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Intelligence in Literature and the Arts and Sciences.

celebrated persons who have died in 1816; neglected biography, with biographical notices and anecdotes and original letters; analyses of new biographical works, and an alphabetical list of persons who have died in the British dominions.

A native of Bristol is preparing for the press a work in 4 vols. 8vo. under the title of Bibliophilia, embellished with fac simile wood-cuts. The first fasciculas will appear early next year. Particular attention will be paid to an ample specification of some of the rarest early printed books in our language, and a limited number of copies only will be printed.

Mr. WILLIAM YOUNG OTTLEY has just ready for publication in two 4to. volumes an Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving upon Copper and in Wood; with an Account of Engravers and their works from the invention of chalcography by Finiguerra to the time of Marc Antonio Raimondi.

It is not generally known that THOMAS HEARNE, the celebrated antiquary, left upwards of 150 pocket volumes in his own hand writing, containing what may be justly termed a diary of his pursuits. This diary comprises his opinions on books and persons, a considerable portion of his correspondence, anecdotes of his acquaintance, and of most of the literary and political characters of his day with a variety of papers on history and antiquity. From these volumes it is proposed to select the most interesting parts to be published by subscription in two volumes under the title of Reliquia Hearniana. It will be printed of the same size as Hearne's own publications; not a copy more will be worked than is subscribed for; and it will be ready for delivery about the first of January next. Mr. CRESWELL, of Trinity College, Cambridge, has in the press a Treatise on Spherics, comprising the Elements of Spherical Geometry, and Spherical Trigonometry.

Mr. GEORGE KERR, of Aberdeen, will soon publish Observations on the Harveyan Doctrine of the Circulation of the Blood.

Dr. JOHN RYLAND has announced an edition of the Works of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, including several new M.S.S. and a Memoir of the Author in nine or ten

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graved on sixty double plates in imperial 4to.

Mr. HENRY KOSTER is preparing for the press in one volume 4to. Travels in Brazil from Pernambuco to Serara, with, Occasional Excursions and a Voyage to Maranham; exhibiting a picture of the state of society during a residence of six years in that country, and illustrated by plates of costume.

The Abbé J. A. DUBOIS, missionary in Mysore, has in the press a Description of the People of India, with a parti cular reference to their separation into casts, in one volume, 4to.

Sir GEORGE BUCK's History of Richard III. is printing from the original M.S in the possession of the editor, with an Appendix of notes and documents, by Mr. CHARLES YARNOLD, in a 4to volume.

Mr. ASTON, author of the Manchester Guide, has in a state of forwardness a Picture of Manchester, embellished with wood-cuts of the principal buildings.

Dr. ALEXANDER MARCET, one of the physicians to Guy's Hospital, will soon publish an Essay on the Chemical History and Medical Treatment of Urinary Calculi with plates.

The Rev. JOHN HEWLETT is preparing for publication, Commentaries and Annotations on the Holy Scriptures, in five 8vo. volumes.

Mrs. WEST has in the press Scriptural Essays adapted to the Holidays of the Church of England.

The Rev. Dr. GEORGE GLEIG, one of the bishops of the Scotch Episcopal Church is preparing for publication in three quarto volumes an edition of Stackhouse's History of the Bible, which will appear in parts.

A work selected from the papers of the late Bishop HORSLEY is preparing for publication under the title of Biblical Criticism on the Books of the Old Testa ment, and Translations of Sacred Songs with Notes.

Mr. BоHTE, German bookseller, of York-street, Covent Garden, who has been attending the Easter book fair at Leipzig, is expected to return to London about the end of June. We understand that he has made considerable purchases of the most esteemed, modern German publications, and of classic authors printed on the continent: and such of our readers as are desirous of supplying themselves with either will of course find their account in an early applica

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importance to literature, that a complete change has taken place both in the proprietors and conductors of the CRITICAL REVIEW. The numbers of the last and present month have been wholly under this new direction, and we observe some important alterations in respect to it: we see that foreign productions have not been disregarded, that recent publications of the most valuable description have been comprehended, and that a novelty to periodical works of this kind has been introduced, which in the present state of the public taste will not be unacceptable: we mean, a department entitled Bibliotheca Antiqua, or a review of old works of much interest and curiosity which are not easy of access, either from the great expense of the originals, or of the reprints. For this part of the undertaking we are informed the editors have ample resources, and it is their intention not to rake from its dust the forgotten trash of early times, unless for the sake of illustrating some interesting question connected with the researches of the antiquary or the historian. The CRITICAL REVIEW has now been sixty years before the public, during which many of the best writers of the age have contributed to it; and we trust it will regain, under the present conductors, its former station in the republic of letters.

The author of the "History of the House of Romanof," has in the press Thoughts on the Poor Laws, and on the Improvement of the Condition and Morals of the Poor.

A work on the Beauties and Defects of the Horse comparatively delineated in a series of coloured plates from the pen cil of Mr. II. ALKIN, with references and useful instruction to young purchasers, or to those who wish to pursue the study of that noble animal, is in the press, and will soon make its appear

ance.

Mr. THOMAS WILSON will publish, early in August, A Complete System of English Country Dancing, with upwards of 150 diagrams, and also a Companion to the Ball Room, containing about 250 of the most popular Scotch, English, and Irish Country Dance Tunes.

The long-expected completion of HARDING'S Biographical Mirror is at length announced by a sixth and concluding part, containing twenty-five portraits from original paintings, of celebrated and illustrious persons who have never been previously engraved. The whole work contains 150 prints, accompanied by Biographical Sketches of the

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persons represented; all which were written expressly for this publication, by the late Mr. Malone, Mr. Waldron, and Mr. Brayley.

Mr. GRIFFITHS, whose indefatigable spirit in exploration; unwearied industry in research; judicious employment of his own labour; successful accumulation of minute knowledge; unrivalled stores of facts, and masterly illustrations, supported by the exhibition of the most accurate models, drawings, and real specimens, are highly creditable to him, has lately been delivering a course of eight lectures on Irish geology at the Dublin Society's House. It is with more than amazement that the student in geology has seen it demonstrated that Ireland contains slate quarries, far surpassing those of North Wales, which have been so justly celebrated-in the size of their exfoliations, in beauty of appearance, and in durability-being, from the nature of their constituent parts, infinitely less exposed to decomposition from the external air; and that within a very short distance of Dublin there is now a quarry, producing marble, which is very little, if any thing, inferior to the celebrated Verd Antique, which it very closely resembles in colour and general appear ance. We should be happy to receive a notice of any other important points counected with Ireland embraced in the lectures of Mr. Griffiths.

Convinced as we are that an extensive system of education alone can afford the means of civilizing the lower orders of the people of Ireland, we learn with the greater pleasure that about 300 Sunday Schools have already been opened in different parts of the island, and that 30,000 children are receiving instruction in them. It is added that many of the Catholics shew a willingness to accept the benefits of this kind of education.

Our classical readers will learn with considerable interest that Mr. Würtz, of the highly respectable house of Treuttel and Würtz, booksellers, Paris, is at present in London, for the purpose of extending the connexions of that house, but chiefly to superintend the supply of the trade with a new and complete edition of Herodotus, by M. SCHWEIGHRUSER, whose eminent qualifications for the task have been so clearly demonstrated by his editions of Appian, Polybiut, Epictetus, Athenæus, and Seneca. It will consist of six parts, each divided inte two volumes 8vo. The first divisions of the four first parts contain the Greek text carefully revised and corrected,

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with the most essential variations which seemed necessary to restore the real sueaning of the historian; and a new and very faithful Latin version. The second division of each of these parts contains the different variations with brief critical discussions and a justification of the readings admitted into the text. The index rerum et verborum is placed at the end of the fourth division. The fifth and sixth comprize the notes of Wesseling and Valkenner, to which the learned editor has subjoined his own. It is his intention to follow up this work with a "Lexicon Herodoteum, similar to the Lexicon Ionicum of Emilius Portus, which will be adapted to all the Greek editions of Herodotus. Messrs. Treuttel and Würtz are also the proprietors of the Deuxponts Collection of Classics; the Latin authors of which form 115 volumes, [ and the Greek 62 volumes. For the ཟླ་ convenience of those who may wish for further information on these subjects we add that Mr. Würtz, during his stay in London, which is likely to be prolonged some weeks, resides at Brunet's Hotel, Leicester-square.

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FRANCE.

M. FOURNIER has announced an edition of the complete Works of Cicero, accompanied with a translation on the opposite page. It will form 22 octavo volumes, and will embrace the existing translations of a great number of his works which have been favourably received by the public; those of which no French version has yet been given will be translated expressly for the purpose. The Latin text will be that of Ernesti; to which will be subjoined the Clavis Ciceroniana of the same author.

CRAPELET is printing a new edition of Laharpe's Abridgment of the General History of Voyages and Travels, in 24 volumes 8vo. which will be completed during the present year.

A new edition of the complete works of BUFFON, without notes or additions by any other person, has been printed in 34 vols. 8vo. The maps and figures, to the number of more than 1,000, are copied from those of the 12mo. edition of the Louvre. Only 300 copies, and 25 on fine paper, are printed.

The French papers have contradicted the statement that M. DE CHATEAUBRIAND, is engaged upon a novel entitled The Abencerrages.

The King has directed that in future the exhibitions of the works of living artists at Paris shall take place every second year, and open on the 24th of

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April, the anniversary of the day on which he entered Paris. In consequence the next exhibition, which would have been in October 1816, is deferred to April 1817.

Proposals have been circulated at Paris for the establishment of a new academical institution in that city, under the immediate patronage of the Duke DE RICHLLILU, and under the direction of M. DE MIELLE, an officer of the University of France, and M. DE SALGUES, formerly censor-royal and professor of eloquence. "It is intended," says the prospectus, " to receive into this institution 100 pupils belonging to families most distinguished for rank and fortune among the allied nations; to initiate them not only into the departments of ordinary instruction, but into the higher literature of the principal nations of Europe; into civil, political, and commercial history; that of the arts, and of the natural, physical, and mathematical sciences, from their rudiments to their most elevated theories; the law of nations, their civil codes, their diplomatic, agricultural, and commercial relations; general grammar, physiology, and anatomy; to embellish the study of these branches of education with that of the useful and agreeable arts, writing, drawing, painting, music, declamation, dancing, equitation, fencing, swimming," &c. The masters selected for the different departments are: for grammar, the Abbé SICARD; for French literature, M. LEMERCIER; for reading and elocution, M. VIGEE; for geography, M. MALTE-BRUN; for natural philosophy, M. TREMERY; for chemistry, M. ORFILA; for philosophy, M. SALGUES; for music, M. KREUTZER, sen.

We alluded in our last to a notorious English empiric, who styles himself a celebrated oculist, and is at present gulling the good people of Paris. In a late paper of that city we find the following anecdote, relating, as we presume, to this person:"We are told that there is at Paris an eminent oculist named W, who never shuts his eyes to his own interests. A short time since a musician went to consult him on a disorder in his eyes which gave him great uneasiness. Having informed bim of his errand, the doctor asked: What is your profession?'-'I am a musician.' your salary large?'-'One hundred louis.' Bring me ten French guineas in two days, and I will answer for a perfect cure. Ten louis! Yes; or in three days you will be blind.'-Blind!'-I

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have nothing more to say.' The demand of ten guineas opened the eyes of the musician, who related this anecdote to the writer a month after his visit. It seems that eminent oculists are not always the best prophets.

The celebrated antiquary, the Chevalier MHLIN, has just published, as a sequel to his Collection Antique Monuments, which appeared some years since, a Collection of Egyptian Monuments belonging to the Royal Museum of France. This work, entitled Egyptiaques, is printed in 4to., and contains 12 plates with descriptions.

PRUSSIA.

The well-known dramatic writer, KorZEBUE, whose death has been so often announced, is still living, and is expected to pass the summer at Berlin.

ITALY.

The Pope has become the proprietor of Raphael's Madona di Foligno, recovered from the Museum at Paris, and which belonged to the Convent delle Contesse at Foligno. That town still possesses another picture by this great inaster: it is a Holy Family, half finished, in the private chapel of the family of Gregori, which is not much visited by travellers. The town of Perugia refuses to sell its pictures; which, however, are yet at Rome.

IONIAN ISLANDS.

The interest felt for whatever concerns modern Greece, will render the following particulars respecting the publications in the native language of its inhabitants, designed to rouse the spirit of their forefathers, acceptable to the reader. Under Buonaparte there were

PROCEEDINGS

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

THE rewards adjudged by the Society the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, were, on Friday May 31, presented by H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, president, at Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, to the respective candidates, in the presence of upwards of 2,000 spectators; for whose accommodation the place of distribution was changed from the great room of the Society, which, though in other respects more appropriate, will not conveniently admit of more than one-third of that number.

In Agriculture.

To her Grace the Duchess of Rutland, for ascertaining the best method of raising oaks, the gold medal.

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in the Ionian Islands two newspapers of totally opposite sentiments. The Gazett of Corfu appeared under the influence of the French government, with a French translation; and, like the Westphalian and Neapolitan Moniteurs, it was at echo of that of Paris. I had an exter sive circulation in the Levant, and contributed not a little to make known the name of Buonaparte among the Orien tals. When our arms had reduced some of these islands, a new paper in modern Greek was begun at Zante, in addition to the Italian journals previously printed there, under the title of Ephemerides of the Delivered Ionian Islands. It stil continues to be published once or twice a week, and is conducted by a wellinformed young man, a native of Cort, named ZEREVO. It is far superior to that of Corfu for paper, type, accuracy, and style, which is rarely deformed by foreign expressions. A third paper in modern Greek appears at Vienna, under the title of The Greek Telegraph. It is ably conducted, and has a great circulation, on account of the commercial re lations between the Greeks and the subjects of Austria. Lastly, The Instruction Mercury, a literary paper, is also print ed at Vienna, under the direction of the learned Greek archimandrite ANTONIO GAZI. Upon the recommendation of Sir William Gell, the Ionian Ephemerides will in future contain intelligence rela tive to the continent of Greece. The conductors of that journal have a direc: communication with Athens, and will give an account of the proceedings and discoveries of travellers who devote their attention to the sciences.

OF SOCIETIES.

To John Christian Curwen, M. P. Workbringing cattle to early maturity, so 35 ington Hall, Cumberland, for his method of furnish good beef in much less time than heretofore known, the gold medal.

To William Congreve, esq. Aldermaston House, Berks, for planting 447 acres with acorns, the gold medal.

To Michael Meek, esq. of Sober, gea Northallerton, for planting 134 acres with 588,763 forest trees, the gold medal.

To Bache Thornhill, esq. of Stanton, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, for planting 116 acres with 315,000 forest trees, the silver medal.

To J. G. Hall, esq. of Mixbury, near Buckingham, for protecting 1,160 Metine sheep, the gold medal.

In Chemistry.

Hounslow, for his apparatus for preparing To Mr. George Field, Heath Cottage coloured lakes, the gold Isis medal.

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Prizes presented by the Society of Arts.

To Mr. James Ryan, Netherton Colliery, Tear Dudley, for his method of ventilating coal mines, the gold medal and one hundred guineas.

To Dr. Clanny, Bishopwearmouth, near Newcastle, for his safety-lamps for mines, the silver medal.

To Mr. C. Pye, Euston place, Eustonsquare, for preparing charcoal to answer the purpose of black chalk for drawing, the silver Isis medal.

In Polite Arts.

To Miss Emma Eleonora Kendrick, Upper Marylebone-street, Fitzroy-square, for an original miniature of Dido on the Funeral File, the gold Isis medal.

To Miss Caroline Hunning Evatt, East Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey, for a copy of the Head of our Saviour, an oil painting, the silver medal.

To Miss Henrietta Sutherland, Sloanesquare, for an original drawing of the Keeper's Cottage in Hyde Park, the silver Isis medal.

To Miss Louisa Ann Phillipps, Wandsworth-road, for an original View of the Interior of a Castle at Putney, the silver palette. To Mr. W. C. Ross, Macclesfield-street, Soho, for an original portrait of his Grace the late Duke of Norfolk, the gold Isis medal.

To Mr William Harris, jun. Norton-street, Portland place, for an original drawing of Part of the Interior of Waltham Abbey, the silver Isis medal.

To Lieut. Rob. Smith, Queen's-buildings, Brompton, for an original View of the Marina of Palermo, the silver medal.

To Mr. William Ensom, Swinton-street, Gray's Inn-lane-road, for a pen-and-ink drawing of one of Lebrun's Battles, the silver medal.

To Mr. John Carver, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, for a copy of a print from Sir Joshua Reynolds, (the effect produced by a pen-knife from wood charred on the surface,) the silver Isis medal.

To Master Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, for an oil painting of Our Saviour and the Three Marys, the silver medal.

To Miss Emma Gatley, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, for a drawing of Flowers, a copy, the silver medal.

To Miss B. Cotton, Chichely, Newport Pagnell, Bucks, for an original drawing of Fruit and Flowers, the silver medal.

To Miss Dutton, Gracechurch-street, for an original oil painting of Kenilworth Castle, the silver palette.

To M. Henry Douglas Craig, Charlottestreet, Fitzroy-square, for an original drawing of a Lady and a Hare, the silver Isis medal.

To Mr. Edwin Landseer, Foley-street, for an original painting of the Stable Guardian, che silver medal.

To Master George Patten, Ludgate-hill,

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for an original miniature of a Gentleman, the silver palette:

To Master Hugh Ross, Macclesfield-street, for a miniature of hi Grace the late Duke of Norfolk, the silver palette.

To Mr. Thos. Smith, Upper Norton-street, for a drawing of a Dead Christ, a copy, the silver Isis medal.

To Mr John Hayter, Woodstock-street, Bond-street, for a copy of the Transfiguration, the silver Isis medal.

To Miss Leonora Say, Norton-street, Mary-le-bone, for a drawing of Andromache, a copy, the silver medal.

To Miss Anne Powell, of Manchester, for a drawing of Samuel and Eli, a copy, the silver Isis medal.

To Miss Emma Swinley, Crescent, Brighton, for a drawing of Angels receiving a good Spirit, a copy, the silver palette.

To Mr. Thomas Lee, jun. Devonshirestreet, for an original architectural design for a British Senate House, the gold medallion, in conformity to the will of the late John Stock, esq. of Hampstead.

To Mr. John Winckworth, Upper Nortonstreet, Fitzroy-square, for an original architectural design for a British Senate House, the silver medallion, in conformity to the said will.

To Mr. H. W. Inwood, jun. Southamptonplace, Euston-square, for an original View of an Architectural Public Building, the silver Isis medal.

To Mr. Robert Hudson, Duchy-place, opposite Catherine-street, for a drawing of Ajax's Head from a cast, the silver palette.

To Mr John Henning, sen. Glasshousestreet, Piccadilly, for an original die engrav. ing of Vulcan and Attendants, the silver medal

To Mr. John Henning, jun. of Glasshousestreet, Piccadilly, for a bas relief of the Good Samaritan, the silver Isis medal.

To Miss Janet Ross, Martlett-court, Bowstreet, for an original chalk drawing of Venus, from the statue in the British Museum, the silver medal.

To Miss Emma Tomkins, New Bondstreet, for a chalk drawing of the head of Apollo, a copy, the silver Isis medal.

To Mrs. M. Muchal Griffith, Holt-street House, Wrexham, for her copy and coloured drawings of the thirteenth volume of the Botanical Magazine, the silver medal.

To Miss Landseer, Foley-street, Portlandplace, for an oil painting of the village of Polstead, Suffolk, the silver medal.

To Mr. William Scoular, Clarendonstreet, Somers' Town, for a copy of the large antique statue of the Faunus, the silver medal.

To Mr. Frederick William Smith, Bridgerow, Chelsea, for an alto relievo of the death of Pallas, the silver Isis medal.

To Mr: Henry W. Peck, Union-place, Shoreditch, for a plaster cast of Adam and Eve, the silver medal.

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