R. Ackermann has in the press, a Treatise ou the Patent Moveable Axles, elucidat

Preparing for publication, a Narrative of the Expedition which sailed from England in the winter of 1817, under the coming the great advantages obtained by them, mand of Colonels Campbell, Gilmore, Wilson, and Hippesley, to join the South Ame rican Patriots; comprising an account of the delusive engagements upon which it was fitted out; the proceedings, distresses, and ultimate fate of the troops, &c. by James Hacket, first lieutenant in the late artillery brigade, 8vo.

MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

On the 2nd of November will be published, the first number of the Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery,

and of the sciences connected with them.

Mr. B. C. Brodie, assistant surgeon to St. George's Hospital, will soon publish, Pathological and Surgical Observations on Diseases of the Joints, in an 8vo. vol. illustrated by engravings.

Shortly will be published in 1 vol. 12mo. Laurentii lo. Rubi Epistolarum Edinburg enasium, Libri III. written during three years attendance on the medical institutions of that city, and calculated to illustrate, among other matters, the system of medical education pursued there, the habits of the students, and the general process of graduation in that university.

MISCELLANIES.

In the course of the winter will be published, the Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, with plates, 4to.

Mr. Zachariah Jackson will soon publish, in an 8vo. vol. a Restoration of 700 Passages to their pristine beauty which, in the plays of Shakspeare, have hitherto remained corrupt.

by

Sketches of the Philosophy of Life, Sir Charles Morgan, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, are nearly ready for delivery; as also is a new edition of Lady Morgan's France, in 2 vols. 8vo. (The Irish tale of this lady, announced under the title of Florence Macarthy, we understand will not appear till November.

In November will be published, embellished with an elegant frontispiece, Times Telescope for 1819, or a Complete Guide to the Almanack, containing an explanation of saints days and holidays, with comparative chronology, astronomical occurences in every month; and the naturalist's diary, explaining the various appearances in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and a description of fruit trees; the whole enlivened with descriptive illustrations from our best modern poets. To which will be prefixed, an Introduction, containing the elements of chemistry.

accompanied by numerous documents of approbation, from gentlemen at home and abroad. R. A. has also imported a most learned and interesting work on the Origin of Carriages and vehicles, by J. C. Ginzrot, of Munich, with 104 engravings, representing the various vehicles as used by the Greeks and Romans, in 2 vols. 4to.

The Caledonian, a new weekly paper, of 4d. each number. It is intended to dif will appear in November, at the cheap rate. fuse more extensively a knowledge of the progress (so remarkable and so universally interesting) of science, literature, manners, and political opinions in Scotland.

MUSIC.

In the press, Remarks on the present state of Musical Instruction, with the Prospectus of an improved plan, in which the great need of a new order of musical de signation, and the important advantages resulting therefrom are explicitly stated; with an illutration of the same, in the way of practical application, by John Relfe, musician in ordinary to his Majesty, professor and teacher of music.

On January 1, 1819, will be published, a new monthly work, entitled The English Musical Gazette, to be exclusively devoted to music. Full particulars will be inserted in our next journal.

work on the simplicity and ingenuity of the | by George Russell, of his Majesty's office of Evidence in favour of the Miracles re- works. The Tour will be illustrated with corded in the Gospels, contrasted with the a general map of Sicily, topographical plans most striking wonders of the Christian of Agrigente, Syracusa, Messina, and the Church in the succeeding centuries. immediate neighbourhood of Etna, and also with several highly interesting views.

The Rev. J. Bourdier has in the press, a volume of Sermons on Practical Subjects.

The Rev. S. Clapham, of Christchurch, has in the press, the Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses illustrated, containing an explication of the phraseology incorporated with the text, for the use of families and schools.

The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, of Glasgow, will shortly publish a volume of Sermons, preached by him in the Tron Church, Glasgow.

BOOKS PUBLISHED.

BOTANY.

Fuci, or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the Plants referred by Botanists, &c. to the Genus Fucus, by Dawson Turner, Esq. A.M. F.R.S. and L,S. &c. &c. No. 45, 4to. 7s. 6d.

DRAMA.

The Appeal, a tragedy, in 3 acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal Edinburgh, 8vo. 3s.

EDUCATION.

Early in December will be published, in Svols. 12mo. by the Rev. Richard Warner, rector of Great Chatford, Wilts, Old Margaret Melville, and the Soldier's Church of England Principles, opposed to Daughter, or Juvenile Memoirs, interthe New Light, in a series of plain, doc-spersed with remarks on the propriety of trinal, and practical Sermons, 58 in number, encouraging British Manufactures, by on the first lesson in the Morning Service Alicia Catherine Mant, 12mo. 4s. 6d. of the different Sundays and great Festi- bound. vals throughout the year.

TOPOGRAPHY.

In the press, a work on the Topography and Antiquities of Athens, by Lieut. Col. W. M. Leake, in 8vo.

Mr. Gorham, of Queen's College, Cambridge, is preparing for publication, in an 8vo. vol. the Topographical and Monastic Antiquities of St. Neots and Eynesbury, Hunts, and of St. Neots, Cornwall, illustrated by engravings on copper and wood. | Mr. Faulkner, the historian of Chelsea and Fulham, has announced for publication, by subscription, the History and Antiquities of Kensington and its Environs, interspersed with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from ancient records, state papers, manuscripts, parochial documents, and other original and authentic sources. The price of the book, in svo. will be one guinea, the large paper two guineas. The price will be raised to non-subscribers. The money to be paid on entering the name into the subscription book, for which a proper receipt will be given.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

The following books of Voyages and Travels are in the press, and nearly ready for publication.

Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gowolnin, author of a Narrative of a Three Years' Captivity in that Country, 1 vol. 8vo, with an introduction, containing a chronological account of the several voyages undertaken to Japan, from the first period of European intercourse with that country.

A Tour through Sicily, in the year 1815,

HISTORY.

Tableau Historique et Politique de Malte, ed de ses Habitans, depuis les plus reculés jusqu' a la réunion de cette Isle à la Grande Bretagne, par F. A. de Christophoro Davalos, 8vo 7s.

LAW.

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanors, from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations, compiled by T. B. Howell, Esq. F.R.S. F.S. A. and continued from the year 1783 to the present time, by Thomas Jones Howell, Esq. closely printed in double columns, royal 8vo. vol. XXIV. (or the fourth of a new series) 11. 11s. 6d.

Criminal Trials, illustrative of the tale eatitled, The Heart of Mid Lothian, published from the original record, with a prefatory notice, including some particufars of the Life of Captain John Porteous, with a view of the Tolbooth, Edinburgh, 12mo. 8s. boards.

MEDICINE.

Direction for the Treatment of Persons who have taken Poison, and those in a state of Apparent Death, together with the means of detecting poisons and adulteration in wine, also of distinguishing real from apparent death, by M. P. Orfila, translated from the French, by R. H. Black, surgeon; with an Appendix on Suspended Animation, and the means of prevention, 12mo. 5s.

A Popular Treatise on the Remedies to be employed in Cases of Poisoning and Apparent Death, including the means of de

Foreign Literary Gazette.

VARIOUS NEW INVENTIONS OF

USEFUL INSTRUMENTS IN FOREIGN PARTS.

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has obtained the approbation of all con

noisseurs.

M. Hampel, of Lublin, has invented a

new straw cutter.

The printer, Autony Strauss, of Vieuna, has invented a printing press, which saves labour so greatly, that it furnishes double. the usual quantity of work, with fewer hands employed on it,

M. Laurent Puez, at Edenburgh, in Hungary, has invented a weight, composed taken off at pleasure; by means of which of bars of iron, which are put on and a load of two tous weight or more may be weighed, as well as lesser quantities It has been bought by Count George de Fes

We think it our duty to press on the notice of our countrymen, the endeavours making in all parts of the Continent, to perfect the various Mechanical and Mathe matical lustruments already in use, and to construct others applicable to the enlarged and multiplied requisitions of Science is true, that ingenuity no where prospers more than in Britain; but, the following list of articles-all of which are come to our knowledge since our last publication-the University of Pest, has invented a Mr. F. A Steinweg, a Mechanician of will place in a striking light the diligence, new instrument for levelling. which he the intelligence, and the EMULATION of calls Libellatorium. This instrument, which foreign artists. We give this article the is described as very correct, has been apmost conspicuous place in our power. proved by the University.

Descrizione ed uso, ye. Description and use of a new scale applicable to the Barometer, for the pupose of ascertaining the heights of places without calculation. By Giacopo Bertoncelli. of Verona. 8vo. This is a logarithmic scale, which has been successfully used in Italy in aerostatic experi

ments.

tetiez.

M. Valentine Kiss, a minister of the reformed clergy at Szentis, has constructed a plough entirely of iron, extremely light and useful. A description of it has been published, for general information, in the Hungarian Gazette of Pest.

The same minister has directed the con

struction, by an ingenious locksmith, of a portable mill, wholly of iron: it is an imicarried by the French armies with them in tation of the portable mills which were their invasion of Russia.

Der Diastimeter, &c. Description of the Diastimeter, or a new instrument in form of a portable telescope, by means of which, may be measured from a single M. Ignatius de Meszlengi, at Veleneze, point of view, all visible distances, with in Transylvania, has lately caused to be great accuracy and certainty: invented by constructed a mill, which at the same time Dr. Romershausen, at Berlin. This in-grinds corn, strips the husk off from nil strument supposes that within the distance let, presses out the oil, straius it off, and serves also as an excellent straw cutter. A inspected, one object may be found, the dimensions of which are known. It is apdetailed description of this instrument has plicable to all sorts of measures especially been published in the Hungarian Gazette to the formation of military plans, inas- called Tuaomanyos. much as it presents the results at once, without necessity for any trigonometrical operations.

The mechanician Marstrand, at Copenhagen, has constructed a new musical instrument, which he calls Harpinella, or the little harp. This instrument, as to its form, resembles the lyre of Apollo, and is smaller than the usual size of the guitar: it has, uevertheless, the usual compass, and nearly the same power as a pedal harp; and in general it may be employed for solos, as well as for an accompaniment to the voice.

The Polish Jew Abraham Stern, has invented a machine for calculation, which VOL. VIII. No. 50. Lit, Pan, N. S. Nov. 1.

AMERICA: UNITED STATES.

We have done our duty to our country in the repeated warnings we have given, that the book trade of Britain has a powerful, and even dangerous, rival, rising in the American press, under the fostering care of its goverument. A strong proof of the correctness of our opinion has lately appeared in an edition of Cicero, in 23 vols. duodecimo. The text is from Ernesti, whose notes and clavis are added. The

fitle anounces it as the first American printed edition of this author. Undoubt edly, it will be followed by others, and Eus rope may import the Classics from Ame

BAVARIA.

rica!! In fact, every state may furnish, | Rhine. The experience of this artist, who not only itself, but the world; and may has been engaged in similar labours since vie with all the world, too, for correctness 1785, cannot but furnish valuable informaand elegance. The present edition is exe- tion. Having felt the waut of instructive cuted at Boston. treatises himself, he is desirous of rendering an essential service to others, by detailing, in full, the particulars connected with this undertaking. He proposes, to analyse the reasons and causes of the project; the expenses attending it; the details of sluices, flying bridges, subterranean tunnels, and other constructions necessarily connected with the main undertaking. We presume that his work will be not only useful, but important.

A Dictionary of the monograms, cyphers, initial letters, and figured marks, under which the most celebrated painters, desiguers, and engravers, have indicated their names: taken from all the works published during several centuries in Germany, Italy, France, England, and Holland, augmented also with a great number of marks unknown till the present time; by Francis Brulliot, employed in the Cabinet of Prints belonging to his Majesty the King of Bavaria. The first five num

bers of this work are already published,

with plates, at Munich.

The acceptability, and even the importauce of a work such as this, is well known to all gentlemen who collect, whether for instruction or for gratification. The author has combined in this publication what ever previous connoisseurs have published ou the subject, in different countries; and has enriched the collection by his own discoveries made in the Royal Cabinet, and in several others.

The whole will form twelve numbers, and will be divided into three parts: the first of which contains the monograms known; the second those which are doubtful; the third those which are absolutely unknown. Each of these parts will com prise 1. An exact copy of each monogram; 2. Illustrations of the history of the artist, or biographical memoirs, where they can be obtained from authentic sources. The dictionary, or alphabetical form is certainly preferable in a work like the present, as well for reference as for convenience and addition.

Agricultural Premiums.

The Society for promoting Agriculture for the department of the Seine, in a late public sitting, decreed four gold medals,

and eleven silver medals, to fifteen agriculturists, for planting the most extensive spaces with potatoes, and for employing to the greatest advantage the power of machinery (mills) for extracting the fecula,

or flour, from the root. This decision auounces the intention of the society, with the wishes of the real patriots to benefit their country. Ten other medals of gold, and three of silver, were distributed in rewards to those who hd made the most valuable discoveries in agriculture.

Scandals, minor and major.

We know enough of Paris, and of Parisian persiflage to believe that a work announced may prove something beside amusing: La Chronique Indiscrete--in which will be given the reports current in good company, the anecdotes propagated at the toilette, the rumours of private parties, and the back stairs, the witticisms, and repartees, attributed to distinguished characters: the epigrams, sonnets, and charades, the characters and caricaturas, the If dictionaries in general are labours of humours of the green rooms, spectacles, years, this, from its nature, is more espe- music, and musical parties, &c. &c. In cially so; it demands not a little good for- such things the idlest Frenchman is the tune to meet with examples; much persenable scope for his imagination, his memory, most industrious; and may find intermiverance in examining performances of merit, or of no merit: with a studious attention to correctness and a knowledge of hands, that can be attained only by long practice and sedulous attention.

FRANCE.

Internal Navigation: Practical. Our friends, who are engaged in the internal navigation of our country, will learn with pleasure that M. A. Hagrau, inspector of a division of the Royal Corps of roads and bridges, proposes to publish a descrip tion of the canal he has lately executed between the rivers the Meuse and the

and his black-lead pencil;

Trifles, light as air,
Are, to the prying, informations strong
As proofs of Holy Writ

Military Eloquence, collection of.

It must be acknowledged, that among the addresses made to the French armies by their Generals, on various occasions, some have been eminently distinguished by an eloquence and a dexterity of management singularly well suited to circumstances. Though, in themselves, little other than denunciations of calamities to the sufferers who had the misfortune to be