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- VARIETIES, Lirsrary anp Partosopnicat. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
* 
. Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
R. POLWHELE, the friend and 
neighbour of the late Mr. Whita- 
ker, is employed in collecting the Corres 
spondence and Papers of that gentleman, 
with a view to the publication of his Me- 
moirs in a quarto volume. 
Mr. Percivat Srockpaur has in the 
ress Memoirs of his own Life and Writ- 
“ings, and they will make their appear- 
ance early in the next year. . They will 
include wany interesting anecdotes of 
the distinguished persons with whom he 
has been connected. The work will also 
abound with social, moral, political, and 
religious, observations, and contain a par- 
~ ticular account of Marseilles, Gibraltar, 
and Algiers, at which places the author 
resided. 
The Rev. Joun Rosrnson, of Raven- 
Stonedale, is engaged upon a new work 
of. considerable interest:—a_ Biblical, 
Theological, and Ecclesiastical, Diction- 
ary. It will contain a list of all the 
names of places mentioned in the Old 
and New Testament, and in the writings 
styled the’ Apocrypha, in their original 
characters and true orthography in Euro- 
an letters, with descriptions, meanings, 
Tx the names of persons, patriarchs, 
prophets, &c, printed in the same man- 
ner, and accompanied by chronological 
and biographical notices; an.account of 
every religious term, including the doc- 
trines, &c. of the sacred books; an ac- 
count of the arts, &c. in the ancient 
von, to which there is any reference or 
-allusion in the Scriptures; of the princi- 
pal events recorded in ecclesiastical his- 
tory, including an account of the diffe- 
rent sects in the primitive and succeed- 
ing ages of the church; of religious ce- 
Temonies, ordinances, institutions, prac- 
tices, customs, &c.; and critical illustra- 
tions of obscure passages in the sacred 
writings. The whole to comprise what- 
éver is known concerning the antiquities 
of the Hebrews, and to form a body of 
scripture history, geography, chronology, 
divinity, and ecclesiastical opjnions. 
The tollowing works are in the press 
at Oxford :—Scholia in Pindari Carmina, 
ex edit. Chr. Gott. Heyne, 8vo.—Scat- 
tergvod’s Sermons, 2 vols. 8y0,—Sopho- 
cles, by Brunck, 2 vols, 32a;0.—Furipi- 
des, 32mo.—schylus, by Schutz, 2 
yols, Syo.—Novum Testamentaw, Grac, 
32m0.—Thucydides Gr. ex. edit. Du- 
kerie, 2 vols. 8vo.—Q. Horatii Flacci 
opera, cum Schohis veteribus castigavit 
et Notis illustravit Gulielmus Baxterus; 
varias Lectiones et Observationes addi- 
dit J, Matthias Gesnerus, quibus et suas 
adspersit J. Carolus Zenniys, Prof. Gr. 
Litt. Vitteberg.—Tacitus de Morib. Ger- 
mania & Vita Agricole are printing at 
- Cambridge, with select notes from Bro~ 
tier, by the Rev, Richard Pelham. 
The first part of Mr. Hewrerr’s new 
Bible will positively appear on the se- 
cond day of the new year. 
On the same day will also appear the 
first part of a new system of Geography, 
drawn from original authorities by Dr. 
SmirH. The introduction will be writ- 
ten by Mr. Pop, and the embellish- 
ments will be under the direction of that 
able artist Mr. Craig. Besides maps and 
other accompaniments, the publishers 
propose to present to their subscribers a 
pair.of Adams’s new nine-inch globes. 
Mr. Botinesroke, author of a Voy= 
age to Demerary, writes from Param 
ribo :— 
‘* I have spent several days at the delight- 
ful cocoa estate Alkmaar, which Stedman 
speaks of as belonging to Mrs. Godefroy, It 
is now possessed by her heirs; that good wo- 
man having departed this life in January 
1799, aged 84. She wasa native of Boston, 
in North America. Joanna is also dead. J 
am told she was not altogether that innocent 
beautiful creature shé is represented to be, 
Stedman on this, as on many occasions, stu- 
died-effect more than truth. I saw several 
negroes who remembered Stedman, and one 
who had been in the woods with him eight 
months: the tent-boat is preserved at Alk-~ 
maar which Siedman used: it is fifty-two 
feet long, and sixty years old. Stedman, from 
what I can collect, was a very eccentric cha- 
racter, tenacious of honour, but careless of 
forms. Governor Frederic told me, he one 
day saw him return from shooting in the Sa- 
vanna, with nothing on but a strip of blue 
salempore, passed between his legs, and sup- 
ported at each end by a string round his loins. 
Stedman appeared before some ladies in this 
undress, and thence acquired the appellation of 
the owe Ingleseman, or mad Englishmani” 
: Ki Es Be 
Memoirs of Dr, Patey, from the pen 
of a gentleman who was one of his pa- 
ishioners at Bishopwearmouth, will ap- 
pear in 3 few weeks, 
M:. 
