250 Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Mr. Jennings, who recently pub- 

 lishctl Dr. Mcjrick's s|.lcndi(l volumes 

 on Ancient Armour, has in the press .a 

 new work, on [ilurojiean Scenery, by 

 Capt. Batty, of tlie (Trenaclier Guards. 

 It will consprise a selection of sixty of each collection, with a history of the 



[Apritl, 



Art, now first arranged in one volume, 

 hy C. Westmacott, author of the 

 " Annual Critical Cataloi^ue to the 

 Academy." 'J'his work will contain a 

 critieal and descriptive catalogue to 



the most picturesque views on the 

 Rhine and Maine, in Belgium and in 

 Holland, and will he published uniformly 

 with his French and German scenery. 

 The first artists of the metropolis have 

 been engaged toengiave IIk^ plates. 



Travels among the Arab 'tribes inha- 

 biting the Counlrirs East of Syria and 

 Palestine, by James Buckingham, esq. 

 author of '• Travels in Palestine," &c. 

 in quarto, with illustrations, are an- 

 nounced. 



An Introduction to Practical Astro- 

 nomy, containing tables, recently com- 

 puted, for facilitating the reduction of 

 celestial observations, and a popular 

 explanation of their construction and 

 use, by the Rev. W. Pearson, ll.d. 

 F.R s. &c. treasurer to the Astronomical 

 Society of London, two volnmes, royal 

 quarto, is in the press. 



The standard weights of foreign 

 countries, which were some time since 

 transmitted 'to the British government, 

 and compared with English standarfls, 

 liave been lately deposited at the Lon- 

 don Mint, in a commodious cabinet 

 constructed for the purpose, where they 

 are to be carefully preserved, for per- 

 manent reference. The following ac- 

 count of this important collection is 

 inscribed on the cabinet: — 



The foreign weislils here deposited, 

 liavini; been duly verified, were transmit- 

 ted to London in the year 1818, by the 

 British consuls abroad, in pinsiiance of a 

 fjeneral plan, for comparing the vvei^lits, 

 measures, and monies, of all trading eoim- 

 tries, by official experiments on verified 

 standards. The experiments were made 

 by Robert Bingley, esq. the King's assay 

 master of the Mint ; and the calctdations by 

 Dr. Kelly, who planned and conducted 

 the general comparison, and in 1821 pub- 

 lished the results in the " Universal Cam- 

 bist," under the sanction ol his Majesty's 

 government. The undertaking was origi- 

 nally patronized and recommended by the 

 Board of Trade. The standards were 

 procnred from abroad by circular letters, 

 issued by Viscount Castlereagli and Earl 

 Batliurst, secretaries of state for the fo- 

 reign and colonial departments ; and (he 

 whole plan was essentially promoteil by 

 Lord Maryborough, master of the Mint. 



Early in April will be published, a 

 splendid national work, dedicated to 

 the King, called British Galleries of 



choicest treasures of the Fine Arts, 

 ancient and modern, in the possession 

 of his Majesty and other noble and dis- 

 tinguished persons; including the Dul- 

 wich Gallery and British Museum. It 

 will be illustrated with interior views of 

 the principal Galleries, drawn an<l 

 engraved by Cattermole, Finlay, and 

 Le Keiix ; with eight elegant engraved 

 portraits of illustrious and noble pa- 

 trons and academicians, by Wagenian, 

 Hawksworth, and Philips. 



Speedily will be published, the Old 

 Arm-chair, or Recollections of a Bache- 

 lor, a tale, by Scxagenarius. 



The Life of Shakspeare, with Essaj-s 

 on the originality of his Dramatic Plots 

 and Characters, and on the Ancient 

 'J'hcaties and Theatrical Usages, by A. 

 Skottowe, in octavo, is in the press. 

 The author's primary object is to com- 

 pare the dramas of Shakspeare with their 

 sources. The work is likewise intended 

 to contain all the scattered information 

 which the general reader can require 

 beyond the common glossorial index 

 and notes affixed to the common editions. 



The sixth volume is expected imme- 

 diately of the Personal Narrative of M. 

 de Iiuinboldt's Travels to the Equinoc- 

 tial Regions of the New Continent, 

 during the years 1799-1804, translated 

 by H. ]M. Williams, under the imme- 

 diate inspection of the author. 



Sir Bichakd Phillips is preparing 

 Memoirs of his own Life and Times; 

 but, as personal anecdotes are involved 

 of above one thousand characters in 

 public and private life, with original 

 strictures of various kinds, and much 

 development of secret history, the pub- 

 lication will be delayed. The narrative 

 parts will till five or six volumes, 

 small octavo, and the original corres- 

 jiondence and documents to three or 

 four. 



Mr. Cochrane, whose extraordinary 

 pedestrian exploits in Asia and Russia 

 have excited so much wonder, is printing 

 his Travels. 



A volume is about to be published 

 for the benefit of the Artists' Benevolent 

 Fund, entitled Testimonies to the Ge- 

 nius and Memory of Richard Wilson, 

 R.A. together with some account of his 

 life, and remarks upon the style of his 

 landscapes, and upon landscape paint- 



