540 Literary and Miscellaneous fntelligenee. 



[July I, 



on Ihe Manners ami Customs of the 

 Italians at tlie Commencement of llie 

 Nineleentli Century, will soon appear. 



A Chronological History of the West 

 Indies is announced, by Capt. Thomas 

 South EY, commander, Royal Navy, in 

 tince volumes, octavo. 



A Compendium of Medical Theory 

 and Practice, founded on Dr. Cullen's 

 Nosology, which will be given as a 

 Text-book, and a translation annexed, 

 is in preparation, l)y D. Uwins, m.d. 



A valuable vein of clay has been re- 

 cently discovered in tlx; mountains of 

 North Wales, which has been intro- 

 duced into our Potteries with great 

 success, producing an improved article, 

 (appropriately teimtd Celtic China,) 

 combining the durability and other 

 advantages of iron-stone China with the 

 beautiful surface of the finest Trench 

 porcelain. 



Tales of R Traveller, by the Author of 

 the "Sketch Book," and " Knicker- 

 bocker's New York," will appear in a 

 few days. 



A Tale of Paraguay, by R. SoutheY, 

 LL.D. ^c. is announced. 



Mr. Lami'EUT, vice-president of the 

 Linnsciin Society, has been a long time 

 engaged on the second volume of his 

 splendid work, a Description of the 

 Genus Penies, and it is expected to ap- 

 pear in the course of the month. It con- 

 sists of plates and descriptions of species 

 of the genus entirely new, and the most 

 niagnilieent hitherto discovered. 



Speedily will be published, Memoirs 

 of the Rose, eomjjrising botanical, 

 poetical, and miscellaneous, recollec- 

 tions of that celebrated ilower; in a 

 seiies of letters to a lady. 



The Remains of Robert Bloomfield, 

 consisting of unpul)lished prose and 

 poetical [tieces, will apjiear in a few 

 days, for the exclusive benefit of his 

 family. 



Patnios, and other Poems, are in the 

 press, by James Edmeston, author of 

 "Sacred Lyrics." 



Glass-stain'ing has of late years 

 been brought to a perfi ction almost 

 incredible. In early ages, the most 

 magnificent windows were formed by 

 painting parts of the figures or landscape 

 on small bits of glass, and joining them 

 together afterwards. But it was left to 

 Mr. Peakson (who for years has exhi- 

 bited in London,) to effect, by chemical 

 discoveries, what bad defied the most 

 universally acknowledged geniuses in 

 the art of glass-staining, viz. the render- 



ing the colours permanent. The mag- 

 nitude and variety of his works will 

 ensure the transmission of his name to 

 posterity. Every cflort of his pencil 

 that is submitted to the public eye is 

 vitrified. A magnificent window in 

 Salisbury Cathedral, the subject " the 

 Elevation of the Brazen Serpent in 

 the Wilderness ;" — a window in St. 

 Botolph's Chnrcl), Aldersgate, repre- 

 senting "the Passion;" — "The Nati- 

 vity," in Whitechapel Church ;— " The 

 Four Evangelists," (the size of life,) in 

 Brazennose College, Oxford ; — and 

 many olher works of a public nature, he 

 has scattered throughout England. 



Specimens (selected and translated) 

 of the Lyric Poetry of the Mincssin- 

 gers, of the reign of Frederick Barba- 

 rossa and the succeeding emperors of 

 the Suabian dynasty, with liistorical. 

 critical, and biographical, remarks, arc 

 in the press. 



Such is the perennial supply of novel- 

 ties of literature, that although the 

 "Monthly Critical Gazette" noticed 

 ninety-four works in its first number, 

 ninety-six are announced in the second 

 Number! 



Elements of Algebra, compiled from 

 Garnier's French translation of Leonard 

 Euler, and arranged so as to form a 

 complete System of Elementary In- 

 struction in the First Part of Algebra, 

 by C. Taylor, Downing College, Cam- 

 bridge, Mill soon appear. 



Muscologia Britannica, containing 

 the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland 

 systematically arranged and described, 

 by W. J. Hooker, f.r.s. a.s.l. &c. and 

 T. Taylor, m.d. m.r.i.a. and f.l.s. 

 Sec is preparing, in octavo, with plates. 

 The History of Italy, from the Fall of 

 the Western Empire to the Extinction 

 of the Venetian Republic, by G. Per- 

 ceval, esq. is announced. 



The Art of French Cookery, by A. 

 Beauvilliers, restaurateur of Paris, is 

 printing in London. 



Some workmen, in pulling down an 

 old house at Maidstone, in Kent, found 

 in the walls a large earthen vessel, 

 wrapped in linen and skins. It contained 

 a Bible in very ancient characters, with 

 some blank pages, in which were manu- 

 script notes, scarcely legible, from the 

 cfi'ect of humidity. There was enough, 

 however, to show, that they were the 

 memorandums of a traveller about the 

 middle of the sixteenth century. There 

 was also a Roman silver coin, and A 

 copper one of the reign of Queen Anne. 



GERM.lNY. 



