i 824. Literary and Miscellaneous Jntdligence. 



Taibnt, Isla, Staffa, lona, and even tlie willi considerable addilioiis 

 Giant's Ca-usewaj' ; and tlins, with but 

 a trifling iiiferniission, there will be a 

 communication between Loudon and 

 the above places. 



Mr. Partington announces the fact, 

 that a lady pvcseiit, whilst lie was pre- 

 paring the apparatus For one of his lale 

 lectures at the Rnsscl Institution, ha|)- 

 pcning to bring her band near to a 

 powerful magnetic needle, he was sur- 

 prised to observe the same drawn aside 

 at tlie same instant; and, on requesting 

 the lady to repeat and vary the experi- 

 ment, he found that the needle eitiier 

 approached or receded, accordingly as 

 the tliumb or the finger of the same 

 band of the lady was made to ap- 

 proach it. 



A Diagram illustrative of the Forma- 

 tion of the Human Character, suggested 

 by Mr. Owen's development of a new 

 view of society, will speedily be published. 



A Tour in Germany and in some of 

 the Provinces of the Austrian Empire, 

 in the years 1821 and 1822, is printing 

 at Edinburgh. 



The Universily of Oxford has adopted 

 the Interrogative System, exactly as 

 developed in the books published by Sir 

 Richard Phillips; and the University 

 of Paris has recommended the same 

 system to the schools of France. It lias 



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will soon 

 api)ear, in nineteen volumes, octavo. 



Speedily will be published, an En- 

 quiry into the Duties and Perplexities 

 of Medical Men as Witnesses in Courts 

 of Justice, with cautions and directions 

 for their guidance, by J. G. Smith, M.d. 



Early in July will be published, 

 Bibliotheca Biblica, or a Select List of 

 Books on Sacred Literature, with no- 

 tices biographical, critical, and biblio- 

 graphical, intended as a guide to the 

 consultation of the most useful writers 

 on biblical subjects ; by William 

 Orme. This publication will contain 

 some account of nearly one thousand 

 books, including editions of the original 

 Scriptures. 



The Scotsman's Library, announced 

 in a former Number, will be ready iu 

 August. 



The Poet's Lay from South America 

 is in the press at Edinburgh. 



Mr. J. P' Wood has nearly ready 

 for publication, a Life of Law of Lau- 

 riston, projector of the Mississippi 

 scheme: containing a detailed account 

 of the nature, rise, and progress, of this 

 extraordinary joint stock company, with 

 many curious anecdotes of the rage for 

 speculating in its funds, and the disas- 

 trous consequences of its failure. 



The Mechanic's Oracle, or Artizan's 



long been adopted in other parts of the complete Laboratory and Workshop, is 

 Continent, and in England is introduced in the press. 



into nearly every seminary in which 

 the conductor or conductress is unfet- 

 tered in choice. 



Mr. Elmks is engaged in a General 

 and Bibliographical Dictionary of the 

 Fine Arts, containing explanations of 

 the principal terms used in the arts of 

 painting, sculpture, architecture, and 

 engraving, in all their various branches; 

 and historical sketches of the rise and 

 proicrcss of their different schools. 



Dr. Forbes, of Chichester, will 

 shortly publish his Translation of Aven- 

 bruggcr, and a series of original cases 

 and dissections, illustrating the utility 

 of the Stethoscope and Percussion. 



M. Laennf.c is preparing for publica- 

 tion a new edition of his celebrated 

 Treatise on Mediate Auscultation, with 

 considerable alterations and improve- 

 ments. In consctpience, Dr. I'orbks 

 has postponed the second edition of his 

 translation. 



The Works of Jonathan Swiff, d.d. 



clean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, with 



jiotes, and a life of the author, by Sir 



Walter Scott, bart. second edition, 



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When hot and cold are blown from the 

 same breath, it is owing, in the former 

 case, to the mouth being opened wide, 

 and a large stream of air being slowly 

 expelled from the lungs, charged with 

 the heat of thatorgan, which accordingly 

 raises the temperature of any body, like 

 the hand, held before and near to the 

 mouth, to an approximation with the 

 heat of the lungs; but when, on the 

 contrary, the mouth is nearly closed, 

 and air from the lungs is propelled in a 

 small rapid stream or jet, on to any 

 body, as the hand, or tea in a saucer, 

 held at a distance from the mouth, this 

 jet of air, on the principle of the lateral 

 communication of motion, (first exem- 

 plified by M. Venturi,) in its passage 

 through the cool air of the room, drags 

 along with it a stream of this circum- 

 ambient air on to the hand or tea, and 

 produces a cooling effect, the degree of 

 which cooling is however always infe- 

 rior to that produced by launiiigor pro- 

 jecting the air of flic room on any body 

 which is to be cooled. 



The Hermit in Italy, or Observations 



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