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of the History and Antiquities of Hinckley.

Sermons and Charges by the late Rev. Dr. Edward Williams, are printing in an octavo volume.

Phædo, a Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul, translated from the Greek of Plato, by T. R. J. Esq. A. M. is expected to appear in the course of this month.

Mrs. Pilkington will shortly publish Sketches from Nature, written during a short residence at Margate.

A Tour in Teesdale, including Rokeby and its environs, is in the press.

Mr. Bradley has in the press a new elementary work on Geography; the re sult of much practice in the art of teaching, and essentially different from all others, in acquiring a more speedy kuowledge of the science.

Conversations on Chemistry, the fourth edition, with additions and corrections, in two duodecimo volumes, is nearly ready for publication.

The third volume of the new edition of Hutchins' History of Dorsetshire will be ready in a few days.

The second edition, with corrections and notes, of Sir Johu Cullum's History of Hawsted and Hardwick, in Suffolk, will soon appear in a royal quarto vo lume, with two portraits and n.ne other plates.

A new periodical paper has been announced at Oxford, under the title of the Censor, by members of that University.

Hibernia an Historical and Topogra. phical Account of Ireland; displaying its Civil, Military, Ecclesiastic, and Mo nastic History and Antiquities; the Lives of eminent persons, and Genealogies of the most considerable families, from the earliest to the present period, is prepar ing for publication; by Sir Williath Betham, Deputy Ulster King of Arms; and W. M. Mason, Esq.

A new translation is announced of Atala, or the Amours of two Savages in the Desert, by Chateaubriand.

A Portuguese newspaper has been com menced in London, under the title of Espelho, politico e moral,

At Cambridge, the subject of the Seatonian Prize Poem for the present year is, "The Death of Saul and Jonathan." -Subjects of the Exercises for the Members' Prizes for the present year areSenior Bachelors: Quid potissimum boni vel mali ab infini ordinis juventute literis instituendâ sit oriundum?-Middle Bachelors; Omnis doctrina ingennarum et humanaram artium uino quodam societatis vinculo continetur.

Don Joseph Rodriguez, having ani madverted with severity on alledged errors of Colonel Mudge's Trigonometri cal Survey of England, as differing from the measures of the French, and other mathematicians in other countries, Dr. Olinthus Gregory has published a spirited reply, in defence of the English sur veyors; and he contends, that the variation arises from anomalies in the attractious of the plummet in an island.

ART. XIV. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn. By Thomas Clarkson, M. A. also may be had, by the same Author, 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 48. boards.

Memoirs of John Horn Tooke, interspersed with Original Documents. By Alexander Stephens, of the Hon. Society of the Middie Temple, 2 vols. 8vo. 11 43. bds.

EDUCATION.

The Finance Committee of the Royal Lancasterian Institution for the Education of the Poor for 1812. price 1.

Portefeuille Sentimental, ou Mélange de Prose et de Poe-ie. 12mo. prix 5s. bds.

The Madras School Grammar, or the New System reduced to Questions and Answers; by G. Reynolds, master of the Lambeth School, price 1s.

Fables for the Fireside. By John Lettice, D. D. post 8vo. 5s. bus., fine paper, 7s.

A Sketch of Modern aud Ancient Geography, for the use of Schools. By Samuel Butler, D. D. head master of the Royal Free Grainmar School, of Shrewsbury, 8vo. price 9s. bds.

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A Concise History of the Jews, from the Time of their Re-establishment, by Ezra and Nehemiah, after the Babylonish Captivity, to the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans; forming a Connection between the History of the Old and New Testaments. By the Rev. John Hewlett, B. D. 12mo. price Gs. boards.

A Statistical Chart of Europe; uniting all that is most interesting in the Geography of that distinguished Portion of the Globe; and showing at one View, the territorial Extent, the military Strength, and the commercial importance of each State. By Thoinas Myers, A. M. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Author of a Compendious System of Modern Geography, &c. price 5s. 6d. and on Cloth and Rollers, 103.

An Epitome of Universal History, Ancient and Modern; or, a Chronolo. gical Abridgement of the most material Revolutions that have taken place in the principal Empires, Kingdoms, and States, from the earliest Authentic Records to the present Time. By Francis Bailey, Svo. price 11. Is. bds.

The History of Bengal, from the first Mahomedan Invasion until the virtual Conquest of that Country by the English, A. D. 1757. By Charles Stewart Esq. M. A. S. Late Major on the Bengal Establishment, Professor of the Oriental Languages in the Hon. East-India Company's College, Heris, Author of the diseriptive catalogue of Tppoo Sultan's Library, aud Translator of the Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Klian. 4to. price

31. 3s. bds.

LAW.

Case of the Bishop of London, in two Causes, respecting the Licensing of a Lecturer; extracted from East's Reports for Easter Term, 1811, and Hilary Term, 1812 with an Appendix, cons

taining the Affidavits in either Cause price 4s.

MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY.

Cases of two extraordinary Polypi removed from the Nose; by Thomas Whateley, price 2s.

A Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart; by J. N. Corvissart, M. D. Translated from the French, by C. H. Hebb, Esq. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

MATHEMATICS.

A New Mathematical and Philoso. phical Dictionary; comprising an Explanation of the Terms and Principles of Pure and Mixed Mathematics, and such branches of Natural Philosophy as are susceptible of Mathematical investigation. With historical Sketches of the rise, progress and present state of the several Departments of these Sciences: and an account of the discoveries and writings of the most celebrated Authors, both ancient and modern. By Peter Barlow, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Author of an Elementary Investigation of the Theory of Numbers, &c. &c. Part H. 7s. 6d.

The second Edition, corrected, altered, and enlarged, of a Treatise on Plain and Spherical Trigonometry. By Robert Woodhouse, A.M. F.R.S. 8vo. 9s. bds.

Algebraical Problems, producing Siniple and Quadratic Equations, with their solutions; designed as an Introduction to the higher branches of Analysis. By the Rev. M. Bland, A. M. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 8vo. 70s, bus.

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Essay on certain points of resemblance between the ancient and modern Greeks. By the Hon. Fred. Sylv. North Douglas, M.P. 8vo. 7s. 6d. bds.

Pedestrianism; 01', an account of the performances of celebrated Pedestrians, during the last and present century, with a full, Narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private matches and an Essay on training. By the Author of the History of Aberdeen, 8vo. 10s. 6:4. bds. With a full-length Portrait of Captain Barclay, in his Walking Dress. A Course of Instruction for the use of the Royal Engineer Department. Major Pasley. Vol. I. 15s.

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Mavor Abbreviated, by the Application of a new Principle to his System of Universal Stenography; By I. H. Clive, 12mo. 74. 6d. bls.

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An Introduction to Geology: comprising the Elements of the Science, aud their application to illustrate the Geology of England. By Robert Bakewell. 8vo. 12s. boards, with a Geological map of England, and other coloured plates.

Number XLI of Fuci; or, Coloured Figures, with descriptions in Latin and English, of the plants referred by Botanists to the genus Fucus. By Dawson Turner, Esq. A.M. FR.S. L.S, &c. price 7s. 6d.

Experimental Researches, concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours; and the best means of producing them by dyeing, calico-printing, &c. By Edward Bancroft, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the State of Massachusett's Bay. 2 Vol. 8vo. 11. 16s. bds,

Researches on Atmospheric Phenomena; together with Meteorological Journals, &c. By Thomas Forster, F.L.S. Svo. 7s. bds.

Elements of Agricultural Chymistry, in a course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture. By Sir Humphrey Davy, LL. D. F.R.S. L. & E. M.R.1. &c. 410 21. 2s. bds. Illustrated by ten engra vings.

A Lecture in proof of the Systems of Planets being inhabited; by James Mitchell, M.A. 1s. 6d.

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Part I. Vol. 11. 21s.

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Considerations on the relative state of Great Britain in May, 1813. 8vo. price 4s. sewed.

Considerations on Colonial Policy, with relation to the renewal of the East India Company's Charter. By an im partial Observer, 8vo. price 3s. 6d. sewed.

The Case stated upon the claims of the Opposition, 8vo. price 3s 6d sewed.

Letters on Ireland, to refute Mr. George Barnes' statistical Account, &c, By a Citizen of Waterford. 8vo. 3s 6d sewed.

An Address to the Parliament of Great Britain, on the Claims of Authors to their own Copy-Right, 8vo. price 1s. 6d. sewed.

Inquiries respecting the proposed Alteration of the Law of Copyright, as it affects authors and the Universities; by Basil Montague, Esq, price 2s.

An Appeal to the Nations of Europe against the Continental System. By Madame de Stael Holstein. 4s.

A full and correct Report of the Debates in the House of Commons on the Catholic Claims, on Thursday, February 26-March 2, 1813. 5s.

Protestant Union: Nos. 1. and II. III. and IV. Containing the Address, Resolutions, and Questions, to the English Roman Catholics, by the Protestant Union, &c. 6d. each.

Outlines of the Plan of Finance, stated by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the Committee of the whole House of Commons, Wednesday, March 3, 1813, with a Copy of the Resolutions proposed by him to the Committee. 2s. 6d.

An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress, the Redemption and present State, and the Management of the National Debt of Great Britain. By Robert Hamilton, LL. D. F.R.S. E. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. 8vo. 6s.

A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Grenviile, occasioned by some observations of his Lordship on the East India Company's Establishment for the education of their civil servants. By the Rev. T. R. Malthus, A. M. 2s.

Thoughts on the Catholic Question, by R. Torrens, Esq. Major in the Royal Marines, author of the Economist Re futed, Essay on Money and Paper Corrency. 2 edition.

Oriental Commerce; ora Guide to the Trade of the East Indies and China. By William Milburn, of the East India Company's service,

A Brief Historical View of the Causes of the Decline of the Commerce of Nations. By James Tyson. 2s.

POETRY.

Poems on a variety of Subjects. By Misses Watkins, of Stokelane, Somerset. 12mo, 10s. 6d. bds.

The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale. By the Rt. Hon. Lord Byron. 8vo. 4s. 6d. bds.

A Collection of the most beautiful Poems of the Minor Poets of Greece, as preserved in the Anthologies of Brunck and Jacobs, in Stobaeus, &c. Translated from the original Greek. By the Rev. Robert Bland, and others, With copious Notes, and biographical and other Illustrations. 8vo. price 18s. bds.

The Bridal of Triermain, or Vale of St. John, in Three Cantos, foolscap, price 7s. 6d. bds.

Walker's (W. S.) Gustavus Vasa, and other Poems, 8vo. price 10s. 6d. bds.

THEOLOGY.

An Essay on the Equity of Divine Gor vernment, and the Sovereignty of Divine Grace By Edward Williams, D.D. 8vo. 12s. bds.

An English Translation, with historical Notes, of Bishop Jewel's celebrated Apology for the Church of Eng land, in which the grounds of the Reformation, and of the King's Supremacy, are fully stated and maintained. To which are annexed, Memoirs of the Life of Jewel, and the famous Sermon, preached by him at St. Paul's Cross, in 1560. By the Rey. A. C. Campbell, A. M. Editor of the Apologia, with Smith's Greek Version. 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.

A Charge delivered before the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, on the 23d of March, 1813, to the Rev. C. A, Jacobi, then about to proeeed as one of their Missionaries to India, By T. F. Middleton, D.D. Arch deacou of Huntingdon, together with Mr. Jacobi's reply. Is 6d.

Practical Sermons for every Sunday in the year. 12mo. 5s. 6d, bởṣ.

Part I. price 2s. sewed, (to be completed in twelve parts, to form four handsome volumes,) of Scripture Characters; or, a Practical Improvement of the principal Histories in the Old and New Testament. By the late Thomas Robinson, M. A. Vicar of St. Mary's Leicester, and Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

Illustrated with numerous engravings, Voyages and Travels from. Copenhagen to Brazil, the South Sea, Kamschatka, and Japan, during the years 1803, 4, 5, 6, and 7. By H. V. Langsdorff, Aulic Counsellor to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, Consul General at the Brazils, &c. 4to. 21. 12s. 6d. bds.

** Unavoidable circumstances have compelled us to postpone to our next Num ber the indexes which were intended to accompany this.

THE

ECLECTIC REVIEW,

FOR AUGUST, 1813.

Art. I. Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Louisiana. By Major Amos Stoddard, Member of U.S.M.P.S. and of the New York Historical Society. 8vo. pp. 488. Philadelphia: published by Matthew Carey. 1812.

IF other indications of the national character would warrant us, we should be willing to impute it to a republican dislike of ostentation, that the Americans have hitherto made so little literary use of their originally immense territory, and of the vast addition to it in the recent acquisition of Louisiana. How different is the case among us, the people of monarchies. We see so much importance in a little of the earth of our dominions, and in the substances that roughen its surface, that we should deem it a mean-spirited surrender of the honour due to our mundane rank, to leave any considerable district in the humble condition of merely being shone upon by the sun, pastured by the cattle, tilled and reaped by the men, speckled here and there with houses, and perhaps loaded in some part with a ponderous town. The district is not to be contented with so vulgar a share of the world's fortunes. It cannot be satisfied it has any respectable existence, till it is raised into renown by a costly topographical quarto, or even, if it is a particularly ambitious lot of acres, by the whole graphical and typographical honours of an imperial folio. These tributes of respect to our soil and to what it carries, are multiplying so prodigiously, that if any account is to be kept of their number, and any reckoning of their cost, nothing could be more lucky and opportune than that the Americans, not wanting him for any such purpose themselves, have sent us Zerah Colburn, the youthful prodigy of computing faculties. And if it were possible we could a little extend the homestead of our territory -if we could get secure possession of a small segment of one of the VOL. X.

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