15S 



Literary and Poilofophical Intelligence. [Sept. 1, 



The Rev. Edmund Butcher, au- 

 thor of a volume of excditnt Seimons, 

 has in the niel's a fecond volume ot Dif- 

 courfes on Praflical Subjefl!>. 



Tlie fame penileman will Oiortly puWifli 

 an Account ot a Tour ni.ule by him fiom 

 Siflniositli lo the Nortii of Englard. 



The Uiiiia'i i'.n Society, inlcitutcd in 

 this ci!y about fifteen years fince, for the 

 purpofe of promoting CiirilUati Know- 

 ledge and the Praftice of Virtiie, have 

 lately leprinied feveral vtry fcarce and va- 

 luable woiks, ainoi'g which are the late 

 Mr. Hugh Fa:mi;r''s DilTertatioo on 

 Miraclrs ; his EiTay on the DtnioiiiHcs 

 mentioned in the N=w Teliament ; anil 

 his DilTcitxiion on Clirift's TtnipuuJon m 

 the Wildemefs ; alfo the Rev. Theophi- 

 lus Lindfey's Convei fations on the Di- 

 vine Govtrnment and on Chrlltian Idck- 

 tiy, and his Faiewcl Difcourfe to the In- 

 habitants of Catterick, in Yorklhire. 



Mr. HoLCROFT, ia the courfe of tlie 

 prefert month, will prefent the public 

 with a novel, the object of which is to 

 fliew the evil effcfts of gaming. 



The Rev. Henry Boyo, tranfluor of 

 Dante, his nearly leady for publication 

 the Woodman's Tales, and other toems. 

 He has all' made confiderable progrels in 

 a Tranfiition of the Select Tragedies of 

 Alfiero. 



Mr.. Adams, the riding-mafter, is 

 about to piiblifli a new work on Horle- 

 manfliip, in three vokimes oftavo. 



Mr. PlayfaIR will (hortly f ubliOi a 

 rew edition of Dr. Adam Smith's Wealth 

 of Nations, with Notes and Supplemen- 

 tary Chapters. 



Mr. Salmon, atiihor of Stemmata 

 Latinilatis, propofes to piiblifh Inveftiga- 

 tions on the Oiigin of French PaiticK-s, 

 fimllar in plan to the Diverfions oi Purk-y. 

 We hear that the Tranflator of the 

 Bafia of Joannes Dtrllius, fui named the 

 Hermit, who not long fince publiflicd 

 fome fpecimens of the work in a very le- 

 fpeftable periodical Mifcellany,* intends 

 to fend to the prefs aconfii'erably enlarged 

 and improved edition of the Balia, in one 

 volume, elegantly printed. The number 

 of the fpecimens ahtady piibliJhed by the 

 Tranflator amount only lo a doz^n Kilfes ; 

 fince which he has had the good f riuneto 

 meet with the third and la(t edition ot the 

 Bafia of our Hermit-poet, wlvich cmtains 

 upwards of forty Kilfes, accoiniiar.icd 

 with a Preface, and <ome particulars re- 

 lative to the author. 



• See the European Magazine from Fe- 

 bruary to .May i8o2 inclufive. 



The Bifltop of St. Asaph is about to 

 pu'.dilh a work on Virgil's two Sr..ifbns 

 of Honey, and his Seafon of Sowing 

 W'nat, with a new Method of Invefti. 

 giting the Rifings and Settings of the 

 Fi-Ned Star.s. 



An experienced wooldapler will fhortly 

 puclifh a Treaiife on the ElVential Quili- 

 tics of Wool, and the Objects to be at- 

 tcndetl to by the Grower for the Improve- 

 me.it of the Britilh Fleece. 



I^x. Seriei of Aphorifins, tranflated from 

 the Ar.ihic, with a Commentary and 

 N )tts by the Tranflator, is in the prei's. 



Mr. James Briggs will fliorily hy 

 bef.,rc the public PraSlical Obfervationsorj 

 the principal Difeales of the Eyes, iliuf- 

 irattd by Cal'e ■, tranflated from the Ita- 

 lion of Antonio Scarpa. 



Mr. Donovan is printing an Epitome 

 of the Natural Hillory of the Infedh of 

 New Holland, New Zealand, New Gui- 

 i:ea, Otaheite, and other Iflandj in the 

 Indian, Souihein, and Pacific Oceans ; 

 including the Figures and Defcriptions of 

 one hundred and fifty-tvio Species of the 

 moft fplendid, beautiful, and interefting 

 Infefts hitherto difcovered in thofe Coun- 

 tries. 



Mr. P. Homer has circulated a Letter 

 on the fubje6t of fome editions of the La- 

 tin ClafHcs that were publifhed by his late 

 brother Henry, Fellow of Emanuel Col- 

 lege, Cambridge. In his life-time he had 

 ed.ted feveral, and at his deceafe he left 

 feveral others unfiniftied. The moft ex- 

 penlive and voluminous of thefe were an 

 edition of Livy in eight volumes, large 

 cflavo, and one ot Tacitus in four. His 

 brother had printed oft a Imall portion of 

 the text of Livy, and the whole of that of 

 that of Tacitus, and had jull begun a new 

 Index to the latter, when he died of a dc. 

 cline, which was certainly haftened, if not 

 occalloned, by too clofe an attention to hi3 

 literary purluits. His father, who fur. 

 vived him but a few weeks, continued the 

 work's, which were then in the prefs, as 

 long a« he lived j and at his deceafe, his 

 brother Dr. Homer, himfelf, and fome 

 others of the family, completed the edi- 

 tions that were left unfiniftied. «' They 

 have (lays Mr. Homer) now been publifli- 

 td (or more than twelve years, and the 

 file of them has been lo unequal to our ex- 

 peftations, that we have hitherto loft by 

 them more than three thoufanJ pounds. — • 

 From refpeft to his memory, and from the 

 nstui.il wiflr to prevent the total lofs of 

 wliat he had already done, we were in- 

 duced t-j finifli the plan which he had laid 

 cut i and with great fatigue to ourlelve* 

 2. we 



