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founded by him at. Edinburgh, in one 
volume, foolscap octavo, with plates. 
The Key to Nicholson’s Mathema- 
tics, and the new volume of Dodsley’s 
Annual Register, will be ready on the 
5th of June. 
A History of England is preparing 
for publication, with conversations at 
the end of each chapter, intended for 
young persons, by Mrs. MarkuaM; in 
two volumes, duodecimo, with nume- 
rous engravings of costumes, &c. 
The third part of Mr. Ruopes’ 
Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Der- 
byshire, will be published in the course 
of the ensuing menth, These Excur- 
sions, are illustrated with a series of 
beautiful engravings by Mr.Cooke, 
from drawings recently made by Mr. 
Chantrey, R.A. 
A. series of spirited Etchings of 
Views, &c. are nearly ready for pabli- 
cation, illustrative of, and forming a 
valuable acquisition to, FAULKNER’s 
“ History and Antiquities of Kensing- 
ton,” from original drawings by Ro- 
bert Banks. 
Mr. Busby is about to publish the 
Plan and Elevation of the Capitol, in 
the City of Washington, from mea- 
surements taken, and documents ob- 
tained on the spot, by himself, in 1819. 
Shortly will be published, Cumnor, 
and other Plays and Poems, by E. B. 
Impey, M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. 
Traditional Tales of the Wnglish 
and, Scottish Peasantry, by ALLAN 
CUNNINGHAM, are in the press. 
Scholastica Doctrina, or Lectures to 
Young Gentlemen at Boarding-school, 
on the various Branches of a Liberal 
Education, with a characteristic view 
of the most approved elementary 
books of instruction ; also on the con- 
duct and duties of life; are preparing 
for publication, by J. K. Kent, of 
Rupton Seminary, Herts. 
Mr. Bourne has in the press, an 
enlarged edition of a Gazetteer, of the 
most Remarkable Places in the World. 
It appears from Mr. HigHMoRE’s 
important. work, entitled, ‘* Philan- 
thropia Metropolitana,” that the cha- 
ritable institutions of London extend 
in number to nearly 500. 
Miss Scort, of Kendal, has in the 
press a volume of Poems, original and 
selected, 
A neweditionof Newton’s Principia, 
from the famous Jesuit edition, with all 
their notes, will speedily be publish- 
ed, from the.Glasgow University press, 
eorrected by a Cambridge scholar. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[June 1, 
The Modern Art of Fencing, in 
which the most recent improvements 
in the use of the manly foils are clearly 
elucidated, agreeably to the methods 
of the most’ eminent masters in Europe, 
by Le Sieur Guzman RoLANDO, of the 
Académie des Armes, is in’ the press. 
A Technical Glossary, in French and 
English, of the Terms which relate to 
the Use of the Sword, is'added; and 
the whole is carefully revised' by J. 8. 
Forsyrn, formerly a pupil of Le Sieur 
Guzman Rolando. 
futhanasia, or the State of Man 
after Death, by the Rev. L. Booker, 
LL.D. viear of Dudley, will be pub-. 
lished in the course of the next month. 
A new edition of: Thomas Covr’s 
searce and valuable work on Regene- 
ration, Faith, and Repentance; ‘to 
which will be prefixed his two Ser- 
mons on Imputed Righteousness; 
edited by the Rev. Jonn Rexs, of 
Rodborough; is printing in duodecimo. 
The eighth edition of “Female 
Scripture Characters,” by the late 
Mrs. King, witha Sketch of the Life of 
the Author, will shortly be published. 
The Book of Fate, which itis feigned 
was formerly in the possession of Na- 
poleon, and found in his cabinet after 
the battle of Leipsic, has been trans- 
lated from the German, and will be 
published this month, ; 
We are happy to see that Acts 
were passed in the. last Sessions for 
lighting with gas, Leicester, Bristol, 
Hull, Coventry, four miles on -the 
Essex road, Newport, Isle of Wight, 
Chichester, Brentford, &c. Dudley, 
Portsea, Poplar, Barnsley, and Ips- 
wich. More towns of above: 10,000 
inhabitants are’ now lighted in this 
way than are not. 
RUSSIA. 
English literature is rapidly ad- 
vancing in Poland. Lord Byron’s 
“Bride of Abydos,” and Sir Walter 
Scott’s ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel,” 
have already been translated; and 
several other English poetical works 
are in forwardness. Shakspeare’s 
plays are an object of study; and the 
principal ones are frequently per- 
formed at Wilna, Cracow, Warsaw, 
and Leopol. m 
The Polish Count Dzialinski has ~ 
lately carried from Paris to Warsaw 
a work, which he is said to have pur- — 
chased for its weight in gold. It is a ~ 
volume of about thirty or forty leaves, — 
in’ small’ folio, in’ Napoleon’s own 
hand, the authenticity of whichis con- 
firmed 
