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nun: the charters, courts, companies, dignities, 

 offk-es-, pnbfic functionaries, foundations, and other 

 Civic Institutions ; and a Register of Events from, 

 the earliest period to the present time. With an 

 Appendix of References, and general information for 

 the we of citizens* merchant^ Grangers, &c. Will 

 IK published in January, in 1 vol. 12mo. 



Mr. Bowring has very nearly ready for publication: 

 a volume on the Literature and Poetry of Poland. 



Mr. W.Jevons jun. ha* in the press* in 2 vols. 

 8vo., Systematic Morality ; or, a Treatise on the 

 Theory and Practice o'f Human Duty, on the 

 grounds of Natural Religion. 



The author of London in the Olden Time is- 

 engaged on- a second Volume, comprising Tales. 

 Blustrative of the manners, habits, and supersti- 

 tions of its Inhabitants* from the twelfth to the 

 sixteenth century. The work will appear early in 

 the spring- 



A Series of Views in the West-Indies, to be pub- 

 lished in Parts, engraved from Drawings taken 

 recently in the Islands, with letter-press explanation 

 made from, actual observation, will appear in 

 February. 



Instructive Poems for Yoang Cottagers, by Mary 

 R.StockdaVe, are in the press. 



A -work is announced for publication hi January, 

 entitled England's Historical Diary; detailing the 

 most important Events connected with the grandeur 

 and prosperity of the British Empire every Act or 

 Deett numerated having taken place on the day to 

 which ft is appTfed. 



Preparing for the press, a PoprrTar Exposition- of 

 the Epistle to the Romans, by Robert Wilson, A.M., 

 apthor of a Treatise on the Divine Sovereignty, &c. 

 Mr- Barnet, the author of Practical Hints on 

 Gwnpesition and: Light and Shade in Painting, has 

 In the press a work on the General Management of 

 t'olour HI a Picture, which will appear eaily in the 

 ensuing spring. ' . 



A work will be published in the course of January, 

 entitled the Poctiy of Milton's Prose, selected from 

 hfe various writings, with instances of parallel Pas- 

 sages from his Poems : Notes, and an introductory 

 Essay. 



A new historical novel, to be entitled Dame Re- 

 becca Berry, or Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles 

 the Second, is -announced for early publication. 



.Mr. Pierce Kgan has just ready, a Trip to Ascot . 

 Races.: upwards of seventeen feet in length, and 

 coloured after Life and Nature, dedicated to his 

 Majesty, George IV. The Plates. designed and etched 

 Iby Mr. Theodore Law. 



A Treatise on the Origin of Expiatory Sacrifice, 

 fejt Gorge Stanley Faber, B. D., Rector of Long 

 Newton, m 8vo., is nearly ready. 



Narrative of a Tour through the Interior Provinces 

 ef Columbia, by ColqneV J. P. Hamilton, late Chief 

 Commissioner from his Britannic Majesty to the Re- 

 pubfic of Columbia, in 2 vols. post Uvol, is in the 

 press. 



Capt. Walter Badenach, 5?th Bengal N. I., is pre- 

 paring, Inqniry into the Sta e of the hulian Army, 

 with Suggestions for its Improvement, and the Esta- 

 blishment of a Military Police in India, In 8vo. 



Travels in Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Coasts 

 cf the Sea of Azof, and the Black Sea ; v/ith a Re- 

 view of the Trade in the Black Sea, and of the sys- 

 tems, of Manning the Navy in different Countries" of 

 Europe, compared with that of England. 2 vols. vo. 

 The H istory of the Glorious Return of the Vau- 

 dois to their Valleys, in 1H89, by Henry Arnaud, 

 their Pastor and Colonel. Translated froin the ori- 

 ginal of II. Arnaud, by Hugh Dyke A eland,* Esq. 

 Embellished with Original .Sketches of that singular 

 country, beautifully engraved by Finden. 8vo. 



The Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, 

 a Native of Italy, in 2 vols. past <ivo., is in the press. 

 An Officer in the late Staff Corps Regiment of 

 Cavalry, announces his Personal Narrative of Ad- 

 ventures in the Peninsula during the late War. 8vo. 

 The Present State of Columbia, by an Officer, 

 late in the Columbian Service, in 8vo., is nearly 

 ready. 



A History of the Council of Trent, held A.D. 

 1545-1504, is in preparation, in 1 vol. Ovo. 



The Rev. David M'Nicholl is preparing for publi- 

 cation, an Argument for the Bible, drawn from the 

 Character and Harmony of its subjects. 



Dr. Arnott's work on General and Medical Physics, 

 is nearly ready for publication. It imports to be a 

 System of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 

 with strictly Scientific Arrangement ; but made 

 easily intelligible to those who have never learned, 

 ot who hav.e.fcigoucn ths math&rnarLcG. 



G. Thomson 



is about to publish an Account of his Travel* and. 

 Adventures in Southern Africa. 



An Indian Romance, entitled the Natchez, by- 

 Viscount Chateaubriand, is printing in French and 

 English. 



Mr. Cooper, tfte author of the Spy, the Pilot, 

 &c., has announced a new Romance* to be called; 

 the Prairie. 



The Rev. F. Thackeray, A.M., has nearly ready 

 A History of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, Earl of 

 Chatham, containing hjfi Speeches in Parliament, 

 and a portion of his Correspondence never before 

 published, with a Portrait, in 2 vols. 4to. 



Mr. Ughtfoot will soon publish. Mercantile Tida 

 Tables, in small folio. 



Dr., Blair of Edinburgh announce* a volume of 

 Scientific Aphorisms. 



MrX'olnaghi ispreparing anEngraving from a beau- 

 tiful Miniature by Collen, of the Right Hon. Lady 

 Jonston, being the Twenty-Sixth of a Series of 

 Portraits of the Female Nobility. 



The Brazen Serpent, a Poem, is in the press. 



Nearly ready, an Early Chronicle of London, writ- 

 ten in the 1,5th Century, and now for the first time- 

 printed from the original M..S. in the British Mu- 

 seum ; to w.hich will be added several curious con- 

 temporary Letters and Poetical Pieces (the greater 

 part of which have been hitherto inedited) illustra- 

 tive either of some important Events in the History 

 of England and of the Metropolis, or of the Man- 

 ners of the Period to which they sejate. 



.An. Accoant of Public Charities,. digested from the 

 Reports of the Commissioners on Charitable Foun- 

 dations; with Notes and Comments. By the Editor 

 xf The Cabinet Lawyer : will be published January 

 1st, and continued in monthly Parts unlE completed, 

 in about 10 Parts. 



Mr. H. J. Prior has in the press, in 1 vol. 12mo. 

 Practical Elocution, or Hints to Public Speakers. 



The new work by the author of the English in 

 Italy, entitled Historiettes, or Tales of Continental 

 Life, is expected to appear early in the present 

 month. 



The Zenana, or a Newab's Leisure Hours, by the 

 author of Pandurang Hari, or Memoirs of a Hin- 

 doo, containing a Series of Tales translated from 

 the Narrations of Indian Natives, will be ready for, 

 publication on the lyth instant. 



LIST OF NEW WORKS. 



BIOGRAPHY. 



Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Siddons. By J. Boa- 

 den, Esq. ; with a Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 

 2 vols. }{vo. 28s. 



EDUCATION SCHOOL-BOOKS. 



Barley's Popular Geometry. 12mo. 4s. 6d. bds. 



Mrs. "Williams* Summary Method of Teaching. 

 12mo. Is. Od. bound. 



Triumphs of Genius and Perseverence exemplified;, 

 in the History of Persons who, from the lov/cst state 

 of Poverty and early Ignorance have risen to the 

 highest Eminence m the Arts and Sciences. By 

 Elizabeth Strutt, author of Practical Wisdom, &c. 

 12mo. 7s- bds. 



The Elements of the Theory of Plane Astronomy. 

 By W. Maddy, M.A. Bvo. Price 7s. Cd. bds. 



Euripkles Tragasdia* priores Quatuor ad fidem 

 manuscriptorum emendata? et brevibus notis emtn- \ 



rtationum potissimum rationes edidit Ricardus Por- 

 son, A.M., rectnsuit suasque notulas subjecit. Ja- 

 cobus Scholefield, A.M. 8vo. Price 12s. Cd. bds. 



Lectures on Astronomy ; illustrated by the Astro- 

 nomicon, or a Series of Mov cable Diagrams, exhi- 

 biting a more familiar r.nd natural elucidation of the, 

 real and apparent Motions of the Heavenly Bodies 

 than is to be met with in any other work on this 

 valuable Science. By W. II. Prior. Price of the, 

 Astroiiomicon, i'3. 13s. Gd. ; Lectures, 10s. Gd. 



TINE ARTS. 



A Portrait of the Hon. Mrs, Pakenham, engraved 

 by Cochran, from a painting by G. Hayter, M.A.S.L. 

 being the Twenty-fifth of a Series of Portraits of the 

 Female Nobility. 4to. Columbia India proofs, 5s. ; 

 plain, 4s. 



. London and its Vicinity, in a Series of Plates,' 

 engraved bv O. Cooke, from original Drawings. 

 Np. I. Impl. 8vo. 4s., 4tc. 6s. 6*1. 



