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Five Lectures on the Gospel of St. 

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Sketches of Sermons, preached to va- 

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 Continent ; furnislied by their respective 

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TOPOGRAPHY. 



A Picturesque Promenade round Dor- 

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Biblictbeca Gloucestrensis ; a reprint of 



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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL; 



Includiitg Notices of Woi-ks in Hand, Domestic and Foreign, 



|R. William Church, of Boston, 

 whose improvements in printing 

 we lately noticed, is now in England, 

 procuring the construction of iiis ap- 

 paratus and machinery. A principal 

 object of this improvement is to print 

 constantly from new types, which is 

 effected by simplifying the process for 

 casting and composing. The type is 

 delivered perfect by machinery, and 

 laid as it is cast in separate compart- 

 ments, with unerring order and exact- 

 ness. The composition is then ell'ected 

 by other apparatus, directed by keys 

 like those of a piano-forte, and the type 

 may be thus arranged in words and 

 lines, as quickly as in the performance 

 of notes in music. No error can arise, 

 except from touching the wrong key; 

 hence an expert hand will leave little 

 labour lor the reader. The form may 

 be worked as usual, either by a print- 

 ing-press or machine. It is then 

 found less exj)en.sivc, under Dr. 

 Church's economical system of re- 

 casting, to remelt the types, and re- 

 cast them, than to perform the tedious 

 operation of distribution. The melt- 

 ing takes place without atmospheric 

 exposure, by which oxydation and 

 waste of metal are avoided. It is cal- 

 culated tliat two men can produce 

 7.5,000 new tyi)ps per hour, and in re- 

 composing one man will perform as 

 much as three or four compo.sitors. 

 In the production of types, the. saving 

 is ninety-nine partn in a hundred, and 

 io the composition, distribution, and 



reading, is three parts in four. In 

 regard to pres.s-work. Dr. C. has in- 

 vented a machine to work with plat- 

 tens instead of cylinders, from which 

 he will be able to take thirty line im- 

 pressions per minute ; and some of 

 these have been ordered by London 

 printers. — An establishment is about 

 to be commenced in New York, in 

 which these inventions will be applied 

 to the reprinting of popular works, 

 and to printing in general. 



Miss Macauley announces, "Eli- 

 zabeth and Mary Stuart," being the 

 design for a new species of histrionic 

 literature. The design is the compo- 

 sition and individual recitation of a 

 dramatic and descriptive poem, about 

 the length of our modern tragedies. 

 The piece is now in active prepara- 

 tion, and will be published as soon 

 after its first representation as may be 

 deemed requisite. The first essay 

 will be a portraiture of the characters 

 of Queen Elizabeth and Mary queen 

 of Scots. 



Imaginary Conversations of Eminent 

 Statesmen and Literary Men, ancient 

 and modern, by \V. S. Landor, esq. 

 will speedily appear. 



The Journal of a Tour in France 

 in the years 1816 and 1817, by Fran- 

 ces Jane Carey, will make its appear- 

 ance in a few days. 



The next, or third, volume of 

 Mitchell's "Methodical Cyclope- 

 dia," will consist of a complete Dic- 

 tionary of Mfithematica and (he Phy- 

 sical 



