2305.] 



Literary and PhUoJrfhical InteU'igeKCi, 



157 



Thomas, Efq. ; J:imes Wilfon, Efq. 

 F.R.S. ; John Yelloly, M.D. Secre-ary. 

 This Society will commen:e its n-.eeluigs 

 in the month of Oilobcr next, at its 

 apartments in Verulam Buildings, Gray's 

 Inn, where communications and donations 

 of bo"ks are requeued to be fent, direfied 

 to the Secretaries. 



Dr. James Playfair, Principal of she 

 United College of St. Andrew's, has cir. 

 culated Propoi'a's for publifhing by Sub- 

 fcription a Complete Syflem of Groa;r3. 

 phy. Ancient and Modern, in llx volumes 

 quarto. Tlie nhole of the work being 

 ready for the piel's, the firit volume "111 

 be pub'ifhed as foon as a competent num- 

 ber 'f ilihfcribers is obtained, and the 

 fuiiffqu^nt voiumcs will appear without 

 any unnecefTnry delay. Erich volume is 

 to cfnt^in between fevea and eight hun- 

 dred pages, and will be accompanied by 

 eight or ten arciert and modern maps, ele- 

 gartly engraved by the moft eminent ar- 

 tifts in Britain, an i dtfigned to form a 

 fepara?e atlas. We underhand the Pro- 

 fefTor has been nearly thirty years.engaged 

 in perfefting ;h's great defign. 



Mr. EvANSON has nearly ready for 

 publication a Letter addrelfed to the Lord 

 Bifljop of Gloucelier, upon ihefuhjeft nf 

 his Lordfhip's publication on t!ie Trinity. 



The fame geniieman is juft going to 

 prefs with a fiscond edition of the DUTj- 

 nance of the Four Gofpels, wtiich will 

 be enlarged, and have the addition of many 

 valu'.ble notes. 



The firif Number of a new wrrk is in 

 the prefs, under the title of the Academi- 

 cal Magazine, written by a member of the 

 Univerfity of Oxfrd. This Magazine 

 is inUrndtd to contain diftinil treatifes for 

 the ule of fchools upon various branches 

 of literature, paiiicularly upon arihme- 

 tic, Englidi graaimar, geography, hillo- 

 ry, matliemaiics, Latin, and Greek. 



Mr. Palmer, of Hackney, who has 

 a large collection of the late NIr. J.ib Or 

 ton's Letters, in hio original fiiott hand, is 

 preparing a feleft number of them fur the 

 prels, under the title of Letters to DilTent- 

 iflg Mini(ters and Students for the Minif- 

 try, which will' be printed in a manner uni-. 

 form with his Letters to a Young Cler- 

 gyman, publiftied by Mr. Stedman. A 

 Very valu.ible addition will be m;idc to ihe 

 colleflion by a fcries of Letters written to 

 tlielafeMr. Clark, of Birmin[j|iam, from 

 ibe year 1751 to 1762, which have been 

 cominunicaied by a friend into vvholi; 

 hands they fell upon Mr. Cla-'k's deceal'e. 

 Memoiis of Mr, Orton will be j;r..^xed by 

 Wr. Palmer, 



Mr. Clark, of Iflevor'h, has in the 

 prels a woik, the in'ent of wliich is to de. 

 monftrate, from the conlii ution and re- 

 prodnftion of tiie animal creation, the iin- 

 pofTibiiity that beings (o conflituted could 

 have had their exigence in virtue of undi- 

 rtfled energies ; that they mulfhave been 

 the tffciii of a fovereign in:ell'gence. He 

 intends it as a Supplement to Paley's Evi- 

 dences of Natural Religion. 



Mr. El.mes, the architecl, is engaged 

 upon a poem, in blank verfe, on the Pro. 

 grefs of Architefture, copriliios of th'ee 

 £f>uks, viz. Egypt, Greece, an.l Roine ; 

 wherein he traces its progrefs through 

 tbo'e three grand dynaftics rf art and clal- 

 fical a.'chi effure ; and illurtraies his poera 

 with copious notes, analognua epifodcs, 

 and hii.orical anecdotes. Two of them 

 (Egypt and Greece) are finished, and the 

 entire woik will be pubiifhed ejriy in the 

 enliiing winter. 



Dr. Vai.PY's New Greek Grammar, 

 written on the plan of his Latin Giam- 

 mai-, ha.s been lome time at prefs, and 

 will be flmrtlv publifiied. 



Mr. Jonas, author of t'leNew Abridj;. 

 nientot E.xcife Laws, &c. intend'; fliorily 

 to publifh a new and complete Work on 

 Gauging. 



Mr. G.J.Wright is preparing for the 

 pre's an Alpha; etical Arrangement of the 

 FaiSf> contained in the " Annales de Chi- 

 mie," ivorn its Commencement tothepre- 

 fent Time. A volume cnnipiifing an 

 Analyfis of the firft twenty of the original 

 is in c nfiderable forwardneis ; and from 

 the acknowleilged rank of the work in 

 every country where the fciences experi- 

 ence the fol'ering cultivation of enlighten- 

 ed minds, it is to be preluined that Mr. 

 Wright's work will prove a lource of in- 

 foimation to the lover's of (cience in ge- 

 neral, and to th. philolophical cheniift in 

 particular. Should his lihouis niett with 

 clue encouragement, Mr. W. prnpofes to 

 extend the like phn to tnc " J urnal de 

 Phyfique," and other periodicil publica- 

 tions of eminence on the Contment, that 

 the Enolifn reader may, in one view, be 

 prefenttd with the labouri of foitign phi- 

 lofophers. 



Dr. KiNGLAKE is preparing 'or puh- 

 lira'.ion an extenfive variety ot aJdiMoi al 

 caies, in farther proof of the fiiu'ity 

 eiSc.icy of the refrigerant treatment of 

 gout. 



The late Rev. Robert Robinson's 

 Mifcellaneous Woiks, in lour vdiinie* 

 oflavo, including Memoirs ot t'le Author, 

 and a complete Index, will he ready for 

 publication early in November. 



The 



