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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 



Jnclnding Notices of IVorks in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 



NEW Poetical works are expected 

 with some anxiety from Lord 

 Byron, Mr. Southey, Miss Baillie, 

 and Clare, the Northamptonshire 

 j>easaut. The whole are promised in 

 March, which will therefore be a busy 

 month among the lovers of the muses. 



It is in contemplation to establish in 

 Birmingham an Institute for the '^cul- 

 tivation of the Fine Arts ; in the first 

 instance paiticiilarly Avith a view to 

 improve the taste of the manufacturers 

 as to design. They imitate with great 

 ability and accuracy, in some instances 

 too successfully, in the instances of 

 Bank, and bankers' notes, and the 

 current coin of the kingdom, and it is 

 said that our cotton printers borrow 

 some of their most approved designs 

 from the chintz patterns of the Swiss, 

 and in brass-foundry, toys, trinkets, 

 and articles of fashionable use, the 

 French, and even the Germans, whose 

 taste is more sought after than ours. 

 Now if we were to exhibit designs to 

 our artists from the draAvings, paint- 

 ings, designs, models, and casts in the 

 correct antique taste, their truly clas- 

 sical forms would soon obliterate the 

 affected and fantastic forms now pre- 

 ferred, and we should excel in design as 

 well as in execution. Sir Robert Lau- 

 ley has generously offered to present 

 one hundred casts of the most ap- 

 proved statues, groups, figures, and 

 designs to the institute. Lord Beau- 

 champ, the members for the county. Sir 

 Charles Mordaunt Dugdale,S. Dugdale, 

 Esq. and Francis Lautey, Esq. Heneage 

 Legge, Esq. In Birmingham, M. R. 

 Boulter, Esq. S. Galton, S. Testius. 

 Galton, Hubert B. Galton, Sam. Ry- 

 land, and Mark Sandon, Esq. O. James 

 Taylor, Esq. have already subscril)ed 

 i'lOO each. 



Watkins's Biographical Dic- 

 tionary, which has been long out 

 of print, and has in consequence 

 risen to a high price, is nearly finished 

 and will appear at the hitter end of 

 March. It has hi-en almost entirely 

 re-written, .ind will contain nearly a 

 thousand new articles. 



The new edition of CAPPER'S DIC- 

 TIONARY will be deferred till the new 

 returns of the pojjulation of Gi'eat 

 liritain and Ireland have been made 

 "p, which will not be done till the lat- 

 ter end of the year. 



Proposals have been circidated for 

 publishing Forty Correct Views from 

 Nature of remarkable places, taken ou 

 a tour chiefly in Italy, by G. Cum- 

 berland, Senior, in two numl)ers. 

 Twenty, being the first number, are 

 now nearly ready for delivery, and 

 only one hundred impressions have 

 been allowed to be printed. The price 

 of each number will be one guinea ; and 

 a letter-press description of each scene 

 will be given with the second number 

 to the subscribers, who are expected to 

 pay for the first number on subscribing. 

 Our tasteful readers will regret to learn 

 that the number of subscribers is nearly 

 completed. 



The Rev. G. Townshbnd will soon 

 publish an edition of the Old Testa- 

 ment, arranged on the basis of Light- 

 foot's Chronicle, in historical and chro- 

 nological order, so as to be read as one 

 connected history, with six indexes. 



Memoirs of the Life and Writings of 

 the Rt. Rev. Brian Walton, D. D. 

 Bishop of Chester, editor of the London 

 Polygloft Bible. By the Rev. Henry 

 John Todd, M.A. F.S.A. will be 

 speedily published. 



Mr. J. H. WiFFEN has in the press 

 The Fourth Book of Tasso's Jerusalem 

 Delivered ; being the specimen of an in- 

 tended New Translation into English 

 Spenseri<'mverse,wit ha prefatory disser- 

 tation on existing translations. Dedi- 

 cated by permission to the Duchess of 

 Bedford. 



The British Gallery of Pictures being 

 now completed in both series, the sub- 

 scribers have been apprized that the 

 imdelivered Numbers cannot be le- 

 tained longer than the 31st of March, 

 the whole of the remaining stock will 

 be converted - into prizes for Tomkins's 

 Picture Lottery, which by act of par- 

 liament must be drawn before the end 

 of July. 



The Union of the Roses, a T:ilo of 

 the fifteenth ceutuiy, in six cantos, is 

 in the press. 



Observations on the climate of Pen- 

 zance, and the district of the Land's 

 End, inCoi-nwall, by John Forbes, 

 M. D. will speedily be published. 



A Biographical Work of 3000 living 

 Public Men of all countries in I82I, 

 with nearly 200 engraved portraits, is 

 printing in a size coricsponding with 

 Debrett's Peerf^e. 



A Practical 



