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NOTICES CONNECTED WITH LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. 



WOIIKS IN THE PRESS. 



Mr. Charles Mills' Histoid of the Crusades la 

 among the last Translations in French. .Similar ver- 

 sions of his History of Chivalry, and his other worlts, 

 are announced. 



The Rev. Russell Scott, author of an Analytical 

 Investigation of the Scriptural Claims of the Devil, 

 has nearly ready for publication, a Discourse on the 

 Scriptural Humanity of Christ, and its corruption 

 traced during the times of the Apostles, and until the 

 completion of the Nicene and Coiistantinopolitan 

 creed, by Pope Nicholas I., about the year SOIJ. 



An illustrative work is announced for publication, 

 entitled. Ports of^England— No. 1 contains two plates, 

 Whitby and Scarborough, engraved in highly finished 

 mezzo-tinto, by Thomas Lupton, from drawings by 

 J. W. W. Turner, esq., R.A., made expressly for the 

 work. This work will contain all the licensed and 

 chartered ports of England. 



Mr. Ebers announces his intention of producing a 

 splendid AnnualMiscellany, to be entitled the Aurora. 



" Words," a series of Essays on things imaginative 

 and philosophical, in post 8vo., will be ready in a few 

 days. 



A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Holy 

 Scriptures, designed for the use of mere English 

 readers, is prepaiing for publication, in two jiarts. 

 By W. Carpenter, Editor of the Critica liiblica, &c. 



Mr. Frere has nearly ready for publication, a 

 conected edition of " A Combined View of the 

 Prophecies," in which he has availed himself of the 

 advantages for perfecting this subject, which have 

 been afforded by the late expiration of another grand 

 prophetic period ; the 1200 years of Daniel. 



Speedily will be published, the Missionary's Me- 

 morial, or verses on the death of John Lawson, late 

 Missionary at Calcutta. By Bernard Barton. 



Flowers gathered in Exile, by the late Rev. John 

 Lawson, Missionary at Calcutta, arc printmg. 



A Sweedish Translation of Tasso's Jerusalem 

 Delivered, has just appeared in Stoikholm. 



The second edition of Landor's Imaginary Conver- 

 sations, is nearly ready. 



A 4to. volume of Biographical Sketches of recently 

 Living British Characters, is printing ; commencing 

 with the Reign of George IV., and with a list of 

 their engraved Portraits. 



Sir Andrew Halliday's Annals of the House of 

 Hanover, are just ready for publication. 



The History of the Inquisition : a Translation of 

 the celebrated work of Llorente, the Secretary of 

 the Inquisition in Spain, is printing in 2 vols. Uvo. 



A Translation of the " Tre Giuli," the most popu- 

 lar of the Poems of G. B. Casti, with a Memoir of 

 the Author, and some Account of his other Works, 

 are in the press. 



In a few days will be published, "A Mission to the 

 East Coast of Sumatra, in U^■2.^, with a Visit to the 

 Batta Cannibal States in the interior. By John An- 

 derson, esq. 



Shortly will be published, Part I in 3 large vols. 

 (Ivo , containing the Four Gospels (to be succeeded 

 in the course of the year by Part II, in 2 vols., con- 

 taining the Acts and the Epistles), of " Recensio 

 Synoptica Annotationis Sjicra?, being a Critical 

 Digest and Synoptical Arrangement of the most 

 important Annotations, Exegetical, Philological, and 

 Theological, on the -New Testament. By the Rev. 

 S T. Bloomfield, M.A. 



A periodical work is just commenced, entitled 

 " the Brazen Head." 



The Table Talk and Bons-Mots of R. B. Sheridan 



have been coUectctl under the title of " Sherl" 

 daniana." 



Talcs round a Winter Hearth, by Jane and Aima 

 Maria Porter ; and Memoirs of the Court of Henry 

 VIII. By Mrs A.T.Thomson, are just ready. 



A volume of " Rejected Articles," is in the press. 



A History of the Mahrattas, with Plates, and a 

 Map of the Mahratta Country, chiefly from original 

 and recent Surveys, is preparing for publication. 

 By Capt. J. G. Duff, of Bombay Native Infantry, 

 and late Political Resident at Sattara, in 3 vols., 8vo. 



Reynolds's (the dramatist) Memoirs, and the third 

 series of Sayings and Doings, will shortly appear. 



The Mysterious Monk. By C. A. Bolen ; Geral- 

 dine Murray, a Tale, by Miss M'Leod ; ThcMoss- 

 Troopers, a Border Tale, by the Author of " Ban- 

 nockbum ;" Henry the Fourth, of France, an his- 

 torical Tale, by Alicia Lefanu; and Highland Mary, 

 by the Author of the " Farmer's Three Daughters," 

 will be published during the next month. 



Tlie Rev. Joseph Hunter, of Bath, has issued 

 Proposals for publishing " The History and Topo- 

 graphy of the Deanery of Doncastcr," in the West 

 Riding of the County of York. The Work will form 

 Two folio Volumes, to correspond witli his History 

 of Hallamshire. 



M. Deccon's Cabinet of Curiosities has recently 

 been sold at Paris. The Catalogue of this Collection, 

 which is now in the press, will form 3 vols. 8vo., and 

 each volume is printed under the superiutendence of 

 a committee of Literati and Collectors. 



Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. By the late 

 Rev. 1. 1. Conybeare, Professor of Anglo-Saxon and 

 of Poetry in the University of Oxford, will be pub- 

 lished in the ensuing month, in I vol. Uvo. 



A Russian peasant has recently written a volume 

 of poems, entitled " Leisure Hours of a Villager," 

 which has been publishetl, and obtained liiin the 

 notice of the Emperor. 



There is announced for early publication " the 

 Journal of a Voyage up the Mediterranean, princi- 

 pally among the Islands of the Archipelago, and in 

 Asia IMinor, together with an Essay on the Fana- 

 riotes (translated from the French), by the Rev. 

 Charles Swaa." 



The second volume of Mr. Godwin's H.story of 

 the Commonwealth is nearly ready. 



Mr. Thomas Fawdington, of Manchester, has in 

 the pres?, a t:ase of Melanosis, with some Observa- 

 tions on the Pathology of this Disease. Illustrated 

 by engravings. 



A series of stories, original and select, imder the 

 title of " Stanley Tales," will shortly appear in 

 monthly parts. 



Dr. Faber's " Difficulties of Romanism" will be 

 published in a few days. 



The Rev. T. T. James, author of Travels iji 

 Sweden, &c. has nearly ready for publication a Se- 

 ries of Views in Russia, Poland, Germany, and 

 Sweden, from drawings made during his travels. 



" The Martyrs," a Drama, in three acts, by 

 Joanna Baillic, will be published in a few days. 



Debates of the British Parliament during the In- 

 terregnum, are printing from the original MSS. 



Loudon's Gardener's Magazine will be published 

 quarterly. 



Notes, critical and explanatory, of the Gospels 

 and .'Vets of the Apostles. By WiUiara Wass, M.A. 

 F.S.A. &c. In 4 vols. (ivo. 



An Inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the 

 Vital Functions, usually denominated Constitutional 

 Initation, by Benjamin Travers, F.R.S. senior 

 surgeon to St. Tliomas's Hospital, iScc. i.s nearly 

 ready for publieation. 



