journal of Chemistry
applied to the arts, agriculture and manufactures ; for the
same month, contains a mass of most valuable information
on the subject treated on ; and it embraces many current
thoughts and experiments detailed in its N
tions, which will be sought in vain elsewhere

mous contribu-
It is cheap

and voluminous. We observe, like many others, it pe
sists in orthographizing—" Sanatory," for Sanitary-
Sanitu4 is the proper root.

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