1823] 
the Manchoo dynasty; and, besides 
this work, which consists of 108. vo- 
Iumes, he is in possession of several 
-other treatises, relative to the geogra- 
phy, statistics, and general adminis- 
tration, of the empire. 
In December will be published, 
printed uniformly with the former 
yolume, with maps and numerous 
plates, Journal of the Second Voyage 
for the. Diseovery of a North-west 
passage from the Atlantic to the Paci- 
fie, performed in the Y ears 1821, 1822, 
1823, in his Majesty’s ships Fury and 
Hecla, under the orders of Capt.W. E. 
Parry, RN. 
Early in December will be publish- 
ed, the Graces, or Literary Souvenir 
for 1824; being a collection of tales 
and poeiry, by distinguished living 
authors, with literary, scientific, and 
useful, niemoranda. 
Speedily will be published, a Key to 
Suy's Tutor’s Assistant. for the use 
and convenience of tutors. 
- The lovers of entomology will be 
gratified to hear, that it is the inten- 
tion of Mr. J. F. STEPHENS, F.L.S. &c. 
to publish im the course of the spring 
the first part of a General Synonymi- 
eal Catalogue of all the British In- 
sects hitherto discovered, amounting 
4o nearly ten thousand in number, 
exclusive of the Crustacea, Arachnoida, 
Acari, &c. of modern systematists. In 
addition to the above, he also proposes 
fo publish, periodically, an elucida- 
tory work, entitled Illustrations of 
British Entomology ; in which will be 
detailed, in systematic order, the cha- 
racter of the genera and species, with 
observations on the economy, locality, 
&c. of cach species, illustrated by 
figures of those newly discovered, or 
but little known. 
The second and concluding volume 
of that splendid work, BurcHety’s 
‘Travels in the Interior of Southern 
Africa, with numerous coloured en- 
gravings, vignettes, &c. from the 
author's original drawings, will be 
‘ready in afew days. 
The Wight before. the Bridal, a 
Spanish tale, Sappho, a dramatic 
sketch, aud other Poems, are an- 
nounced by C.G. Garnett, daughter 
of the late much-estecmned Dr, Garnett, 
of the Royal Institution. 
The Painter and his Wife is pre- 
paring, by Mrs. Orie. . 
A work, called the Book of the 
Chuich, is announced .by RKoperr 
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SouTHEY, poet-laureat, and author of 
“ Wat Tyler.” 
Messrs.J.P. NEALE and J.LE Kevx’s 
Original’Views of the Collegiate and 
Parochial Churches of England, with 
historical descriptions, will commence 
publication on the ist of February 
next. ; 
Mr. Girrorp’s edition of the Plays 
and Poems of Shirley, now first col- 
lected and chronologically arranged, 
and the text carefully collated and 
restored, with occasional notes, and a 
biographical and critical essay, will 
soon appear. 
A fifth volume is in preparation of 
Original Letters, written during the 
Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and 
VY. Richard III. and Henry VII. by 
various persons.of rank or conse- 
quence, containing many curious 
aneedotes relative. to that turbulent, 
bloody, but hitherto dark, period of 
our history ; and elucidating, not only 
public matters of state, but likewise 
the private manners of the age, with 
notes, historical and explanatory, fac- 
similes, &c. by the late Sir J. FENN. © 
Speedily will be published, Odes of 
Pindar, translated, with notes, critical 
and explanatory, by A. Moore, esq. 
The Suffoik Papers, being Letters 
to and from Henrietta Countess of 
Suffolk and her second husband, the 
Hon. George Berkely, are in the press. 
They comprise letters from Pope, 
Swift, Gay, and Young; the Duchess 
of Marlborough, Buckingham, and 
Queensberry; Ladies Hervey, Lans- 
downe, Vere, and Hester Pitt; Lords 
Bolingbroke, Peterborough, Chester- 
field, and Bathurst; Mr. Law (the 
fmancier), Mr. Pelham, Mr. Hamp- 
den, Mr. Earle, Horace Walpole 
(senior and junior); and several other 
persons of eminence in the fashion- 
able, political, and literary, circles of 
the reigns of Qucen Anne, George B. 
George II. and George Hf. 
The following addréss of the New 
Society of Artists lately formed merits 
a place in our pages. A large exhi- 
bition room is’ now building, the en- 
trance of which is in Suffolk-strect, 
Charing Cross; and it will be the 
largest ‘and most commodious in 
London. Your adjoining rooms will 
be devoted to the various departments 
of the fine arts, viz. painting, statuary, 
architecture, and engraving. sah 
The Royal Académy has becn for some 
years, on account of the contracted wy 
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