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cludin" - any combination of bicircloids , can be produced with wonderful precision aud minuteness within a circle the fiftieth of an inch in diameter . A disc the one-hundredth of an inch in diameter appears to the unaided eye as a mere point , yet that point will contain five circles of the three-hundredth of an inch , and in one of those circles , about the size of a transverse
section of a human hiar , the Lord's Prayer can be written and read . It has been legibly written also in the three "hundred ancl fifty-six thousandth part of an inch . The words Matthew Marshall , Bank of England , have been written in the two ancl a-half millionth part of an inch ; ancl a calculation has been made that with this machine the entire Bible might be
-written twenty-two times in the space of a square inch . The students of Paris are at length to be accommodated with comfort in the Imperial Library . The new reading-room , which is of immense size , is about to be opened , ancl will seat , it is said , a larger number of readers than that at the British Museum . The library contains 1 , 800 , 000 volumes , ancl the
shelves on which they are arranged measure seventeen miles . The last number of the Comptes Rendus contains an account of a new reflecting telescope , constructed by M . Leon Foucault . The reflector is made of silvered glass . After various trials , M . Foucault has succeeded in making a parabolic reflector with a diameter of nearly 80 centimetres . This , mounted in a
Newtonian telescope , gives very correct definition , ancl in M . Foucaulfc ' s opinion , makes a very serviceable astronomical telescope . Mr . Herbert Stack , formerly editor of tbe Atlas , has been appointed editor of the Daily Gazette , in Birmingham , a new daily paper . Aris ' s Gazette , on which the new paper is founded , is interesting as one of the oldest papers in the United Kingdom . It was founded in 1741 , when Birmingham was but
a village . Up to within the last two years the paper classed its news each week under the headings : "Monday's Post" and "Wednesday ' s Post , " because in 1741 there were only two j > osts each week from London . It is now to appear daily , ancl of course with telegrams from London up to within a few minutes of going to press . The British Museum takes for the current year £ 22 , 445 for
purchases ancl acquisitions ; £ 10 , 000 goes for printed books ; £ 3000 for MSS . j £ 1000 for minerals ,- £ 8000 for fossils ; £ 1500 for zoological specimens ; £ 100 for botanical specimens ; £ 1000 for Oriental , British ancl Mediaeval antiquities ; £ 1000 for Greek and Roman antiquities ; £ 1500 for coins ancl medals ; £ 2000 for prints ancl drawings . In addition to the above ,
special purchases , & c , have been made to the amount of £ 2211 ( including £ 100 for meteorites ) , mainly for works at Bndrum , C ' niciiis ancl the Cyrenaica . Fxamples of London and Provincial Architecture of the Victorian Age , a new or revived periodical , of which the first number has just appeared , are confined therm to illustrative
drawings of the decoration and constructive details of the International Exhibition building . The colouring of these , ivhich chromo-lithographs supply , is given with so little fidelity that vermilion and blue have been printed on white paper to represent the same colours placed upon Capt . Fowke's nave spanners of yellow ancl absorbent timber . The result is , that Mr . Grace's
production appears in another and not more beautiful key than tnat in which he designed it ; the relationshi p between the roof and the ribs is reversed . Mr . It . W . Emerson has nearly ready a volume of Essays snd Addresses for the Times It will be published simultaneously in England and the United States . I understand ( says the " , 'Lounger at the Clubs" ) that the members of the Savage Club have determined to invite the
Notes On Literature, Science, And Art..
literary "Mossoo "—that it , the representatives of the foreign journals—now in London to dinner . This is an excellent idea , which might be adopted with much propriety by other London clubs , ancl moreover proves that the said " Savages" have not forgotten the savage virtue of hospitality . In other respects , I am snre , our Continental literary friends will find the
" Savages" as much civilised , or more so , than their compeers in general society , notwithstanding the somewhat uncouth name they have been pleassd to adopt . Donkeys are so little regarded our country that , no doubt , our readers will be astonished to hear of their commercial value in
Asia , as shown ; by Mr . Fairholt , in a recently published guidebook entitled , Up the Nile and Facte Again . Lord Henry Scott is currently reported , he says , to have given 100 guineas for a very fine animal , but I was assured one Egyptian grandee gave £ 50 more than that for an extremely good creature of the kind . AVhen ive reflect on the absurd way in which Oriental potentates throw away money to gratify their own whims , we may perhaps be inclined to credit what seems a fabulous thins to an
Englishman . Mr . Carlyle in his third volume of the History of Frederick the Great of Prussia thus disposes of an old story , handed down to us bj' our forefathers , of the time of George the Second : — "A romantic story , first set current by Voltaire , has gone tbe round of the world , ancl still appears in all histories : How in England , there was a subscrition set on foot for her Hungarian Majesty ;
p out come of the enthusiasm of English ladies of quality . —Olcl Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough putting clown her name for £ 40 , 000 , or indeed putting down the ready sum itself ; magnanimous veteran that she was . A oltaire says , omitting date and circumstance , but speaking as if it were indubitable , ancl a thing you could see with eyes : ' The Duchess of Marlborough , widow of him who had fought for Karl VI' ( ancl with such
signal returns of gratitude from the said Karl VI . ) ' assembled the principal ladies of London ; who engaged to furnish £ 100 , 000 among them ; ] tlie Ducliess herself putting down ' ( en d . eposa , tabling in corpore ) ' £ 40 , 000 of it . The Queen of Hungary had the greatness of soul to refuse this money;—needing only , as she intimated , what the nation , iu Parliament assembled , might iilease to offer her . ' "
Mr . It . AV . Emerson has nearly ready a volume of Fssags and Addressesfor ihe Times . It will be published simultaneously in England and the United States . Two Lives , a novel in three volumes , by Mr . Blanchard ¦ Terrold , will be published by Messrs . Tinsley Brothers next month .
The Bavarian Papermakers greatly fear the competition of the Erench makers , when tho Treaty of Commerce between France and the Zollverin shall come into operation ; ancl it is said that they intend to present a petition to government , praying that the export of rags may be prohibited . The Monday Review has made its appearance . It is edited , we hear , by Mr . Thomas Ballantyno , and appears to be a cheap revival of his deceased Statesman .
A penny illustrated monthly periodical , entitled The Happy Home , edited by the Rev . Norman L . AValker , in the style of The Prilish Worlcman , has been started at Kirkaldy , Fifeshire . The two bulky catalogues which the visitor to the Exhibition has to bear about with him , are likely to suggest the production of many handy guides for the crowds who will only care to look at what is best worth seeing in one or two visits . Messrs . W .
II . Smith and Son announce the first of these—A Popular Guide to the International Fxhibition , printed in crown Svo . It will sell for a shilling , and will be ready before the cheap clays begin . A new arrangement of pictures has been made at the French Gallery , some of the works having been removed ancl new ones substituted .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notes On Literature, Science, And Art..
cludin" - any combination of bicircloids , can be produced with wonderful precision aud minuteness within a circle the fiftieth of an inch in diameter . A disc the one-hundredth of an inch in diameter appears to the unaided eye as a mere point , yet that point will contain five circles of the three-hundredth of an inch , and in one of those circles , about the size of a transverse
section of a human hiar , the Lord's Prayer can be written and read . It has been legibly written also in the three "hundred ancl fifty-six thousandth part of an inch . The words Matthew Marshall , Bank of England , have been written in the two ancl a-half millionth part of an inch ; ancl a calculation has been made that with this machine the entire Bible might be
-written twenty-two times in the space of a square inch . The students of Paris are at length to be accommodated with comfort in the Imperial Library . The new reading-room , which is of immense size , is about to be opened , ancl will seat , it is said , a larger number of readers than that at the British Museum . The library contains 1 , 800 , 000 volumes , ancl the
shelves on which they are arranged measure seventeen miles . The last number of the Comptes Rendus contains an account of a new reflecting telescope , constructed by M . Leon Foucault . The reflector is made of silvered glass . After various trials , M . Foucault has succeeded in making a parabolic reflector with a diameter of nearly 80 centimetres . This , mounted in a
Newtonian telescope , gives very correct definition , ancl in M . Foucaulfc ' s opinion , makes a very serviceable astronomical telescope . Mr . Herbert Stack , formerly editor of tbe Atlas , has been appointed editor of the Daily Gazette , in Birmingham , a new daily paper . Aris ' s Gazette , on which the new paper is founded , is interesting as one of the oldest papers in the United Kingdom . It was founded in 1741 , when Birmingham was but
a village . Up to within the last two years the paper classed its news each week under the headings : "Monday's Post" and "Wednesday ' s Post , " because in 1741 there were only two j > osts each week from London . It is now to appear daily , ancl of course with telegrams from London up to within a few minutes of going to press . The British Museum takes for the current year £ 22 , 445 for
purchases ancl acquisitions ; £ 10 , 000 goes for printed books ; £ 3000 for MSS . j £ 1000 for minerals ,- £ 8000 for fossils ; £ 1500 for zoological specimens ; £ 100 for botanical specimens ; £ 1000 for Oriental , British ancl Mediaeval antiquities ; £ 1000 for Greek and Roman antiquities ; £ 1500 for coins ancl medals ; £ 2000 for prints ancl drawings . In addition to the above ,
special purchases , & c , have been made to the amount of £ 2211 ( including £ 100 for meteorites ) , mainly for works at Bndrum , C ' niciiis ancl the Cyrenaica . Fxamples of London and Provincial Architecture of the Victorian Age , a new or revived periodical , of which the first number has just appeared , are confined therm to illustrative
drawings of the decoration and constructive details of the International Exhibition building . The colouring of these , ivhich chromo-lithographs supply , is given with so little fidelity that vermilion and blue have been printed on white paper to represent the same colours placed upon Capt . Fowke's nave spanners of yellow ancl absorbent timber . The result is , that Mr . Grace's
production appears in another and not more beautiful key than tnat in which he designed it ; the relationshi p between the roof and the ribs is reversed . Mr . It . W . Emerson has nearly ready a volume of Essays snd Addresses for the Times It will be published simultaneously in England and the United States . I understand ( says the " , 'Lounger at the Clubs" ) that the members of the Savage Club have determined to invite the
Notes On Literature, Science, And Art..
literary "Mossoo "—that it , the representatives of the foreign journals—now in London to dinner . This is an excellent idea , which might be adopted with much propriety by other London clubs , ancl moreover proves that the said " Savages" have not forgotten the savage virtue of hospitality . In other respects , I am snre , our Continental literary friends will find the
" Savages" as much civilised , or more so , than their compeers in general society , notwithstanding the somewhat uncouth name they have been pleassd to adopt . Donkeys are so little regarded our country that , no doubt , our readers will be astonished to hear of their commercial value in
Asia , as shown ; by Mr . Fairholt , in a recently published guidebook entitled , Up the Nile and Facte Again . Lord Henry Scott is currently reported , he says , to have given 100 guineas for a very fine animal , but I was assured one Egyptian grandee gave £ 50 more than that for an extremely good creature of the kind . AVhen ive reflect on the absurd way in which Oriental potentates throw away money to gratify their own whims , we may perhaps be inclined to credit what seems a fabulous thins to an
Englishman . Mr . Carlyle in his third volume of the History of Frederick the Great of Prussia thus disposes of an old story , handed down to us bj' our forefathers , of the time of George the Second : — "A romantic story , first set current by Voltaire , has gone tbe round of the world , ancl still appears in all histories : How in England , there was a subscrition set on foot for her Hungarian Majesty ;
p out come of the enthusiasm of English ladies of quality . —Olcl Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough putting clown her name for £ 40 , 000 , or indeed putting down the ready sum itself ; magnanimous veteran that she was . A oltaire says , omitting date and circumstance , but speaking as if it were indubitable , ancl a thing you could see with eyes : ' The Duchess of Marlborough , widow of him who had fought for Karl VI' ( ancl with such
signal returns of gratitude from the said Karl VI . ) ' assembled the principal ladies of London ; who engaged to furnish £ 100 , 000 among them ; ] tlie Ducliess herself putting down ' ( en d . eposa , tabling in corpore ) ' £ 40 , 000 of it . The Queen of Hungary had the greatness of soul to refuse this money;—needing only , as she intimated , what the nation , iu Parliament assembled , might iilease to offer her . ' "
Mr . It . AV . Emerson has nearly ready a volume of Fssags and Addressesfor ihe Times . It will be published simultaneously in England and the United States . Two Lives , a novel in three volumes , by Mr . Blanchard ¦ Terrold , will be published by Messrs . Tinsley Brothers next month .
The Bavarian Papermakers greatly fear the competition of the Erench makers , when tho Treaty of Commerce between France and the Zollverin shall come into operation ; ancl it is said that they intend to present a petition to government , praying that the export of rags may be prohibited . The Monday Review has made its appearance . It is edited , we hear , by Mr . Thomas Ballantyno , and appears to be a cheap revival of his deceased Statesman .
A penny illustrated monthly periodical , entitled The Happy Home , edited by the Rev . Norman L . AValker , in the style of The Prilish Worlcman , has been started at Kirkaldy , Fifeshire . The two bulky catalogues which the visitor to the Exhibition has to bear about with him , are likely to suggest the production of many handy guides for the crowds who will only care to look at what is best worth seeing in one or two visits . Messrs . W .
II . Smith and Son announce the first of these—A Popular Guide to the International Fxhibition , printed in crown Svo . It will sell for a shilling , and will be ready before the cheap clays begin . A new arrangement of pictures has been made at the French Gallery , some of the works having been removed ancl new ones substituted .