256 Literary and PhUofophical Intdllgencii [0(3:. t. 



The Mr. Parker who amufed the 

 public a few ye^rs fince by his Leftures 

 pretending to refute the Copernicati Syf- 

 tem, is trying further experiments on 

 credulity by announcing h gh tides, 

 vvhich, according to fome hypcthefis of 

 his oixn new philofbphy, are to happen at 

 certain times ! We believe the expected 

 high tide on the loth of laft Auguft was 

 oneof bis prediftions ; and, having failed, 

 he now forefees with equal certainty and 

 dffp.es to announce that another extraor- 

 dinary tide is to happen in Ocloher next ! 

 We have con fid ered it our duty to notice 

 and expofe this daring l)llem of empiri- 

 cifm. 



An uniform edition of the Works oF the 

 late Richard Graves, author of the 

 Spiritual Qu^ixote, is preparing for publi- 

 cation. 



The firft volume of Mr. Theophilus 

 Jones's Hiftory of tiie County of Breck- 

 nock will be publifliird in a few weeks. 

 It will conttiin the thorography, general 

 hift.>ry, religion, Laws, cullouis, man. 

 rtrs, and languasje, of that county, and 

 will be cmbellifliccl with a map, and feve- 

 ral plates of views and antiquities. 



The enl \rgrd edition of Memoirs 

 of early Italian Scholars, by the Rev, 

 "W. P, Gat SWELL, announced by 

 us p. 372, is enriched with a very 

 ample Account of ihe celebrated Joannes 

 Plcus, Prince of Mirandula, drawn from 

 his own writings, and his correfpondence 

 vvith the molt eminent fcholars of his age. 

 As we have hitherto had no other than 

 Very brief or very imperieft accounts of 

 Picus, the prefent will have the recom- 

 mend.ition of combining- novelty with the 

 in'erelt uiiiverfally allowed to attach to 

 the cht!ra6ler of this learned and accoin- 

 piiflied nobleman. 



Mr. Humboldt is beginning to pub- 

 lirti the refults of his late Travels vvi;h an 

 affcJlat ion which deftrves to be reprobat- 

 ed. He begins with ion.e expcnfive num- 

 bers of botany, and thence proceeds to 

 ibine other numbers of zoology and geo- 

 lo)yy, promifing that he will condcictnd 

 alio to give to the public an abridged Ac- 

 count of his Travels, adapted to general 

 residing. His condefctnfton does not, 

 however, terminate here ; for he tells the 

 world that he may probobly in a few 

 years publifh a full Account of his Tra- 

 vels, but that the abridged Account may 

 fatisfy curiofity till he has Itifure to gra- 

 tify it fully ! 



Mr. Irving, author of a work on 

 Englifh compofition, and of the Lives of 

 ihc Scoitifli Poets, is engaged on a Life 

 «i\tl)e celtbratcd George Buchanan, 



A work on the Trinity, under the 

 title of A New Way to Tettle Old Ccntro- 

 verlles, by a gentleman alre-fdy known 

 in the I'terary world, will be publiflied in 

 the courfe of a few weeks. 



Mrs. Portia Young is about t* 

 publifh a Compendium taken from Dr. 

 Doddridge's Family Exfofuor, contain- 

 ing Explanations of the toncluoiiig Part 

 of Cla-ift's Hillory ; to which is added, 

 a Harmony of the Evangclifts, with a Pa- 

 raphrafe and Note*. It will be publiflied 

 by ful/cription, for the bentftt of a fathcr- 

 lefi infant, a defcendant of the great Sir 

 Matthew Hale. 



Mr. WoOLL has in the prefs Biogra- 

 phical M-.moirs of the late Rev. Dr. Jo- 

 fe|;h Wir'oit, with a £elei5lion from his 

 Poetical Works, and an extenfive Lite- 

 rary Correlpondence between eminent 

 Perfjns left by him for publication.. 



Mr. Kkt.ly, author of the Elementa 

 of Book-Keeping, i» engaged on a work, 

 founded on the Hamburg Contorift, by 

 Krufe, to be intitled the Univerfal Com- 

 bilf, or a Conipkte Sydein of £xchaijges» 

 including the Monies, Coirs, Weights, 

 and Mc.Uures, of all the Trading Nations 

 and their Colonies. 



Madame De Genlib having recently 

 publifhcii in France an hiltoiical romance 

 intitltd Tlie Life of Madame de Mainte- 

 non, the fame wilt fpcedily make its ap. 

 pearance In an Englifli drels, in two voc 

 lutnes, 



Mr. W. PoNTEY has nearly ready for 

 publication a Woik on the Training or 

 Management of Britifli Timber-Trees, 

 vrhether intended for Uie, Ornament, or 

 -Shelter j including an Inquiry into their 

 general Difeafes and Defers, the Means 

 of preventing them, and the Remedies to 

 be applied. 



Mr. William Close has invented an 

 apparatus for raifing water by means of air 

 condenfed in it* delcent through an in- 

 verted i'y|ihon. This fyphon has its. 

 higher orifice placed in a liiuation to re- 

 ceive both air and water at the fame time. 

 The air being conveyed by the velocity of 

 the aqueous column to the loweft part of 

 the fyphon, and coUcfted in a vefld, is 

 employed as the fuedium for conveying 

 prefTure to raife water in ancther part of 

 the apparatus. Mr. C. finds from expe- 

 riments that a machir.e cjnitrufted upon 

 lhi» principle will raiie water fordomeftic 

 purpc.fes, and althougli it will not perform 

 half as much work as a bucket- engine by 

 a forcing-pump, yet it may be kept con- 

 tinually employed, and is I'uhjeft to very 

 little wear, as ifs operation will alinoft be 

 uerlormed without tridiju. 



Mr. 



