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cultivation to the lowest state of torpor and neglect; shewing the effects produced on philosophy and general literature by the arts of the sophists and the reveries of the schoolmen; and delineating the slow and gradual process by which learning was revived, and a new impulse given to the arts of civilized life.

On the subject of Mr. ToDD's new edition of Johnson's Dictionary, noticed in our last, we think it proper to add the following interesting particulars, Mr. Todd's object has been to select from the writings of our best authors, a mass of useful and impressive words, which prove the wealth of our language, and to correct numerous etymologies which are found in the dictionary of Dr. Johnson. Other evidences of his attention will appear in a correction of some mistaken references, or imperfect citations, which Dr. Johnson has given; and in the production of examples to many words which wanted illustration, as well as others which required additional authority. He has derived assistance from some communications of importance by Mr. Malone, Mr. Horne Tuoke, and others. The plan of Dr., Johnson has, in all the improvements, been respectfully followed.

losophical Journals from every part of Europe, and from hence are generally disseminated, the various discoveries and improvements which are constantly making in every branch of science. The house of Sir Joseph Banks has thus served, for thirty years past, as a fountain to which those who thirst after knowledge resort to satisfy themselves, and where, however insatiable, they never fail to obtain new draughts from his never-failing springs. The other places of rendezvous at which a lover of learning may gratify himself on the introduction of a Fellow, are the Thursday evening meetings of the ROYAL and ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETIES, which take place at Somerset-house during eight months of the year. At these meetings papers are read, and other business transacted, till half-past nine o'clock; and previously, and in the intervals, the members of both, and their friends, meet for conversation and exchange of personal civilities in the common anti-room. These, therefore, are the only present opportunities afforded to men of letters of periodically meeting in this metro polis; and, as far as they extend, they are unexceptionable, interesting, and desirable accommodations. The meetings of the Society of Arts are strictly devoted to business, and there is no anti-room for conversation. The Royal, London, Russel, and Surrey Institutions are, in like manner, unprovided with rooms for literary nnd scientific con. versation. Mr. BROOKES has connected something like a conversazione, in subordination to his lectures; and two or three booksellers, and other tradesmen, have attempted to institute periodical meetings; but without the requisite universality, and consequently without perInanent success. The deaths of Cavendish and Garthshore deprived the public of the two principal sources of gratification of this nature; and it is for the purpose of pointing out the deficiency, and stimulating some gentleman of similar respectability to revive their meetings, that we have been induced to make these observations.

Mr. HENRY ELLIS, Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum, is preparing a new edition, with additions and a continuation, of the History of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London; extracted out of original Charters, Records, Leiger Books, and other Manuscripts, by Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE, kut. Garter Principal King at Arms. The first Part will be published in March, price two guineas, and the work continued quarterly until completed, in five parts.

The REV. JOSEPH BERINGTON has completed, and will publish in April, a literary History of the Middle Ages; comprehending an Account of the State of Learning, from the close of the reign of Augustus, to its revival in the fifteenth century. It is intended to supply what has long been a desideratum in English literature; tracing the declension of the Juman faculties from the highest pitch of

A further improvement is projected in the education of youth, calculated to give a LIVING and MORE PRACTICAL EFFECT to the business of schools. It is proposed to publish a weekly newspaper, under the title of the ACADEMICAL GAZETTE; consisting of a selection of authen tic intelligence of the preceding week, with Notes and Illustrations, calculated to origin, cause, and relation of public inform young persons in regard to the events, and the nature of the real busi ness of the active world. Of course every thing will be omitted of an indelicate or immoral character, as well as every sentiment of party feeling, either in religion or politics; and facts alone, as far as they possess the usual criterions of cer tainty, will be detailed in pure and per spicuous language. Prize Essays, Trans

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lations, Poems, and Mathematical Ques tions, with extracts from new publications, will form a regular feature of such a paper. The whole is designed either for public or private reading, in Schools of both sexes, the expence being inconsiderable to a class or form, or to every three or four pupils. Nor will such a paper fail to recommend itself to the preference of families in which there are children or females; because it will possess all the popular attractions of a newspaper, without any of those faults and deformities which arise from their indiscriminate collection of materials. It will be circulated by post, free of postage, to every part of the united kingdom, and will be to be had of all dealers in newspapers, at nine-pence per paper, or ten shillings per quarter. It will appear on Wednesday the 2d of March, that day being the middle of the interval between the Sunday papers, and calculated to convey to its subscribers the contents of Tuesday's London Gazette. A limited extent of advertisements of school books, and of a scholastic or family nature, will be admitted. It will, we understand, be conducted by a graduate of one of our universities, resident in London. On the first view of such a design, it would appear, that it will find its way, in greater or smaller numbers, into every seminary of education in the empire, and that it cannot fail to be attended by important and useful results.

Mr. D'ISRAELI is preparing a History of the Quarrels of Authors, as a Continuation of his Account of their Calamities; including Specimens of Controversy from the Reign of Elizabeth,

The Rev. Mr. DIRDIN has finished the printing of the first two volumes of his Descriptive Catalogue of the early-printed Books, and of many valuable First Editions, in the Library of Earl Spencer; and is considerably advanced in the press with the third volume.

Captain LOCKETT, of the College of Fort William, is preparing for the press, an Account of his Researches amongst the Ruins of Babylon, which he visited in the year 1811, and explored with the most minute attention. His work will contain Plans and Views of the Tower of Nimrod or Belus, and the other vestiges of remote antiquity still visible in the neighbourhood of Baghdad and Hillah, where he was fortunate in collecting a number of inscribed bricks, gems, and medals. The work will form

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His Treatise on Arabic Grammar will soon appear. It comprises a Translation of the Work entitled Kaufeea-extracts from the Tahzeib al meutek-the Mukhtasser al Maani--the Telkhees, and other abstruse and scientific Composi tions; with Notes and Illustrations com piled from the Essays of the best Com

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Mr. ARROWSMITH has just finished his eight-sheet map of the country between Constantinople and Delhi, includ ing the entire surface of modern Persia. This map, like most others of the same eminent geographer, is compiled from original materials, and includes many new determinations of positions and objects hitherto uncertain or unknown. Among other novelties he has accurately laid down the heads of the Ganges, till now obscured by superstition, which it appears lie to the south of the Hamalaya or Snowy Mountains, between 78 and 80 of east longitude, and 30 and 31 of north latitude. -Mr. Arrowsmith's next great work will be an eight-sheet map of India.

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We have already adverted to the claims, made by the public libraries to eleven copies of every new publication. Our remarks were intended to expose the nicious effect of the new construction of the law, and we are happy to learn that the subject has since engaged the attention of many of the literati. Among others Mr. BRITTON, the antiquary, has turned his attention to the subject, and is prepar ing a pamphlet wherein he purposes to investigate in detail the laws and policy on which the requisition of the public libraries is founded. A dispassionate discussion of the question, such as may be expected from this gentleman, will place the interests of literature under much obligation to him.

Sir WILLIAM OUSELEY is preparing an Account of the Countries visited by him in 1810, 1811, and 1812, as Secretary, during his brother's Embassy to Persia, whence he returned by way of Armenia and Turkey in Asia. While in Persia, he obtained, through the influence of the ambassador, perinission to explore many places little known to Europeans. He traced the marches of Alexander from Persepolis and Pasagarda to the Caspian Sea, and has collected many ancient gems and medals, besides manuscripts in the Pahlvi or dialect of the Fire-Worshippers. His work will be embellished with naps, views, inscriptions, and other

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engravings, illustrating not only antiquities, but modern manners and customs, and will occupy two large volumes. The following anticipations, in regard to this work, are found in a letter addressed by Sir Gore Ouseley to Colonel Greville Howard, and lately printed in America: "In March 1812," says he," I concluded a treaty with the Shah, by which the paramount influence of the English at this court is, I trust, ensured for ever. Ere this, my brother SIR WILLIAM has reached England with it, and he probably before I arrive will give his researches to the world. I sent him into Mazinderan on the banks of

conceived so much more exalted an idea of Persia from their own books."

R. SOUTHEY, esq. poet laureat, has nearly ready for publication, Inscriptions triumphal and sepulchral, recording the acts of the British army in the Peninsula. Mr. DANIELL'S Picturesque Voyage round Great Britain, will commence with a Picturesque Voyage from the Land's End towards Anglesea. The Voyage will be written by Mr. RICHARD AYTON, and illustrated with coloured prints, engraved by Mr. WILLIAM DANIELL, from his own drawings, made expressly for the purpose. It will be published in Monthly Numbers, each number to contain two plates, coloured, with sixteen pages of letter-press, price 10s. 6d. and consist of fourteen num. bers, forming one large volume, in imperial quarto. The first number to appear on the 1st of February.

Mr. PINKERTON'S General Collection of Voyages and Travels, forming a complete History of the Origin and Progress of Discovery, and embellished with above 200 engravings, will be completed in 17 volumes, 4to.

from Drawings executed under his own The same Editor's new modern Atlas, eye, with all the advantages afforded by the latest improvements in Geographical precision, will be completed in twenty Numbers, each containing three Maps, at one guinea each.

The Second Part is printing of PROFESSOR PLAYFAIR'S Outlines of Natural Philosophy.

the Caspian, and gave him every opportunity, whilst with me, of rooting up such precious remains of antiquity as yet are allowed to exist by the present race of bar barians. But I much fear that there is little to be seen in Persia which can properly be called antique, except the ruins of Persepolis, and of another ancient city (name unknown) near Murghat, and the tomb of Solomon's mother. The characters and sculptures in both are evidently coeval; the former, as yet undecyphered, are the arrow-headed characters delineated in Bruyn, Kempfer, Chardin, and other travellers. There are a set of sculptures and inscriptions to be found in Persia in tolerably good preservation, from 12 to 1500 years old, all appertaining to the Sassaman dynasty of Persian kings, cut on the native rock near Persepolis, at Shafur, Bisitun, Gehran, Shiraz, and other places; but, as far as I have been able to decypher them, they do not contain more than De Sacy has very ingeniously given to the world. The language is the old Persian, and the character Pehlevi. The sculptures are very spirited; and as Shafur (Sapores) conquered the Roman emperor Valerian, it is more than probable that he made some of the captive Greeks or Romans exert their talents to immortalize him. The more modern remains scarcely deserve notice, except as proofs of the maguincence and power of the Changizian princes and those of the Sefevi dynasty. Some of the former, of 6 and 700 years standing, surpass any structure of the present day, and might at a trifling expense be repaired. But, unfortunately, it is not the fashion to repair or finish the buildings of other princes; and therefore the most beautiful mosques, palaces, aud baths of Shah Ab-ed, or have been destroyed by its blighting bas, Tahmas, and others, are gradually giving way to the temporary structures of the Kajars, built with sun-burnt bricks, and totally devoid of taste or convenience, In short, the sun of Persia has set. Science is confined to the modest few. The arts are totally lost, and there is not public spirit or munificence enough to encourage the revival of them. I have been greatly disappointed, as you may imagine, having

The booksellers appear to speculate on the speedy return of Peace, for we never remember, at any one time, more works in preparation, or in the press, than at present. As no branch of industry has suffered more than literature during the war, and as no class of men judge more correctly of questions of political justice than all those connected with the press, and the trade of books, so none are more generally anxious for the termination of the unavailing horrors of war. How many fine establishments connected with literature and the arts, have wither

and anti-social effects! May the more universal circulation of books, during the promised peace, prevent the recurrence of similar calamities, by raising the mass of the people above the sinistrous arts of corrupt or wicked politicians!

The ingenious MRS. WEST has in the press Alicia de Lacy, a historical novel, in three volumes.

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Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, Curate of Elstead and of Treyford, Sussex, announces, in one volume, royal 4to. a translation of the History of the Kings of England, from the arrival of the Saxons, A.D. 449, to his own Time, A.D. 1143, by WILLIAM of MALMES BURY. Collated with authentic MSS. with a Preface, Notes, and an Index.

A political work is announced, under the title of Outlines of Annals for the first three Years of the Regency of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

A Praxis of the Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac Alphabets, is printing by the Lord Bishop of St. David's; and, a Hebrew and Arabic conparative Vocabulary; also, the Book of Job (in Hebrew) with Miss Smith's translation on the opposite page, by the same Bishop.

The first part of Researches in Greece, by MAJOR LEAKE, will be confined to inquiries into the language of the Modern Greeks, and the state of their literature and education, with some short notices of the dialects spoken within the limits of Greece, viz. the Albanian, Wallachian, and Bulgarian, and will be published in February.

The Royal Society consists at present of 644 members; i. e. 600 English and 44 foreign.

It is remarkable of ZERAH COLBURN, the boy famous for his powers of mental calculation, that for four generations his family and himself have had six toes on each foot, and five fingers on each hand; the additional finger growing out of the metacarpal bone of the little finger, and the additional toe out of the metatarsal bone of the little toe. Of his father's seven -children, four had the natural number, and three this preter-natural number.

A warm, but interesting controversy has existed in late numbers of the Medical and Physical Journal, relative to the case of a girl of the name of ANN FOOKS, of Bedford, who for several months is alledged to have vomited her urine. Dr. Yeats, an eminent physician of Bedford, affirms the fact, and has published in that Gazette of the Faculty all the details of her extraordinary case. Mr. BowYER announces an engraving, commemorative of the origin, progress, and beneficial effects, of the British and Foreign Bible Society; from a picture painted by T. STOTHARD, esq. R. A.Britain is represented as receiving the Bible from a convoy of Angels, and is in the act of recommending it to the various nations of the world, in an attitude of adoration, The various groupes of

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figures with which she is surrounded, are habited in the costume of the countries to which the Bible has been sent, and among the most prominent are the Turk, Russian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Tartar, American, Esquimaux, Laplander, African, Swede, Pole, French, Italian, and Roman Catholic priest.

He proposes also to publish a Series of Twelve Views, commemorative of the Seat of War on the Continent.

He also announces an historical engraving, as a companion to the Death of Wolfe, of the Death of the gallant Sir Ralph Abercromby, K. B. surrounded by fifteen distinguished officers, whose portraits are introduced.

Mr. R. SLATE, of Stand, near Manchester, has, in the press a volume of Sermons, never before published, selected from manuscripts, and preached by the following eminent nonconformists :: Oliver Heywood, of Coley; Thomas Jollie, of Althorne; Henry Newcome, of Man. chester; and Henry Pendleburg, of Holcome. Biographies of the authors will be prefixed to the Sermons, containing an account of their sufferings for nonconformity, many particulars of which are taken from their private papers, with which the editor has been favoured by some of their descendants.

Mr. HODGSON's Treatise on Aneurisms and Wounded Arteries will appear early in March. It will form an 8vo. volume, with a volume of highly finished engravings in royal 4to. which will be sold separately.

Mr. STEWART, lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, has in the press, A Treatise on Uterine Hemor rhage.

An Essay on Medical Economy, comprising a sketch of the state of the profession in England, and the outline of a plan for increasing its usefulness and respectability, is announced for early pub lication.

Mr. PARRY is preparing for publicati on, Poems and Essays, original, and selected by the late Hon. Mrs. CASSANDRA TWISLETON, with Biographical Memoirs of that Lady.

The Rev. J. F. USKO, who has resided in the East upwards of 20 years, has in the press, A Grammar of the Arabic Language.

Proposals have been issued by Mr. ELMES, of Chichester, for publishing a Course of Popular Lectures on Civil Architecture. Mr. Elmes has investigated the origin of the different styles, and has chiefly confined himself to historical and

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eritical, in preference to technical, observations. The work will be elegantly printed in royal 4to. illustrated by prints, and no more copies will be printed than are subscribed for.

Mr. ELMES intends also to print a new edition of the Parentalia, or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens. The additions will consist of an appendix of original matter by the editor, original letters, and other valuable documents of Sir Christopher Wren, many of which have never be fore been published. The author has been employed three years in measuring, Investigating, and delineating every part of St. Paul's Cathedral, for an intended publication solely devoted to that monu ment of his genius. He was thus induced to search the public libraries of London, Oxford, &c. and he has been favoured with several original documents on the subject, by the only surviving descendant of that celebrated artist.

The subjects of the Chancellor's prizes at Oxford for the ensuing year are,-For Latin verse: Germanicus Casar Faro Legionibusque suprema solvit.For an English Essay: a comparative Estimate of the English Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries.For a Latin Essay: De Ephororum apud Lacedæmonios magistratu-Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize:-Niobe.

The subject of the NORRISIAN Prize Essay for the ensuing year is, "The Baptism of John,-was it from Heaven, or of Men?"

The subjects appointed for the two prizes given by the Representatives in Parliament for the University of Cambridge, for the best exercises in Latin prose for 1814, are,-Senior Bachelors: Utrum ex Hominibus fanaticis, an seepticis, plus detrimenti Respublica capiat. Middle Bachelors: Quo magis Instituta civilia et ecclesiastica inter se conveniant, ea melius Rempublicam administrare licet. The subject of the dissertation for the Hulsean Prize for the present year is, "On the comparative value of Prophe cies and Miracles, as Evidences for the Truth of Christianity."

An Analytical Catalogue of Books is in preparation, illustrative of the History and Topography of the United Kingdom. Mr. NEELE, the engraver, has in course of publication, an elegant Imperial quar. to Atlas, to extend to four parts, at one guinea each.

The third volume is printing of A Translation of the Record, called Doomsday; containing the Counties of Leicester, Warwick, Stafford, Salop, and

Chester, including part of North Wales, and Lancashire, by the Rev. WILLIAM BAWDWEN, vicar of Hooton-Pagnell.

A work is in preparation on the Bor der Antiquities of England and Scotland, comprising Specimens of the Architec ture, Sculpture, and other Vestiges of former Ages, from the earliest Times to the Union of the Two Crowns.

A topographical work is announced under the singular title of Moonshine; consisting of remarks, in verse, on various subjects; and on part of England and Wales, particularly Arundel, Northampton, Bath, Hereford, Brecon, Anglesea, Caernarvon, and the adjacent seats.

The History of Essex is in preparation, illustrated by numerous engravings, after the accurate and original drawings taken on the spot; by Mr. G. OGBORNE. With portraits of the celebrated and remarkable natives of the county, and a summary of their lives; by Mrs. ELIZ. OGBORNE,

Dr. REES's great Cyclopedia, we are enabled to say, will positively be com pleted in seventy-two parts, of which fifty-two are before the public.

Among other ancient marbles with which Dr. E. D. Clarke has decorated the vestibule of the university library at Cambridge, is one from the Cimmerian Bosphorus, which bears the following inscription:

ΤΕΙΜΟΘΕΟΣ ΔΑΣΕΙΟΣ ΧΑΙΡΕ ΤΕΙΜΟΘΕΟΣ Ο ΠΑΤΡΑΣ ΟΣΙΟΣ ΦΩΣ ΠΑΙΣ ΔΕ ΔΑΣΕΙΟΣ ΤΡΙΣ ΔΕΚΑΤΑΣ ΕΤΕΩΝ ΤΕΡΜΑΤΙΣΑΣ ΕΘΑΝΕΣ

ΑΤΑΛΑΝ ΟΙΚΤΕΙΡΩ ΣΕ ΠΟΛΥΚΛΑΥ ΣΤΩΙ ΕΠΙ ΤΥΜΒΩΙ

ΗΥΝ ΔΕ ΣΥΜΗΡΩΩΝ ΧΩΡΟΝ ΕΧΟΙΣ

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A new translation of Juvenal into English Verse, has been made by CHARLES BADHAM, M.D. physician to the Duke of Sussex, &c. &c. It will include the Latin Text of Ruperti and a copious body of notes, and will appear early in the spring.

A new, superb, and improved edition of the Delphin Classics, in quarto, to be entitled "the Regent's edition of the Classics," has been undertaken, to be published by subscription; dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

Dr. MADAN'S Translation of Grotius de Veritate Religionis Christianæ, with the addifional books of Le Clerc, will speedily be published. It is adapted to the Latin Text of Mr. Hewitt's edition, printed at the Clarendon press, in 1807; and copious notes by Grotius, Le Clerc, Dean Clarke, L'Oste, and Madan, will be added,

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