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in seund, but of different spelling and 
signification, with which are classed, 
such as have any similarity of sound. 
€. Words that vary ‘in pronunciation and 
- meaning, as accentuated or connected, 
8. The changes in sound and sense pro- 
duced by the addition of the letter e. 
The shades of difference being pointed 
out and noted as in Mr. Walker’s dic- 
tionary. The utility ef such a work in 
preventing errors in speaking and writing, 
is sufficiently evident. 
Mr. Avexanper Watxer, lecturer 
on physiology, &c. bas issued a prospec- 
tus of a new quarterly work, to be called 
the Archives of Universal Science. Of 
Mr. Walker’s qualifications there can be 
no doubt. The grand object of his work 
will be, by giving in detail all these sub- 
jects which other Journals embrace, aud 
by involving also all those other subjects 
of science which they do not embrace; to 
exhibit, either in valuable original com- 
munications, or in critical analyses of 
every work containing new and impor- 
tant observations, the progress which all 
ithe sciences and arts are every day 
Making throughout the world; and fur- 
ther, also, by assigning, to each disco- 
very, its place ina natural arrangement, 
to appreciate its value, and point out its 
influence upon the sciences, and its ap- 
plication to the arts. 
Some time in January, Dr. Rerp will 
resume his Lectures on the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine; in which course 
» the diseases of the mind,and those of the 
body which are more immediately under 
mental influence, will .be especially cou- 
sidered. 
Mr. Stace is proceeding with his ovi- 
ginal Anecdotes of Cromwell, which wall 
contain mauy curious and important par- 
ticulars. 
Mrs. Grant, author of Letters from 
the Mountains, is preparing for the press 
Memoirs of Mrs. Cuyler. 
A translation of Boursorne’s Tableau 
de UV Espagne Moderne, from the last 
Paris edition, will speedily be published 
in three volumes, Svo. with aquarto atlas 
_ of plates. 
Proposals have been issued for pub- 
lishing by subscription in one velume 
quarto, a History of the Horse, by the 
. author of “ Rural Sports;” containing 
directions relative to the breeding, rear- 
ing, training, &c. the race-horse, the 
hunter, the hackney, the carriage, aud 
the cart-horse, for the different purposes 
_ wf the turf, the ficld and the road ; inter- 
Literary and Philosophical Inteiligence. 
36% 
spersed with anecdotes appertaining to 
each class: comprising also an account 
of the most improved methods of treating 
those disorders, to which the horse is by 
nature liable, as well as those originating 
from too indulgent, or too careless ma- 
nagement, 
A new Novel, the scene of which is 
laid in Greece, will shortly appear from 
the pen of Miss OwENson. 
The author of the Age of Frivolity, has 
in the press a small volume of Poems, 
consisting of Sonnets, Tales, and charac- 
teristic pieces. 
Mr. Georce Atxkrins has published a 
description of an improved hydrometer 
of hiscontrivance. ,It consists of a bulb, 
a small stein, with a cup on tis top to 
receive weights, anda shank beneath the 
bulb with a pointed screw, to which is af 
fixed a cup to receive weights. or solids, 
when their specific graviuies are to be 
taken. The instrument is accompanied 
with an accurate set of grain-weights, 
The weight of the hydrometer itself >is 
seven hundred grains, and on adding 
three hundred grains in the upper cup, 
and immersing itin distitled water, at the 
temperature of 60° Pahr. it will subside 
to the middle mark on the stem, and will 
then consequently displace one thousand 
grains of water. It follows, therefore, 
from this adjustment of the bulk of the 
instrument, that each graip in the apper 
cup will represent orie-thousandth part 
of the specific gravity of the water, or one 
unit in specific gravity, if that of water 
hetaken atone thousand; and ane tenth 
of a gram one tenth of unit, which is also 
the value of each of the smail divisions 
onthe stem; and accordingly when the 
hydrometer i3s immersed in any liquid 
until it sinks to the middle point on the 
stem, the snecific gravity of such fluid ~ 
will be indicated by the sum of the weight 
of the instrument, and the grains added 
in the upper cup. To accommodate it 
to the use of those who are concerned 
with spirituous liguors and of brewers, 
the inventor attaches a scale shewing the 
relation hetween specific giavities, and 
the commercial or techuical denomina- 
tion of per centage with the former, and 
pounds per barre! with the latter, 
FRANCE. 
A general meeting of the Society for 
the Encouragement of national {ndustry, 
at which M. Chaptal presided, was held 
on the 24th of August, for the purpose 
of: adjudging the prizes offered for the 
present year, and determining the sub- 
jects 
