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searches connected with this undertak- 
ing for several years, and has visited all 
the sites in Scotland and Ireland which 
are described in Ossian, collecting on 
the spot, many interesting traditions, 
and verifying the antiquity of these sub- 
lime and matchless epics. Mr. Camp- 
bell’s edition will, therefore, be en- 
riched by an original dissertation, and 
by illustrative notes ; besides a map of 
the ancient kingdom of Connor, and 
views of some of the places celebrated 
in the poems. The public will feel 
‘that this and the previously announced 
work of O’Connor are treasures above 
all price in regard to the pristine lite- 
rature of these islands. 
Sir WALTER ScotrT has scarcely 
‘published his Pirate before he an- 
nounces another new novel under the 
title of The Fortunes of Nigel, of which 
the founder of Heriot’s Hospital, Edin- 
burgh, is to be the hero. 
A tragedy is announced by Mr. 
MILLMAN, under the title of the Mar- 
tyr of Antioch. 
Mr. LANDSEER is engaged on a 
learned historical work connected 
with ancient Oriental History, which 
will at once interest theologians and 
antiquaries. 
~ A miscellaneous volume of Poetry is 
aunounced, by BARRY CORNWALL, 
‘containing several subjects of consi- 
derable promise. 
In this Miscellany, published Nov. 1, 
we interested the public, by an article 
from Tottenham, relative to a method 
of obtaining a supply of water by boring. 
We have since received such further 
particulars as will induce us to intro- 
duce a fuller account in our next, ac- 
companied by an engraving, calculated 
to draw general attention to a subject 
of such high social importance. Wa- 
ter has heretofore been brought from a 
distance to Tottenham and sold by the 
gallon, but this beautiful village now 
possesses an inexhaustible and per- 
petual spring, which raises eight gal- 
lons a minute twenty feet high, for 
public use, and a gentleman whose 
mansion was deteriorated by the want 
of water, has formed another which 
raises eighteen gallons a minute. In 
each case, the boring proceeded to a 
depth of one hundred and _ forty feet, 
but if necessary, it might, at a compara- 
tively light expence, have been carried 
to one thousand feet. Thus every 
parish, hamlet, and even house in Bri- 
tain may be provided with its own per- 
petual spring. But in our next num- 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
| March 1, 
ber we will introduce further details 
relative not only to the success at Tot- 
tenliam, but in Essex and other situa- 
tions round London. We regard this 
as the greatest social discovery which it 
has been our good fortune to introduce 
to public adoption since we were the 
means of introducing gas lights. 
An elegant edition of the British 
Poets, in one hundred volumes, royal 
18mo. which has so long been in pre- 
paration at the Chiswick press of Mr. 
Whittingham, is on the eve of being 
published. It includes our most cele- 
brated poets, from Chaucer and Spen- 
ser down to Burns and Cowper, to- 
gether with the standard Translations 
from the Classics. Great care has been 
taken to rectify numerous errors which 
had crept into the text of preceding 
collections. The Life of each author 
is prefixed to his works. As far as they 
extend, the Lives written by Dr. John- 
son are adopted ; the remainder of the 
Biographical memoirs, fifty in number, 
are original compositions. Only five 
hundred copies have been printed. 
The Bridal of Caélchairn, and other 
Poems, by JoAN HAY ALLAN, are in 
the press. 
A Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, 
in the year 1821, is announced by sub- 
scription, in one volume, royal octavo. 
It was undertaken by W. G. MANBY, 
Esq. author of the Means of Saving 
Persons from Shipwreck, in the ship 
Baffin, of Liverpool, commanded by 
William Scoresby, jun. Esq. and is in- 
terspersed with the natural history of 
various animals and birds. The whole 
illustrated with accurate graphic re- 
presentations of extraordinary pecu- 
liarities of that zone. 
In the course of the present month 
will be published, The Elements of 
Self-Improvement; or, a Familiar 
View of the Intellectual Powers and 
Moral Characteristics of Human Na- 
ture; principally adapted for pos 
persons entering into active life; by 
the Rev. THos. FincuH, of Harlow. 
The History of Stamford, in Lincoln- 
shire, comprising its ancient and mo- 
dern state, with an account of St. Mar- 
tin’s, Stamford Baron, and Great and 
Little Wothorpe,. in Northamptonshire, 
will shortly be published by Mr. DRA- 
KARD. of Stamford. The work, al- 
though in a great measure compiled 
from former historians, contains man 
new and interesting documents, an 
will be embellished with a number of 
superior engravings. 
The 
