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Classical Theology.—Xxviii
than Mercury , but smaller than the sun , moon , ancl Venus . Jupiter appears greater and brighter than Mars and Saturn , whose colour is paler than Mars , which is of a reddish and fiery hue . These three planets , when compared Avith the fixed stars , are seen to move from west to east , in circles , which cut the ecliptical orbit into positions directly opposite to each other , and
thereby with it cause different angles . The circle of Mars declines from the ecli ptic one degree , fifty minutes ; and that of Saturn , tivo degrees thirty-one minutes . It takes Mars a year ancl three hundred and thirty-two days to perform the revolution of his circle . Jupiter is about eleven years , three hundred and eighteen days , and Saturn about tiA r enti r -nine years and a hundred and
eighty days , in accomplishing their revolutions . Jupiter , like Mercury , shines with a pale bri ght light . The apparent motion of these specified p lanets is not considered regular ; sometimes they appear to move from west to east , when they are said to be direct ; at other times they appear for several days together in the same part of the firmament , when they are consequentl y
termed stationary ; yet again , after a while they seem to go back to the xvest , ancl then are said to be retrogade , but afterwards again they become stationary , and again direct . From the period that Mars is seen to be in the middle of his retrogradation , to the next time he is in the same position , has been calculculated to be about two 3 ears and forty-nine clays . Jupiterfrom his middle
, state to his next centric retrogradation , occupies a term of about one year and thirty-three days ; Saturn being about one year and thirteen days in performing his similar movements . Still , Avhatever may be the many ascertained inequalities of these planets respecting their retrogradations from one time to another , they have this certain agreement—that each of them are alivays
retrograde Allien the earth is between the sun and them . The zodiacal arc which Mars passes through when he is retrograde , is larger than the one that Jupiter passes through , but the arc of his retrogradation is bigger than that which Saturn passes through Allien he is retrograde . At this time the visible bodies of these luminaries greatly increase . Mars , Allien retrograde appears six
times as large as Avhen lie is direct ; Jupiter becomes threefold his usual size , and Saturn looks almost twice times as at other times . Neither of these three planets has ever been observed to pass betiven the sun and the earth , but they have often been remarked to pass betwixt the earth and tlie fixed stars .
POEB ' 3 VILLA AT TWICKENHAM— Pope ' s villa still has its little lawn , but , alas ! no longer its two weeping willows hanging over the river . It is n pleasing object , and , from the recollections it cannot fail to excite , will always be considered an interesting one . Some little anecdotes of the poet may still be collected at Twickenham , and I have heard from three different persons , one of whom was the late Mr . Rogers , that they had spoken to the old waterman who for man y years rowed Pope on the Thames . He was in the
habit of having his sedan-chair lifted into the punt . If the weather ivas fine , he let down the glasses ; if cold , he pulled them up . He would sometimes say to the waterman ( this is his own account ) , " John , lam going to repeat some verses to you ; talce care and remember them tho next time I go out . " When that time came , Pope would say : "John , where are the verses I told you of ?"— "I have forgotten them , sir , " — "John , you are a blockhead —I must write them down for you . " John said that no one
thought of saying-, when speaking of him , Mr . Pope , but he ivas always called . Mr . Alexander . —E . JESSE , in Once a Week . KLiiCTno-l'jiOTO-TELEGHAi'iii " . —A Florentine abbe now in Paris has , it is reported , made a wonderful discovery in connection ivith photography and electricity . He is able , in sending- a telegraphic message , to produce , at the opposite end of the wire , a facsimile of the wrilim ; that tlie message has been sent in . The idea of an autographic telegraph , however , is not new , although the connection of photography ( if it really be such as alleged ) with electric telegraph ) oes seem to bo a novelty-. ;
The Study Of Classical Archæology.
THE STUDY OF CLASSICAL ARCH ? OLOGY .
" AXNALEs" OP THE FRENCH INSTITUTE . * THE other day we ) the Bttilcler ) fell upon an article in the JournaldcsDebats , j which contains some observations on the study of classical archaaology , not without value in these times , andw-hich can scarcely fail to interest many readers . It is a memoir written by M . Ernest Vinet , a distinguished French savant and a-rchasologiston the
, Institute cli Oorrespondenza Areliceologieo cli Roma . It is interesting as showing the state of archaaology throughout Europe , for the members of the Institute are not confined to Borne , but are selected from every country of the civilised world . M . Vinet gives a resume of the labours of the Institute and its members , and , although ho has doubts of England generallyhe mentions
, individual investigators in complimentary terms . It must be remembered that he is speaking only of classical archaaology — a subject about which our Mediaaval antiquaries care little . In Germany and France , MediaBval antiquities are studied by a certain number with as great zest as hero in England ; but in those countries classical
archaeology is still considered as the great occupation of men of learning . Gerhard and Panofka , Buiisen and Lipsius , Bitter and Kieyert , Midler and "Whickelmaiin , of the one country , with Quatremere de Quincy , Baoul-Bochette , Hittorff , Letronne , Lenormant , Laborde , Texier , and many more in the other , are names which are familiar to us all , and will remain so in future generations . In Italy , archffiology is confined to classic timesin
con-, sequence of the wealth of material ivhieh lies at their disposition . Vases , bronzes , marbles , turn up on every side . To cite names would be useless , for each antiquary is a lover of the bell' antico . It would bo worth while for our county arelueological associations to consider whether it would not be ivell for them to devote some small portion of their journals to this noble study ; for while it is the
province of inspiration only to look into the future , it is in the power of every man to gather experience and lessons from the past . However we may sympathise with Medimval antiquities , let us beware lest we forget or despise those " Ingeniormn monwmenta ciuce seatlis probantur . "
Tho work in question , written partly in French and partly in Italian , holds a marked position among the most useful and most beautiful books in the library of the artist and of tho man of letters . Commenced thirty years ago , the publication now consists of thirty volumes . An extensive atlas forms part of it , and under the title , "Monumenti Inediti , " includes numerous plates , which
reproduce with fidelity the greater portion of the most remarkable monuments which have been recovered during a quarter of a century by excavations in all classical countries , but . especially in Italy . The text is a mine of research . Without this collection it would be impossible to grasp the entirety of arcbmological studies and to follow their progress . Strange to sayhoweverthe notice to
, , which we are referring is the first given to it in a French journal . Lot us follow M . Vinet . Speculation did not create those Annals ; bookmalcing had no part in them . The idea , so happily realized in them , descended from a hi gher source . Some fervent worshi ppers of antiquity , some great personages ' from the two aristocracies of birth and intelligence , the heir-prcsumptivc
to a crown , these were their founders . Nor must Ave forget the ardent initiative taken by M . Gerhard , member of the Academy of Berlin , and one of the most worth y representatives of Gorman science . ;
The idea , of a publication to unite in itself all contemporary archreologica-1 researches , is not a new one . Throe archreologists of renown , Boettigcr , Schorn , and M . "Wclcker , and tho celebrated antiquary Guattina , some time since , and _ separately , entertained tho notion . But either a too exclusive policy , too limited means of information , or , more than all , tlie extreme difficulty for learning and talent by themselves to support such an enterprise , placed an
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Classical Theology.—Xxviii
than Mercury , but smaller than the sun , moon , ancl Venus . Jupiter appears greater and brighter than Mars and Saturn , whose colour is paler than Mars , which is of a reddish and fiery hue . These three planets , when compared Avith the fixed stars , are seen to move from west to east , in circles , which cut the ecliptical orbit into positions directly opposite to each other , and
thereby with it cause different angles . The circle of Mars declines from the ecli ptic one degree , fifty minutes ; and that of Saturn , tivo degrees thirty-one minutes . It takes Mars a year ancl three hundred and thirty-two days to perform the revolution of his circle . Jupiter is about eleven years , three hundred and eighteen days , and Saturn about tiA r enti r -nine years and a hundred and
eighty days , in accomplishing their revolutions . Jupiter , like Mercury , shines with a pale bri ght light . The apparent motion of these specified p lanets is not considered regular ; sometimes they appear to move from west to east , when they are said to be direct ; at other times they appear for several days together in the same part of the firmament , when they are consequentl y
termed stationary ; yet again , after a while they seem to go back to the xvest , ancl then are said to be retrogade , but afterwards again they become stationary , and again direct . From the period that Mars is seen to be in the middle of his retrogradation , to the next time he is in the same position , has been calculculated to be about two 3 ears and forty-nine clays . Jupiterfrom his middle
, state to his next centric retrogradation , occupies a term of about one year and thirty-three days ; Saturn being about one year and thirteen days in performing his similar movements . Still , Avhatever may be the many ascertained inequalities of these planets respecting their retrogradations from one time to another , they have this certain agreement—that each of them are alivays
retrograde Allien the earth is between the sun and them . The zodiacal arc which Mars passes through when he is retrograde , is larger than the one that Jupiter passes through , but the arc of his retrogradation is bigger than that which Saturn passes through Allien he is retrograde . At this time the visible bodies of these luminaries greatly increase . Mars , Allien retrograde appears six
times as large as Avhen lie is direct ; Jupiter becomes threefold his usual size , and Saturn looks almost twice times as at other times . Neither of these three planets has ever been observed to pass betiven the sun and the earth , but they have often been remarked to pass betwixt the earth and tlie fixed stars .
POEB ' 3 VILLA AT TWICKENHAM— Pope ' s villa still has its little lawn , but , alas ! no longer its two weeping willows hanging over the river . It is n pleasing object , and , from the recollections it cannot fail to excite , will always be considered an interesting one . Some little anecdotes of the poet may still be collected at Twickenham , and I have heard from three different persons , one of whom was the late Mr . Rogers , that they had spoken to the old waterman who for man y years rowed Pope on the Thames . He was in the
habit of having his sedan-chair lifted into the punt . If the weather ivas fine , he let down the glasses ; if cold , he pulled them up . He would sometimes say to the waterman ( this is his own account ) , " John , lam going to repeat some verses to you ; talce care and remember them tho next time I go out . " When that time came , Pope would say : "John , where are the verses I told you of ?"— "I have forgotten them , sir , " — "John , you are a blockhead —I must write them down for you . " John said that no one
thought of saying-, when speaking of him , Mr . Pope , but he ivas always called . Mr . Alexander . —E . JESSE , in Once a Week . KLiiCTno-l'jiOTO-TELEGHAi'iii " . —A Florentine abbe now in Paris has , it is reported , made a wonderful discovery in connection ivith photography and electricity . He is able , in sending- a telegraphic message , to produce , at the opposite end of the wire , a facsimile of the wrilim ; that tlie message has been sent in . The idea of an autographic telegraph , however , is not new , although the connection of photography ( if it really be such as alleged ) with electric telegraph ) oes seem to bo a novelty-. ;
The Study Of Classical Archæology.
THE STUDY OF CLASSICAL ARCH ? OLOGY .
" AXNALEs" OP THE FRENCH INSTITUTE . * THE other day we ) the Bttilcler ) fell upon an article in the JournaldcsDebats , j which contains some observations on the study of classical archaaology , not without value in these times , andw-hich can scarcely fail to interest many readers . It is a memoir written by M . Ernest Vinet , a distinguished French savant and a-rchasologiston the
, Institute cli Oorrespondenza Areliceologieo cli Roma . It is interesting as showing the state of archaaology throughout Europe , for the members of the Institute are not confined to Borne , but are selected from every country of the civilised world . M . Vinet gives a resume of the labours of the Institute and its members , and , although ho has doubts of England generallyhe mentions
, individual investigators in complimentary terms . It must be remembered that he is speaking only of classical archaaology — a subject about which our Mediaaval antiquaries care little . In Germany and France , MediaBval antiquities are studied by a certain number with as great zest as hero in England ; but in those countries classical
archaeology is still considered as the great occupation of men of learning . Gerhard and Panofka , Buiisen and Lipsius , Bitter and Kieyert , Midler and "Whickelmaiin , of the one country , with Quatremere de Quincy , Baoul-Bochette , Hittorff , Letronne , Lenormant , Laborde , Texier , and many more in the other , are names which are familiar to us all , and will remain so in future generations . In Italy , archffiology is confined to classic timesin
con-, sequence of the wealth of material ivhieh lies at their disposition . Vases , bronzes , marbles , turn up on every side . To cite names would be useless , for each antiquary is a lover of the bell' antico . It would bo worth while for our county arelueological associations to consider whether it would not be ivell for them to devote some small portion of their journals to this noble study ; for while it is the
province of inspiration only to look into the future , it is in the power of every man to gather experience and lessons from the past . However we may sympathise with Medimval antiquities , let us beware lest we forget or despise those " Ingeniormn monwmenta ciuce seatlis probantur . "
Tho work in question , written partly in French and partly in Italian , holds a marked position among the most useful and most beautiful books in the library of the artist and of tho man of letters . Commenced thirty years ago , the publication now consists of thirty volumes . An extensive atlas forms part of it , and under the title , "Monumenti Inediti , " includes numerous plates , which
reproduce with fidelity the greater portion of the most remarkable monuments which have been recovered during a quarter of a century by excavations in all classical countries , but . especially in Italy . The text is a mine of research . Without this collection it would be impossible to grasp the entirety of arcbmological studies and to follow their progress . Strange to sayhoweverthe notice to
, , which we are referring is the first given to it in a French journal . Lot us follow M . Vinet . Speculation did not create those Annals ; bookmalcing had no part in them . The idea , so happily realized in them , descended from a hi gher source . Some fervent worshi ppers of antiquity , some great personages ' from the two aristocracies of birth and intelligence , the heir-prcsumptivc
to a crown , these were their founders . Nor must Ave forget the ardent initiative taken by M . Gerhard , member of the Academy of Berlin , and one of the most worth y representatives of Gorman science . ;
The idea , of a publication to unite in itself all contemporary archreologica-1 researches , is not a new one . Throe archreologists of renown , Boettigcr , Schorn , and M . "Wclcker , and tho celebrated antiquary Guattina , some time since , and _ separately , entertained tho notion . But either a too exclusive policy , too limited means of information , or , more than all , tlie extreme difficulty for learning and talent by themselves to support such an enterprise , placed an