1824.J) ; 
works have conferred on printers and 
engrayers on wood is prodigious, and 
the encouragement which they receive, 
leads every week to new.adventurers. 
For our parts, we rejoice in their suc- 
cess, and we hope to see them extend- 
ed in their objects, and permanent in 
their circulation. They can do no 
harm, while they cannot fail to do 
much good. They are consequences 
of the universal education of the peo- 
ple on the Lancasterian and Interro- 
gative Systems. 
Early in Jaly will be published, 
Bibliotheca Biblica, or a Select List 
of Books on Sacred Literaiure, with 
Notices biographical, critical, and bib- 
liographical, intended as a guide to 
the most useful writers, on biblical 
subjects; by W. Orme, author of * the 
Life of John Owen, pD.D.” 
Sermons and Charges by T. F. Mid- 
dleton, p.p. Lord Bishop of Calcutta, 
with Memoirs of his Life; by H. K. 
Bonney, p.p. Archdeacon of Bedford, 
are in the press. 
Dr. JOHNSON is preparing a.second 
edition, with illustrative cases, of Dr. 
Coindet’s Observations on the remark- 
able Effects of Iodine in Bronchocele 
and Scrofula. 
_ Mr. J. W. Brayvey is preparing a 
copious work of Londiniana, or 
Anecdotes of the Streets, Buildings, 
and remarkable Scites, in and near 
London, historical, antiquarian, and 
biographical. It will extend to five 
elegant small volumes, and be illus- 
trated by an immense number of 
engravings. 
The nineteenth anniversary meeting 
has: been held of that most excellent 
Institution, the British and Foreign 
Schoo! Society ; the Duke of Sussex in 
the chair. The intelligence contained 
in the Report was in general very en- 
couraging. Several Auxiliary Socie- 
ties have been formed during the past 
year.. The Central Schools in the 
Borough-road are in a very prospe- 
rous state, and have supplied educa- 
tion, since their first establishment, to 
22,680 children. A public examina- 
tion, which took place on the 2d of 
April, was highly satisfactory. ‘Twenty- 
two persons have learned the system 
since the last annual meeting, and 
fifteen schools have been supplied with 
masters. The Scripture lessons are 
about to be published in the modern 
Greek language. In Ireland, Scriptural 
education is advancing with gigantic 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
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strides ; upwards of 1100 schools are 
connected with the Society for pro- 
moting the Education of the Poor in 
Ireland, and they contain 79,287 
scholars. From France and Spain the 
accounts are unfavourable. In the 
Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Rus- 
sia, Malta, and the Ionian Islands, the 
British System is rapidly proceeding, 
It is in contemplation to send a master 
shortly to Greece. Successful efforts 
have been made to communicate the 
blessings of education to the colonial 
possessions of this country, particu- 
larly the Isle. of France, the Cape of 
Good Hope, Nova Scotia, and Canada. 
The British System is also extensively 
spreading in the United States of 
North America. In the South Ame- 
rican proyinces it is patronised and 
supported by the existing governments, 
and numerous schools have been esta- 
blished in Buenos Ayres, Columbia, 
Chili, and Peru, in which the Scripture 
lessons of this Society areused. Thirty 
years have not yet elapsed since the 
system of mutual instruction was first 
promulgated by JoszenH Lancaster, 
and within this period it is supposed 
that several millions of children have 
received the benefits of a scriptural 
education. 
Dr. BusBy, whose connexion with 
the musical world has been of fifty 
years’ standing, will speedily publish 
three volumes of original or scarce 
and curious Anecdotes of Music and 
Musicians, English and Foreign, and 
of all ages as well as his own. It will 
be embellished with portraits and other: 
engravings, and of course be a great 
acquisition to our present seanty mu- 
sical library. 
A comprehensive collection of witty 
and humourous compositions, in prose 
and yerse, will soon appear, more. ex- 
tensive than.any in the language, under 
the title of the Laughing Philosopher. 
Journal of the Sieges of the Madras 
Army in the Years 1817, 18, and 19, 
with Observations on the System, ac- 
cording to which such operations have 
usually been conducted in India, and 
a statement of the improvements that 
appear necessary; by E. Lake, ensign 
of the Hon. East India Company’s 
Madras Engineers, with an atlas of 
explanatory plates, are nearly ready 
for publication. ; 
Dr. MitcuHe.w’s Scotsman’s Li- 
brary, announced in a former Maga- 
zine, will be published next moat 
avir. 
