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Literary and Miscellaneous tnteltigence. [March I, 



eiffht sections united, will form 



yo!V Spix, and Dr. C. Von Martius, 

 iflepibers of the itoyal Bavarian Aca- 

 den,ij of Sciences. , 



Dr. HucH AN announces a work on 

 tjie Pythagorean Philosophy concern- 

 ing the Human Quaternion, which 

 renders man not a simple but a com- 

 gpujid being, consisting of body, soul, 

 and. mind. Those triple faculties, say 

 tliey, act and re-act, reciprocally illu- 

 mine and eclipse each other. 



Imaginary Conversations of Literary 

 lyien and Statesmen, are announced 

 by W. S. Landok, esq. 

 . A complete System of Plants is 

 prepa,ring fqr publication, by W. J. 

 Hooker, f.r.a. and l s. liegius Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the university of 

 Glasgow. ,The work will form eight 

 large octavo volume?, closely printed 

 1^ columns, and published periodi- 

 cally, a quarter volume every two 

 months. 



The Birds of Aristophanes, trans- 

 lated into English verse, with notes, 

 by the Rev. H. F. Gary, a.m. will soon 

 appear. 



A volume, in prose and verse, to be 

 entitled the Climbing Boy's Album, 

 containing conlributious from some of 

 the most eminent writers of the day, 

 ylustraled with engravings from de- 

 sioQs.by jVIr. Cruickshaiik, will be 

 published iu the course of the present 

 season, The object of this work will 

 l^e.to drsiw i)ut)lic attention more ear- 

 nestly than hoiotufore to the practica- 

 bility and the necessity of discontinu- 

 ing one of the most cnrel, nnjust, and 

 flagitious, usages in existence. 



An epic poem is shortly expected 

 from the, pen of the Ettrick Shepherd, 

 entitled Queen Hynde. 

 .. A new French periodical work is 

 fUinounced iu London and Paris, en- 

 ititlcd " Bi'LLF.riN Umversel des 

 {icienCQSctde I'ludustric, Continuation 

 du Buyctin General et Universel des 

 annojices et denouvelles scientifiques, 

 d^die ayxsavans de tons les pays et k 

 la librairie nationale et etrangere: 

 public sous la direction de M. Le 

 Baron de FC'russac, officier snp^rieur 



iiu Corps Koyal dT.tat-Major, clieva- 

 icr de Saint Louis et ,de la Legion 

 d'Hoiineur, nicmbre de plusienrs 

 Soci^tes Savaiiles Nationales etEtran- 

 g^res. The subscriptions for the 

 bulletin complete, or taken in sec- 

 tions, will be dated from January, for 

 |welve volumes, or twelve numbers 

 vearty ; (no numbers will be sold sepa- 

 rately :) the Bulletin complete, i)r the 



j^... ^^^..^..^ united, 

 volume of thirty-six sheets per month, 

 or, distribuled into sections, seventeen 

 volumes per annum, with tables to 

 each. 



The Agamemnon of jEschylus, 

 translated into English verse, with 

 notes, critical and explanatory, by J. 

 SvMMONs.esq. A.M. of Christ Church, 

 Oxford, is in the press. 



A work is announced, called Mu- 

 seum Vaticanum, a scries of correct 

 outlines of the most celebrated pictures 

 of the early masters, which are pre- 

 served in the Vatican and other palaces 

 at Rome, Na|)les, Florence, Venice, 

 Milan, and other capitals of the Con- 

 tinent, drawn from the originals, and 

 engraved in outline by the first artists. 

 And a similar work, engraved from the 

 finest pictures in English collections, 

 is also in preparation. 



In a few days will he published, the 

 New London Dispensatory, containing 

 a translation of the " Pharmacopoeia 

 Londinensis" of 1824, with a concise 

 history of the articles in the Materia 

 Medica, their class ami order, naturaf 

 order of the plants, &c. the rationale of 

 the dill'erent chemical processes, toge- 

 ther with other necessary inrormation, 

 interesting to the student and medical 

 practitioner, by T. Cox, m.d. 



A revolution, in accordance With tlid 

 good feelings of an enlightened age, 

 has been cirected in many schools, 

 where ignominious corjibral punisli- 

 ments had been dcemeil indispensible," 

 merely by the introdiu^tion of Blair's 

 llegisters of dnily Sludij and Conduct. 

 Nothing can be more simple, while 

 their efficacy has been proved by seve- 

 ral years' experience in some of the 

 largest establishments round London. 

 \V hen i! is considered that many thou- 

 sands of promising children arc ruined 

 in every generation by the self-abase- 

 ment of corporal punishments, any 

 contrivance which lends to reiuler 

 them unnece.Nsary must be hailed by 

 the truly wise and benevolent as 

 among the most important of practical 

 invrnlions. 



Mr. Bk« ECKE, of Lloyd's, has in the 

 press, a Treatise on the Principles of 

 Indemnity in Miirine Insurances, Bot- 

 tomry, and Respondentia ; containing 

 practical rules for eft'ecting insurances, 

 and for the adjustment of all kinds 01 

 losses and averages. 



.Shortly will be publisbed, iii sii 



volumes, the Complete Woiks of the 



Rev. Philip Skeltbn, of Trinity College, 



Dublin, 



