The Lexicon also has a Portrait of Castell by Faulkner, and was published at forty shillings per copy: of the Polyglott there are, it is generally supposed, twelve LARGE PAPER copies. Colbert had one, now in the library of Count Lauragais. At the Duke de la Valliere's sale a copy of the Polyglott on L. P. and the Lexicon on small paper, produced 1251 livres; His Majesty's library, and that of Lord Spencer, have each a copy of the Polyglott on L. P. In the library of Saint Paul's there is a copy of both, in 14 vols. L. P., perhaps the finest extant. In the British, and Dr. Hunter's Museum, are similar and very fine copies of both. A fifth set of Polyglott and Lexicon is in the library of St. John's College, Cambridge: and a sixth, with the Lexicon bound in three Volumes, is in the Archbishop of Canterbury's library at Lambeth. These six are reputed the only large paper copies of the Lexicon in existence.

The Polyglott and Lexicon in good condition, especially if ruled with red lines, in which state they are preferable, as the texts are more clearly distinguishable, are both rare and dear.

Messrs. Ogle have the following copies of the Polyglott and Lexicon, 8 vols. fol.

1. Ruled with red lines, russia extra, £48.

2. Elegant in calf extra, £38.

3. One volume slightly damaged, £16.

Mr. Bohn had a copy of Polyglott and Lexicon, 8 vols. fol. Ruled with red lines, and having the Republican Preface, and Dedication to Charles II, handsomely bound in fawn calf, (see p. 84 ante) £32. Messrs. Baynes and Son have the Polyglott, and Lexicon, 8 vols. fol. A republican copy neatly half bound. £31 10.

Mr. Richard Baynes has a copy of the Polyglott alone, well bound in calf, £18.

Dr. Heath's copy of Polyglott and Lexicon, 8 vols. fol. at the sale of his books in 1810, having the cancelled leaves ruled with red lines, and splendidly bound in red morocco by Roger Payne, was purchased by Lord Essex for £73 10. a prodigious sum, and far beyond the present value.*

The possessor of the Polyglott should procure Dr. Walton's Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium. Lond. 1654, 18mo. reprinted with some additions in 1655. Dr. Owen's Considerations on the Polyglott, 1658, and Dr. Walton's reply: The Considerator considered, 1659. All of these tracts are uncommon, the Considerator was sold at Mr. Watson Taylor's sale in 1823, No. 949. P. ii. for £1. 13.

of the classical, modern, and other names, which have been bestowed upon the places mentioned in the Sacred writings. Hence a person ignorant of the Scriptural name of any place, may, by means of any other name, borne by the place, with which he is acquainted, find its description. Thus the utility of the work will not be confined to the Biblical student, but will be extended to the classical scholar and the general reader. To this index will succeed another, referring to those passages of Scripture which may be illustrated in the course of the work.

Hebrew Grammar of Professor Lee.-In the "Select Literary Information" of the last No. of the Eclectic Review, appears the following notice:

"Preparing for publication, a Series of Lectures on the Hebrew Language, so arranged as to form a complete and easy system of Hebrew Grammar, and to be adapted to the use of learners, as well as of others who have made some progress in the language. By the Rev. S. Lee, A. M., and professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. This work is intended to comprehend what is most valuable in the publications of Schultens, Schroederus, Storr, Gesenius, Glasius, and others, with such original matter as the compiler shall deem it necessary to give." This work will be waited for with considerable anxiety; and a high obligation will the author confer by supplying the long lamented necessity of a judicious and truly useful Hebrew Grammar.

Sabean Researches.-A very curious work has just been published by Mr. John Landseer, the eminent engraver and critic on art, entitled SABEAN RESEARCHES. It contains the substance of a course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, the object of which was to prove, that the engraved cylinders dug up at Babylon, &c. were the signets in use among the ancient star-worshipping nations of Asia, and the same alluded to in the Bible, and by the earliest historians. Mr. Landseer also seeks to show, that the hieroglyphics have reference to the periodical religious festivals and the judicial astrology of those nations. In this inquiry the author has displayed a most persevering industry and surprising acuteness; and has not forgotten to enliven his book by that terse and sprightly style, and that playfulness of allusion, which always characterise his writings, and serve in this instance to carry the reader pleasantly along over some very difficult and frequently obscure ground. The light here thrown on Babylonian superstitions and various expressions in the Bible, is extremely valuable.

Society for promoting Christian Knowledge.-By the annual Report of the Society for the promotion of Christian Knowledge, which is just published, it appears that the whole number of Bibles, Common Prayer books, and other books and tracts, distributed between the Audit in April 1822, and the Audit in April 1823, amounts to 1,400,711. That the receipts of the present year amount to £52,094,

12s. including legacies to the general designs of the Society. The report also states, that to mark their affectionate veneration for the memory of the late Bishop of Calcutta, the board has resolved to place the sum of £6,000 at the disposal of the Incorporate Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, for the purpose of endowing five Scholarships, to be called Bishop Middleton's Scholarships, and of affording a salary for a Tamul Teacher in the Bishop's college at Calcutta.

The Rev. S. Noble has in the press-" The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures asserted, and Infidel Objections shewn to be unfounded, by new and conclusive Evidence." In six Lectures, now delivering at Albion Hall, London Wall, 1 vol. 8vo.

The Rev. Thomas Boys, A. M., Curate of Widford, Herts, has in the press, "Sacred Tactics": An Attempt to develope, and to exhibit to the eye, by Tabular Arrangements, a General Rule of Composition prevailing in the Holy Scriptures.

Just published

THE EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, derived from its nature and reception. By J. B. Sumner, M. A. Prebendary of Durham; Vicar of Mapledurham, Oxon; and late fellow of Eton College, 1 vol. 8vo. CAIN AND LAMECH; or, the comparative numbers of seven and seventy times seven, illustrative of the 15th, 23rd, and 24th verses of the ivth chapter of Genesis: a Dissertation by the Rev. W. Vansittart, A. M. Pamphlet.

THE BOOK OF PSALMS, in an English metrical version, founded on the basis of the authorized English translation, and compared with the original Hebrew, with notes critical, and illustrative. By the Right Rev. Richard Mant, D. D. M. R. I. A. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, 1 vol. 8vo.

FRANCE.

We regret to say that Biblical Literature does not thrive much in France. There are, however, indications of good even there; and we trust that ere long we shall have to hail some accessions to our stores of Biblical learning from our southern neighbours. The following are the only works which have been recently published in France:

LES QUATRE EVANGILES, de N. S. J. C. Traduit sur la Vulgate, par Le maistre de Sacy, 12mo.

LES QUATRE EVANGILES, précédés du discours de Marcel, &c., 18mo.

AMERICA.

It would be most gratifying to learn particulars respecting the state of Theological and Biblical Literature among our relatives and friends in the United States :-what attention the Scripture languages are receiving from them-and what Dictionaries, Grammars, Criti cisms, Periodicals, Commentaries, &c., &c., are issuing from the press ?

mised Messiah, and their labours promise, under the blessing of God, to produce an abundant harvest. We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of presenting the reader with a sketch of one of the missio naries' character, from the pen of the Rev. Lewis Way." He is so extraordinary a creature, there is no calculating a priori concerning his motions. He appears to me to be a comet without any perihelion, and capable of setting a whole system on fire. When I should have addressed him in Syria, I heard of him at Malta; and when I supposed he was gone to England, he was riding like a ruling angel in the whirlwinds of Antioch, or standing unappalled among the crumbling towers of Aleppo. A man who, at Rome, calls the Pope the dust of the earth,' and tells the Jews at Jerusalem, the Gemara is a lie'; who passes his days in disputation, and his nights in digging the Talmud; to whom a floor of brick, is a feather bed, and a box, a bolster; who makes or finds a friend alike in the persecutor of his former or present faith; who can conciliate a Pacha, and confute a Patriarch; who travels without a guide, speaks without an interpreter, can live without food, and pay without money-forgiving all the insults he meets with, and forgetting all the flattery he receives; who knows little of wordly conduct, and yet accommodates himself to all men, without giving offence to any; such a man (and such and more is Wolf) must excite no ordinary degree of attention in a country, and among a people, whose monotony of manners and habits has remained undisturbed for centuries."

RUSSIA.

Warsaw, Dec. 6." The Jewish Rabbis and Elders have met in a general assembly at Platskow, and decided that the celebration of the Sabbath shall be changed to the Sunday." This is certainly a most extraordinary proceeding. May this agreement with Christians as to the time for public worship be the precursor of an agreement in the worship itself!

A work has just been published by a native of Russia, containing, "A view of all the known Languages and Dialects," which it is stated amount to 3014; into 139 of which the Bible has been translated.

EGYPT.

"In the fourteen days we remained after our return from Thebes, at Cairo", says Mr. Wolf, of whom we have spoken above, "we sold 88 Bibles and Testaments, and gave away 57 copies. In Egypt, we sold altogether 44 Bibles, or parts of them, and gave away 256, making 900 copies of the word of God, for which we got 2436 piastres."

CHINA.

(Jewish Expos. Feb.)

The translation of the entire Scriptures into the Chinese language is at length completed, after the labour of sixteen years.