1823.] é 
Christian’s Quarterly Register, de- 
signed to maintain the pure principles 
of Christianity against priesteraft, or- 
thodoxy, and infidelity. 
Capt. Frankiin and Dr. RicHaRrD- 
SON announce a Narrative of their 
Overland Journey and Observations 
during the late Expedition to the 
Coasts of the Northern American sea. 
Nothing has yet been heard of Capt. 
Parry, who entered the same sea in 
the spring of 1821. 
Dr. Tuomas is printing a popular 
volume on the Way to Preserve Good 
‘Health, and on Domestic Medicine. 
A work called Pharmacopeia Impe- 
rialis is in the press. It is to consist 
of a comparative view of the Pharma- 
copeeias of London, Edinburgh, and 
Dublin, in the Latin text, with English 
notes. 
A printing press, worked by hand, 
has been constructed in London, 
which is said to equal in velocity and 
exceed in workmanship the steam- 
engine presses. Two men and three 
boys can print twenty-five sheets in a 
minute, with clearness and perfection. 
Mr. Banks is said to have purchased 
in the island of Elephantana a roll of 
Papyrus, containing the latter part of 
the Iliad, with scholia in the margin. 
It is believed to be of high antiquity. 
A Dutchman, of the name of Meer- 
man, has printed two volumes, quarto, 
to prove that printing was invented at 
Haerlem, and the sapient magistrates 
of that city have complimented the 
author on his performance. Nothing, 
however, can be more irrelevant than 
the pretensions either of Haerlem, 
Strasburgh, or Mayence. Printing, 
like every art, was progressive. The 
first printer was the first man who put 
an inscription on a coin; the second 
was the improver who reversed the 
juscription on the dye; the third was 
he who printed inscriptions on wax, 
so remarkable on our bread-seals ; the 
fourth was he who took the impressions 
on paper or yellum {a puny variation, 
conferring honour on no one); the 
fifth and best was composing | with 
moveable types; the sixth, the re-cast- 
ing them on plates; and the seventh 
and last, printing with steam. It is 
therefore to the last degree pucrile to 
talk of an inventor of printing. 
The Orlando Inamorato, abyidged 
from Berni, with specimens, will soon 
be published by W. S. Rose, esq. 
A Monthly Magazine of Music is 
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announced for publication on the 1st 
of January. 
A volume of Essays on the Manners, 
Habits, and Customs, of Bengal, is in 
preparation. 
rancts Maserts, esq. Cursitor 
Baron of the Exchequer, whose libe- 
ral exertions for the restoration of 
mathematical writers are so well 
known to the mathematical world, has 
nearly completed a collection of those 
which relate to optical science. 
Amongst the interesting treatises 
which are reprinted in this volume, are 
the Opéica promota of James Gregory, 
containing the first publication of the 
reflecting telescope. The Traité de la 
Lumiére of Huggens, and the Lectiones 
Optice of Dr. Barrow, a work which 
has become exceedingly scarce. The 
work #s edited under the superintend- 
ance of C. BaBBaGE, esq. F.R.S. &c. 
The fortieth volume of Transactions 
of the Society for the Encouragement 
of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 
with an analytical index for Volumes 
X XVI. to XL. will be ready for deli- 
very early in January. 
Popular Tales and Romances of 
the Northern Nations, are preparing 
for publication, in three volumes. 
Highways and By-ways, or Tales of 
the Roadside, gathered in the French 
provinces, by a Walking Gentleman, 
will soon be published. 
Prosings, by a Vetcran, or the Lu- 
cubrations of Humphrey Ravelin, esq. 
late major in the —— Regiment of 
Infantry, are printing. 
The 'Theory and Practice of Music, 
professionally analysed, for the use of 
the instructor, the amateur, and the 
student, will soon be published, by J. 
Naruan, author of the “ Hebrew Me- 
lodies.” 
Tales of Old Mr. Jefferson, of Gray’s 
Inn, collected by the Young Mr. Jef- 
ferson, of Lyon’s Inn, will soon appear, 
Series I. will consist of—Mandeville, 
or the Voyage; the Welch Cottage, 
or the Woodman’s Fire-side; the 
Creole, or the Negro’s Suicide. 
December Talcs will be published 
in a few days. 
In the course of this month will be 
published, the Second Part of Mr. 
Boun’s Bibliographical, Analytical, 
and Descriptive Catalogue of Books, 
comprising above sixty thousand yvo- 
Jumes in all languages and classes of 
literature, accompanied by literary 
notices. 
Mr. 
