Liltrary and Miscellancotis Iniclllgmce. 



1824.] 



The Olil Ei)2;lish Dinmn, n scl^clio!i 

 of plays from tlie early Enfflish drama- 

 tists, is priiiliiitr. It will iiioliiile t!ie 

 whole olDotlsloj's Collection, and every 

 j)Iay of any excellence. 



A Selection of the Gcniofjical Me- 

 moirs contained in the A/males des 

 Mines, togcllicrwith a Sjnoptical Tahle 

 of Equivalent formations, and M. 

 Brofrniart's Table of the Classification 

 of Mixed Rocks, by Mr. l>e la Bkchu, 

 will soon 1)0 published. 



Sir William Chambers's Treatise on 

 Civil Areliitectiire, much extended, by 

 J. GwiLT, architect, is printing. 



An Apology For Don Juan, Cantos 1 

 and 2, is in the press. 



Mr. G. Cruikshank is preparing 

 several designs for a humourous JExpo- 

 sitionoftlie Tread-mill. 



The third and last Number of the 

 History, Sec. of Wells Cathedral, is 

 about to be published. The volume 

 will be illustrated by sixteen engraving^s 

 by J. Le Keux, &,c. iVoiu drawings by 

 G. Cutteimole. 



Tales and Sketclies of the West of 

 Scotland, by a gentleman of Glasgow, 

 are printing. 



The Rev. M. Jackson, minisfrr of St. 

 Paul's, Leeds, lias a new edition of his 

 Sermons in the press, in two volumes, 

 12nio. in which will be included many 

 new ones. 



The second edition is nearly ready of 

 the History of Roman Literature, from 

 its earliest period to the Augustan age, 

 liy J. DuNLOP, esq. author of "the 

 History of i'iction," in two volumes, 

 oelav(t. 



'J'he Rev. R. Burns, minister of St. 

 George's Church, Paisley, has in the 

 j)ress a work on the Subject of Plurali- 

 ties in the Churcii of Scotland, exhibit- 

 ing a view of their history in general, 

 their inconsistency with the due dis- 

 charge of pastoral obligations, the light 

 in which they li;ive been viewed by the 

 Reformed Churches at large, and by the 

 Church of Scotland in particular, and 

 the power of the Churcli to put them 

 down. 



Mr. LotinoN is getting ready a 

 second edition of his r.ncyclopaMlia of 

 Gardening, comprising the theory and 

 practice of liorlieullure, floricullure, 

 arboriculture, and landscape gardening ; 

 including all the latest improvements, a 

 (;cncral history of gard(>ning in all coun- 

 tries, and a statistical view of its present 

 state, with suggi'stions for its future 

 l>rogross, in the liritish isles. 



A History of the County of Devon 



2^3 



has been nnderlaken, and considerable 

 progress is made in it, by a gentleman 

 of professional character. 



The seventh volume is printing of 

 SIvetchcs of Sermons, lurnislied by their 

 respective authors. 



Views of the Principal Cities and 

 Towns in Scotland, from drawings by 

 Mr. J. Clark, will soon appear. 



A second edition of Toller's Sermons, 

 with Memoirs of the Aulhor, by R. 

 Hall, are prirding. 



'i'he Wliole Works of Bishop Rey-_ 

 nokls, now first collected, in six volumes, 

 octavo, with a Life by A. Chalmers, 

 esq. are about to apj)ear. 



A musical plienomenon lias appeared 

 in London of the name of George Aspull, 

 at present only eightyearsold. The instru- 

 ment on which he performs is the piano- 

 forte. His fingers are extremely short, 

 even for his age; with the left hand he 

 cannot reach an octave so as to press 

 down the two notes which form it at one 

 time, and is only enabled to do so with 

 the right hand with much difficulty, and 

 by depressing the wrist. The compo- 

 sitions of Kalkbrenner and Moschelcs, 

 prepared for displaying in public the 

 manual skill of those celebrated profes- 

 sors, are played without the smallest 

 cfl'ort by this extraordinary child. He 

 is also master of a piece of most singular 

 difiiculty, by a foreign compo.ser, Czerny, 

 and who wrote it as a trial of skill for 

 all the eminent professors of Europe, in 

 order to combine all the mechanical 

 niceties of execution of which the in- 

 strument is susceptible. This piece, 

 consisting of only one movement, occu- 

 pies nearly forty pages of printed music, 

 every one of which is crowded witli 

 rapid divisions, miricate modulations, 

 and tlie most chromatic passages that 

 the composer could devise. The boy's 

 mind evidently participates in all that 

 his hand executes. 



'JMie Author of " Pateoromaica" lias 

 in the press, a Supplement to that work, 

 with remarks on the strictures made by 

 the Bishop of St. David's, by the Rev. 

 J. 1. Cony here, a.m. prebendary of 

 York, likewise by the Rev. W. G. 

 Broughton, A.M. and by Dr. Palconer. 



The Botanical Cabinet, consisting of 

 coloured delineations of plants from all 

 countries, with a short account of each, 

 directions for management, &c. by CoN- 

 UAi) LouDiGi:.s and Sons, continues to 

 be published in monthly Parts; each 

 I'art contains ten ])latcs, and ten Parts 

 foini a volume ; cighty-onc Parts have 

 been published. 



Sir 



