I8l6.] Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. S55 



A Compendium of the History of Ire- kind are the means v?liicli Nature takes t<» 



land is preparing by the Rev. Samuel form the ditFerent juices according to their 



H.AKDY, author of tlie " Life of Skelton." various affinities. That these fiRures were 



Mr. STARRATThasinthepressawork taken for perspiration, hut are in reahty 



m the science of Chess, one part of j^^,';'^^^^ wl'^if,!! ^'i!"l "'c^at'f ^sphere and 

 wliich was originally written by a late 



Duke of Brunswick Luiienbur 



Dr. Hamel, of St. Petersburg!), sug- 

 gests, that a descent in a diving-bell 

 might be used as a means for caring 

 deafness. 



Anew edition is proposed of Two Dia- 

 logues, in English, between a doctor of 

 divinity and a student in the laws of 



flowing into the plant, not a juice running 

 from it. 



7. That the root is the laboratory of all 

 plants. 



8. That the heart of the seeds is formed 

 in the extremities of the side- oots. 



9. That the flower is also formed in the 

 middle root, and the pollen in the tap 

 root. 



10. That the corolla of a flower is 



England, on the grounds of the said formed by bubbles of water placed ia 



laws, and of conscience; written by 

 Christopher St. Germyn, and first 

 published by J. Rastell in 1523. 



Mr. Pope will shortly publish a new 

 edition of his Abridgment of the Laws 

 of the Customs and Excise, brought 

 down to the present time. 



Mr. Henry St. John Neale is pre- 



paring for the press a new edition of valley plant, .ic. 



rows, and owes all its beauty, and tin 

 liiihtnoss of its tint, to tlie refraction and 

 reflection of tlie sun on the drops of water 

 which form its pabulum. 



1 1. That the roots and leaves of a plant 

 will most exactly mark not only what is the 

 soil in which they originally grew, but the 

 situation fiom which they came, whether 

 a water plant or a dry plant, a rock or a 



medical Essays and practical Disserta- 

 tions on the Nature, Causes, Symptoms, 

 Treatment, and Cure, of the Tabes Dor- 

 salis ; with a variety of new cases, and 

 including observations on Strictures in 

 "tlie Urethra. 



A new edition is printing of Whitby's 

 Discourses on the Five Points in dispute 

 between Calvinists and Arminians, in 



12. That the water, and semi-water, 

 and rock plants alone can be said to have 

 direct air-vessels, though I have found 

 them in parasite and early spring plants, 

 such as the crocus and hyacinth. 



FRANCE. 



Several works of importance Irat'* 

 recently appeared from the iTench press. 

 The magnificent volume of the Tomb* 

 which all the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin of Canosa ; and two vols, of Travels, bj 

 quotations are translated. M. Millin; the Natural Philosophy of 



Historical Memoirs of Barbary and Mr. Biot ; the Elementary Treatise of 

 its Maritime Power, as connected with Chemistry, by M. Thenaid ; and one, 

 plunder, includiug a sketch of Algiers, not the least runous, intituled, Es^ai 

 Tripoli, and Tunis ; with an account of sur I'Histdire de la Nature; an Essay 

 the vaiious attacks made upon them, on tlie History of Nature, by Messienrs 



and copies of their original treaties with 

 Cliarles II. will soon appear,' with a co- 

 loured view of the city of Algiers. 



Speedily will be published, the Me- 

 moirs and Writings of Miss Fanny 



Gavoty and Toulouzan, three thick 

 volumes in 8vo. These gentlemen com- 

 mence by rejecting every known classi- 

 fication and designation of the elements 

 of Nature, and acknowledge but two 



SVoodbray, of Bavcrley, in North Ame- pimitive principles, an absolute solid 



rica, by the Rev. Joseph A.merson. 



In a series of interesting experiments 

 mnd reasoning on the Anatomy of Plants, 

 printed by I\Jrs. Ibeetson, in the Philo- 

 sophical Alagazine, she draws the follow- 

 ing geiu-ral iiiferejiccs: — 



t. That there is no perspiration in 

 planbi. 



2. That there is no circulation of sap. 



3. That the xpiral wire is the muscle of 

 tiie plaut. 



4. That the leaves are the lungs of the 

 plant. 



5. That the different divisions of the 

 leaven are formed of the ehingatioos of the 

 bark and inner hark vessels. 



6. That the hairi auU instruments of that 



and an absolute fluid ; and, from the 

 dillerent combinations of these two 

 bodies, tiie whole of ihe three kingdom* 

 of Natine are derived. The creative 

 force, the moment it brought those two 

 primary elements into contact, so [jer- 

 I'ecily united them, tl;at the power of 

 man has uevcr been able to separate 

 thcin, norouglit he Ut be able; because, 

 if he had arrived at tliat point of per- 

 fect solidity, or fluidity, he would have 

 destroyed tlie |)rinciple of all aggrega- 

 tion, and become muster of the first law 

 of Nature. The smallest portion of 

 solid matter always contains a portiojo 

 of lUiid, and every imponderable gases 



hold 



