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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL; 



Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 



IN April will be published, in three 

 volumes, under the title of Na- 

 ture Displayed, one hundred Lec- 

 tures on the most striking objects in 

 the animal, vegetable, and mineral 

 kingdoms, and on celestial and terres- 

 trial phenomena in general, by Simf.on 

 Shaw, ll.d. It will exhibit every 

 interesting I'act, and discuss all the 

 topics, contained in the celebrated 

 "Nature Displayed" of the Abb6 la 

 Pluche ; while, at the same time, it will 

 combine all recent discoveries, and 

 the present state of knowledge. The 

 engravings, which have been prepared 

 at a great expense, and which are 

 numerous and large, avIU render the 

 work a complete library of natural 

 knowledge. They will also be sold 

 separately in a folio atlas, called the 

 Atlas of Nature, 9.nA vfiW contain cop- 

 per-plate engravings of many hundred 

 of the most extraordinary and interest- 

 ing objects in the entire range of Na- 

 ture's curiosities. As the plan of such 

 an Atlas is altogether unique, it can- 

 not fail, from its interesting character, 

 to become an object of popular study, 

 and to recommend itself to a circula- 

 tion as universal as is enjoyed by geo- 

 graphical atlases. 



Capt. Franklin's Narrative of his 

 perilous and disastrous Journey from 

 the Shores of Hudson's Bay to the 

 Mouth of the Copper-mine River, will 

 be published on the 12th of April. 



'J'he long promised English Flora 

 of Sir J. E. Smith, president of the 

 Linncau Society, is now printing. The 

 English botanist will thus be furnished 

 with an original and authentic guide 

 to the study of our native plants, in his 

 own language, free from all unneces- 

 .sary technical terms ; and, according 

 to the plan which the author has long 

 been stn(iying to attain, of a classical 

 English style, rejecting that barbarous 

 (neither English nor Latin) phraseo- 

 logy, which so many writers have, 

 without principle, or consideration 

 perhaps, adopted. The laborious and 

 intricate department of synonymes, 

 — hitherto copied without examination 

 wen by the best and most popular 

 ' writers, who have in general never 

 ! looked at the books quoted, — will here 

 be investigated throughout; and the 

 I errors of the press, transcribed hitherto 

 by one author from another, with mul- 

 iUoNriiLY Mao. No. 380. 



tiplied errors, will be set right. The 

 essential characters and descriptions 

 will all be re-considered, and corrected 

 after nature. 



Mr. Ensor is preparing a work on 

 the Poor and their Relief. It is ela- 

 borate, and contains all the learjjiflg, 

 ancient and modern, on the subject, 



OwinK to the illness of Mr. Mit- 

 chell, the editor, the second or Cuk- 

 MiCAL Volume of the 3Ieth(>dical Cijclu- 

 pedia, cannot appear till the 7tli or 

 8th of April. It is hoped that hence- 

 forward this work will proceed with 

 periodical regularity. Nearly two edi- 

 tions of the Historical Volume have 

 been rapidly sold. 



R. P. Knight, esq. has a new poem 

 in the press, entitled Alfred, which 

 will appear next month in an octavo 

 volume. 



'J'he same Young Officer, whose 

 "Sketches of India" were so favour- 

 ably received by the public, has nearly 

 ready for publication, in an octavo vo- 

 lume, Recolle."lions of the Peninsula, 

 containing remarks on the manners 

 and character of the Spanish nation. 



Mr. Henry Phillips, f.h.s. author 

 of the " History of Fruits known in 

 Great Britain," " Cultivated Vegeta- 

 bles," &c. is now engaged upon Sylva 

 Florifera (the Slnubbery), containing 

 an historical and botanical account of 

 the flowering shrubs and trees which 

 now ornament the shrubbery, the park, 

 and rural scenes in general. 



The author of " the Lollards," 

 " Calthorpc," &c. has a new romance 

 ready for publication, in three volumes, 

 entitled. Other Times, or the Monks 

 of Lea<lenhall. 



The new edition of the Saxon Cliro- 

 nicle, edited by the Rev. Mr. Ingram, 

 may be expected to appear in a itiV{ 

 days. 



W. Marsden, esq. r.R.s. &c. has 

 just completed the fjrst portion of his 

 Numismata Orientalia Illustrata. The 

 oriental coins, anticnt and modern, of 

 his collection, arc described and histo- 

 rically illustrated : it forms a handsome 

 quarto volume, and contains numerous 

 plates, from drawings made under the 

 author's inspection. 



Mr. Sharon 'J'irner's valuable His- 

 tory of the Anglo-Saxons is under 

 revision, and the I'ourth edition will be 

 puhli.shed shortly. 



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