1824.] Literary and Miscellaneous Tntelligence. 159 



account of the revolution wbich ditions, the appearances of the northeru 

 brought about the independence of the 



Brazilian empire ; and. Journal of a 

 Residence in Chile, and Voyage from 

 the Pacific, in the years 1822 and 

 1823, preceded by an account of the 

 revolutions in Chile since the year 

 1810, and particularly of the transac- 

 tions of the squadron of Chile under 

 Lord Cochrane. They will each ap- 



lights, and the most striking features 

 and incidents that occurred during the 

 above period. 3. The Second Number 

 of the Northern Scenery. 



The lovers of the drama will be 

 gratified to learn, that Memoirs of the 

 Life of J. P. Kemble, esq. including a 

 history of the stage from tlie time of 

 Garrick to the present period, will 



pear in a quarto volume, with en- shortly appear from the pen of Mr. J. 



gravings. Bowdun. 



Mr.THKLWALL's Course of Oratorical The Rev. T. F. Dibdin, f.r.s. s.a. 



and Critical Lectures on Shakspeare, of black-letter celebrity, announces a 



and on Dramatic Composition and work, under the title of the Librarj- 



i'heatrical Representation in general. Companion, or the Young Man's 



will commence at the Theatre Royal Guide and the Old Man's Comfort in 



Hayniarket, on Wednesday the 10th the formation of a Library, 



of March ; and criticisms are promised Biographical and Historical Me- 



not only upon the principal actors, moirs of tlie Founders and principal 



from the days of Garrick to those of Benefactors of the Universities of 



Kean, Young, and Macrcady ; but Oxford and Cambridge, is announced 



upon the poems and romances of Lord by A, Chalmers, esq. f.s.a. in four 



Byron and Sir Walter Scott. The cri- volumes, octavo. Either division may 



tical disquisitions will, in point of be purchased separately, as the Me- 



language and delivery, be extempora- moirs of each University will form two 



neous. The passages in dialogue, volumes. 



from the plays under consideration, The Rev. W. S. Gillv will shortly 



will be read from the most authenli- publish, a Narrative of an Excursion 



cated text, and occasionally contrasted to the Mountains of Piedmont in the 



with the altered portions of tlie actin 

 plays. The soliloquies and detached 

 speeches will be characteristically re- 

 cited; and the illustrations in general 

 (comic as well as serious,) will be 

 given with every attention lo dramatic 

 effect, which the decorums of a Lec- 

 ture, and the nature of solitary exer- 

 tion, will permit 



year 1823, and Researches among the 

 Vaudois, with illustrations of tiie very 

 interesting history of these Protestant 

 inhabitants of the Cottian Alps ; with 

 an appendix, containing important 

 documents from ancient manuscripts, 

 in one volume, quarto, with maps and 

 other engravings. 



The second volume of Anecdolcs, 



Mr. Maugham is about to publish. Biographical Sketches, and Memoirs, 

 the Pupil's Pharmacopoeia, being a collected by Letitia Matilda Haw- 

 literal translation of the new edition of kins, is in the press. 



the London Piiarmacopoeia, the Eng- 

 lish following the original in italics, 

 word for word, and the Latin text be- 

 ing marked, (o facilitate a proper 

 ]jronuncialion 



Capt. Wallace, the author of 

 " Fifleen Years in India," is about to 

 produce a new work, entitled Memoirs 

 of India, comprising a brief geogra- 

 pliical account of tiie East Indies, and 



Ca|)t. Bkooke has the following a succinct history of Hindostan, from 



works nearly ready for the press, viz. the early ages to the end of Marquis 



— 1. Narrative of a .short Hcsidence Hastings's administration in 1823. 



in Norwegian Lapland, with an ac- A work is in the press, in imperial 



count of a winter's Journey, performed folio, containing numerous plates from 



with rein-deer, through Norwegian drawings by Mr. Dewint, called Olym- 



liussia and Swedish Laplimd, inter- jjia, or Topography illnsfralive of the 



spersed with numerous plates and 

 various particulars relating to the 

 Laplanders. 2. Lithographic Illus- 

 trations of a Journey across Lapland, 

 from the shores of the Polar Sea lo Ihe 

 Gulph of Botlinia, chiefly with rein- 

 deer, and during tiie month of Decem- 

 ber; showing the manner in which the 

 Laplanders perform their winter cxpc- 

 MoNTiiLY Mao. No. 393. 



ictual State of Olympia and the Ruins 

 of the City of Elis, by J. S. Stanhope, 



esq. F.K.S. 



A translation is expected immedi- 

 ately of the Travels in Brazil in the 

 years 1817, 18, 19. and 20. They were 

 undertaken by the command of the 

 King of Bavaria, and are pnldished 

 under his special patronage, by Dr. J. 

 Y Von 



