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of decorative Bibliography. In this department of literature must also be included a select number of portraits (published in this country for the first time) of deceased and living scholars and bibliographers of eminence.

The Antiquarian Department may be considered as almost entirely novel. The account of cathedrals, palaces, and public edifices, occasionally enriched by views as faithfully as they are beautifully executed, will necessarily gratify the tasteful reader. The cathedrals of Rouen, Caen, and Coutance, in Normandy; of Strasbourg in Alsace, and of Ulm and Vienna in Germany, will be found to present an interesting series in that department of architecture while the views of houses, streets, and public buildings, remarkable for their antiquity or singularity, may also claim the notice and approbation of the curious. For picturesque effect, in its most legitimate sense, the view of Rouen, (from the road to Havre,) of Caudebec, of Montmorenci Castle, of Nancy,' of Strasbourg, of Stutgart, of Munich, and of the Monasteries of Mölk and Göttwic (in Austria), must be considered as efforts of art wholly different from what are usually seen in books of travel. Nor must the author omit to mention the smaller compositions, (introduced chiefly in the form of vignettes,) representing the manners and customs of the people. These are allowed to possess great merit, from the spirit and fidelity of their execution.

The Work will be printed with a new and handsome type, in three super royal octavo volumes, upon paper of the finest quality; to arrange, both in the small and large copies, with the BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON. Price of the small paper, 97.9s.; of the large paper, 167. 16s. each in boards. The plates, upon publication, will be rigidly destroyed.

Contrary to his original wishes, and arising solely from the expense and magnitude of the work, the author has been compelled to have recourse to subscriptions. He proposes receiving the names of subscribers (without any advance of subscription money) by letters, free of expense of postage, &c. addressed to him, at Mr. C. Lewis's, No. 29, Duke Street, Piccadilly. Priority of application will necessarily secure priority of impressions of the plates.

To be published quarterly, each Number coutaining about 180 pages of handsomely printed letter press, price 5s., the RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW, consisting of criticisms upon, analyses of, and extracts from, curious, useful, and valuable books in all languages, which have been published from the revival of literature to the commencement of the present century. Edited by a society of members of the University of Cambridge.

Two views of street scenery: one of the Old Gate way, the other of the New.

The objects of this work are, in the first place-To supply an instructive and entertaining Miscellany, which shall not, like the modern Reviews, be conversant about the literature of the day, but which will attempt to recall the attention of the public to the valuable productions of former times.

2. To revive the memory of undeservedly neglected books; and by pointing out the merits of those which may be deemed worthy of recommendation, assist the reader in the formation of his library.

3. By its numerous and carefully selected extracts, to furnish a collection of specimens of the greater part of our English and other authors, from the earliest times of modern literature.

4. To afford an abstract of those works, which are too bulky or too tedious for general perusal, and of which an analysis may oftentimes be as useful, and more agreeable, than the originals; and to extract the only curious or valuable parts from books otherwise worthless.

And lastly-To open a publication for the reception of bibliographical notices and communications, and of original letters' of celebrated men, and curious extracts from old MSS.

It is the desire of the editors to resort to every source of information open to them, and avail themselves of all the valuable assistance they can procure, in order to render their Work as varied and interesting as possible; they therefore beg to state to the literary portion of their countrymen, as well as to the possessors and collectors of such books as come within their plan, (for whom the present prospectus is alone printed,) that all communications and contributions will be respectfully received, and attended to,―being addressed (post paid) either to the publishers, C. and H. Baldwyn, Newgate Street, Loudon; or to Mr. Goode, bookseller, Cambridge. The first number will appear in January, 1820.

LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS.

A list of One Hundred and Twenty-six Languages and Dialects, in which the Translation, Printing, or Distribution of the Scriptures, or Portions of them, has been promoted by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

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II. By Grants, for the specific purpose of translating, printing, or purchasing the Scriptures abroad, in the following Languages:

*1. Albanian.

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tt 6. German.

7. Greek Antient.
† 8. Greek Modern.

9. Greenlandisli.
10. Hebrew.
11. Hungarian.
12. Icelandic.

13. Italian.

14. Latin.

*15. Otaheitan, or Taheitan.

16. Slavonian.

*17. Tartar Turkish.
*18. Tartar, in Hebrew
character.

† 19. Turkish.

20. Wendish, or Vandalian.

III. By Grants, through its Corresponding Committee in Bengal; to the Baptist Missionaries at Serampore; and to its Auxiliary

Societies at Calcutta and Columbo. *1. Afghan, or Push- 22. Huriyana.

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*+43. Mughuda.

23. Jagatai, or Origi-44. Munipoor.
nal Turcoman.

24. Javanese.

YAN 25. Joypore.

+26. Jumboo.
27. Juynugur.
28. Kanynkoobja.
#29. Kashmeer.
*30. Khassee.

31. Konkuna.
*32. Koomaoon.
*+35. Konsulee.

*18. Bulochee, or Bul- *+34. Kucharee.

ocha.

14. Bundelkhundee.

*15. Burman.

*16. Canarese.

+17. Chinese.

+18. Cingalese. *19. Gujuratee. *20. Hindee.

+21. Hindoostanee.

*35. Kutch, or Kucha.

*+66. Macassar.

*37. Mahratta.
38. Malay.
*39. Malayalim.
*40. Maldivian.
*41. Maruwar.
*42. Mithilee.

45. Munipoor-Koonkee, *46. Nepal.

*47. Oodoypore.

*48. Oojjuyinee.
*49. Orissa.
*+50. Palpa.

+51. Persian.
*+52. Rakheng.

53. Sanscrit, or Sung-
skrit.

*54. Selk, or Punjabee. *55. Siamese.

56. Sindhee.

*$57. Southern Sindhoo,

or Hydrabadee.

58. Tamul.

59. Telinga, or Teloo

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N. B. In those languages marked (*) the Scriptures had not been printed before the institution of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

2. Those marked (†) are new translations into languages into which the Scriptures, or parts of them, have been formerly translated.

3. Those marked (t) are translated, or translating, but not yet printed. Arrangements have been made for translating and printing at Constantinople the whole Bible in modern Greek.

IV. By Grants, in Aid of Bible Societies in different parts of

Europe; viz.

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By Grants in Aid of Bible Societies in Europe, continued:

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V. By Grauts, in Aid of Bible Societies in America.

1. Delaware (Indian.)
2. English.

3. French.
+ 4. Mohawk (Indian.)

5. Spanish.

The last Leipsick Fair Catalogue, which has just been published, includes 370 pages. The number of new and republished books, which have appeared during the last six months at the literary market of Leipsick, amounts to 3194.

MS. ILIAD. We some time ago mentioned a MS. copy of the Iliad, discovered about three or four years since, in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, and held to belong to the fourth or fifth century; or in other words, to be five or six hundred years anterior to any other known MS. of this immortal poem. The Italian press has recently stated some further particulars on this subject; among others, that "the characters are square capitals, without distinction of words, and without accents or the aspirates. The pictures are upon vellum, and represent the principal circumstances mentioned in the Iliad. These pictures being antique and rare, copies of them have been engraved with the greatest exactness. They are not perfect in the execution; but they are curious, inasmuch as they present exact representations of the vestments, the furniture, the usages, the edifices, the arms, the vessels, the sacrifices, the games, the banquets, and the trades of the time, with the precise characters of the gods and heroes. M. ANGELO MAIO had caused the manuscript to be printed in one volume, with the numerous scholia attached to it, and the engravings from the pictures. These new scholia fill more than 36 pages in large folio; they are all of a very ancient period, and the greater part of them are by authors anterior to the Christian era, and to the school of Alexandria. The authors quoted are 140 in number, whose writings have been lost, or are entirely unknown. There are among them titles of works which have not come down to us, and unedited fragments of poets and historians: they quote the most celebrated manuscripts of HOMER, such as the two of ARISTARCHUS, those of ANTIMACHUS, of ARGOLICHUS, the common one; in short, all the best of them; but no authorities are so often quoted as those of

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