550 
edition of Livy.—The engravings by 
Bartolozzi, alone, consisting of a com- 
plete and matchless ‘series, of his 
works, proofs, and: etchings, are said 
to have cost Sir Mark nearly 5000/. 
The sale of the whole of the prints 
will, in all likelihood, occupy two 
months, the same as the books. 
Mr. G. PHiLiirs is printing a Com- 
pendium of Algebra, with notes and 
demonstrations, showing the reason of 
every rule, designed for 'the use of 
schools, and those persons who have 
not the advantage of a preceptor ; the 
whole arranged on a plan calculated 
to abridge’ the labour of the master, 
and facilitate the improvement of the 
pupil. 
Capt. Parry’s Second Voyage for 
the Discovery of a North-west Passage, 
with twenty-five plates, is announced 
for immediate publication; with an 
Appendix of Natural History, &c. to 
Capt. Parry’s First Voyage of Disco- 
very, with plates. 
Aureus, or the Adventures of a 
Sovereign, written by himself, is 
printing in two volumes. 
Procrastination, or the  Vicar’s 
Daughter, a tale, by S. Percy, is 
announced. : 
Shortly will be published, Plantarum 
Scientia, or the Botanist’s Companion, 
being a catalogue of hardy exotic and 
indigenous plants cultivated in this 
country. 
The Adventures of Hajji Baba are 
printing in three volumes. 
Count Peccuio has in the press, a 
Diary of Political Events in Spain 
during the last Year. This work, like 
his Letters on the Spanish and Portu- 
guese Revolutions, is interspersed 
with anecdotes of public men, and 
on the manners and customs of the 
Peninsula. 
Dr. R: Sourney, poet-laureate, 
author of “ Wat Tyler,” &c. announces 
the Book of the Church; in two vo- 
lumes, octavo. 
Mr. Britton announces a Grammar 
of English Antiquities. 
Mr. J. Burton, who had been 
employed by the Pacha of Egypt ina 
geological examination of his  domi- 
nions, has made some. interesting 
discoveries in the Eastern Desert of 
the Nile, and along the coast of the 
Red Sea. In the Eastern Desert, and 
in the parallel of Essiout, is Gebel 
Dokkam, a mountain, the name of 
which in Arabic signifies smoke-moun- 
tain. At Belet Kebye, a ruinous 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
[Jan. 1; 
village, ‘situated, in ‘a valley on. the 
south side of the mountain, he found a: 
cireular shaft, twenty feet in diameter, 
and its present depth is sixty feet. The 
same village contains a beautiful. little 
Tonic temple, on the pediment of which. 
is the following inscription :— 
For the safety and eternal victory. of our, 
Lord Casar, absolute, august, and of all his, 
house, to the sun, great Serupis, and the co- 
enshrined Deities, this Temple, and all its 
appurtenances, Epaphroditus af Casar, 
Governor of Egypt. Marcus Ulpuis Chresi- 
mus, superintendant of the mines under 
— Procoluanus. 
—Gebel Dokkan is zig-zaggéed to the 
top: by roads and pathways, ‘which 
branch off to large quarries of antique 
red porphyry, immense blocks of which 
are lying about roughly chisseled, 
squared, and on supports marked and 
numbered. There are also unfinished 
sarcophagi and vases, columns of 
large diameter, a vast number of 
ruinous huts, and remains of forges. 
Mr. Burton collected a great ‘number 
of inscriptions at Fitiery, among which 
was the following fragment :— ~ 
ANN. XII, IMP, NERVAE TRATANO 
CAESARI AUG. GERMANICO 
DACICO 
P. I, R. SOLPICIUM SIMIUM ° 
PRAEF AEG. 
The quarries of verd antique, between 
Ghene and Cosseir, have also supplied 
him with a vast number of inscriptions, 
which are rendered interesting, and 
may probably become yery useful, 
from the intermixture of Greek with 
hieroglyphies. 
The Suffolk Papers, from the bollec- 
tion of the Marchioness of London- 
derry, with historical, biographical, 
and explanatory, notes, and an original 
whole-length portrait of the Countess 
of Suffolk, are printing in two-volumes. 
The Improvisatriee, and other 
poems, are preparing for publication. . 
The. Green-house Companion, -by 
Dr. THORNTON, intended as a familiar 
manual for the general management of 
a gteen-house, is in preparation. 
Mr. J. H. Curtis announces a 
Course of Lectures on the Anatomy, 
Physiology, and Pathology, of the Ear, 
at the Royal Dispensary) Deamcstrens, 
Soho. 
Memoirs of the Life of Fusdinend 
VII. King of the’ Spains, translated 
from the original Spanish magoaltipt, 
by M. J. Quin, are announced. 
Australia; with other Poems, by 
T.K. HERVEY, will appear in a few 
days.» 
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