use to the frugal housekeeper and the public at large. The following experiments were made in a public establishment; they were undertaken not from mere curiosity, but to serve a purpose of practical utility. They evidently show that the loss of weight is smaller in the boiling of meat, than it is in roasting it; and independent of this smaller loss of weight in boiling, it must be observed, that the animal jelly and juices of the meat are also rendered edible in the broth furnished at the same time, by the addition of a few vegetables, rice, barley, &c.: whereas in the roasting, broiling, and baking of meat, these are evaporated into the air, and consequently lost. Medical gentlemen believe, that boiled animal food is more nutritious than such as is roasted, broiled, or baked. The following are the results of experiments: — 28 pieces of beef, weighing 280lbs. lost in boiling 73lbs. 14oz. or 26 per cent.

19 Pieces of beef weighing 190lbs. lost in roasting 61lbs. 2oz. or 32 per cent.

9 Pieces of beef, weighing 90lbs. lost in baking 27lbs. or 30 per cent.

27 Legs of mutton, weighing 260lbs. lost in boiling, by having the shank bones taken away, 62lbs. 1oz. The shank bones were estimated at 4oz. so that the real loss by the boiling was 55lbs. 8oz. or 21 per cent.

19 Loins of mutton, weighing 141lbs. lost in roasting 49/68. 14oz. or 35 1-2 per cent.

10 Necks of mutton, weighing 100lbs. lost in roasting 32lbs. 6oz. or 32 1-3 per cent.

It is therefore more economical, upon the whole, to boil than to roast meat; but in whatever way meat is prepared for the table, there is lost from 1-5 to 1-3 of its weight.

Receipt for making Gooseberry Wine.

Put to every two quarts of full ripe gooseberries, mashed, an equal quantity of milk-warm water in which has been previously dissolved 1/6 of common loaf sugar; let the whole be well stirred together, and cover up with a blanket the tub or pan in which the mixture is put to ferment partially. When it has remained in the tub three or four days, with frequent stirring, strain the ingredients, first through a sieve, then through a coarse cloth, and afterwards put it into a cask, which should be kept full where it is suffered to ferment, from ten days to a fortnight. At the end of this period, add two or three bottles of brandy to every gallon of the wine; and before the cask is bunged up, put into it also a little isinglass (about loz. to nine gallons of the wine,) previously dissolved in water. In a fortnight, if clear at the top, it may be tasted, and

more refined sugar added, if not sweet enough. After being six months in the cask, it may be bottled; but the sooner it is bottled after being quite fine, the more it will sparkle and resemble champaign.

Currant wine may be made in a like manner. Brown sugar always gives to home-made wines a particularly treacly taste; and the practice of taking unripe gooseberries (as frequently recommended,) instead of the ripe fruit, is a bad one, the absurdity of which might easily be proved chemically. In making this remark, we do not mean to deny that excellent wine may be made from unripe gooseberries; but in that case a much larger proportion of sugar is required, than if the fruit be employed in a state of maturity.

Substitute for wheaten flour when applied for the purpose of stiffening muslins, calicoes, and other stuffs.

From some experiments made in the manufactories of linens in Prussia, and particularly at Erfurth, in Saxony, to discover a substitute for wheaten flour to stiffen muslins, &c. it has been found, that the farina, or flour of the Canary seed (Phalaris Canariensis,) is far superior to wheaten flour in the stiffening of fine cambrics or muslins; because it renders the threads extremely pliable, and imparts to them the capability of retaining a minute proportion of moisture, the absence of which renders the thread brittle; and which, in summer particularly, is a material obstacle in the business of the cambric and muslin-weaver. The warp is likewise rendered more tender, and the thread possessing greater pliability, enables the workman to make the tissue more close and uniform, and of a better quality.

The flour of the seed is obtained by simply bruising the Canary seed, and it may be used in a few days after its preparation: whereas the common wheaten flour paste requires to be fermented to a certain degree. And although the price of the Canary seed flour surpasses that of the flour of wheat, this difference is compensated by the time which the workman gains in manufacturing a certain quantity of goods in a given period, and also by the superiority of the manufactured article.

Making ink. Beat up an elevenpenny bit, and put it into a phial, with about two teaspoonsfull of aqua fortis, and one of water. Put the phial into boiling water, till the silver begins to dissolve, after which no more heat need be applied till toward the end of the operation. When the silver is dissolved (taking care that there is quite as much silver as the acid is able to dissolve) pour the solution clear off from the white sediment, and put in the size of three peppercorns of bruised gum arabic, or enough to make it glutinous, so that it will not spread from the pen.

Into a phial that will hold 4 ounces, put as much water as will nearly fill it, and to this add the size of a small nutmeg of pearlash. Thicken it with gum arabic moderately, about six peppercorns: when you want to mark the linen, first moisten the part with this pearl ash solution, and dry it; then write with the solution of silver: let it dry, and then wash it and expose it to the sun.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

DOMESTIC. The Connecticut Asylum the education of deaf and dumb, (vide ante.) under the direction of the Rev T.H. Gallaudet and M. Lawrent Clerc, commenced this month. The charge for boarding and tuition is $ 200. Each pupil applying for admission must not be less than nine years of age, of good natural intellect, free from any immorality of conduct and from any contagious or infectious disease.-The legislature of Pennsylvania has incorporated a company of gentlemen associated for the purpose of establishing a botanical garden in this city. In Great Britain, when a title is conferred, it is usually accompanied by something of a more substantial nature, to enable the individual to enjoy his dignity. We wish our legislators would feel this spirit. Let them look at the largesses which have been bestowed in New York, on the arts and sciences.—The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have directed that every student who shall begin to acquire a knowledge of the Greek, in the grammar school, in that institution, shall commence with the Greek grammar in the Latin language, and in no other; and that Ross's Westminster Grammar shall be used in such case, unless the pupil or his guardian, shall prefer some other. In such case the selection is limited to grammars in the Latin language, which shall have the same division of nouns into declensions, which exists in the Westminster grammar. Our attention has been attracted by this resolution, because it contains the decision of a question which has often been mooted. The bye road across these grounds is shut up by an authority that ought not lightly to be disputed, since it is supported by the long experience of practical men.

Mr. Caritat of New York, proposes to publish a Bibliographical account of American literature. We hope all authors and booksellers in the United States will aid him in this very use

ful undertaking. In the specimen which he has published he has omitted the date of publication.

The map of New Hampshire, by Col. Carrigain, is beautifully finished, and contains from actual survey, more original information than can be found in any American publication of the same nature and extent.

Newspapers There are now published in the state of New York, ninety newspapers, including six published semi-weekly from daily offices. Of these, eight are printed daily, eight semiweekly, and the residue once a week. This is probably a greater number than is published in the whole of Europe, if we except those published in the city of London.-Would it not be an useful matter of information to publish in every state, the number of those papers, and their names, and places of publication.

Mr. Roberts Vaux is preparing for the press, memoirs of the life of Anthony Benezet, a philanthropist, whose example deserves to be perpetuated.

James Eastburn and Co., New York, propose to publish The U. S. Quarterly Review and Literary Journal.-Mr. Biglow's new Journal, on the plan of Phillips' Monthly Magazine is probably now in the press.--Dr. Franklin's works are publishing in England, France and the United States.

The Publisher of the Port Folio has offered to the lovers of Botany, the prospectus of a new work, which will be splendidly executed.

FOREIGN. It appears that several journals are now published in Russia in less considerable cities than Petersburg, Moscow and Riga. A commission from the university of Casan publish a sheet weekly, which is very well written.-At Astracan a journal, politicaland literary, in Russian and Arminian languages. Some young professors of the university of Charkew, publish a literary journal, which every month completes a quire of paper, under this title, "The Herald of Ukraine." The professor Maslowitsel publishes in the same city a journal, monthly, very satirical, entitled

"Democritus in Charkowkew"-in which some pretty verses are often found.

The celebrated traveller Richer, lately died at Smyrna, of a fever caught in examining the Ephesus. He had just returned from a long voyage from Syria and Egypt.

They announce at Goettique, that two works of the celebrated astronomer of Lilienthal, Schrota, who died the 29th August last, have just appeared. One contains observations upon the comet of 1811; the other, the second part of his hermographique fragments.

HISTORY. Such is the abundance of the materials afforded by German authors within these few years for this part of our analysis, that a mere catalogue would fill a volume. But if we confine ourselves to those, whose works bear the stamp of learning and research, our labours will be considerably circumscribed, and the adoption of this rule must necessarily exclude a great number of useful productions, but which are destitute of that particular kind of merit, which it is the object of the present work to record. Thus, notwithstanding the philosophical spirit and fine writing, which distinguish the pages of the illustrious PrincePrimate Charles de Dalburg, in his "Character of Charlemagne," we must pass him over almost in silence. For the same reason we cannot give an ample account of "Becker's History of the World, continued by M. Woltmann," a work intended for youth; and the Histories of France and England by M. Heinrich, and the History of Ireland by M. Hegewisch of Kiel are of a similar description.

For the reason above assigned, we must also omit several biographies, which in other respects deserve the highest praise, such as the excellent accounts of the lives and writings of Hugo Grotius and sir William Temple, which have been given to the world by professor Luden of Jena. We are also under the necessity of excluding the collections of maps and historical monuments, which have been published in several provinces. These stupendous enterprises have been for the most part commenced for many years, and on that account they do not properly belong to the literary history of the present age. They are besides already well-known to the learned world. Of this description are the "Monumenta Boica," the 18th and 19th volumes of which have recently appeared at Munich. This is the proper place however to mention a great work now in preparation by Baron Aretin, the royal librarian at Munich, viz. the History of Bavaria in the most ancient times. His work was announced in a copious Prodromus printed in 1808. A Collection of Historical Monuments