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Dr. Reeder announces a practical 

 Treatise on Diseases of the Heart. 



The fifth volume of The Personal 

 Narrative of M. de Humboldt's Travels 

 to the Equinoctial Regions of the New 

 Continent ; during the years 1799-1804, 

 translated by Helen Maria Williams, 

 under the immediate inspection of the 

 Author. 



A Continuation of Professor Tytler's 

 Elements of General History, from the 

 Deaths of Queen Anne and Lewis XIV., 

 to the present time, is preparing, by li, 

 Nares. D.D. Regius Professor of Mo- 

 dern History in the University of Ox- 

 ford. 



In the press Correlative Claims and 

 Ditties ; or, an Essay on the Necessity 

 of a Church Establishment, and tiie 

 means of exciting among its members 

 a spirit of devotion, to which " The 

 Society for promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge and Cliurch Union in the Diocese 

 of St. David's" adjudged a premium 

 of £50 iu Dec. 1S2I>, by the Rev. 

 Samuel Charles WiLKS, A.M. 



The first part will appear in May of 

 the History and Antiquities of the 

 Tower of London, wi(h l)i(.Erraphical 

 anecdotes of royal and dis(iiii;uished 

 persons, by John Baylkv, l.xj. I'.S.A. 

 of the Honourable Society of ihe Inner 

 Temple, and his Majesty's Record 

 Office in the Tower. It will be illus- 

 trated with numerous Engravings by 

 artists of the first eminence, and be 

 comprised in two parts; the first of 

 which will be published early in the 

 month of May, and the other in the 

 course of the present year. 



An Elementary Treatise, will soon 

 appear, on the Theory of Equations of 

 the Higher Orders; and on the Sum- 

 mation and Reversion of Algebraic 

 Series, by the Rev. B. Bridge. 



A Reply to the " End of Religious 

 Controversy," by the Rev. J. Mil- 

 ner, D.D. Bishop of Castabala, will 

 soon appear from the pen of the Rev. 

 Richard Grier, A.M. 



A Second Edition, revised, conected 

 and enlarged, in four large volumes, 

 8vo. illustrated with maps and nu- 

 merous fac-similes of Biblical Manu- 

 scripts, is in the press, of the Introduc- 

 tion to the Critical Study and Know- 

 ledge of the Holy Scriptures, by 

 Thomas Hartwell Horne, M.A. 



Observations are printing on some of 

 the General Principles, and on the par- 

 ticular Nature and Treatment of the 

 different Species of Inflammation, by 

 J. H. James, Surgeon to the Devon 

 aad Bxeter hospital. &c. &c. 



[April I, 



An Essay on Resuscitation, with a 

 representation and description of an 

 improved apparatus ; by T.J, Armi- 

 ItER, is preparing for publication. 



Early in April will appear a Ro- 

 mance, entitled, A Tale of the Olden 

 Time, by a Harrow Boy. 



Speedily will be published, hand- 

 somely printed, a new edition of Chefs- 

 D'QDuvre of French Literature, con- 

 sisting of interesting extracts from the 

 classic French Writers, in prose and 

 verse; with biographical and critical 

 remarks. 



A Treatise on Acupuncturation, is in 

 the press, being a description of a Sur- 

 gical Operation, originally peculiar to 

 the Japanese and Chinese, and by (hem 

 denominated Zin Iling, and now in- 

 troduced into European practice, with 

 cases illustrating the success of the 

 operation, by Mr. Jamf.S Morss 

 Chtrchill. 



A volume of original Poetry will 

 speedily appear in a handsome form, 

 comprising, Ismael ; or, the Arab, 

 Sketches of Scenery, foreign and do- 

 mestic, with other Poems, by the au- 

 thor of the Novel of Lochiel ; or, the 

 Field of Culloden. 



It is proposed to publish by subscrip- 

 tion, the Royal Exile; or. Poetical 

 Epistles, supposed to be written by 

 Mary Queen of Scots, during the early 

 jiart of her captivity in England, to 

 which will be added, other Original 

 Poems: by a Young Lady. 



Mr. Wilson, Teacher of Dancing, 

 (from the King's Theatre) will publish 

 in a few days an Essay on Deportment, 

 chiefly relating to the person in Danc- 

 ing. 



The Universal Cambist will be 

 republished in the course of the ensu- 

 ing month, and will contain, among 

 other improvements, the results of a 

 plan for determining the relative con- 

 tents of the weights and measures of all 

 trading nations, from an actual com- 

 parison of their several standards. This 

 important operation has been effected 

 under the immediate sanction and 

 through the aid of the British govern- 

 ment, by whose orders their consuls 

 abroad have sent home the several 

 foreign standards duly verified, which 

 standards have been since compared 

 with those of England and His Ma- 

 jesty's Mint. The work will also in- 

 clude whatever alterations may ha^e 

 recently taken place in the monetaiy 

 systems, financial plans, and banking 

 ojwrations of the different states of 

 Europe. 



Dr. 



