1869.] 
— experience has eminently qualified 
im to write, 
A work, highly interesting to the Eng- 
lish antiquary, under the title of An 
Historical Survey of the Ecclesiastical 
Antiquities of France, with a view to il- 
lustrate the rise and progress of Gothic 
Architecture in Europe, which had long 
engaged the personal inspection and la- 
borious researches of the late Rev. G. D. 
Wuirrrncron, of Cambridge, is now 
in the press, under the direction of some 
judicious and henourable friends; and 
will soon be laid before the public. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Scor7 has in the 
press, 2 Poem on the Battle of Maida. 
Mr. A. JewiTT, proposes to publish 
by subscription, m two volumes, small 
octavo, with twenty-four AquatintaViews 
of Ruins, Scenes, Antiquities, &c. drawn 
expressly from nature, Remarks on various 
Parts of the Counties of Nottingham, 
Lincoln, York, Derby, and Stafford ; being 
the result of several successive tours and 
éxcursions since the commencement of 
we present century. 
Mr. Tuomas Green, of Liverpool, a 
youth of seventeen, has in the press a 
wolame of Poems, which will appear in 
January. 
Dr. Crarkxe and Mr. Crarke, will 
begin their spring course of Lectures on 
Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women 
and Chiidren, on Thursday, January 26. 
The Lectures are read every day, at the 
house of Mr. Clarke, No. 10, Upper 
John-street, Golden-square, from a quar- 
ter past ten o’clock in the morning, till a 
quarter past eleven, for the convenience 
of students attending the hospitals. 
Dr. Buxron’s Lectures on the Theory 
and Practice of Medicine, and on Mate- 
tia Medica, will be commenced about the 
20th of January, 1809. 
A new Grammar, entitied, The En- 
glish Tutor, written in familiar letters, 
and intended patticularly for ladies se- 
minaries, by Mr. W. C. Ov tron, 
author of the Traveller's Guide, &c. 
will be presented to the public in a few 
weeks. 
A volume of burlesque, dramatic, and 
miscellaneous Poems,by the same gentle- 
man, is now in the press, and will shortly 
be published. 
A Subscription Library, on a liberal 
plan, has been set on foot at Lincoln; 
and we observe with pleasure, that its 
‘promoters are the principal noblemen 
and gentlemen of that city and its neigh- 
bourhood, 
Amidst a-variety of new papers an- 
Rmeunced in different parts of the country, 
Literary and Philosophical I ntelligence. 
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one is announced in that populous dis- 
trict of Stattordshire, engaged in the ma~ 
nufacture of pottery-ware, to be called 
the Pottery-Gazette. 
Mr. Brcouanp has in the press, and 
in considerable forwardness, a View of 
the World, which will extend to five oc 
tavo volumes. It-comprises a tolerably 
minute geographical description of the 
countries of the world, with an account 
of whatever is particularly remarkable in 
each, followed by a separate historical 
view of every nation and people. 
The Rev. R. Nares is about to put to 
press a Dictionary on the plan of John- 
son’s, of the Middle Language of Eng- 
land, or the Age of Shakspeare! To 
what other absurdities will the childish 
speculations of the readers of black let- 
ter lead us? 
The Rev. Mr. Piuumprre, of Clare- 
hall, will shortly publish four Discourses 
on the Stage, lately preached by him at 
Cambridge, 
Two volumes of Sermons, by the late 
Rev. TueopurLus LinpDsEy, are prepar= 
ing for the press, and will appear in the 
ensuing spring. ‘To these volumes, which 
it is intended to publish by subscription, 
willbe prefixed a memoir. 
A work will speedily make its appear- 
ance, entitled, the Brazil Pilot, or a De- 
scription of the Coast of Brazil; trans- 
lated from the Portuguese of Manoej 
Pimentel, principal hydrographer to King — 
John V, of Portugal. It will be accom~ 
panied by a considerable number of 
charts of some of its principal ports, fron: 
manuscripts of undoubted authority, ne- 
ver before published. 
Mr. Jaues Morrison, of Glasgow, 
has issued proposals for publishing by 
subscription a work in two volumes oc 
tavo, entitled, the General Accomptant; 
being a complete course of mercantile 
compvtation and accomptantship, adapt- 
ed to modern practice. The same gen- 
tleman is engaged on PopularElements of 
Book-keeping. 
The Medical and Chivrargical Society 
of London will shortly publish the first 
volume of their Records. It will contain 
some very valuable contributions from 
practitioners of first-rate eminence in the 
metropolis. 
The Translation of the Scriptures into 
the Persian languuge, so long in prepara-~ 
tio, and by many thought to be aban- 
doned, has been for some time in the 
press at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and is 
expected to be ready for publication in 
the course of the year, 1809. It will 
form an elegant quarte volume, 
A new 
