1823.] 
and twenty-six portraits will be intro- 
duced of eminent persons. Of Mr. 
Debrett’s opportunities and capabili- 
ties, we can speak from personal 
knowledge. 
Mr. Horner is about to publish an 
illustrated prospectus of his Panoramic 
View of London from the summit of 
St. Paul’s, containing various engra- 
vings, showing the superior advan- 
tages of the catiedral as a central 
point of view, including a geometrical 
section (fifty inches by thirty) of that 
edifice, with the north and south sides 
of the church-yard, and exhibiting the 
ascent from the base, through the cir- 
cular stair-case, the dome, and the 
scaffolding, to the observatory erected 
above the ball and cross, from which 
the drawing was taken. It will also 
contain an account of the origin, pro- 
gress, and completion of the under- 
taking; and of the extensive range of 
the metropolis, its suburbs, and sur- 
rounding scenery, which form the sub- 
jects of the engravings inteaded to be 
published. 
The Rev. W. BuckLanp is printing 
a description of what he eimpirically 
ealls an Antediluvian Den of Hyenas, 
discovered at Kirkdale in Yorkshire, 
in 1821, containing the remains of the 
hyena, tiger, bear, elephant, rhinoce- 
ros, hippopotamus, and sixteen other 
animals, all formerly natives of this 
country, with a comparative view of 
many similar caverns and dens in 
England and Germany, and a sum- 
mary account of the evidence of dilu- 
vial action afforded by the form of hills 
and valleys, and the general dispersion 
of beds of grave] and loam, contain- 
ing similar bones, over great part of 
the northern hemisphere. The Reye- 
rend Professor errs in supposing and 
asserting that these congregated bones 
formed part of a den! The gradual 
retiring of the sca, aud successions of 
meeting tides, would necessarily ac- 
cumulate bones, &c. on particular 
spots; and the same effect may be 
constantly witnessed on all points 
among sand-hills on our coasts. The 
animals might even go to such spots 
for safety, or for food washed there. 
Researches in the South of Ireland 
are preparing, illustrative of the sce- 
nery, architectural remains, manners, 
and superstitions, of the peasantry, 
from personal observations, ancient 
authorities, and original manuscripts, 
by ‘I’. C, Croker, 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
539 
Mr. Huis intends te publish in a 
short time, Letters to my Daughters 
on the most important Truths of Re- 
velation.—ihe same author has also 
in the press, Remarks on the Queen _ 
Bee, in answer to the “ Observations 
on Bees” of the Rev. Mr. Dunbar, of 
Applegarth. : 
Mr. 'T. E. Evans is engaged in 
translating a Collection of the Consti- 
tutions, Charters, and Laws, of the 
various Nations of Europe and of 
North and South America, with his-, 
torical sketches of the origin of 
their liberties and political institu- 
tions, from the French of Messrs. P. 
A. Dufau, J. B, Dowergin, and J. 
Guadet. The first volume, containing. 
the rise and progress of the govern- 
ments of France and the Netherlands, 
will appear very shortly, and the re- 
maining volumes will be published 
periodically, 
The author of “the Wonders of the 
Vegetable Kingdom displayed,” is 
preparing the Wonders of Conchology. 
displayed, with a description-of corals, 
spunges, &c. ina series of letters. 
In a few days wil! be published, To- 
pographical and Historical Sketches 
cf the Boroughs of East and West 
Looe, in Comwall, with an account of 
the natural and artificial curiosities and 
picturesque scenery of the neighbour- 
hood, by T. Bonn. 
Grancer’s Biographical History of 
England, from Egbert the Great to 
the Revolution, is reprinting, in six 
vols. octavo, with the addition of nearly 
four hundred new lives, communicated 
expressly for this work to the Iate Mr. 
William Richardson, by Horace Wal- 
pole Earl of Orford, David Dalrympie 
Lord Hailes, Sir William Musgrave, 
bart. James Biadley, esq. and-several 
other celebrated collectors and anti- 
quaries. A few copies will be printed 
on royal octavo, and a few on folio, to 
accommodate those who may be in- 
clined to illustrate the work ; but the 
impression is limited to a very small 
number. 
Don Carlos, a tragedy, translated 
and rendered into verse, from the 
German of Schiller, and adapted for 
the English stage, is in the press. 
A prospectus has been published of 
a Map of Hampshire, upon an entirely 
new principle, and upon a larger scale 
than any map of the same extent ever 
before published. It will be accaum- 
panied by a complete topographical 
description 
