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information relative to, every district, 
town, and place, having a name, So as 
to justify the great public demand for 
a new edition.. It may be expected. to 
appear about January next, in large ' 
octavo, as before. 
The continuation. of Mr. Bootu’s 
excellent Analytical Dictionary of the 
English Language is in the press, and 
the several parts will be published 
successively, at short intervals. The 
printing of the Second Part was ne- 
cessarily delayed for the purpose of 
calculating the number of copies that 
would be required, 
The Governors of the Middlesex 
Hospital, having long seen with much 
concern the numerous applicants that 
are every week refused admission into 
the Hospital for want of room, unani- 
mously resolved, on the 7th of August, 
10 open another of the wards which 
have been hitherto unoccupied for 
~awant of funds. Countenanced by the 
munificent and almost unparalleled 
donation of 10001. from Lord Robert 
Seymour for this express purpose, the 
governors have ventured with greater 
confidence to appeal to the liberality 
of the public, and solicit their contri- 
butions for forming a permanent fand 
for its maintenance: the annual ex- 
pense of which will not be less than 
500/. Books are therefore opened for 
donations ; and, as this Hospital is one 
of the most efficient in the metropolis, 
there can be little deubt but the object 
will be speedily achieved. 
Mr, H.V. Smitu js preparing for 
publication, a History of the English 
Stage, from the Reformation to the 
present time; containing ‘a particular 
account of all the theatres that have 
been erccted at diflerent periods in the 
metropolis, and interspersed with va- 
rious amusing ancedotes,&c. 
Sir Ricuary PHILLirs having com- 
pleted the series of Elementary Books, 
in accordance with his Interrogative 
System of Education, and some other 
useful publications, upon which he has_ 
been commercially and mentally en- 
gaged for the last twenty-five years, 
has transferred the future sales to the 
public and the bookselling-trade to the 
respectable wholesale house of Messrs. 
WUirakeER; buthe purposesto continue 
his long-established intercourse with 
the public through the Monthly Maga- 
zine, as Tong as his health and intellec- 
tual vigor permit. 
Hore Momenta Cravene, or ‘the 
Craven Dialect exemplified in ‘Two 
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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Sept. 1, 
Dialogues, between) Farmer Giles and 
his neighbour Bridget, is nearly re 
for publication ; ; to whichis annexe 
a copious Glossary of the dialect of 
Craven, in the West Riding. 
An Asiatic Society .of ‘London is 
just formed, upon a very extensive 
scale, and is to comprise subjects. not 
merely connected with: Asia, (though 
this is the chief design,) but with all 
our ‘possessions eastward of the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
The dishonest’ conduct of the 
speculations called Reviews. has 
often demanded our animadversions ; 
and in twenty-seven years we have so 
opened the eyes of the public in regard 
to anonymous criticism, as almost en- 
tirely to have destroyed its craft. To 
increase the effect, we commenced an 
article under the head of “ Paitoso- 
PHY OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM,” 
in which we re-reviewed the opinions 
of those reviews which had acquired 
an imposing influence on the. public. 
Messieurs, the Critics, took alatm at 
this interference with their authority ; 
and we have, in consequence, been 
often bespattered with their abuse. 
The parties who have evinced the 
greatest sorencss, have been the con- 
ductors of the Edinburgh Review, 
who scem to ascribe their constantly 
diminishing sale, and influence, to our 
animadversions, instead of referring 
these effects to the progressive detcrio- 
tation of their own work. We never 
approved of the arrogant tone of their 
compositions; but in their early vo- 
lumes there was a degree of spiritand 
original thinking which forced atten- 
tion. At first the work was produced 
by young men of genius, now better 
employed ; but latterly, as is notorious, 
the chief part of the articles have been 
the. production of writers in London, 
paid by the sheet. The principles, 
too, have becn as equivocal as_ the 
merit of the compositions ; and hence 
a work of professedly worse princi- 
ples, but decided in its. course, has 
risen in circulation; while the other, 
which sought to. please: every party, 
has lost the confidence of all. ; 
have regretted the fact, but done ‘even 
less than we might to accelerate the- 
result; because, of two‘evils' we pre- 
ferred the least. We have nevertheless 
experienced scveral instances of ran- 
corous hostility from these parties ; 
and, some time since, we received 
an indiscreet letter from. one of the 
partners of Mr. Constable, (then 
absent, ) 
We - 
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