1816.] 



IJlerary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



44,1 



Testaments have been sent to Calcutta 

 and Bombay respectively ; and, to tlie 

 latter place, 300 Arabic Bibles, for cir- 

 culadon cliielly anion^ tlie Malioniedans 

 ill Siirat. Tlie Four Gospels have 

 been finished in the Pali; and, in the 

 Cin^lese, the entire New Testanienl. 

 In China, the llev. iMr. Moriusov 

 having nearly circulated the 2,000 co- 

 pies of his Chinese transkUion of the 

 New Testament, has entered upon a 

 qnodecimo edition. Of tlie Aral.ic Bi- 

 bles and Testaments sent to Java, a very 

 considerable number have been sold and 

 some of the merchants and Sheiks are 

 described, as sittin;;; in company whole 

 nights together, rca(liug them with the 

 greatest eagerness and attention. The 

 ilissionaries at Eimeo, in the South 

 Seas, under the patronage of the London 

 Missionary Society, have translated the 

 Gospel of St. Luke into the Taheitan 

 hinguage. The general statement of 

 the copies of the Scriptures, issued froai 

 March 31. 1815, to March 31, 1816, is— 

 J38,168 Bibles— 110,068 Testaments; 

 making the total issued, from the coiii- 

 menceinent of the Institution to the last 

 mentioned period, 654,427 Bibles — 

 828,546 Testaments; in all, 1,482,973 

 copies, exclusive of about 75,.500 copies 

 circulated at the charge of tlic Society, 

 from depositories abroad ; making a total 

 of one million, five hundred and fifty- 

 aeven thousand, nine hundred, and se- 

 ventj-three copies, already circulated by 

 the British and Foreign Bible Society ! 



It is a fact important to the general 

 introduction of Gas IjIgiits, tliat the 

 wncll which sometimes arises from their 

 use is not owing to the coiiibnsljon, but 

 to some imperfection in the apparatus 

 and pipes, which allow part of the gas 

 to escape otherwise than at the orifice of 

 «ombustioii. Whenever such smell 

 •rises, if a jiicce of lighted paper be car- 

 tied along tlic pipes, it will set on fire 

 the escaping gas, and disco\er the place 

 of imperfection. Nearly half London 

 will be illuminated by gas this winter, 

 and the other half as .soon as pijies can 

 be laid down. About ten country towns 

 are completely illunihiated in this way, 

 and companies are forme<l, and arraugc- 

 mentK making, for wholly illuminating 

 about sixty more. IJuring tlie Loid 

 Mayor's dinner in Guildhall, on the 9th 

 of Nov. 20(X) gas lights spreail the white 

 light of day, and the genial warmth of a 

 July sun, without smell or eflluvia of any 

 kind. 



Lord Elgin's marbles aic arranging 

 in the new room at the British Mubeuai, 



Monthly Mao. >io. 2^1, 



and, with those from Phygalia, will b« 

 open to public inspection in a few days; 

 The suite of rooms, including the 

 Townlcy collection, (he Egyptian anti- 

 quities, the Elgin collection, and the 

 Phygalian, will then be the richest in 

 ancient sculptures in the world, and 

 form a prniid attraction of the metro- 

 polis, which may be visited, free of cost, 

 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 

 during nine months of tlic year. 



Sir James Mackintosh's History 

 of Great Britain, from the epoch of the 

 English to tJiat of tiic French Revolu- 

 tions, is, we are assured, in considerable 

 progress, and will not exceed foin- vo- 

 lumes in quarto. We are glad to ob- 

 serve that he acknowledges the receipt 

 of many valuable documents ; and we 

 hope every aid will be aflbrdcd to en- 

 able him to render a work perfect in 

 point of materials, which, in point of 

 principle, will, we are confident, be wor- 

 thy of national favour. 



Travels from Vienna through Lower 

 Hungary, by Richard Bright, M.D. 

 are printing in one volume quarto, with 

 engravings. 



An Historical Account of the Disco- 

 veries and Travels in Africa, by the late 

 John Leyden, M.D. enlarged and con- 

 tinued, together with a view of the pre- 

 sent state of tliat Continent, are an- 

 nounced by Hugh Murray, esq. 

 Mr. Walter Scott, whose literary 

 productions in verse fill eleven large vo- 

 lumes (over and above his ill-omcncd 

 Waterloo), and whose original or anno<- 

 tatcd prose work.'i exceed fifty volumes, 

 surprises his friends by announcing a 

 new History of Scotland, from thecarliest 

 records to the year 1745, in throe vo- 

 lumes octavo. While Mr. Scott write* 

 so well as he often has written, and 

 while he does not lend his powerful ta^ 

 lents to flatter the mischievous prejudices 

 of weak princes, we think his works can- 

 not be too extensive or various. 



Proposals are in circulation for pnli- 

 lishing by subscription, in two vohnncs 

 octavo. Familiar Lectures on Moral 

 Philosophy, dedicated to the gentlemen 

 who have been his pupils, liy Joi;N 

 Prior Kstlin, LL.D. comprising — > 

 Moral Philosoiihy ; Personal Morality ; 

 Social Morality; the Brilisli (.onstitu- 

 tion ; Divine Morality; Public Worship; 

 Religious Establishmciils ; Ike. Sec. 



Dr. Kentish is prcjiaring a new and 

 enlarged edition of his valuable Treatise 

 on Scalds a^id Jiurns. 



Mr. L. Evans, of the Royal Military 



Acadcinv, AN'oolwich, has favoured us 



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