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concerned in the jiroper Education of 

 Youth. A comparison of the methods 

 ]iiM-sued in tlie Enfjiisli , Scotch, Irisli, 

 and Continental Universities, would 

 lend to excite an lionourahle rivah-y 

 amon^ those bodies, and be ultimately 

 productive of the best effects to all. The 

 foundation of an University in the me- 

 tropolis is an era of vast importance in 

 its annals, and one that has justly excit- 

 ed gi-eat interest in the public mind. 

 We shall endeavour to give the earliest 

 and fullest intelligence of the progress 

 of so extensive and useful an undertaking. 

 The objects of the Society for the Dif- 

 fusion of Useful Knowledge being simi- 

 lar to our own , we shall always feel a 

 warm interest in its success, and the 

 promotion of its plans will form a regu- 

 lar portion of our public duty. 



To revive lost arts of utility, and to 

 recall the remembrance of cinious and 

 ancient customs both in our own and 

 foreign countries, will form a pleasing 

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 calculated to throw great light on the 

 history of former days , but in a whole- 

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 times. Kor will such agreeable feelings 

 be less experienced in rex iew ing valuable 

 and curious works which may have been 

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 birth , or may have been lost from the 

 want of an historian. Both previous to 

 the establishment of literary Journals , 

 and since that important change, many 

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 must have been overlooked. To draw 

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 of the public , will be the object propos- 

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The earliest account of Foreign as 

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 foreign works as soon as they come to han(l. 



The admirers of the Fine Arts are 

 nuich in want o; a Journal where they 

 may learn the senlinicnts of the public 

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 and where they ma\ regularly ascertain 

 the progress of British genius. Our co- 

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 re|H)rt of the different exhibitions of 

 this kind which interest the metropolis, 

 and the great proviucial town-.; and no- 

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 soon as it is submitted to public inspec- 

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The Engravings on Wood, which will 

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 New Works in Science and Literature, 



— .5. Essence of Philosophical Journals 

 and Transactions, British and Foreign. 



— 6. Retrospective Review , and revi- 

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— 7. Fine Arts , Drama, and Domes- 

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