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Tlie Follicrjio-llian Medal ivas bcoii 

 presented to 11. W. BAMi'FiiiLD, es<i. 

 surgeon, of Bedford street, Covent-gar- 

 den, at a special general meeting of the 

 Medical Society, on Monday, tlie 3d 

 Tjlt. for the best Essay on Diseases of 

 llie Spiae. 



Shortly will he jiuljlisbod, IngcRious 

 Scrii[ik's (ehiefiy relathig to the obser- 

 vation of the Sabiialh,) answered, in 

 eight letters, forming a s«[)p<)sed series 

 from a father to his daughter ; by A. C. 

 Manx. 



An Essay on the Beneficial Direction 

 of Hnral Expenditnie, is announced by 

 R. A. Slaney, esq. 



A work is in the press, called the 

 Relapse, or True an<l False Morality. 



HeJon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem is 

 preparing for publication, consisting of 

 « )iictiirc of Jndaisra in the cenlnry 

 which preceded the Advent of the 

 Messiah, translated from the German 

 of F. Strauss, with notes and illustra- 

 tions by the translator. 



Mr. W. Smith, the father of English 

 pjcology, (belter known anioni;st his 

 friends and patrons by the appcllalion 

 Strata Smith,) has lately delivered a 

 short course of Geological Leclures, to 

 a select class at Yoik, in illustration 

 chiefly of the subfieial structure of that 

 extensive connty (as detailed by the 

 colours on his four-sheet n)ap thereof, 

 l)ublishcd a few months ago) ; and in 

 «rder to point out several useful mine- 

 rals which the Yoikshiro strata clse- 

 wheio contain, and the probability that 

 such exist there also, if properly souglit 

 fx)r in the situations which he indicated 

 in these Lectures. 



Shortly will be published, n second 

 edition and prcatly iniprovrd, of the 

 Young Naturalist, a tale, calculated for 

 the amusement and instruction of young 

 jieople; by A. C. Mant. 



A work is in the press, lobe published 

 for the benefit of the Artists' Benevo- 

 lent Fund, entitled, Testimoniis to the 

 Genius and Memory of llichard Wilson, 

 K.A. with some account of his life, and 

 remarks on his landscapes ; to which arc 

 ndde<l various observations res|)ecling 

 the pleasure and advantages to be de- 

 rived from the study of nature and the 

 fine arts ; collected and arranged by T. 

 WiiiGHT, esq. 



In a few days, a second edition of 

 Sweepings of my Study. 



The coimoissciirs in good-eating, will 

 sjieedily be enlightened in the mysteries 

 of the Art of French Cookery, by M. 

 IVCAUVILLIEKS, a gcnuiuc Parisian res- 



taurateur. The work will be printed 

 in a duodecimo volume, imiforndy with 

 " the Domestic Cookery." 



In the press, andspeeiiily will appear, 

 in two volumes, enjfx'llished wilh nu- 

 merous engravings on wood, Typo- 

 graplvia, or the Printers' Instructor, by 

 J. .JoHXsoN, Printer ; dedirated, by 

 permission, to the Roxlnsrghe Chdj. 

 The first volnmi; coniuienecs with a 

 comijletc history of the origin, rise, and 

 progress, of the typographic art, wherein 

 is clearly shown the pretensions of the 

 diifcrent partisans who have stepped 

 forward in favour of the persons and 

 places which have been mu.'itioncd as 

 having given birth to this grand and 

 noble invention. Tho second volume 

 opens with an account of the ditterent 

 articles necessary in the exercise of tho 

 art; also schemes for imposing, with a 

 general outline for laying down all irre- 

 gular matter of every drsciiption; like- 

 wise directions to authors for the <:or- 

 recting of proofs; tables of signatures 

 and folios; Domesday characters; Greek 

 ligatures, &c. 



A little work, ilUisfralivcof tlic senti- 

 ments of the two parlies in the Cl'.ureh 

 of England, is in the press, estlitled the 

 Two Rectors, in ten papers, containing 

 the Mail coach, the Bookseller's Shop, 

 Social Intercourse, tho Missionary, Pa- 

 triotism, Amusements, the Keeper's 

 Jjodge, the Repentant Criminal, the 

 Church Service, the Departure, neatly 

 printed in duodecimo. 



The Slave, a i)ocn), is in the press. 



Mr. Mai'gham, auilior of tho " l^u- 

 pil's PharniacopcL'ia," is printing, uni- 

 ioruily with the small edition of the 

 Pharni. Lond. an Appendix to the 

 !att<r work, ccnnprisiog a concise his- 

 tory of the materia tncdiea, as «cll as of 

 the preparations contained therein, with 

 a brief notice of their doses, virtues, iind 

 uses. 



Mr. Whitf, licnt. in the United 

 States Navy, has in the press, a Voyage 

 to Cochin China. 



The magniiicent eighteen sheet Map 

 of England and Wales, by an artist 

 whose labours have done lasting honour 

 to the English name, the late Mr. 

 Aaron Arkowsmitii, has recently been 

 hiuig up in the Library of the House of 

 Commons. More t'lan 150,000 names 

 are engraven in this nni(|ue map, to 

 which an alphabetical index, referring 

 readily to any names therein, cither of 

 towns, villages, houses, &:c. or of rivers, 

 hills, districts, &c. was nearly complettd 

 and reudv fur publication at the time of 



Mr. 



