18226] 
and thany printing engiiies ave “been 
at’ Work, “yet theré: eetion ctgiel 
speaking, heen no deficiency of emplo, i 
ment for compositars. Ha | pressing] 
Nothing is wanted to our literature 
but a foreign trade, such as enjoyed by 
the literature of France, whence aboye 
half, the books printed are exported. to 
foyeign:countties; » Hitherto this trade 
hasbeen destroyed by the avarice of 
some exporters, who seldom pack for 
foreign markets any books but such as 
are’ overprinted, or have no sale in 
England, and which therefore can be 
bought at the price of waste paper; and 
hencé it unhappily occurs, that our 
books. in foreign countries and in our 
* colonies. are devoid of character or 
latrinsic interest. 
Mr.O’Connor’s Chronicles of Eri, 
one of the most extraordinary histo- 
vical ‘curicsities which has appeared 
since the revival of Ictters, will make 
tieir appearance early in May. There 
will be two editions, both in octavo,— 
one on royal paper, and the other on 
demy. 
A, Cambridge Quarterly Review is 
about to be added to the other nume- 
rous Quarterly Journals. . We have 
no doubt it will command attention by 
its talents and integrity. Our Univer- 
sities might properly become the guar- 
dians of iaste and literature, if, in their 
Corporate capacity, they were not in 
each succeeding age bound by oath to 
support the prejudices and errors of 
each preceding age. A Monthly Cen- 
sor of Literature, from a high church 
connection, is also announced ; and the 
present year has given birth to five or 
six, other works of criticism. The 
Lord have mercy on the poor authors! 
An ambitious wight, who puts his name 
in a title-page, has to run the gauntlet 
of nearly one hundred critics,—quar- 
terly, monthly, weekly, and even daily! 
How fortunate he must regard himself 
if he is not ultimately in as deplorable 
a condition as an unhappy wretch who, 
perhaps for a less crime than that of 
tu author, is made to run a simi- 
lar gauntlet on board a man-of-war ! 
‘e recommend our readers’ atten- 
tion to, the original and very important 
article: under the head Cuemica Re- 
PORT, ‘relative to a discovery of great 
social importance, 
In a few days, will be published, in 
two imperial octayo volumes, Aides 
Althorpiane, or an, Account of the 
nsion at Althorp, the residence. of 
the Right Hon, Jeorge John Parl 
MontTHLy Mac, No. 367. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
333 
Spencer, Kv.’ together with a descrip- 
tive ‘catalosue of the pictures, and of a 
ortion of the library, inthe same 
aision : accompanied with twenty- 
four fine engravings of historical and 
family. portraits; and several views of 
portions of the house.and grounds; by 
the Rev. T, Fy DipDIN;, F.R.S..S.A., ‘The 
second volume) will consist of a Sup- 
plement ito the Bibl Spenceriana, ¢m- 
bellished with a great number of wood- 
cuts. 
Mr. Tuomas Tayior (the platonist,) 
has translated the cleyen books ofthe 
Metamorphosis of Apuleius, and, also 
his Treatise De Deo Socratis, and his 
three bocks De Habitudine Doetri- 
narum Platonis. And from the Greek, 
the Political Pythagoric Fragments 
preserved by Stobeus; all whieh will 
speedily be published. : 
Mr. ALARIc WaAtTs’s Specimens of 
the Living Poets, with biographical 
and critical prefaces, are in consider- 
able forwardness, and he intends, ina 
Supplemental Volume, to give notices 
of such poetical writers as have died 
within the last twenty years. 
The third and last part of Mr. Gar: 
DINER’s Oratorio of Judah will appear 
in May, forming the largest and richest 
collection of sacred music which has 
been produced for many years; and 
there are introduced into it many com- 
positions of Haydn, Mozart; and 
Beethoven, at present unknown in 
this country. 
WILLIAM SPENCE, esq. is republish: 
ing bis Tracts on Political Economy, 
viz. 1. Britain independent of com- 
merce; 2. Agyicuiture the source of 
the wealth of Britain; 3. The objec- 
tions against the Corn-bill refuted; 4. 
Speech on the East India Trade; with 
prefatory remarks on the causes and 
eure of our present distresses, as ori- 
ginating from neglect of _ principles 
laid’ down in’ these works: i 
Lecenpre’s Elements of Meeometry, 
and of Plane and Spherical Trigono- 
metry, is announced by Davin Brew- 
STER, LL.D. Fellow of the Royal: So- 
ciety of London, and Secretary to the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, with addi- 
tional notes and improvements. 
The Essay on the Influence of a 
Moral Life on our Judgment in Mat- 
ters of Faith, to which ‘the Society for 
Promotin Christian Knowledge and 
Church nion, in the Diocese of St. 
David’s, adjudged its premium for 
1821; by the Rev. SAMUEL CHARLES 
WiLKS, is in the press. 
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