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VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical, 



Including Notices of If^orks in Hand, Domejiic and Foreign. 

 •«• Authentic Communications for this Article ivill airways be thankfully reteitud. 



IT is neceflary for us to apologize to our 

 readers for the inadvertent admKTioni 

 among the Incidents of laft month, of an 

 extravagant article, copied from the news- 

 papers, relative to a fuppofed London Am: 

 phitheatre of Sciences, to be ereiSled on 

 the fite of Bethlehem Hofpital. Vv''e be- 

 lieve that no fuch fcheme is hi agitation, 

 and that it originated only in the brain of 

 Ibme idle projeclor. With refpeft to the 

 real London InfittUion, we are authorized 

 to inform the public, that a houfe for its 

 ■temporary accommodation is hired for it 

 in the Old Jewry, being the fpacious man- 

 fion onte occupied by Mr. Sharpe the fur- 

 geon, and by others. A valuable collec- 

 tion of books already procured is now put- 

 ting up in it, and the library and readmg- 

 ■reomt are propofed to be opened to the 

 fubfcribers on the firft of January next. — 

 The prefeiit fund of this LriiHtution is 

 about 7o,oool. 



The /'plendid Englifh edition of Giral- 

 dus Cambrenfu, by Sir Richard Colt 

 Hoare, Bart., is in the prefs, and will 

 be publiftied the enfuing ipring. This 

 Curious Itinerary of Archbifhop Baldwio 

 thrpii^h Wales, in the year 1 188, was un. 

 denalccn by the delire of Henry IJ., for 

 the purpofe of preacliing up the caufe of 

 the crul'ades. The details of the ji^urney, 

 and ot the various incidents which occur, 

 red to the miflion, were committed to 

 writing by Giraldus, who accompanied 

 the Arclibifhop. To this Itinerary he 

 added a Defcription of Wales, in two 

 books, explaining the topography of the 

 country, and the manners and cuftcms of 

 its inhabitants. The vv'hole will Ihortly, 

 for the firft time, be lubuutted to the pub- 

 lic in the Englifh language. It will be 

 illudrateJ by numerous Annotaiions ^ by 

 a Map, delineafing the tour of the cru- 

 fadtts ; by thirty-one VIi-wg drawn from 

 nature, by Sir Richard Hoare, engraved 

 by the late celebrated Mr. Byrne 3 by 

 Plans of the cathedral churches of Lan- 

 tlatf and St. DaviJ'.s ; by Portrait:, of R hys 

 Prince of South-Wales, and the author 

 Giraldus ; and by many otiicr architec- 

 tural and monumental andquitio, drawn 

 by Carter, and engraved by Iftfire. — 

 Acojji'Hii. Life of the author will he given, 

 and an Iniroduction to the Hiltoryof 

 Walei priui to the date of U>c Itinerary, 



in which all the Roman roads and ftatione 

 hit'ierto difcovered will be particularly de- 

 fcribed. 



At the fame time with the above will 

 be lepublilhed a fmall imprtflion o£ the 

 Latin edition of the Itinerary and Defcrip- 

 tion of Wales, with the Annotations of 

 Dr. PovvEL. To which will be added, 

 the fecond book De lllaudabilibus Wallia, 

 written by Giraldus, and omitted in every 

 former edition of his works. 



Mr. Thelwall, having delivered a 

 patriotic effulion on the late glorious Na- 

 val Viftory to feveral crowded audiences 

 at Liverpool, propofes to publifli the fame 

 under the title of " The Trident of Al- 

 bion ;" together with an Ora'.icn on the 

 Influence of Elocution in kindling Martial 

 Enilnifiafm ; with an Addrefs to the Shade 

 of Nelfon. 



A fmall treatife is announced, under 

 the title cf «' The Domeftic Guide, io 

 Cafes of Infanity ;" pointing out the 

 caufes, with the means of preventioi, and 

 the proper trtatment, of that difovder. 



Socrates, a dramatic poem, written oa 

 the model of the ancient Greek tragedy, 

 is in the pre.'i, and will be fpeedily pub- 

 "liihed. This admirab'e fubjeit for a dra- 

 ma is now, we believe, adopted tor ihte 

 firft time. 



The annual volume of Evening Amufe- 

 inents is in the prel's, and will be publi(h» 

 ed in the courfeof this month. This. new 

 volume is conlhu^ed on a fitr.ilar plan to 

 the preceding. It alf ■ gives the fixed ap- 

 pearances in the heavens in fuch a manner 

 that it may be confulted without any ma- 

 terial error for acentijry. 



Mr. Hewson Clarke, of Gatefhead, 

 is prepaiing to publifh a volume, which 

 will make ».s a.jpearaiice in a month or 

 two, to confift of the Numbers of a Perio- 

 dica] Paper lately publilLed at Newcaflle. 



Mr. Capper, of the Secretary of State's 

 Office, has undertaken to compile, from 

 official and otlier authentic documents, a 

 New Topographical Di8ionary of En- 

 gland, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the 

 Britifii Ifle> in general, tn an entire new 

 plan ; containing, bclidcs all ths intereft. 

 ing information given in eveiy other work 

 of the kind, the following additional mat- 

 ter :— ». Each place will be diftingidilhed 

 ai a tything, hamlet, (ownlhip, parifh, 

 2 L a market* 



