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Literary and Philosophical Intdligenee. 



by the Rev. Rohert Morrison, is now 

 in the press at that place. This impor- 

 tnnt work will consist of three parts : — 

 1. Chinese arid English, arranged ac- 

 cording to the -Chinese radicals; 2. Chi- 

 nese and English, arranged alphabcti- 

 callj' ; 3. English and Chinese. It is 

 founded on the basis of the Imperial 

 Dictionary, compiled by order of Kang- 

 he, late emperor of China; in the compi- 

 lation of which twenty-seven persons 

 ■were employed during five years, and 

 the result of their labours was then sub- 

 mitted, to the revision of two others. 

 Mr. Morrison's work adopts, in the first 

 part, the arrangement and number of 

 characters given in the Imperial Dicti- 

 onary, and from tlie same source are de- 

 rived the greater number of definitions 

 and examples. Neither the manuscript 

 dictionaries of the Jesuits, nor the 

 French dictionary printed under the 

 munificent patronage f>f Napoleon Ic 

 Grand, insert the Chinese characters in 

 the examples ; but in the present work 

 this material defect will be supplied ; 

 and specimens will be given of the 

 CImen rvan, or ancient seal character, as 

 also of the Tsan tszc, or running hand. 

 The dictionary will contain about forty 

 thousand characters, and will be com- 

 prised either in four or five volumes, 

 royal quarto. It will be published in 

 ten parts, the first of which has been re- 

 ceived in London ; and the price of the 

 first part is half a guinea. 



Mr. Adam Stack is preparing for 

 publication, by subscription, tlie History 

 of Gainsburgh. with an account of the 

 Roman and Danish antiquities in tiic 

 neighbourhood, accompanied by a 

 map and several engiavings. An histo- 

 rical account of Stow, in the same coun- 

 ty, will be added, with a view to pVove 

 its undoubted claim, in opposition to 

 the opinions of Stukeley, Johnson, 

 Dickinson, and others, to be considered 

 as the Sidnacestcr of the Romans, and 

 the .seat of the Bishops of Lindissi, one 

 of the earliest sees in the English 

 church. 



Mr. Henry Neule's Odes, and otlier 

 Poems, which we announced in a late 

 number, will be publi;!i .'d in the early 

 part of the present month. 



Tiie plates from Mr. Flaxman's de- 

 signs from Hesiod's Tlieogony, A^^orks 

 and Days, and the Days, being comjio- 

 sitions in outlines, are nearly all en- 

 grayed, and may be expccied to be pub- 

 lished soon after Chiistmas. 



A volume of Sermons, on the Offices 

 and Character of Je^ns Christ, are print- 

 ing by the Rev. Thomas Bowdlur. 



[Jan. I, 



l\Ir. Tahart, of the Juvenile Library, 

 Piccadilly, annoiuices a monthly mis- 

 cellany for the use of schools, and for 

 the general purposes of Education, under 

 the title of "Tabarfs School Magazine, 

 or Journal of Education." It is intended 

 to be composed chiefly of modern ma- 

 terials, for the purpose of connectiiig, as 

 nmch as possible, the busuiess of the 

 school-room wilh that of the active 

 world, for which education ought to 

 prepare its subjects. The first number 

 will appear on the Crstof March. 



The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, of Glasgow, 

 is printing a volume of Discourses, in 

 which he combats, at some length, the 

 argument derived from astronomy, 

 against the truth of the Christian Reve- 

 lation ; and, in the | rosecution of his 

 reasoning, he attempts to elucidate the 

 haimony that subsists between the doc- 

 trines of Scripture and the discoveries of 

 modern science. 



In the course of the month may be 

 expected, an octavo volume, comprising, 

 a Tour through Belgium along the 

 Rhine, and through the Norlh of France; 

 in which an account is given of the civil 

 and ecclesiastical polity of the kingdom 

 of the Netherlands, and of the system of 

 education; with remarks on the finearls, 

 commerce, and manufactures; by James 

 Mitchell, M.A. 



T\\o vohnues of Sermons, by the 

 Rev. John IMartin, more than forty 

 A ears the respected pastor of the Bap- 

 tist-CliTirch Meeting in Kcppel-sfrcot, is 

 priiiling- from tlie short-hand notes of 

 iMr. T. Palmer. They Mill be accom- 

 panied with a line poi trait. 



Dr. Eateman's npw Scries of En- 

 gravings, in continuation of tiie late Dr. 

 Willan's Treatise ' on Cutaneous Dis- 

 eases, are in course of publii aiiou. 



In the course of January will be pub- 

 lished, Letters from the North High- 

 lands, addressed fo Miss Jane Porter, 

 by Mr. E. Spence, author of the Cale- 

 donian Sketches, &c. 



Considerable progress is made in tite 

 loprint of Morte d'Arlhur, from the 

 C'axton edition, in the |)Ossession of 

 F.arl S|)cnccr, with an introduction and 

 notes, tending to elucidate the history 

 and bibliography of the work. 



The second volume of the same gen- 

 tleman's History of Brazil may be ex- 

 pected to appear in thcmonthof January. 

 Dr. BURROVVES, of Gower-strect, is 

 preparing for publication, Commenta-» 

 ries on Mental Derangement. 



That accurate meteorologist, Mr, 

 Li'K E Howard, has circulated .some ob- ' 

 servations on the effect of the late Solar 

 EclipsQ 



