by Psellus, and a Menologe or Greek Missal, with astronomical tables for regulating the epochs of the festival of Easter. It is of the thirteenth cen

tury.

5. A fragment containing some leaves of a large MS. in 4to., of great antiquity, written in Roman letters. It is probably of the eighth or ninth century. It includes a part of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John. 6. A MS. in 4to., well written and very beautiful, containing the Chronicle of Michael Glycas, a Sicilian of the twelfth century. This Chronicle comprises the history of the world from the creation to the death of Alexis Comnenus, A. D. 1118. It was first published by Leunclavius in 1572, after a very incorrect MS. It forms the Ninth Volume of the Byzantines in the Venice edition. This MS. is of the twelfth century, and affords means for correcting the numerous errors of that of which Leunclavius made use.

All these MSS. are on parchment and in high preservation, except No. 2. They are the only Greek MSS. of any antiquity that the United States

possess.

DENMARK.

The learned and indefatigable M. MUNTER, of Copenhagen, continues his researches into various objects of literature, and particularly those that relate to ecclesiastical monuments. Within these few years, he has published fragments of a Latin translation of the prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Hosea, prior to the version of St. Jerome; likewise, a learned Dissertation upon the monuments of the arts which retrace the memory of Christianity in the primitive church. In this publication, he combats the charges brought against the Templars in the Journal des Mines de l'Orient, printed at Vienna. He proposes to publish forthwith, 1. A History of the Introduction of Christianity into Denmark. 2. His Researches upon Marble Monuments, Coins and Medals, of which the Inscriptions throw light upon Passages of the New Testament.

GENEVA.

M. JEAN HUMBERT, of Geneva, published at Paris in 1819, in one 8vo. volume of 300 pp. Anthologie Arabe, &c. i. e. "Arabic Anthology, or Selection of unpublished Arabic Poems, translated into French with the Text by its side, and accompanied by a literal Latin Version." The author is said to be a young man of profound oriental erudition. He has been appointed to the Arabic Chair in the Academy of his native city.

SPAIN.

On the 18th and 21st of January, 1797, at the Convent of St. Paul in Seville, under the presidency of the reverend Father FRANCIS ALVARADO, Professor of Theology, there was maintained by ANTHONY GARCIA, novice of the convent, a Thesis directed particularly against the French Republic, Ementita Gallorum Respublica, with which the King of Spain was at war. This Thesis, afterwards printed, consists of thirteen propositions, the substance of one of which is, that Frenchmen taken in battle ought to be an exception to the rule received in Christian nations of not subjecting prisoners to slavery.

Father Alvarado, a very decided advocate of despotic measures, authorized princes to pursue with arms persons who apostatize from the faith.

Voltaire, bent on calumniating Caveirac, would almost make one believe that this author pronounced the eulogy of the celebrated affair of Saint Bartholomew. In fact, the contrary is proved by the evidence; but at the same time it is clear that father Alvarado is guilty of the crime falsely imputed to Caveirac, for the 6th article of the Thesis declares expressly that the massacre of Saint Bartholomew was most just, the events then passing and those following justifying it as a necessary measure. It would be curious to learn if this merciful Father Alvarado and his élève Garcia, supposing them to be living, still hold their sanguinary doctrine.

The Courier Français, of Dec. 5, 1520, contains the following paragraph:-"The Junta of diocesan religious censorship has unanimously pronounced injurious to the sacred books

and doctrines, as containing a mass of heresies, and as reviving those of all ages, the work entitled Le Citateur, written in French by PIGAULT-LEBRUN, and translated into Spanish by the Rev. Father ALVARADO. The Vicar Apostolic of Madrid having taken cognizance of this affair, upon the formal advice of the CardinalArchbishop, has summoned the translator to appear within 30 days before his superiors in his defence."-Here is an identity of name and profession. It remains to be seen whether the Rev. Father Alvarado, defender of the mas

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THE RAINBOW.

The evening was glorious; and light through the trees,

Play'd the sunshine and rain-drops, the birds and the breeze;

The landscape outstretching, in loveliness lay,

On the lap of the year, in the beauty of May.

For the Queen of the Spring, as she passed down the vale,

Left her robe on the trees, and her breath on the gale;

And the smile of her promise gave joy to the hours,

And, rank in her footsteps, sprang herbage and flowers.

The skies, like a banner in sunset unroll'd,

O'er the west, threw the splendour of azure and gold;

But one cloud, at a distance, rose dense and increased,

Till its margin of black touch'd the zenith

and east.

We gazed on the scenes, while around us they glow'd,

When a vision of beauty appear'd on the cloud;

Twas not like the sun, as at mid-day we view,

Nor the moon that rolls nightly through star-light and blue.

Like a spirit it came, in the van of the storm,

And the eye and the heart hail'd its beautiful form;

For it look'd not severe like an angel of wrath,

But its garment of brightness illum'd its dark path.

In the hues of its grandeur, sublimely it stood

O'er the river, the village, the fields, and the wood:

And river, fields, village, and woodlands grew bright,

As conscious they felt and afforded delight.

"Twas the bow of Omnipotence, bent in His hand,

Whose grasp at creation the universe spann'd;

'Twas the presence of God, in a symbol sublime,

His vow from the flood to the exit of

time.

Not dreadful, as when in the whirlwind he pleads,

When storms are his chariots and lightnings his steeds;

The black clouds, his banners of vengeance unfurl'd,

And

thunder, his voice, to a guilt-stricken world :

In the breath of his presence, when thousands expire,

And seas boil with fury, and rocks burn with fire,

And the sword and the plague-spot with death strew the plain,

And vultures and wolves are the graves of the slain.

Awhile-and it sweetly bent over the gloom,

Like Love o'er a death couch, or Hope o'er the tomb;

Then left the dark scene, whence it slowly retired,

As Love had just vanish'd, and Hope had expir❜d.

I gazed not alone on that source of my

song;

To all who beheld it these verses belong;

Its presence to all was the path of the Lord;

Each full heart expanded, grew warm,

and ador'd.