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Speedily will be published, The last 

 (lays of HeiculaTieum, and Abradates 

 and Panthea,by Edwin Atherstone, 

 esq. in foolscap 8vo. 



Shortly will be published, A Disser- 

 tation shewing the identity of the 

 Rivers Niger and Nile ; chiefly from 

 the authority of the ancients, by John 

 Dudley, M.A. 



Mr. DUNKIN, of Bromley, is printing 

 in 4to, (50 copies only) of the history 

 and antiquities of several parishes in 

 the Hundreds of Bullington, Plough- 

 ley, &c. in Oxfordshire, illustrated 

 by numerous engravings of churches, 

 crosses and ancient edifices, compiled 

 from original documents in (he several 

 parish archives, the public depositories 

 in London and Oxford, as well as those 

 in the possession of Sir Gregory Os- 

 borne Page Turner, Bart, and other 

 private collectors. 



A Histoiy of the Quakers, is prepar- 

 ing by Mr. SOUTHEY. 



A History of the Modes of Belief, 

 usually termed the Superstition of the 

 Middle Ages, with curious plates, will 

 soon be published. 



It is said to be ascertained that the 

 Niger empties itself into the Atlantic 

 Ocean, a few degrees to the northward 

 of the equator. This important fact 

 is confirmed by the arrival of Rlr. Du- 

 puis from Africa, This gentleman was 

 appointed Consul from this country at 

 Ashantee (where Mr, Bowdich resided 

 for some time). He is acquainted with 

 the Arabic and IMoorish languages, and 

 got his intelligence by conversing with 

 aifterent traders with whom he fell in at 

 Ashantee. He thought it so important 

 as to warrant his voyage home to com- 

 municate to government what he had 

 learnt. 



Dr.CARTWRiGHT in announcing the 

 invention of the Pedo-Motive machine, 

 observed that he should not despair of 

 seeing in a few years, carriages of every 

 description travelling the public roads 

 without the aid of horses. His ex- 

 pectation has been already in some de- 

 gree realized. A traveller on the road 

 between Tunbridge and Hastings, 

 lately met a cart loaded with coals, 

 travelling without horses, impelled by 

 an apparatus managed by two men, 

 which had been inveuted by Dr. C. Its 

 pace was uniform, and varied vny 

 little whether it was on level ground 

 or going up hill, ])iovided (he carriage 

 was not overloaded. On coming to de- 

 scend a hill, instead of locking the 

 wheel, considering how heavily the 



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carriage was loaded, it was suH'ered to 

 run down with unrestrained velocity, 

 much fas(er than any prudent man 

 would have ventured in a gig. The 

 same vehicle has since brought a load 

 of vegetables toCovent Garden Market. 

 After what was effecte.l by Mr. Birch, 

 it seems disgraceful that more has not 

 been done in this way. 



The Rev. Thos. Boys, A.M, of 

 Trinity College Cambridge, has a vo- 

 lume of Sermons in the press. 



A novel entitled. The Sisters, in 4 

 vols, 8vo. may soon be expected. 



Another number of Mr, Pugin's 

 " Specimens of Gothic Architecture, 

 selected from various ancient Edifices 

 in England," will complete the work, 

 and will consist of sixty engravings 

 in outline, of plans, elevations, sections 

 and details at large of the difTerent 

 members and parts of ecclesiastical 

 archKecture, calculated to inform (he 

 antiquary and furnish working draw- 

 ings. 



We are pleased to see that an octavo 

 edition of Mr, Wordsworth's Ex- 

 cursion, which will now bs accessible (o 

 philosophical .and conlemplative read- 

 ers, and which should have assumed this 

 less bulky sliape befoie. Perhaps the 

 admirers of fine poetry will not feel 

 equally interested in it, as we think 

 impartial critics must allow, that the 

 poem is rather distinguished for sen- 

 timents of pure and elevated philoso- 

 phic feeling, calm and comprehensive 

 reasoning, and '• high tliougiits seated 

 in a heart of courtesy," than for the 

 genuine and fervid language of the 

 muse : — 

 " Tiie thoughts that breathe and words that 



burn," 

 in Byron and in Moore, proceeding at 

 once from tlie heart to the heart, and 

 impressing themselves in our memory 

 even without an efibrt. As an ennobling 

 and philosophic treatise, however, we 

 always turn to the " Excursion," with 

 pleasure, 



Mr. Cooper has issued proposals for 

 publishing by subscription, on the plan 

 of Gardner's Sacred Melodies, " A 

 New Ciioral Book," for the use of the 

 established church ; containing a selec- 

 tion of compositions for that service, 

 by the most celebrated German com- 

 posers of (lie last four hundred years, 

 enriched by a number of choice; melo- 

 dies by the best English inaslers of the 

 last century. Among (he former will 

 be found, near forty tunes by the cele- 

 brated Martin Luther, not hitherto 

 published in this country. 



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