446 Notices respecting New Books. 
A Compendious Treatise on the Theory and Solution of Cu- 
bic and Biquadratic Equations, and of Equations of the higher 
Order. By the Rev. B. Bridge, B.D. F.R.S. 8vo. 6s. bds. 
Twelve Essays on the proximate Causes of the material Phe- 
nomena of the Universe, with illustrative Notes. By Sir Richard 
Phillips. J vol. 12mo. ; 
Just published, An Epitome of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 5 
whereby the Art of prescribing scientifically may be facilitated, 
and those Decompositions avoided, which, resulting from Com- 
binations of incompatible Substances, often frustrate the Views 
of the Practitioner in their Medical Effects ; arranged according 
to the London Pharmacopeeia. By Rees Price, M.D. Member 
of the Royal College of Surgeons in London ; Honorary Mem- 
ber of the Medical and Physical Society of Guy’s Hospital, &c. 
12mo. 33.3 or, on a Chart adapted for framing, 2s. 6d. 
Just imported, (dedicated by Permission to the Most Noble 
the Marquis of Hastings,) a Grammar of the Sunscrit Language, 
on a New Plan. By the Rev. William Yates. 1 vol. Demy 
Svo. 21. 10s. Royal, 4/. 
Preparing for Publication. 
Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, 
by Thomas Reid, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, 1 vol. Svo., will 
appear with the New Year. 
The Encyclopedia Metropolitana, the publication of which 
had been suspended, having become the right of new Proprietors, 
will soon be resumed, and carried on with spirit. 
History of Cultivated Vegetables, comprising their Botanical, 
Medicinal, Edible and Chemical Qualities, Natural History, and 
Relation to Art, Science, and Commerce.. By Henry Phillips, 
Author of Pomarium Britannicum ; or, A History of Fruits 
known in Great Britain. The Work to be printed in 2 vols. 
royal octavo, price to Subscribers 1/. 11s. 6d. bds. 
Travels through Africa, from Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope. 
By Mr. Waldeck, a German, who has recently arrived in England 
from India. This journey is, it seems, no fiction. It appears 
that at the foot of the Mountains of the Moon he found an in- 
scribed pillar erected by a Roman Consul about the period of 
the reign of Vespasian. He found a level on the top of those 
mountains nearly 400 miles broad, on which he discovered a 
Temple of the highest antiquity, and in fine preservation, and 
still used for religious purposes by the inhabitants. South of the 
level, he passed a descent of fifty-two days journey; and when 
advanced about nine days, he found the skeleton of a man with 
a telescope slung on his shoulder marked with the name -of 
Harris, and also a chronometer ‘made by Marchand. There 
were 
