6. Barrow's _Visit to Iceland by way of Trondhjem in 1834_ contains much
about some parts of Norway.
Written in Norwegian, and published in Christiania, is a fine work
entitled, _Norge Fremstillet i Tegninger_, 1848. The "Tegninger" are
lithographs, eighty-two in number, and well executed and the
descriptions are highly interesting. There is also now publishing a
series of coloured plates of the Norwegian costumes, denominated _Norske
Nationaldragter tegnede efter Naturen af forskjellige Norske kunstnere,
og ledsagede med en oplysende Text_: Christiania, 1850. The plates are
highly coloured, and the letter-press is in Norsk, German, and English.
Mr. Schirmer of Christiania is also publishing a series of magnificent
architectural drawings of the old cathedrals of Norway. There are
several excellent maps of Norway, of which Munch's is the best but the
only geological map is a very large and complicated one in many sheets,
I think by Professor Keilhau. On the botany of Norway there are,
Hartmann, _Handbok i Skandinaviens Flora_: Stockholm, 1843, and Lund,
_Haandbog i Christianias phanerogame Flora_: Christiania, 1846. The
Danish pharmacopoeia is still employed by the Norwegian apothecaries. On
the dreadful disease found in the Bergen-Stift, called _Elephantiasis
Græcorum_, or _Spedalskhed_, Doctors Danielssen and Boeck have put forth
a work in French and Norwegian, embodying an immense deal of research
and information, accompanied with an Atlas of twenty-four coloured
plates. They consider this disease to be identical with the leprosy of
Scripture. Their book was published in 1847; and contains references to
every known account of the disease up to that date, in a bibliographical
list of great length. An article upon it, comprehending a short but
complete account of the disease, may be found in the _British and
Foreign Med. Chir. Review for 1850_, vol. v.
Of Norwegian national songs and music, there are, besides Lindeman's
_Norske Field-Melodier_, the following publications:--
1. _Folke Sange og Melodier, Fædrelandske og Fremmelse, udsalte for
Pianoforte_, 1844.
2. _Sangsamling for Norske Selskabskredse: udgiven af det Norske
Studenter-samfund_: Christiania, 1839. The students of the Christiania
University have much taste for music, and are very fond of singing in
parts and choruses.