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VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical, 



Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domejiic and Foreign. 

 •#• Authentic Communications for this Article luill always be thankfully received. 



DR. YouNO's Courfe of Leilures on 

 Natural Philofophy and the Mecha- 

 nical Arts, delivered two years ago in the 

 theatre of the Royal Inftitution, is now 

 printing, with conliderahle additions and 

 improvemenis. The work will confift of 

 two volumes quarto; the firft containing 

 the text of the Leftures, nearly as they 

 were delivered, but with fuch alterations 

 as are calculated to make them ftiU more 

 intelligible to the molt uninformeii readers. 

 The Lffturesare followed by a copious fe- 

 ries of plates, illuftrative of every de- 

 partment of mechanical and phyiical fci- 

 ence. The fccond volume contains, in 

 the firft place, the raathemuical elements 

 of natural philofophy, deduced from fiift 

 principles, and, in many iiidances, ex- 

 tended by new inveftigations ; feccmdly, 

 a methodical catalogue of works relating 

 to natural philofophy and the arts, with 

 about ten thoufand references to particu- 

 lar memoirs and paffages, and a number 

 of uleful tables and of concife abftrafls 

 and remarks; and, laftiy, a coUeflion cf 

 thfe author's mifcellaneous papers, re- 

 printed with fome alterations, principally 

 from the Philofophical Tranfaitions. The 

 work is expe6lcd to be completed early in 

 the next winter. 



The M. S. of the foutth volume of the 

 the Life of General Washington has 

 reached London, and tlie quarto edition 

 will make its appearance early in Auguft. 



Mr. Thelwall continues to deliver 

 his Lectures on Elocution and Criticil'm, 

 in various places in Yorklhire and Lan- 

 c«fhire, with a degree of Cuccefs alnioft 

 without example. So much is the tern-- 

 per of the times changed, that his princi- 

 pal patrons are amor.g the Clergy, who 

 have every where been forward to bear 

 public telUmony of his merit. We learn 

 that he intends to repeat them in the me- 

 tiop'ilis in the enfuing winter. 



Mr. T. C. BankeiIs preparing for the 

 prefs, in two volumes, tlie extinit Peer- 

 age of England; giving an account of 

 all the peers who have been created, and 

 whole titles now are either dormant, in 

 abeyance, or abfolutely extinft; with 

 their defcents, marriages, and i.Tues, pub 

 lie employments, and molt memorable 

 aflions, from the Norman conquelt to the 

 year rSoj. 



Monthly Mag. No. 13*. 



A new volume of the valuable Tranf- 

 aflions of the London Medical Society is 

 announced as ready for publication. 



A nenxj fociety has been lately inftituted,' 

 under the title of the Medical and Chi- 

 rurgical Society of London ; the' leading 

 objeiSs of which are to promote a fpirit 

 of harmony among the members of the 

 profeflion. — Dr. Saunders is the PrelT- 

 dent. 



Dr. Arneman, of Hamburgh, late 

 ProfelTor of Medicine in the Univerfity of 

 Gottingen, and membirr of molt of the 

 Philofophical and Medical Societies in 

 Europe and America, has undertaken to 

 luperintend the foreign department of the 

 Medical and Physical Journal, 

 vacant by the deceai'e of the late Dr. 

 NoEHDEN. The high confidefation in 

 which the Medical Journal is held 

 on the Continent, cannot fail to be in- 

 creafed by this arrangement; and it may 

 nut be improper to add, for the informa- 

 tion of the correfpondents of this work, 

 that of the unprecedented number of two 

 thoufand five hui'tdred copies, which arS 

 circulated every month, nearly one thou- 

 fand copies are fent to the Continent, to 

 theEalt and Weft Indies, and to North 

 America. The advantages of (o large a 

 monthly circulation is, in this worfcj 

 equilly felt by readers and by correfpond- 

 ents. 



Mr. Cottle (the author of Alfred) Is 

 engaged in writing an heroic poem on the ' 

 fubjugation of Wales by Edward I. enti- 

 tled The Fallol Cambria. 



Mr. iRvit^G, author of the Lives of 

 the Scottifli Poets, lately publiftied in two 

 volumes o6lavo, is now engaged in prepar- 

 ing for the prefs, Memoirs of the Life 

 and Writings of George Buchanan. 



Mr. Capel Lofft is printing a CoL 

 left'.on of Sonnets, which, from he known 

 tafte of the editor, may be expected to be 

 ftriaiyclafficai. 



The Rev. Dr. Kelly, one of the 

 tranflat>rs of the Manks Bible, redtor of 

 Copford, and vicar of Aidleigh, Eflex, 

 has in the p^els a Triglott Dictionary of 

 the Gaelic Language; as fpokcn in Man^ 

 Scotland, and Ireland : together with iha 

 Englifh. 



Mr. Basil Montague is engaged 

 on A Treatifc on the Law of Bankrupts. 



