JANET, PAUL, b. Paris, 1823; a prolific and learned writer. He was for some thee lecturer on philosophy at Botirges and Strasburg, and became professor of the history of philosophy at the Sorbonne, 1864. He represents the modern French philosophic school, advocating the principles of Cousin, and promoting the freedom of examination demanded by the most recent psychologists.
jANIN. JULES GABRIEL, a very clever French critic, was born at St. Etienne, in the department of Loire, Dec. 11, 1804, studied at the college Giunul in Paris, and addicted himself to journalism at an early period. His wonderful piquancy of style, his airy grace of sentiment and wit, and his wishing paradoxes of criticism, were greatly relished by his countrymen; so much so, indeed, that Jan in, without fear of ridicule, liras able to dub himself le Prince de in Critique. For many years he made and destroyed literary reputations in the columns of the Journal des Debats. He also wrote a good many hovels, tales, narratives of tours, etc., among. which may be mentioned L' Ane mart at la jeune Femme guillotines. Coates lantastiques; Genies nouveaux; Voyage de Victor Ogier en Orient,. Les Catacombs,. La Bretagne kistoriTue, Voyage de Paris et in • and Les Symphonies de l'lliter. Ile was made a member of the French academy in 1870,
and died in June, 1874.
* j&NINA, a city of Turkey, capital of a vilayet, is situated on the s.w. bank of the lake of Janina, in the part of the ancient Epirus which after the war of 1877 Turkey was pressed to cede to Greece. The lake of Janina, called by the ancients Pambotis. consists of two portions connected by two channels. Its extreme length is about 12 m., its greatest breadth about 3 miles. At its southern end, stood the ancient city of Dodona. The city of Janina stands in the midst of an extensive and fertile plain, which produces fruits and grain in abundance. Its chief buildings are 19 mosques, 6 Greek churches, a Greek college, and 2 synagogues. Gold brocade is here extensively manufactured by Greek workmen, as well as gold lace for the east-, morocco leather, silk goods, and colored linen. Janina was long the head-quarter's of the gifted but unscrupulous All Pasha (q.v.). It is now in part deserted; its pop., which was 40,000 under All Pasha, is now 25.000 (of whom 15,000 arc Greeks).