542 Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



Popular Poelry will be pubiislicd in the 



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course ol" the month, in t«(i volumes, of 

 the size as Retson's " Ancient Popular 

 Poetry ;" and, we nnderstand, the im- 

 pression is limited to two hundred and 

 fifty copies. 



ill a very few days wil! be publislied, 

 an Account of the Island of Jer.'ipy, con- 

 taiuinff a compendi'.nn of its ecclesiasti-' 

 eal, civil, and military, histor), by W. 

 Plues, many years resident in the island. 

 It will contain four elegant engravhigs, 

 by George Cooke, and a map. 



A Historical and Descriptive View 

 of the Parishes of Moiikwcannouth and 

 Blshopw earmoutl), and the Port and 

 Borough of Sunderland, are preparing 

 for publication, comprising a historical 

 account of their origin and present state. 



A new edition ot the Greek Septua- 

 gint, is printing in a large octavo. The 

 text is taken I'rom the Oxford edition 

 of IJos, without contraelious, 



A new cdilion is also printing of ITo- 

 Ther's Iliad, from the text of Heyiie ; 

 >vith English nolcs, including many 

 fiom Heyne and Clark. 



A work will speedily appear, under 

 the title of, j\c:idemie Errors, or Re- 

 colkolions of Youth. 



An eiUiion of Catullus, with English 

 notes, is preparing by T. PoRsTEn, 

 •sq. jun. 



Tiie second Nundicr of Stephen's 

 Greek Thesaurus, which has been de- 

 layed on accnuut of an arraugement to 

 pVocure Froicssor Schacfei's manu- 

 scripts, will appear in January. 



A Novel, called Ponsouby, M'hich 

 lias been delajed, will appear in the 

 ensuing month. 



tiliortly will be publislied, a work of 

 fancy, entitled, Hali-a-Dozen Day- 

 Dreams; intended to illustrate the con- 

 nection of imagination with character. 



A Catalogue is circulated of many 

 thousand Original Letters, which arc 

 offered to sale by the persons to whom 

 the late Lady Hamilton improvidently 

 confided them as maferi((1s to assist in 

 compiling a Life of Lord Nelson. They 

 ofi'er a lii'h treat to tliosc wlio delight hi 

 private history ami personal slander. 



Table of the increase of persons con- 

 victed of crimes in England and Wales 

 tfritliin the last ten years : — 



RUSSIA. 



Before the year ISII the Constitution 

 of Russia was an nbd-olute Autocracy ; 

 but at that period the Emperor Alex- 

 ander declared that it sliould be in fu- 

 ture a constitutional monarchy ; and that 

 the will of the sovereign should be regu- 

 lated by a code of laws. — The govern- 

 ment is eompo.sed of, \. The Senate of 

 the Empire, which in 1811 Mas com- 

 posed of thirty-lhe members j 2. of the 

 Directing Senate, as the supeiior au- 

 thority ; .3. of the Holy Directing Se- 

 nate; and, 4. of the High Ministers. — 

 The revenues of the state in 1811 were 

 21.5,000,000 rubles. The expenses were 

 the same year 274,000,000. The nr.<ny 

 ill 1810 was 621,155 men; of viiieli 

 110,000 were irregular troops. The 

 navy in 1803 comprised 26U sail of dif- 

 ferent sizes, carrying 4348 guns; 32,048 

 sailors; 8,268 marines; aiul 4,000 gun- 

 ners. The established religion is the 

 Greek, which reckons four metropolitan 

 churches ; eleven archbishoprics ; nine- 

 teen bishoprics; 26,747 churches, and 

 a great number of convents. — In 1811 

 there were estimated of the following i)er- 

 suasions 3,500,000 Catholics; 1,400,000 

 liiitherans; 3,800 Reformed Protestants; 

 9,000 of ths Uiiitas Fratruin, oi- Mora- 

 vians, 5,000 Memnonites; 60,000 Arme- 

 nians ; 3,000,000 Mahometans ; 300,000 

 worshippers of the Dalai Lama; 600,000 

 adorers of Fetiches, or idols, &c. &c. 



GERM.ANY. 



The Catalogue of the Easter Fair, at 

 Leipsic, contained upwards of 1700 new 

 works, and 800 translations, works ia 

 continuation, and improved editions. 



FR.VNCE. 



■\Ve learn that the famous Magnzin 

 Enci/clopedifjue will be resumed on the 

 1st of March, 1817, under a new title, 

 and it will be published in volumes 

 every two months, and consist of up- 

 wards of twenty sheets, to avoid cen- 

 sorship and stamp-duty. Its learned 

 Editor, M. IVIillin, intends to give 

 plates in it of whatever presents itself 

 as rare or curious in natural history, an- 

 tiquities, S:c. Subscribers' names will 

 be received by all the French bookr 

 sellers in London. 



M. L.\XGLES has terminated the lii-st 

 volume of his grand work on Lulia: he 

 has slightly glanced at the pretensions 

 of Messrs. Danicll. 



The second part of M. INTillin's Tra- 

 vels in Italy, comprising Lombardif, is 

 in the press, and may be expected to 

 appear in two volumes 8vo., like the 

 first part, which contains Savoy^ to Nica 



and 



