guished public characters, among which are those of the President, the Vice President, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Adams, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. King, Mr. Clay, Mr. Eppes, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Wirt, Gen. Jackson, Col. Trumbull, Col. Johnson, &c. Engravings from some of them are intended to be procured for this Magazine. Three pictures of great antiquity and value have recently been placed in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.One a Holy Family and landscape, by Titian, valued by the French Academy at Paris, at 1200 dollars. Another, the "Adoration of the Saviour," by Lucas of Leyden, valued by the same high authority, at 300 dollars. And the third, a Rural Concert, by Georgione, in like manner, estimated at 240 dollars. A certificate accompanies them from the secretary of the French Academy by order of the board of directors, that they are genuine original paintings.But although they are objects of curiosity, particularly that by Titian, as works of celebrated masters, their beauty is not very remarkable. They are, however, said to be very early performances of the respective artists. Philadelphia Athenaeum.-By the fourth annual report of the Directors, made February 19th, 1819, it appears that the institution is in a very flourishing condition. The income of the ensuing year is estimated at 2607 dollars and 14 cents; the expenses at 2300 dollars. There is also a stock-fund, (the interest of which forms part of the above sum of $2607 14,) estimated at 5800 dollars. The stockholders pay 4 dollars annually on each share, the original subscribers 5 dollars, and the annual visitors 8 dollars. The library consists of about 2100 volumes, and is rapidly increasing Twenty-one magazines, reviews, and other periodical publications, and two newspapers are imported from England, and are usually found in the rooms within the period of two months after their publication. Three newspapers and journals are regularly received from France, and other French and Spanish journals are frequently placed on the tables by the numerous friends of the institution. All the best periodical publications of the United States, upwards of thirty American newspapers: and almost all the late American and English books published in our country, with many new maps, charts, &c. are constantly added to the stock. Extraordinary acquisition of Languages. At a recent meeting of the Shropshire auxiliary Bible Society, archdeacon Corbet drew a parallel between Mr. Samuel Lee (one of the preachers) and the admirable Crichton. From the Rev. gentleman's statement, it appears that Mr. Lee had merely the education of a village school, (where he was born, about six miles from Shrewsbury,) viz. reading, writing, and arithmetic; that he left school at twelve years of age, to learn the trade of a carpenter and builder. While thus employed, he became selftaught, a Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan scholar. These languages he acquired in six years, at the hours during which he was relieved from manual labour. Since that period, Mr. Lee has had more assistance, and is now, in addition, familiar with Arabic and Persian, Hindostanee, French, German, Italian, Ethiopic, Coptic, Malay, Sanscrit, and Bengalee-in all seventeen languages in fourteen years. Eu. Mag. American Philosophical Society.The officers elected January 1, 1819, were, President, Robert Patterson, vice Dr. Wistar, deceased. Vice-Presidents, William Tilghman, P. S. Du ponceau, and Z. Collins, vice, R. Patterson. Secretaries, Thomas C. James, R. M. Patterson, W. P. C. Barton, R. Walsh, jun. Counsellors for three years, W. Rawle, H. Binney, Jno. Sargent, John Quincy Adams; (the other Counsellors are, Thomas Jefferson, W. M'Clure, Nicholas Collin, Wm. Meredith, Thomas Cooper, James Gibson, N. Chapman, S. Calhoun.) Curators, Joseph Cloud, Thomas T. Hewson, Reuben Haines. Treasurer and Librarian, John Vaughan. University of Pennsylvania.-The Trustees have added a chair of General Literature to the professorships already existing. Robert Walsh, jun Esq. has been elected the professor. Mr. Roscoe has in the press a work on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals, which will include an inquiry into the motives and limits of human punishments, and also as to the effect of punishment by way of example, and on the prevention of crimes. The work will also contain the latest accounts respecting the state prisons and penitentiaries in the United States of America. Dr. Spurzheim has published, at Paris, a new work on the Physiology of the Brain, entitled 'Observations sur la Phraenologie; ou la connaisance de l'homme moral et intellectuel fondee sur las fonctions du Systeme Nervèux.' This work contains several plates, illustrative of the doctrine; and doctor Spurzheim has added two new organs to the thirty-three contained in his work called the Physiognomical System,' lately published in England, which he has discovered, namely, one which gives the propensity to mysterize, and causes the possessor to deal in fiction, to be superstitious, and which he calls Organ de Surnaturalité' The second new organ arises from a division which the doctor has made of the organ of individuality into individuality and phenominality, or the perception and accurate recollection of particular occurences, facts, &c. Messrs. Tanner, Vallance, Kearny and Co. have recently published the first number of a new American Atlas, containing maps of the world, Europe, and South America, in two sheets. This is the commencement of an extensive work, intended to exhibit on a uniform scale, a complete geographical view of the United States, in connexion with the rest of the world. The second number, containing maps of Asia, America, New York, Ohio, and Indiana, it is stated will be issued some time in the present inonth. Expected new Publications in England. The illustrious count Chaptal is preparing for the press, the History of the Inventions and Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences in France, since the commencement of the revolution. The English edition of it is, we understand, to be confided to sir John Byerley. It will be a most valuable and important work, and will form two volumes in 8vo. with plates; and the English and French editions will appear about the same time in Paris and London. Specimens of the British Poets, with biographical and critical notices. To wihch is prefixed, an Introduction to the Study of English Poetry. By Thomas Campbell, Esq. author of the Pleasures of Hope. 7 vols. post 8vo. The public dinner given, by subscription, to general Jackson, in Philadelphia, is said to have cost two thousand five hundred dollars. How much more elegant, durable, and appropriate would have been the compliment, if the subscription had been applied to the erection of a column or statue in honour of him, or the purchase of an historical picture, representing some of his exploits, to decorate one of the public buildings. In New York they have shown rather better taste, the corporation have resolved to place his portrait in the City Hall. TO A LADY. The traveller, on distant shores That Ganges' waters lave, Or where th' Atlantick madly roars, And curls its foaming wave; Oft seems to feel the social fire That warms his native home, And sees around his aged sire His wife and children come. Whate'er I do, where'er I rove, So turn my thoughts to thee, my love! In quest of food, the beauteous dove Deserts her tender care, And bounding with maternal love Whate'er I do, where'er I rove, When the bold sailor shapes his course Along the pathless sea, Th' unerring needle his resource Still to the north it faithful hies, THE ANALECTIC MAGAZINE. APRIL, 1819. DR. DORSEY. It has been to us a subject of sincere regret that this Journal has not earlier contained a tribute, of some sort, to the memory of the lamented Dr. Dorsey. Knowing full well and intimately his extraordinary worthparticipating in the universal admiration of his talents-cherishing dearly the fond recollection of his valued friendship-and deeply lamenting, both as a public and private calamity, his untimely loss -we have been anxious to join the general voice of eulogy that echoed round his tomb. But the apprehension of giving an inadequate expression to our own sentiments, or an unworthy tribute to his character, kept us silent so long, that the delay seemed to be a reproach, and began to wear the appearance of disinclination. Still, however, knowing that Dr. Chapman, at the request of the Medical class, had consented to pronounce a public eulogium, we thought it advisable to wait still longer, until we should be able to present that eulogium to our readers, which the kindness of Dr. Chapman now enables us to do. Commendation proceeding from a rival in fame, is the purest and the noblest of all praise; the most sincere, and, generally, the most discriminating; and honours him that gives and him that doth receive.' A compeer in the same medical school, -a competitor for emolument and reputation, in the same honourable profession,-and, for the few last years of Dorsey's life, a co-labourer in the dissemination of medical science from the same institution,—a member also of the same social circle, and bound to him by the ties of a long subsisting familiarity and friendship-Dr. Chapman possessed every opportunity to acquire an accurate estimate of his character. He has therefore with his accustomed elegance of diction, been able to portray the virtues, the talents, and the accomplishments that adorned his departed friend, with a fidelity and truth of colouring, to which hundreds will bear witness, who, like the eulogist, knew Dorsey, and by an inevitable consequence loved him. For such were his happy powers of conciliation and so much did the evident indications of benevolence, in all his actions, awaken a corresponding sentiment in the hearts of all who knew him—that, however opinions might vary as to the comparative estimate of his talents, or scientific attainments,—of all who were either relieved by his professional skill, or soothed by the gentleness and assiduity of his professional attentions,who approached him as their public, or loved him as their private instructor, who knew him amid the courtesies of social intercourse, or within the narrower and more sacred circle of family and friends-none can yet recall his image, nor recollect their intercourse with him, without emotions of sorrowful and affectionate remembrance. His was not a character to be truly appreciated by rules which require a standard of cold correctness. An enumeration of the honours he won, the plaudits he received, the triumphs of his genius, the proofs of his erudition, gives, after all, but a very imperfect picture; for though his power over the minds of mem was ascribable to his abilities and cultivation, the more wonder ful influence he possessed over their hearts, is not so easily ac counted for, nor to be described without danger of falling into that strain of seemingly extravagant panegyric, which brings posthumous eulogy into discredit, and turns cautious belief into contemptuous incredulity. Gifted with exquisite relish for all that adorns and blesses human existence, with a heart naturally, habitually, and to the last, filled with Christian piety, which brightens prosperity no less than it soothes adversity; and glowing with all the generous sympathies of our nature, to the exclusion of every malign or selfish feeling, with a perception of the beauties and harmonies of nature, so keen as to bring excellence in the sister arts of painting, poetry, and music, completely within his power,-and with a taste for the refinements of social intercourse, that made them a source to him of the highest pleasure-with a healthful constitution and a prepossessing exterior, he yet resisted the temptation of an inactive possession of those pleasures which he was thus formed to enjoy; and advanced by a steady and intense exercise of extraordinary abilities, to the first rank in his profession, and to a degree of usefulness and renown, scarce ever attained in a career so early closed. But whilst his surgical skill was unrivalled here, except by that of his distinguished relative; while his lectures were universally admired, his superior talents and great acquirements universally admitted, and his fortune rapidly increasing-amid this premature age of honours and success, he retained in all their native freshness, the unassuming modesty, the gayety, generosity, sincerity, and ardour of youth. He lived to reach what seems to be the summit of earthly felicity; preeminently blessed in domestic life,—surrounded by a circle of attached and chosen friends, whose numbers he could augment at will-possessed of a widely spread and increasing reputa tion; engaged in a most honourable, useful, and lucrative occupation,-with improving faculties' progressive virtue and approv ing heaven,'-though still young, he had nothing left to wish for. But it was the will of God to take him from us, and the stroke of death, though cruel to the survivors, was but to him the messenger of mercy, that came to make his HAPPINESS ETERNAL. ART. I.-An Eulogium on the late John Syng Dorsey, M. D. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, delivered by appointment, before the Medical Class, as a Valedictory Lecture, on the 1st March, 1819. By N. Chapman, M. D. Professor, &c. GENTLEMEN, AS previously intimated, the present session is brought to a close. Considering the series of casualties and disadvantages with which we have had to contend, the several courses of lectures have been conducted with much regularity, and, on the whole, we cannot help believing, that all your reasonable expectations are realized. It were useless to conceal, that the school has been greatly shat tered by a succession of unexampled misfortunes, and its lustre, consequently, in a degree, tarnished and obscured. But though crippled in its organization, and shorn of some of its brightest beams, it is still left with many resources, and its defects may be repaired. By pursuing a liberal and enlightened policy, we cannot fail to make it worthy of its ancient renown, and commensurate with the great and momentous objects for which it is designed. As we read in fabulous history of a production of greater worth emerging from the ashes of its predecessor, so in reality, by proper management, a school may be made to arise out of the present one, on a broader foundation, and with augmented splendour and utility. The period has now arrived, when the interesting relations which have so long subsisted between us are to cease, and in a few minutes we separate, some of us, to meet no more. May I be permitted to declare, without incurring the imputation of hypocrisy or deceit, that the only time which I have ever met you with regret, is the present, when I am to bid you a final adieu. Is it not natural that we should all experience some degree of distress on this occasion? The idea of the last is a painful one. It has often been remarked, that we cannot part even from inanimate objects, endeared to us by certain associations, without sorrow, and every heart of sensibility will confess the force and extent of this truly amiable sentiment. As the ship recedes from the shore, and the landscape fades. away, never more to be seen, nature, true to herself, heaves the involuntary sigh, and there is blended with the prospect of brighter fortunes, some heavy regrets and mournful emotions. But if moved by impulses of this kind, how much more must we feel, in taking |