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WORKS IN THE PRESS, AND NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



WORKS IN PREPARATION. 



A new Comedy, by the Author of Athens, 

 is very nearly ready for publication. 



Mr. Sweet, the celebrated botanist, is en- 

 gaged preparing a work to be entitled Flora 

 Australasia : it will consist of Portraits of the 

 finest Plants native of New Holland and the 

 South-Sea Islands, correctly coloured from 

 living specimens. 



Sir Henry Parnell, Bart., M.P., has in the 

 press, and nearly ready, a volume on Paper- 

 Money, Banking, and Over- trading, which 

 will contain those parts of the Evidence taken 

 before the Committee of , the House of Com- 

 mons which explain the Scotch System of 

 Banking. 



At the Russell Institution, Great Coram- 

 street, Three Series of Lectures are now in 

 course of delivery On the Application of the 

 Chemical Arts to the Conveniences of Life, 

 by Mr. C. F. Portington ; Lectures on English 

 Poetry, by H. Neele, Esq. ; and on the Sources 

 and Nature of Terrestrial Heat and Light, by 

 E. W. Brayley,jun., Esq. 



In one volume, post 8vo, the Lettre de 

 Cachet, a tale. 



The Rev. Julius Hare, and C. Thirlwall, 

 Esq., Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 are preparing for publication a Translation 

 of the Second Edition of Niebuhr's Roman 

 History, undertaken in concert with the Au- 

 thor. 



Reynolds, the engraver, is at present em- 

 ployed on an admirable likeness of Captain 

 Parry, from a picture by Haines ; the print, 

 which is of a size to allow of its being placed 

 in a 4to volume, will appear in March. 



Constable's Miscellany will be published in 

 the order as follows : 



1. Adventures of British Seamen in the 

 Southern Ocean : Edited by Hugh Murray, 

 Esq., F.R.S-E. Three Numbers, or One 

 Volume, will appear on 10th March. 



2. Memoirs of the Marchioness of Laroche 

 Jaquelin, the War in La Vendee, <fec. From 

 the French. With Preface and Notes by Sir 

 Walter Scott, Bart. Three Numbers, or One 

 Volume, will appear on 31st March. 



3. Converts from Infidelity; or Lives of 

 Eminent Individuals who have renounced 

 Sceptical and Infidel Opinions, and embraced 

 Christianity. By Andrew Crichton, 2 vols., 

 or 6 Numbers. Volume First will appear on 

 2 1st April. 



4. Table Talk ; or Selections from the 

 Ana ; containing- Extracts from the different 

 Collections of Ana, French, Italian, and Eng- 

 lish. -One Volume will appear on June 2d. 



.5. Birman Empire. An Account of the 

 Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, in the year 

 1795 ; by Michael Symes, Esq., Major in his 

 Majesty's 76th Regiment. Narrative of the 

 late Military and Political Operations in the 

 Burmese Territory; from Communications 

 of an Officer in the British Army, and other 



Authentic Sourcesof Information. Two Vo- 

 lumes will appear 23d June and 14th July. 



Mr. Babbage has nearly completed for 

 publication, a Table of the Logarithms of 

 Natural Numbers to Seven Figures. This 

 work was undertaken for the use of the Tri- 

 gonometrical Survey of Ireland, and has been 

 corrected with the greatest care ; in doing 

 which, several errors have been detected, 

 which run through almost all known tables. 



Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq., will shortly 

 publish, in one 4to volume, beautifully printed, 

 and illustrated by upwards of 100 wood-cuts 

 of Arms, The Siege of Carlaverock a French 

 Poem, containing an account of the Siege 

 and Capture of Carlaverock Castle, in Scot 

 land, by King Edward the First, in June 

 1301, with a description of the Arms and 

 Merits of each Knight in the English Army 

 who was present on the occasion; written 

 soon after that event. With a Translation ; 

 an Historical and Topographical Account of 

 the Castle ; and Memoirs of all the Indivi- 

 duals who are mentioned. 



Davidica : Twelve Practical Sermons on 

 the Life and Character of David, King of 

 Israel, by Henry Thomson, M.A., of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, Assistant Minis- 

 ter of St. George's, Camberwell. 



Flirtation ; a Novel. In 3 vols. post 8vo. 



Falkland. In 1 vol. postSvo. 



The History of George Godfrey, related 

 by himself. In 3 vols. 



Richmond, or Scenes in the Life of a Bow- 

 street Officer ; drawn from his private Me- 

 moranda. In 3 vols. post 8vo; 



Tales from the German, with Lithographic 

 Sketches ; by a Lady. 



Mr. Bowring has in the press a volume of 

 the Poetical and Popular Literature of the 

 Servians, intended to fill up one of the 

 chasms which have hitherto prevented the 

 English reader from taking as comprehensive 

 a view of the Modern, as contradistinguished 

 from Classical Minstrelsy. 



The Pocket Road-Book of Ireland, on the 

 plan of Reichard's Itineraries, intended to 

 form a companion to Leigh's Road-Book of 

 England, tfec. 



A Life of the eminent Dr. Jenner is in pre- 

 paration by Dr. Baron, who attended him 

 in his last moments, and received all his 

 papers, to enable him to become his biogra- 

 pher. 



Verbal Analysis of L'Histoire de la Con- 

 juration contre Venise par St. Real, adapted 

 to teaching on the Hamiltonian System, as 

 well as for Private Study ; with a Treatise 

 on the Conjugation of French Verbs, from 

 the Cours de Langue Francaise of P. A. Le- 

 mare, by Ph. O. Skee, Esq. 



The Comic Songs of the late clever Actor 

 Mr. Knight, in a uniform Collection ; with 

 the Music, chiefly composed by bis eldest Son. 



Keeper atHome ; by the Author of Keeper's 

 Travels in search of his Master. 



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