560 
proved shears, denominated an averruncator, 
for gathering fruit, pruning trees, &c. 
26. Joseph Bramah, Pimlico, improve- 
ments in the construction of various parts of 
wheeled carriagés, one of which improve- 
ments is applicable to other machinery where 
a rotatory-motion ws necessary. 
oe 
List of Patents. 
* LNov. 
28. Henry Osborn, of Borderley, near 
Birmingham, for. anew) method of 
and making various kinds of cylinders of iron 
and steel. aK @. : 
— Thomas Rogers, of Dublin, for ‘his 
method of constructing wheels for carriages. 
lead 
WORKS IN THE PRESS, AND NEW PUBLICATIONS... 
WORKS IN. PREPARATION. 
Mr. Murray has sent forth his list to the world; 
it announces, for the next publishing season, the 
titles of thirty-four original works, some of which 
have been already noticed in our monthly report, 
and new editions of eleven others. . 
Mr. Colburn has not yet issued his list, but merely 
prepared the public for the eight new works he in- 
tends publishing this menth. 
Memoirs of the Life of the Right. Hon. Lord 
Byron are announced, and report ascribes them to 
the pen of Sheridan’s biographer. Who itis said, is 
preparing also, 
The Letters and Miscellaneous Prose-Works of 
the Right Hon. Lord Byron, 
Travels inthe East: Persia, in 2 vols. 
‘Three Months in Ireland. By an EnglishProtestant. 
Conway Papers, from the Collection of the Mar- 
uess of Hertford, are being arranged for publica- 
tion, in 5 vols. 8vo., it issaid, by the Secretary to the 
Admiralty. 
A portrait of the Right Hon. Lady Rodney is 
being engraved by Thomson, from a painting by 
Pickersgill, R.A.:; being the twenty-fourth of a 
series of Portraits of the Female Nobility. 
Mr. Smith, of the British Museum, the author of 
Antiquities of London and Westminster, and other 
Popular publications, is,-;we hear, employed upon a 
new es which has for its subject the Life and 
Times of Nollekins, the celebrated sculptor.. No 
one is better calculated to do justice to this matter 
than Mr. Smith, both from his professional avoca- 
tions, and from his long and intimate acquaintance 
with Nollekins ; an acquaintance which commenced 
from infancy, and continued up to the hour of 
the artist’s death. . 
Dr. Birkbeck announces a Comprehensive and 
Systematic Display, Theoretical and Practical, of 
the Steam-Engine, to be published in weekly num- 
bers. 
Papers and Collections of Sir Robert Wilmot, 
Bart., some time Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenants 
of Ireland; in 3 vols. 8vo. 
Mr. A. A. Watts announces his Lyrics of the 
Heart, with other Poems. 
Mr. Charles Butler is preparing the Life of Grotius, 
and a Succinct Account of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, 
and Literary History of the Netherlands. Also, a 
Second Volume of Reminiscences, with a Corres- 
pondence between the late Dr. Parr and the Author. 
In December ‘will appear, in 2 vols. 8vo. The 
Plays of Ford, chronologically arranged, and the 
Text carefully collated and restored. With occa- 
sional Notes, and a Biographical and Critical Essay. 
By William Gifford. , 
An Improved Dictionary of the Spanish Language, 
with a corresponding Translation into the English, 
and from the English into the Spanish, by the Rev. 
Dr. Joaquin Lorenzo Villanueva, Member of the 
Royal Academy of Spain, and that of History of 
Madrid, Canon of Cuenca, Knight of the Royal 
Order of Charles III, &c. &c , in 2 vols. 4to., is in 
preparation. 
Travels in the Hedjaz, end Description of the 
Manners and Customs of the Bedouin Arabs, by the 
late John Lewis Burckhardt, are announced, in 2 
vols. 4to., with plates, 
Noticias Secretas de America.—The Secret Report 
on South America, made to the King of Spain, by 
Don Antonio De Ulloa and Don Jorge Juan, in the 
original Spanish, edited, with Illustrative Notes, 
by David Barry, esq., superbly printed in one large 
vol. royal 4to., with portraits of Ulloa and Juan, is 
jnthe press. |e Y 
Philip Parker King, R.N., announces, in 2 vols. 
8vo., with Maps, Charts, Views of interesting Sce- 
nery, &c., Voyages of Discovery, undertaken to 
complete the Survey of the Western Coast of New 
Holland, between the Years 1817 and 1822, 
Capt. F. W. Beechey, R.N., and H. W. Beechey, 
Esq. are arranging for press, with Plates, Maps, &c., 
in 4to , Proceedings of the Expedition to explore 
the Northern Coast of Africa, in 1821 and 1822; 
comprehending an Account of the Syrtis and. Cy- 
renaica; of the Ancient Cities composing the Pen- 
tapolis, and other various existing Remains. ¥ 
A Winter’s Journey through Lapland and Sweden, 
with Observations on Finmark and its Inhabitants, 
made during a Residence at Hammerfest, near the 
North Cape. By Arthur de Capell Brooke, M.A., 
F.R.S., &c. With Thirty-one Engravings. | 
In November will appear the Second Volume of 
the History of the late War in Spain, and Portugal. 
po Robert Saukhey: who will also publish a Series 
of Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of So- 
ciety. ith Engravings, 2 vols. 8vo. ew 
Recollections of Ceylon, including Descriptions of 
the Pearl Fisheries and Elephant Hunt, and a Jour- 
nal of 2 Tour by Land round the Island, by an 
Officer. 2vols. post 8vo. ; nearly ready. 
Captain William Henry Smyth, R.N., K.S,S., 
F.R.S., F.S.A.; and Member of the Astron: Soc. of 
London, is preparing a Sketch of the Present State 
of the Island of Sardinia, with numerous Plates by 
Finden. F 
An unique edition, of which only 250 copies are 
printing, in one vol. folio, of The Georgics of Virgil, 
with Translations into Six Languages :—English, 
by William Sotheby—Spanish, Juan de Guzman— 
Italian, ;Francesco Soave—German, ‘Johann. Hein- 
rich Voss—French, Jacques Delille—and in Modern 
Greek, by Edited by William Sotheby. 
In November will be ready,'’/Manuscript’ Glean- 
ings, and Literary Scrap-Book’y being an Album-for 
the purpose of entering and ‘preserving all Literary 
Gleanings, &c.; with engraved » Title» and *Vig- 
nette. Oy 
The Memoirs of the Comic Dramatist:O’K 
will be ready in a few days. q | 
Truckleborough Hall ; a satirical novel, in’3 vols., 
is in the press. ‘ 
A personal Narrative, entitled The Young Rifle- 
man’s Comrade in’ Military Adventure, Imprison- 
= and Shipwreck, edited by Gotthe, is nearly 
ready. ; P inte } 
Tales of a Voyager, a work of fiction, is in the 
press, in 3 vols. , bs 
Napoleon in the Other World, in a few days, in 
French and English. . 
Uncle Peregrine’s Heiress, by Anne of Swansea, 
is in the press, in 5 vols. : 
Mr. William Phillips will shortly publish a new 
and improved Edition of his Outlines of Mineralogy 
and Geology, for the Use of Young Persons 
The Latin Reader, from the Fifth German 
Edition, by Professor Frederick, Jacobs, isin the 
press. ; 
Edward the Sixth ‘and his Times, an Historic 
Study for Youth. : ' : f 
The Posthumous Works of the late John Gough, 
esq., of Kendal, comprizing Letters and Essays on 
Natural History, and on various important, Meta- 
physical Subjects, are to be published by subserip- 
tion in two large octavo volumes. sii 
Mr. Stafford, of York, .is preparing,a,Series,of 
Essays on Shakspeare’s Female Characters, some of 
which have already appeared in that elegant work 
La Belle Assemblée. 1 4on oF 
A Retrospect of the: Ancient: World ; i inga 
Survey, Ethnical and. Ecclesiastical, of the,British 
Islands, by the Rev. William Marriott, as; nearly 
r y- 5 vislatborum) 
Among the Literary Annuals ‘ing against the 
approach of Christmas, Friends: nips Offering, edited 
by T. K. Hervey, Esq., will haye to boast of ery 
high literary merit, as well as of a most splendi 
Series of Engravings. : . Sas 
The Torr Hill; “by the Author of *BramDletye 
House,” 3 vols. post 8vo., in a few sigh: Pon 
Personal Narrative of a Journey front India to 
