Literary avid Miscellaneous Inlelligcnce. 



354, 



Tlic Ikiilc of Florence, illustrative of 

 ibc iiiaiiiiers of tlic niiJille as^cs, willi 

 liistoricai notes, and Minor Poems, is 

 preparing for publication, by R. Fnz- 



EUSTACE. 



. Mr. Eg AN, professor of llic barp, lias 

 in a state of forwardness, an Historical 

 Essay on tlie Harp. 



Mr. B. Cook, of Eirminsliam, is 

 jirocccding to print a New Clironology, 

 on tlic plan described at large in our 

 last Magazine. He has already been 

 iiogaged in verifiing and collecting 

 dates and facts during several years. 



The Rev. H. Mooke has in the 

 press, a Life of the Kev. John Wesley, 

 including that of his brother Charles, 

 compiled from authentic documents, 

 iTiany of which have never been pub- 

 lished. 



On the 1st of May will be published. 

 No. I. of a Series of Sixty Views, in 

 ilolland, Belgium, and on the Rhine 

 qnd Maine, by Capt. Batty. It will 

 Coni|)rise a selection from the most pic- 

 turesque and remarkable scenes in tiic 

 above-named countries, and will include 

 ■yicws of the principal cities, viz. Am- 

 sterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague, Ley- 

 den, Antwerp, Mechlin, Brussels, Lou- 

 \alu, Ghent, Bruges, Tonrnay, Namur, 

 Coblentz, Mayencc, Francfort, Wurtz- 

 turgh, &c. 



A closely-printed voliync, like Mac- 

 kenzie's "Receipt-Book," will soon 

 appear in Edinburgh and London, under 

 the title of the Scoistnans Library. Its 

 contents will consist of every kind of 

 anecdote and curious fact, which can 

 be assembled from printed and original 

 sources, relative to Scotsmen and things, 

 and to Scotland, in every way in which 

 the people and the country are interest- 

 ing. The articles will be about 3000 in 

 number, consequently nothing will bo 

 omitted which the range of time and 

 country can supply. A learned Scots- 

 inan, who has been twenty years making 

 the collections, is named as its editor. 



Tours to the British Mountains, De- 

 scriptive Poems, &c. by T.WiLKiNsoN, 

 of Yanwath, Westmoreland, are print- 

 ing in small octavo. 



Essays and Sketches of Character, by 

 the late R. Ayton, esq. with a Memoir 

 of his Life, and a portrait engraved by 

 F. C. Lewis, from a drawing by Mr. 

 Westidl, will soon appear. 



The conductors of the Liverpool 

 Mechanics' and Apprentices' Library, 

 lias issued circulars, soliciting contribu- 

 tions of books from all fricuds to the 

 ^iflusion of kuowledge. 



[INIay 1 , 



A popular woik is i:i pn-par:ition, 

 descriptive of t!ie WoNDtKS ni- the 

 UMTEn KtNUDoM, by the Author of 

 " llic Wonders of the Woild " It will 

 funu loin- bandsome volumes, small 

 oclavo. — two separately for England 

 aiid AVales, — one for Scollan<!, and 

 one for Inland, — wit'i niinu-rons en- 

 gravings. For purposes of education, 

 and for popular libr;iries, ?ncli a work 

 has long been much wanted. 



The Wamlerings of Liican anil Dinah, 

 an epic romance, in ten cantos, in the 

 stanza of Spenser, by M. P. Kavanagh, 

 are in the press. 



The Board of Liingitude has con- 

 ferred the parliamentary premium of 

 500/. on Peter Barlow, of the Royal 

 Military Academy, tor his method of 

 correcting the local affection of vessels. 

 The great quantities of iron employed 

 at this time in the construe! ion and 

 equipment of shijis-of-war, produce so 

 much variation in tiie compass, (varying 

 according to the direction of the ship's 

 head,) as to renilcr it almost a useless 

 instrument, particularly in high northern 

 and southern latitudes. 



A Translation of M. DuriN's most 

 important and generally useful work, on 

 the Commercial Power of Great Britain, 

 is announced for early publication. This 

 woik supplies a variely of details to tho 

 statesman, the merchant, nnil the man 

 of science, heretofore uncollected in this 

 country. 



Sancho, the Sacred Trophy, and tho 

 Unparalleled Operations of Episcopacy, 

 with a Piesbytcr's Hat, is preparing 

 for the press, by the Rev. S. H, 

 Carlisle. 



An Outline of the System of Educa- 

 tion at New Lanark, by 11. D. Owen, 

 esq. is in |)reparation. 



Mr. Ventouillac, the editor of the 

 "French Classics," now publishing in 

 London, has in the press a Selection of 

 Papers from M. Jouy's " Hcrmites,"' 

 to be published in French, with notes, 

 and a portrait and life of M. ,louy, under 

 the title of " Lc petit Hcrmitc." Also, 

 a translation into French of Bishop 

 Watson's " Apology for the Bible." 



Aids to Reliection, in a series of pru- 

 dential, moral, and spiritual, aphorisms, 

 extracted from the works of Arclibishop 

 Lcighton, with notes and interpolated 

 remarks, by S. T. Colekidge, esq. aro 

 in the press. 



Critical and Descriptive Accounts of 

 the most celebrated Picture Galleries 

 in England, with an Essay on Elgijj 

 KlarlJIcf, will speedily be pubJislied. 



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