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VARIETIES, Lirerary awd PuriosoParcat. 
; Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
#.% Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully recet 
ved, 
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WMHOSE who are acquainted with Dr. 
§’ Woxcor, the father.of living poets, 
ave sensible that his lamp of genius still 
burns with a steady flame, apd that his 
well-known’ powers of social converse 
eeenye diminished by increase of bodily, 
infirMity, As a public proof of the truth, 
of these observations, the venerable bard 
has just given notice of his intention to 
publish very shortly, the Rival Minstrel,. 
or the Challenge to Walter Scott, Min- 
strel of the North, from Paul Pendragon,- 
Minstrel of the West: edited by P. 
Pindar, esq. with the following epi- 
graph: 
“¢Incipe, parve puer, si vis contendere 
mecum.” , 
*¢ But Scotia shall not be our judge 5 
When thou would’st bear the bell: 
Who, with the devil would go to law, 
And try the cause in hell?” 
Mr. Adam Buck, an artist, whose 
productions have for several years past 
interested and gratified the public, has 
issued proposals for publishing by sub- 
scription, one hundred engravings from 
Greek Vases, that have never been pub- 
lished, drawn and etched by himself, 
fiom private collectians now in England. 
Ti is to agree in size with those of Sir 
William Hamilton, edited by d’Hancar- 
ville and Tischbein, so that it may either 
be considered as a book. complete in itself, 
or forming a supplement to the other two 
works. It will contain various specimens 
of the forms of Vases; a description of 
‘the mannet in which they have been dis- 
covered, and a brief account of the opi- 
nions of the best authorities concerning 
them; and, te render it as complete as_ 
possible, two of the plates will exhibit 
fac-similes. It is to be delivered in 
numbers of about ten plates each, as soon 
as they can be got ready, and completed 
inythe course of one year, if possible. 
The price to be six guineas, half to be paid 
on subscribing, for which an accountable 
receipt will be given, and the remainder 
on delivery of the last number. The 
drawings may be seen at Mr. Buck’s, 19, 
Frith-street, Soho. 
Lucien Buonaparte is said to have 
nearly completed an Epic Poem, of con- 
siderable length, in twenty-four captos, 
jatituled “ Charlemagne; or, Rome De- 
livered”’ Its composition, and the pros 
secution of the various studies connected 
with it, have formed the chief occupation 
of the author during the seven. years 
which have clapsed since he reured from 
public life. 
Mr. Lawnrenck is preparing to publish, 
a work, under the title of, The British 
Barmer’s Magazine, or, New Annals, of 
Agriculture, intended to embrace every 
species of useful information... 
In June will be published, with a por 
trait of the author, and other engravings, 
in two volumes, the remains of Joseph 
Blacket: consisting of Sketches of ori= 
ginal Dramas, Poems, including. the 
Times, an Ode, and Memoirs of his. Life; 
by Mr. Pratt. 
Oft before his infant eyes would run 
Such forms, as glitter in the Muse’s ray, 
“With orient hues, unborrow’d of the sun. 
Gray. 
Mr. James P. Tupper, member of the 
Royal College of Surgeons, and fellow of 
the Linnzan Society, has in’ the press a 
work .to be entitled, an Essay on the 
Probability of Sensation in Vegetables, 
with Additional Observations on Instinct, 
Sensation, and Irritability. ‘ 
Honiton Hill, a Descriptive Poem, by 
the Rev. W. T. Tucker, A.M. rector’ 
of Wedworthy, Devon, will be speedily 
sent to the press; but, as no many more 
copies are intended to be printed than’ 
may be engaged for, early application 
must be made to Mr. Bagster, bookseller, 
Strand: 
His Majesty’s Commissioners of Public’ 
Records have, under the authority df the 
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury,’ 
appointed such copies of the following 
works, printed under their direction, as 
are not appropriated to: public uses, to 
be sold :—Calendarium Rotvlorum Pa- 
tentium.—Taxatio Eeclesiastica P. Nis 
cholai.—Catalogue of Cottonian Manu. 
scripts—Calendar. Rotulorum  Char- 
tarum.—Rotulorum Originalium Abbre-— 
viatio, 2 vols.—Calendarium Inquisiti+ 
onum post Mortem, 2 vols.—-Testa de 
Nevill.—Nonaruin Inquisitiones.—Valor 
Ecclesiasticus, vol. 1. 
The bishop of Sr.. Davip’s has in the, 
press, an edition of Chrysostom De Sacer- 
~ dotio, 
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