1-823.) 
Dr. Ure is preparing a new and 
revised edition of Berthollet on Dyeing. 
Mr. Lampert is engaged on a Sup- 
plement to his splendid work on Pines. 
A novel, called the Spaewife, by Mr. 
GALT, is in the press. 
The Newspapers are beginning to 
notice the Lansdown manuscripts, from 
which we published a series of selections 
ten years ago. 
The Library of Napoleon was lately 
sold in London. Many of the books 
had notes by himself, and they fetched 
high prices. His ornamented walking- 
stick fetched thirty-seven guineas. 
At the sale of Mr. Nollekin’s works, 
his head of Sterne fetched 58 guineas, 
and of Fox 145 guineas. 
The Golden Cross, Charing Cross, 
and tie adjoining buildings, are to come 
down, anda splendid building erected 
on its scite like the Pantheon at Rome. 
Mr. Br'stocke is preparing the Life 
of Howell Harries, esq. founder of the 
establishment of Trevecka; and Mrs. 
Bristocke is about to publish a trans- 
lation of the Athaliah of Racine. 
An edilien is printing in London of 
the Eatire Works of Demosthenes and 
féschines, from the text of REISKE, 
collated with other editions. 
The Rev. D, Warr is printing a 
Course of Lectures on Bunyan’s Pil- 
grim’s Progress, illustrating its original 
characters, &c. 
Mr. Cottzs, of Bristol, will soon 
publish, Observations on the Orestor 
Caves, with engravings of the fossil re- 
mains of fourteen different animals. 
Memoirs are printing of the late Capt. 
J. Neale, by the Rey. G. Barciay. 
Mrs. J. Vowntey is printing a Letter 
to the Council of Ten. 
An Account of a Visit to Spain in 
1822-3, by MicHaeLt Quin, esq. will 
appear in a few days. 
Mr. BrayxLey, jun. announces the 
Natural History of Meteorolites. 
A Translation of all the Greek, Latin, 
Italian, and I'rench, Sentences, Phrases, 
&e. which occur in Blackstone’s Com- 
mentaries, and also in the notes of 
Christian, Archbald, and Williams, is 
in the press, 
Speedily will be published, Extracts 
from various Greek Authors, with Eng- 
lish notes and lexicon, for, the use of 
the junior Greek class in the University 
of Glasgow. 
A new editionof Shirley’s Works, by 
Mr. Girrorp, is in forwardness. All 
the Piays are printed, and a portion of 
dhe Poems, 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
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A new edition of Ford's Plays aie 
also in preparation, by the same editor. 
Early this month will appear the Clas- 
sical-monosyllabical Explanatory Spel- 
ling-book, containing near 5000 primi- 
tive monosyllables, arranged rhythmi- 
cally, and furnishing materials for the 
instructive diversion catled Crambo. 
The Night before the Bridal, and 
other Poems, by Miss Garnett, is 
about to appear in an octavo volume, 
An interesting tale will appear 
shortly, entitled the Stranger’s Grave. 
James L. DRUMMOND, M.D. surgeon, 
professor of Anatomy and Physiology in 
the Belfast Academical Institution, has 
in the press a duodecimo volume, enti- 
tled First Steps to Botany, intended as 
popular illusiraiions of the science, 
leading to its study as a branch of 
general education, illustrated with nu- 
merous wood-cuts. 
Hurstwood, a tale of the year 1815, 
is in the press. 
A novel is in the press, entitled 
Country Belles, or Gossips Outwitted. 
RUSSIA. 
The Academy of Sciences of Peters- 
burgh, authorised by the Emperor, has 
made purchase of the magnificent ca- 
binet of ancient medals of General 
Suchtelen. It consists of more than 
eleven thousand pieces, in gold, silver, 
and bronze, selected with care and 
taste, by an enlightened amateur. 
A special Institute for the study of 
the oriental languages has been lately 
created, as an adjunct to the College 
of Foreign Affairs. It admits twenty 
young persons, intended to serve as 
interpreters to the Russian legations in 
the Levant. The two professors. are 
Messrs. Demanges and Charmoy, é/eves 
of the Royal Oriental School of Paris; 
their annual appointments amount to 
six thousand roubles. 
The Assembly of Rabbis and Elders 
of Plosko, in Poland, came lately to a 
determination to allow the Jews to ce- 
lebrate their Sabbath on the Sunday. 
The Polish Israelites are generally al- 
lowed to surpass their brethren of other 
countries in intelligence, attending to 
moral and useful instruction, rather than 
to cabalistical and talmudical dogmata. 
GERMANY. 
According to a decree of government 
in the Munich Journals, the beautiful 
royal domain of Schleibeim is to be 
converted into a school of agricultare, 
the pupils to be divided into three 
classes. The first, to comprise such as 
are intended for subaltern employments, 
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