Likrary and Philusophkal InkUigence. 



1823.] 



ing machines ; cotloii, silk, and 



worsted spiiniiiie,- machinery, &c. Sec. 



Early in March will be published a 

 diamond edition of Shakspeare, from 

 the Chiswick press, comprisino:, in cue 

 <hin pocket volume, the whole of his 

 dramatic works, with a glossary. 



Speedily will be published, I'ocms, 

 Dramatic and Miscellaneous ; by 

 Henry Nkele, E?q. a genuine poet, 

 whose early productions are not un- 

 known to the readers of this miscel- 

 lany. 



Mr. Hone's work on the ancient 

 popular drama.s called Mysteries, 

 will appear in a few days. The sub- 

 ject, as connected with our anrient 

 manners and sui)erstitions, is highly 

 curious. He has also introduced into 

 the volume some otiier legendary 

 illustrations, the result of long re- 

 search among scarce black-letter 

 books and neglected chroniclers of 

 times gone by. The author will 

 hereby add himself to the small num- 

 ber of erudite booksellers. 



Lord Lyron has been again at 

 work upon three or four more cantos 

 of Hon Juan. Some parts of tiicni are 

 said to display a regulated taste. 



Sir George Beaumont, who is now 

 on his travels in Italy, has acquired, by 

 purchase, the beautiful groupc of 

 Michael Angelo, representing Christ, 

 the Virgin, and St. John. It is consi- 

 dered as one of the finest productions 

 of (he chisel of that great artist. 



Tiic Kev. Edwaro Irving is pre- 

 paring, in an octavo volume, Pulpit 

 Orations, Lectures, and Sermons, de- 

 livered in the Caledonian church, 

 Halton-gardcn. 



'I'hc Kev. G. Oliver is about to 

 jiublish, the Antiquities of Freema- 

 sonry, from the Creation of the World 

 to the Dedication of Solomon's 

 Temple. 



The Rev. G. S. Faber is printing, in 

 two octavo volumes, a Treatise on the 

 Genius and Object of the Patriarchal, 

 the Lcvitical, and the Christian, Dis- 

 pensations. 



Mr. J. Nathan will soon i)id)lisli, in 

 royal quarto, the Theory and Practice 

 of Music, professionally analyse^!. 



G. G. fii'NMS, cscp is i)reparing for 

 publication, in (piarto, the Theory and 

 Practice of Average Adjustment. 



I'o|)ular Tales and Romances of t!;o 

 Northern Nations, are printing in three 

 volunu:,, postoct.ivo. 



The Diary ol a Joarnoy tiiiougli 

 >SuutJicru India, Egypt, and ralcslinc, 



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in 1821-2, by a field-olliccr of cavalry, 

 will soon appear, with maps, &c. 



Mrs. Sherii-ie has in the press. 

 Practical CInisti;uiity, illustrated by 

 Biblical Examples. 



Simpson's Fluxions, with correc- 

 tions, and an Appendix of much im- 

 portant matter, by a graduate of Cam- 

 bridge, is re-printing. 



Tlic higlily interesting, but as yet 

 the very obscure, subject of the natuic 

 and tnuctions of Animal Life, have for 

 some time occupied the attcniiou of 

 Dr. A. P. W. Phillip, who has recorded 

 hisexj)erimenlsaudrescarchcsinsonie 

 late numbers of the quarterly "Journal 

 of Science ;" the conclusions drawn 

 from which arc, that three distinct 

 powers, viz. the sensorial, the nervous, 

 and the m?«*cM^«r, are concerned in the 

 animal system, yet without dcpend- 

 ancc on each other ; because facts and 

 experiments prove, that the muscular 

 may for a time survive both the senso- 

 rial and nervous powers, and the ner- 

 vous may survive the sensorial and 

 muscular |)owei-s, and the sensorial 

 power ai)pears to be witliout depend- 

 ance on the others, except as far as 

 tiiey are necessary for the maintenaneo 

 of its organs : the nervous and nmscu- 

 lar powers arc, on the one hand, tho 

 direct means of maintaining the life of 

 the aninial ; and, on the other, of con- 

 necting it with the external world : 

 the former receiving impressions from 

 the world, and the latter communi- 

 cating imprf-ssions to it. All the func- 

 tions of these two powers, the nervous 

 and the muscular, appear as results of 

 inanimate agents, acting on vita! parts, 

 and arc capable of being excited l)y 

 electricity or galvanism, artificially 

 ai)plicd ; but, when from these \vc turn 

 to th(! sensorial functions, we perceive 

 results which have lost all analogy to 

 those of inanimate matter : they have 

 only an indirect cll'cct in maintaining 

 animal life, and are excited by no im- 

 pressions but those communicated 

 through the nervous system ; and, con- 

 sequently, are the results of living 

 parts acting on each other; and hcnee 

 it is, that the sensorial are the first 

 functions which cease when the vital 

 pow<;rs begin to fail; while inanimate 

 agents continue capable, for a time, of 

 languidly cxciling the nervous and 

 nuiscular functions of life. 



Sacred Fugitives, in prose and 

 verse, by E. Dermer, with a |)rcfacc 

 by J. liuMusTON, esq. arc in the 

 press. 



Speedily 



