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The Rev. J. W. BELLamy, B.D. is 
about to publish by subscription, in 
one handsome quarto volume, witha 
fine portrait by Mr. Scriven, the Poems 
of the Rey. THomas, CHERRY, B.D. the 
late respected ,Head-master, of Mer- 
chant-Tailors’ School. 
Mr. V-.Py.is reprinting his edition 
of Brotier’s Tacitus, in 4,vols.,octavo. 
It combines .the adyantages. of. the 
Paris. and Edinburgh, editions, with a 
selection of notes from all the commen- 
tators on. ‘Tacitus, subsequent to the 
Edinburgh edition: the Literaria No- 
titia and. Politica, with all the Supple- 
ments, are also added; the French 
passages are translated, and the Ro- 
man money turned into English values. 
Dr. Meyrick has been many years 
engaged in collecting the scattered 
notices to be found in our old pocts, 
chroniclers, wills, deeds, and invento- 
ries of antient armour. The result 
will appear in the most splendid style, 
and, being in the. press, we shall not 
long continue to look for such a publi- 
cation as) a desideratum in literature. 
The. work will be published in three 
volumes, imperial quarto, and contain 
above one hundred specimens of an- 
tient armour, 
A very, extraordinary, decision, af- 
fecting literary property and the freo- 
dom of enquiry, took place within the 
month, ; It. will be remembered that 
Mr. William Lawrence, the eminent 
London surgeon, sometime since pub- 
lished his eloquent Lectures delivered 
at Surgeon’s Hall; and, as Mr, L. de- 
nied the evidence of any immaterial 
principle of sensation and life, some 
zealots in the governorship of Bethlem 
Hospital voted his expulsion from that 
establishment. Unwilling to be. the 
scape-goat of aphysico-theological ques- 
tion, in which science. was opposed by 
faith, Mr. Lawrence. modestly with- 
drew, his book from. circulation; and, 
in consequence, the copies already 
sold fetched.,.exorbilant prices. Of 
this. circumstance some speculating 
publishers took advantage, and several 
cheap editions appeared. Mr. Law- 
rence sought of course to assert his 
authorial rights, by an appeal to the 
Court of Chancery. for an injunction ; 
which being refused, on the ground, that 
the doctrines ought not, to be protect- 
ed, the cheap, editions remain in cireu- 
lation! However, the course of the 
pleadings xeminded the public: of the 
ancient discussions in_ the, Sorbonne, 
and of the absurd disputations in the 
Literary and Philosophicai Intelligence. 
{May f, 
age of Henry,-the Highth, and, James 
the First.--A..cireumstanee- equally ri- 
diculous has occurred about, Lord 
Byron's) Cain. -The €haneellor refased. 
his, protection ,of the,author’s right, 
owing to some metaphysical scruples, 
and five or six editions, some,as iow; as: 
1s. 6d. are in consequence on, sale.) ;, 
A. Vindication of the, Authenticity of 
the Narratives contained .in;-the first 
two Chapters of the Gospels,,of, St. 
Matthew and St. Luke, being;an.inves: 
tigation of objections urged). by. the 
Unitarian editors of the improved yer- 
sion of the New Testament, by, a;Liay- 
man, in one volume, octayo,, is in the 
press. vf 
The Life and Times of Daniel De 
Foe, with a copious accounti;ef. his. 
writings, and anecdotes,.of several of 
his contemporaries, by WALTER, WiL+ 
SON, esq. is preparing for publication. 
The sixth part of the Encyclopedia 
Metropolitana will be published. in 
June. 
Chinzica, a poem, im) ten ,cantos, 
founded on that part of the history-of 
the Pisan Republic, in which is said to 
have originated the celebrated: trien- 
nial festival, called tho Battle) of the 
Bridge, will speedily be published, iz 
one volume, octavo. 
The several sizes of Bibles, Tesia- 
ments, and Common Prayer-books; | ilt 
lustrated with an unequalled number of 
engravings, will be ready in the course 
of May. The additional expense of 
the Oxford, Cambridge, and. King’s! 
printer’s editions of Bibles, with nearly: 
800 engravings, will vary, according to 
sizes, from 7s. to 4s.. Of the: Testa= 
ments, With 100 engravings, from 3s. 10 
1s. 8d. ; and of the Prayer-books, with 64 
engravings, from 2s. 3d..\to . 19.)3d: 
These editions will of course.consti- 
tute a necessary and very current arti- 
cle of trade in every bookseller’s shop 
in the British dominions, and they will 
be circulated in the usual manner by 
the wholesale trade...There wilbhbbe 
editions on India paper at one-fourth 
extra; and others highly coloured) :at 
treble the price of the plain, extra, 
Mr. Aspin is; preparing ther third 
volume of. his ‘Analysis of -Universak 
History, for the press; and cit bis) ex+ 
pected to, appear in the course ofsthe 
ensuing autumn. —— id 
Letters (and Conversations on Public 
Preaching, including rules fox the pre= 
paration of sermons, in which theprin- 
ciples. of, the: celebrated »Claudex are 
adopted and extended, ‘in’ numerous 
examples, 
