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publication, a Life 

 Philip Kcmble, esq. incliidino; a His- 

 tory of the Stage from the Death of 

 Garrick to the present Time ; tiie au- 

 thor having; enjoyed t!ie intimate and 

 uninterrupted friendship of that emi- 

 nent person for nearly thirty years. 

 His work will contain characteristic 

 anecdotes, extracts from a carefully- 

 preserved correspondence, and a va- 

 riety of information derived from ge- 

 nuine and unexceptionable sources. 



The Waverley club of Scotch au- 

 thors, determined to make hay before 

 their sun has set, announce still ano- 

 ther and another novel ; and " Peveril 

 of the Peak" has scarcely been deli- 

 vered, before Quentin Durward 

 threatens the circulating libraries with 

 a further tribute to their unwearied in- 

 dustry. How many thrifty cunning 

 Scots have been engaged in this manu- 

 factory, will not perhaps be fully known 

 till the next age ! 



An English Flora, by Sir J. E. 

 Smith, is now at press, divested of 

 technical terms as much as possible. 



Mr. T. S. Peckston is engaged on a 

 new edition of his valuable practical 

 work on the Theory and Practice of 

 Gas Lighting, in which he has consi- 

 derably abridged the theoretical part 

 of the work as given in the first edi- 

 tion ; and, to render it as useful as pos- 

 sible to every practical man, there is 

 introduced much original matter rela- 

 tive to coal-gas, and an entirely new 

 treatise on the economy of the gases 

 obtained for illuminating purposes from 

 oil, turf, Sec. 



Ballantyne's elegant Novelist's Li- 

 brary, vol. V. royal octavo, is nearly 

 ready, containing the novels of Gold- 

 smith, Sterne, Dr. Johnson, Macken- 

 zie, Clara Reeve, pnd Horace Wal- 

 pole : to which are prefixed, Original 

 Memoirs of the Authors. 



Isabel St. Albe. or Vice and Virtue, 

 a novel, by Miss Orumpe, is printing, 

 in three vols. 12nio. 



The Supplement to the fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth, editions of the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica, Vol. VI. Part I. with en- 

 gravings, will speedily appear. The 

 Second Part of this Volume, which 

 completes the undertaking, will be 

 published in the course of the year. 



The Roman Catholic Priesthood are 

 still seeking to avail themselves of all 

 that remains of ignoraner- and weak- 

 ness in society, by amfcderacics, like 

 those of mountebank conjurors, to 

 persuade people that miracles are still 



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performed in their church ; and the 

 cases in StaHordshire, which disgusted 

 all rational men, are now repeating in 

 Bourbon France. The terms impos- 

 ter, Bourbon, miracle, and conjurer, 

 seem likely to become synonimous. 

 Can we wonder, however, at such de- 

 gradations of humanity, while our uni- 

 versities, learned societies, and books 

 of science, still teach so flippantly their 

 equally absurd doctrines of innate at- 

 traction, repulsion, and universal gra- 

 vitation? For these last notions are 

 akin to conjuration, enchantment, and 

 transformation; and all originated in 

 ages when witchcraft was an indictable 

 offence. A nun at Toulouse has, it 

 seems, co-operated with a political 

 knave of the name of Hohenloe, so as 

 to pretend to be cured of a swelled 

 knee by a certain day ; and a Bourbon 

 archbishop, having lent himself to the 

 silly story, has brought his church and 

 religion itself into question. They had 

 better be content with Vince's demon- 

 strated miracle of universal gravitation ; 

 and Newton's viarvelhus one of the 

 projectile force of the planets, main- 

 tained ever since they were hurled into 

 space ! These are standing miracles, 

 quite enough to satisfy all the vulgar 

 gullibility in the world. 



The Hut and the Castle, or Dis- 

 banded Subalterns, a romance, by the 

 author of " the Romance of the Pyre- 

 nees," &c. will soon appear. 



Cardinal Beaton, anhistorical drama, 

 in five acts, by W. Tennant, will spee- 

 dily be published. 



The History of Soli and of Parga, 

 written originally in modern Greek, 

 has been translated, and is printing in 

 London. 



Mr. Donovan proceeds regiilarly 

 with his new monthly Miscellany of 

 Exotic Natural History, entitled the 

 Naturalist's Repository. The twelfth 

 number, which completed the first vo- 

 liune, was published in due succes- 

 sion ; the 13th, or first number of the 

 second volume, has just appeared. 



Dr. Gordon Smith is preparing a 

 new edition of the Principles of Foren- 

 sic Medicine, which will contain much 

 additional matter. The volume will 

 embrace every topic on which the me- 

 dical practitioner is liable to be called 

 to give a professional opinion, in aid of 

 judicial enquiries. 



A miniature edition of the Poetical 



Works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. is 



preparing, in ten volumes ; as well as 



a Series of Illustrations to the Poetical 



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