( 343 ) [Nov. i; 



VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical, 



Including Notices of JForks in Hand, Domejlic and Foreign. 

 %* Authentic Communications for thts Arlicle will always be thankfully received. 



DR. George Gregory has under- 

 taken a New CyclopaBilia, which is 

 to be completed in twelve months ; the 

 whole making twelve parts, or two 

 large and elegant quarto volumes, with 

 one hundred copper-plates, by Mr. 

 Heath andMr. Porter. In his Pro- 

 fpeflus Dr. G. obferves, that a Di£tionary 

 of Arts and Sciences, in a compendious 

 form, fufficiently copious without being 

 prolix, accurate but not dlffiife, diverted 

 of all fuperfluous matter, comptefllna: ra- 

 ther than copying what has been done by 

 others, and exhibiting a clear hut concile 

 view of the prefent ftate of the various 

 branches of human knowledge, has long 

 been a moft defirable objeft to the Englifh 

 reader. The immediate advantages pio- 

 mifed to tlie purchsllrs are, 



ift, That it will exhibit a compendium of 

 all human knowledge, the more luminous he- 

 caufe cleared of all extraneous matier ; rather 

 praftical th^-n fpeculative ; and In which par- 

 ticular attention will be paid to the moll ufe- 

 ful branches. 



2d. It will be of a convenient and compara- 

 tively portable fize, calculated to lie on the 

 table of every ftudious perfon, as a book of 

 Conftant reference. 



3d That it will be printed fo as to corre- 

 fpond with the quarto editions of Dr. John- 

 fon's Ditlionary ; and the pofieffors of both 

 works will thus have, in four quarto vo- 

 lumes, and at a moderate expence, all the li- 

 terary aid which the Englifli ftudeut or reader 

 can pofiibly require. 



J. S. Stewart, Efq. of Belfaft, has a 

 poem nearly ready for publication intitlcd 

 the Pleafures of Love. 



Sir Henry Englefield is about to 

 J)ublifti .1 fecond edition of his Walk 

 through Southampton, with large addi- 

 tions. 



The Bilhop of Landaff is printing 

 a new edition of his Apology for Chrifti- 

 anity, and his Apology for the Bible, in 

 one volume octavo, to which he will add 

 Two Sermons in Defence of Revealed 

 Religion. 



Dr. E. D. Clarke has in the prefs a 

 work intitled Mineralogy, or an eafy and 

 fimple Method of arranging the Sub- 

 flances of the Mineral Kinguom into 

 ClalTes, Orders, Genera, Species, and 

 Varieties, according to their Diftributicn 

 on the Surface of the Globe. 



Dr. Aikin has in the prefs, Hiorfly 

 to be publifhed, a work intitled " Geo- 

 graphical Delineations, or a compendious 

 View of the Natural and Political State of 

 ail Parts of the Globe." 2 vols, fmall 8vo. 

 Mr. Gladwin, of Bengal, the cele- 

 brated author of the Perfian Moonfliee, 

 and other valuable Works on Eaflern lite- 

 rature, has at lengih, after a laborious 

 ftudy of many years, and with the aflift- 

 ance of the moft learned native Oriental- 

 ids, ci mplttd his gieat Peifian DiSlion- 

 ary, which, belides a multiplicity of words 

 not to be found in Richardfon or Menin- 

 Iki, contains above thirty thoufand words 

 with eximples, taken from the beft poets 

 and philological writers, the Jehangiri, 

 B'jrhan K.a.a, and otherdiflionanes. From 

 Mr. Gl.iii win's perfcif knowledge of all 

 the terms ufed in the courts of law, the 

 diplomatic, civil, and military depart- 

 ments, this work will be found equally 

 ul'eful to the young cadet or writer going 

 out to India, as to the critical ftudent at 

 home. 



Ml'. Gladwin has alfo prepared for 

 the prefs lUulhations of the Boitan, Be- 

 harift.in, Ayar-daneih, and the Letters of 

 AbulTuzl, adapted to the ufe of the ftu- 

 dent.. ot Fort-WiUiam College 5 and he 

 his begun to print the Guliltan of Sadi, 

 in the original Pcrfian, with a literal 

 tianflation, and a complete analyfis of 

 every word, Arabic and Perfian, which 

 occurs in that celebrated work. This will 

 form a large quarto volume, and is print- 

 ed at the Hindooftannee prefs in Calcut:a, 

 a new fount of Arabic and Perfian types 

 having been provided exprefsly for this 

 publication. 



Mr. Sn.>\pe will (hortly publifh a Trea- 

 tife on Practical Farriery, in which new 

 methods of cure will be propofed for feme 

 of the moft formidable diforders incident 

 to hories. 



A work will foon appear by Mr. G. 

 Dyer, of Exeter, on the Reftora.tion of 

 the Ancient Moles of bcftowing Names 

 on the Rivers, Hills, Vallies, Plains, and 

 Settlements of Britain, in which nearly 

 all the explanations given to thefe by Ver- 

 Iteg.in, Skinner, Vallancey, Bryant, Bor- 

 lafe, Whitaker, Pryce, Macpherfon, and 

 other etymologifts, aje (hewn to be un- 

 tounded. 



Dr. 



