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publidier, Mr. Miller of Albemarle-ftreet, 

 has pledged hiiiil'cli' that the Itricteft at- 

 tention iliall be paid to the delivery of 

 the iiuiubri's in the exatt ordci- in wluch 

 they are fubfcribed for. The lettcr-prefs 

 will I)e ill the Englifh and French lan- 

 guages. 



Dr. Mavoe is preparing far the prefs 

 -a new and much enlarged edition, being 

 the tliird, of the Britijii Tourilts, includ- 

 ing the moll celebrated recent tours in 

 tiie Britilh illands. This popular and 

 uliiful work is already confidereti as the 

 •vade mtcum of home tra\ellers ; and, 

 from the improvements wliich it is about 

 to recene, \vill have frcih claims on the 

 public patronapc. 



The fame author has juft completed, 

 at prefj, a new and improved edition of 

 IfoLMEs's Rhetoric, vvhich has long been 

 out of p int ; and wiucli to the prelent 

 moment, as a practical work for the ufe 

 of Brifiih youth, has notliiiig that can be 

 put in conipctiticjn with it. 



Mr. M. ilAfGHTON'.s ierics of engrav- 

 ings from Milton, SinJiefpeare, and 

 J3ar.te, after paintings by Mr. Fufeli, is 

 forwarding as expeditioully as the nat:uc 

 or the work will admit. Five from Mil- 

 ton are already publilhcd, and the large 

 plate of the V'ilion of the Lazarhoufe is 

 jn hand. Mr. Haughton is diltinguilked 

 tor coirefitnefs of outline, and the mode 

 •of executing the flefliy parts of the figures 

 is wholly original. 



A new edition of Dr. Valpy's Greek 

 Grammar, with corrections and confider- 

 able iniprovet;ients, will be Cent to prefs 

 Xowards the clofe of this year. 



Country gentlemen will be intcrefted 

 m an architectural work, on farin-huufes, 

 farm-yards, dog-kennels, itabies, cot- 

 tages, (5cc., /liew:ngat large the confiruc- 

 tion of differeat farm-buildings, cottages, 

 Arc. by Mr. I.i'gar, which will be pub-r 

 lillled in a few days. 



A collection of the bed plans, with 

 elevations and lections of green-houfes, 

 hot-houfes, peach-houfes, &c. eretted 

 hy Mr. 'J'ou, hot-iioul'e builder, for vari- 

 ous noblemen and gentlemen, will be 

 ready for publication in (Jctober. 



Dr. JoxEs, nialfer of the Kentifli Town 

 ncademy, propofes to |)uljlilh by fubfcrip- 

 tion a felect number of tlie molt admired 

 Orations of C'iccr<j, tranfiated into Eiig- 

 Jiili fiom the beft J-atin editions. 



Mr. CuTiiEEuio.v, of Poland-fireet, 

 has in the prefs a work on Practical 

 Electricity and (/alvaiiifni, being a tran- 

 fiation of the inoft intwolUng expcri- 

 intnts, coiilaiiitd in a treutile publilhed 



AlOMTiiLY Mag. Mo. 148. 



by him during his late refidcnce in Hol- 

 land, with the addition of all fuch as 

 have iince been invented by hiwfclf and 

 others. 



Mr. Robert Hamilton, teacher of 

 elocution in the colleges of Old and New 

 Aberdeen, has ready for the pvels a va- 

 luable and iifeful colleftion, for the im- 

 provement of youth in the pronunciation 

 and delivery of the Englilh language, en- 

 titled. Elements of Jmo(. utiou ; or an 

 Introduction to Pronunciation and Read- 

 ing. 



Mr. Raxme has in the prefs a volume 

 of plays and poems, which will be pub- 

 lilhed ill the couri'e of a month. He has 

 alio in jireparation a third edition of his 

 firft volume of poems, with additions. 



Mr. Lawrence, the vetciinary wi-iter, 

 in a late letter to the Medical Journal, 

 has propofed the following plan for the 

 extinction of the fmall pox in the riling 

 generation, and the confequeul total era- 

 dication of variolous infeCtiou. He thinks 

 it poifible, conlidering the vail and rapid 

 fuccefs which has attended the cow-poX 

 inoculation, in no great length of time t<f 

 induce a liubit, in all civilized nations, 

 of inoculating with cow-pox, as well us 

 baptizing or naming their infants. Tin; 

 execution of the plan to be committet! 

 to the miiiiltcrs of all religions, who a!, 

 naming a child are, as a branch of theii' 

 duty, likewifo to ufe ail their intluenc<' 

 with the parents, to induce them to havf: 

 it vaccinated while at the breafl ; enibrc- 

 iug their folicitations with the moll con- 

 vincing arguments in their power, of tin; 

 unfpeakable importance of the meafmii 

 to the fafety and well-being of individu- 

 als and of mankind at large. A printed 

 paper to the faaie effect, proving from 

 facts the fafety, erticacy, and mildnefs of 

 the cov.-pox, as a preventive of fiiiali 

 pox, to be delivered to the atCv:ndant= of 

 the child. 



Dr. Reid's introductory lecture, on riif- 

 theory and practice of medicine, v> ill W-. 

 delivered on thel'oth of this month (Oc- 

 tober), at eight o'clock in the eveniiii;;, a';. 

 his hoiife, Ivio. C, Grenville-drcet, Bnuif- 

 wick-i'ijujwe, where the courfe will be: 

 continued at ten o'clock in the morninj; 

 prccifely, on Mondays, Wcdnefdoys, rani 

 Fridays. 



Mr. D. Gardner will deliver the iii- 

 trodiutory lecture to his autumnal courfu 

 of lectures on chemiftry, on Monilav 

 evening, the 6th of October, at the Paul'i 

 Head I'avern, No. 7, Catcaton-ftrcet. 



Mr. Uo;iF,s's !e'.:iuies on the pi'inci[)al 



Opcrutioii^ of fnrgci'j', givcHi gratuitouily 



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