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VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical, 



Including Notice} of Works in Hand, Domejtic and Foreign. 

 •^i* Authentic Communications for this Article wiU always be thankfullj receiveit 



iTT appears from the report of the Ba- 

 Jl RON Von Kotzebue, in his recent 

 Travels through Italy, that the bufinef* 

 of unrolling the Htrcuianean MSS. pro- 

 ceeds at Portici under the direflion of 

 M. HaVter with fuccefs and rapidity.— 

 One hundred and thirty Manufcripts hav« 

 a'lready been unrolled or are unrolling, 

 and M. Hayier does not defpair of being 

 able to decypher the fix hundred Manu- 

 fcripts which are ftill extant. Eleven 

 young perfons are conftantly employed in 

 unfolding the MSS., and two others in 

 copying or drawing them, all under the 

 direftion of M. Haytcr, and at the ex- 

 pence of His Royal Hiehnefs THE 

 Prince OF Wales. Another work has 

 been difcovtred of Philodenius, treating 

 ©n the vices which boideron virtues ; be- 

 sides a work of Epicurus, of Phsedrus, 

 Demetrius Plialerus, and Colotcs, the laft 

 in reply to Plato on Friendship. Amon^ 

 (even Latin MSS. M. Hayter has found 

 an hilforical work written in the ilyle and 

 manner of Livy j and, among the Greek 

 ones, the entire works of Epicurus in the 

 belt (tate of prefervation, 



Mr. Capel Lofft, whofe tafte on 

 all fubje6\s of criticifm and the belhs- 

 lettres has often been the means of gra- 

 tifying the (iublic, is preparing a CoL 

 leilion of the b«ll Sonnets, including 

 many originals. This elegant work will 

 appear in November, and will form two 

 volumes, bearing the title of " Lau- 

 rana." 



M.ijor Cartwrioht has in the prefs, 

 and ready for almoft immediate publica- 

 tion, a concife ElTay, intitled, " The 

 State of the Nation." This work is 

 written not merely with an intent!o:i of 

 exhibiting to vie */ the good or ill m^aiage- 

 ment of the prefcnt Executive Govern- 

 n;enf, but impartially commenting on 

 oppolite parties in the State, and on the 

 laws and fyitems they have lucccffively in- 

 troduccd, and (liewing the fat-il confe- 

 quencek ot ti;o e liws and (yftt-ins \ which 

 cmlequences, ahhough they were not 

 (ufficiently forelieen at the feveral limes 

 when tl.ole laws and fyitems were intro- 

 duced, aie now both fctn and felt in the 

 pief nt alajmirg fituatii ti of tur country: 

 and the main obje^ vf the Liliiy is, to 



call tht attention of the public to the ob- 

 vious and very fimple means to be adopted 

 for avertifig the danger of invafion, fecur- 

 ing conftitutiona! freedom, and pfom.^t- 

 ing national proiperity. 



A new volume of Tranfaftions of the 

 Literary and Philolbphical Society of 

 Manchedtr is niirly ready i.^t publica» 

 tion. 



A new edition of Johnfon's Poets, with 

 additional Lives, has been undcrtalcsin hy 

 the original Propriet>'rs, and wiii laaka 

 its appearance in the enfuing year. 



A ne.v edition of Langhorne's Plti- 

 tarch will (hortly make its ajjpearance, is 

 which feme miftrar.Gation* will be cor- 

 reifed, many additional notes inferted, the 

 deficient parallels fuppiied. Tables oiF 

 Coins, Chionology, Sic. and a copious 

 Index fubjoined j and the whole ini re- 

 duced by a preliminary Difiai ration on 

 »' Tne Credit due to the fii-ft Five Cen- 

 turies of the Roman Hiftory j" by the 

 Rev. Francis Wrangham. 



Dr. J.-vRROLD, of Stockjjort, has in 

 great forwardnefe a Series of DJffertationsj 

 Philofcphical, Phyficlogical, and Politi- 

 cal, on Man. DiiTcrtation I. on Popula- 

 tion, is in aixfwer to Mr. Malthus on that 

 fiibjeft. 



The Rev. John Dick, of Glafgow, 

 author of the Efl'ay on the Infpiration of 

 the Scriptures, a work which has been 

 well received by the public, has in the 

 prefs Lectures on the A<5ls of the Apoi.^ 

 ties, which will be p\iblifhed in Oilober. 



Mr. Thomas Skinner Surr, the 

 author of George Barnwell and Splendid 

 Mifery, is engaged upon a third novel, 

 which he intends to pubiifli in November, 

 under the title of A Winter in London, 

 or Faftinations of Faftiion. 



The Monthly Journal of Original Voy- 

 ages and Travels commences its third 

 volume with I'omc valuable Travcli in 

 the Morea and other parts of Turkey ia 

 Europe, performed in 1,803 ^nd 1S04., 

 fome late Travels in Hanover, both Uovo 

 the French j together with FisCHtR's 

 late Travel* in the South of France, and 

 the recijiit Travels of an F.nglifli Gc.. tie- 

 man in Sj>ain. The novelty and intertft 

 contained in this Journal is perhaps rx» 

 ceeJtd by none in the lan^^uage. 



