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Shortly will be published, in two 
volumes octavo, a Poetical translation 
of Voltaire’s Maid of Orleans, being 
the first time it has appeared in English 
metre. This arduous undertaking is 
illustrated by copious Notes of the 
translator, Mr. W. H. IRELAND, Mem- 
ber of the Atheneum at Paris. 
In the press, the fifth, being the con- 
cluding part of a series of Views in Sa- 
voy and Switzerland, and on the Rhine ; 
engraved in mezzotinta, from drawings 
made on the spot, by JOHN DENNIS, 
and accompanied with letter-press. 
Messrs. T. KeEywortH and D. 
JONES, are preparing a second edition 
of Principia Hebraica, in two pocket 
volumes, to be sold separately. One 
volume to contain the grammar revised 
—the other volume to comprise a gramn- 
matical analysis of three hundred verses, 
taken from the Psalms, together with a 
selection of single words, classed ac- 
cording to their forms, and containing 
every common root not in the three 
hundred verses. Suggestions for the 
improvement of the work are respect- 
fully solicited, and may be sent post 
paid to the publishers. 
The Rev. N. J. HOLLINGSWORTH, 
will speedily publish a new and en- 
larged edition of his Defenceof the Doc- 
trine and Worship of the Church of 
England, in a Series of Letters ad- 
dressed to the Rev. John Lingard. 
The Rev. R. W. BAMFORD, of Tri- 
nity College, Cambridge, late superin- 
tendent of the Blue-coat Hospital, at 
Liverpool, has in the press a work, en- 
titled Essays on the Discipline of Chil- 
dren, particularly as regards their edu- 
cations. 
Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS is printing 
an enlarged edition of his Speeches, in 
one volume, octavo ; and also a new 
edition of his Recollections of Curran, 
and some of his contemporaries. 
Proposals have been circulated in 
London for publishing by subscription, 
an Historical, Chronological, and Geo- 
graphical American Atlas, containing 
Maps of North and South America, with 
all theirdivisions into states,kingdoms, 
&c., on the plan of Le Sage; intended 
as a companion to Lavoisne’s Atlas. It 
will contain fifty-three maps, all of 
which will be well executed from the 
best and most recent authorities. 
Shortly will be published, Popery 
the Mystery of Babylon, or the Abomi- 
nation of the Church of Rome, by a 
beneficed Clergyman of the Church of 
England and a graduate of Cambridge. 
Lilerary and Critical Proemium. 
[April 1, 
Collections towards a History of an- 
cient Institutions, Customs, discoveries 
in Science, and Mechanical inventions, 
selected and abridged from the Bey- 
trage zur Geschichte der Erfindungen 
of Professor Beckmann, of the univer- 
sity of Géttingen, with various impor- 
tant additions, are printing in London. 
New editions of the following works 
will speedily appear :—The Farmer’s 
Directory, and Guide to the Farrier, 
Grazier, and Planter, including valua- 
ble directions in domestic economy 3; 
with suitable plates—Tbe Panorama 
of Science and Art, by JAMES SMLTH, 
2 vols. octavo.—Also, by the same Au- 
thor, the Mechanic, or Compendium of 
Practical Inventions. 
Ina few days will be published, the 
Pharmaceutical Guide, containing a 
Latin Grammar, in which all the rules 
are illustrated by examples, selected 
from the London Pharmacopeia; and 
an interlineary translation of such 
formule in the Pharmacopeeia as have 
been found difficult to be comprehend- 
ed by some young medical students: 
to which is affixed a collection of words 
and phrases most frequently employed 
in prescriptions. 
The Spy; a tale of the Neutral 
Ground, by the author of “* Precaution,” 
in three volumes, will soon appear. 
Charles and Eugenia, or the Paternal 
Benediction, translated from the French 
of Madame de Renneville, will shortly 
be published. 
On the 19th of February, 1818, a 
party of gentlemen made an excursion 
in the mine of Hudgilburn, in Cumber- 
land, to view a cavern in the limestone 
rock there, discovered a short time 
previously. The length of the main 
chasm is three hundred and twenty 
yards. Evident signs would seem to 
prove that this cavern and all its com- 
municating fissures have been filled at 
no very distant period, with water, and. 
the probability is, it has been drained off 
by the adits in the inine, in which there 
runs a constant stream from some con- 
tiguous part of the works. 
Captain Vetch and Mr. Drummond, 
the engineer officers intrusted with the 
conduct of the Trigonometrical Survey 
in the north of Scotland, have finished 
their task in Orkney and Zetland, by 
establishing in those clusters of islands 
the several positions which serve to 
connect them with the main land of 
Scotland. . 
Shortly will be published in three 
volumes, Pargas: a Tale of Spain. 
An 
