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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



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Sinai: viz. 1. A Journey from Aleppo 

 to Damascus ; 2. A Tour in the Dis- 

 trict of Moimt Lil>a}ms and Antiliba- 

 nus ; 3. A Tour in the Hauran ; 4. A 

 Second Tour in the Hauran ; 5. A 

 Journey from Damascus, through Ara- 

 bia-Petrsea, and the Desert El Ty, to 

 Cairo ; 6. A Tour in the Peninsula of 

 Sinai, may speedily be expected ; by 

 the late John Lewis Burckhardt. 



The works of John Phiyfair, F.R.S. 

 L. & E. late Professor of Natural Phi- 

 losophy in the University of Edin- 

 burgh ; with an account of the Author's 

 life, are announced, in 4 vols. 8yo. 



In accordance witli the suggestions 

 and plans jiublished at different times 

 in this Miscellany, some public spirited 

 persons have announced an arrange- 

 ment for the erection of a splendid 

 monument in honour of Shakspeare at 

 Stratford upon Avon. We regret, how- 

 ever, that no notice is tivken of our 

 plan for relieving the collateral branches 

 of that great man's family, now in dis- 

 tress and indigence ; and although we 

 desire to see tiie former part of our 

 design carried into execution, yet we 

 earnestly entreat, that no liberal per- 

 son will on any pretence whatever, con- 

 tribute towards the erection of a monu- 

 ment, provided the projectors do not 

 include the proposed and expected as- 

 sistance to the Shakspeare fiimily. We 

 would rather there should be no addi- 

 tional monument than that this im- 

 perious duty should, through any in- 

 trigue, be basely neglected. 



The Works of John Home, Esq. 

 author of " Douglas, a Tragedy," &c. 

 with an Account of his Life and Writ- 

 ings, hy Henry Mackenzie, Esq. 

 F.R.S.E. in 3 vols. 8to. will speedily 

 appear. 



Letters of Mary Lefel, Lady Hervey, 

 with illustrative notes, are printing. 



The Substance of the Lectures on the 

 Ancient Greeks, and on the Revival of 

 Greek Learning in Europe, delivered 

 in the University of Edinburgh, by the 

 late Andrew DAiiZELL, Professor of 

 Greek, A.M. F.R.S.E. will soon be 

 published by John Dalzell, Esq. Ad- 

 vocate. 



A translation is preparing of a Narra- 

 tive of a Voyage round the World in 

 the Russian Ship Ruric, undertaken 

 with a view to the Discovery of a North 

 East Passage between the Pacific and 

 Atlantic oceans, by OiTO Von Kot- 



ZEnUK. 



Dr. John Mason Good is engaged 

 iu a work on the Study of Medicine, 

 comprising its Physiology, Pathology, 

 oud Practice. 



A Biographical Work of 3000 Liv- 

 ing Public Men of all countries, is 

 printing with all speed, and will be em- 

 bellished with nearly 300 engraved por- 

 traits from the most approved likeness- 

 es. It will correspond in size with 

 Debrett's Peerage. 



In a few daj's will appear the Visiou 

 of Judgment, a Poem, by Robert 

 SouTHEY, esq. 



Dr. Granville announces Memoirs 

 on the Present State of Science and 

 Scientific Institutions in France, con- 

 taining a descriptive and historical ac- 

 count of the Royal Garden of Plants ; 

 the Royal Institute; the Polytechnic 

 School ; the Faculty of Sciences ; the 

 College of France ; and the Cabinet of 

 Mineralogy ; tiie public libraries ; the 

 Medical School ; and the hospitals. 

 Interspersed with anecdotes and bio- 

 gr.aphical sketches of all the eminent 

 characters who have appeared in France 

 during and since the revolution, iu the 

 various departments of science. 



The Quarterly Magazine and Jour- 

 nal of Literature and Science, will ap- 

 pear early in April, with peculiar 

 attractions of Literature and Art. 



The Journal is printing of a Horti- 

 cultural Tour in the Netherlands and 

 North of France, in the Autumn of 

 1817, by P. Neill, J. Hay, and James 

 Macdonald, a Deputation of the Ca- 

 ledonial Horticultural Society. 



The Bookseller to the Admiralty 

 announces the publication of Capt. 

 Parry's late Voyage of Discovery in ^ 

 the North American Seas. It is by 

 culpable ignorance called a Voyage to 

 the North Pole and in the Polar Sea, 

 than which nothing can be more absurd 

 and empirical. In eveiy season scores 

 of Greenland ships go nearer the pole 

 than these ships, which wintered in 

 latitude 74, i. e. in the latitude of 

 Nova Zembla, and south of Spitzber- 

 gen. The voyage ought to be pub- 

 lished, but independent of the false 

 assumptioHsof advertisements, it must 

 be a dull nautical journal ; for the na- 

 vigators did not see a single human 

 creature, and made few discoveries be- 

 yond what was ascertained in 1570, by 

 ftlaldonado, and published by Buachi in 

 the Transactions of the French Aca- 

 demy in 1721. The assumptions, about 

 the Magnetic Pole are still more ridi- 

 culous and unfomided than those about 

 the Polar Sea and North Pole. The 

 notion of a magnetic pole is a puerile 

 andvisionary theory, and will in due 

 time be found just as real as the famous 

 Cro/cer mountains, so distinctly seen I>y 

 Capt. Ross. 



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