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of in that neat and easy style which is characteristic of this 
author, and which is so admirably adapted to afford amuse~ 
ment, and to convey instruction. 
If. Domestic. 
1. Notice of the Mechanics’ and Manufacturers’? Magazine. 
Prof. Griscom of New York. has issued proposals for a 
new monthly Journal to be entitled the ‘* Mechanics? and 
Manufacturers’ Magazine,’ intended to promote the arts 
and trades of the United States. His prospectus, states 
that it will consist not only of the various fugitive notice, 
of useful discoveries in our country, but of information de- 
rived from the Scientific Journals of Great Britain, 
France, and other parts of the European Continent. It 
will be confined chiefly to practical details adapted to the 
capacity of common readers. Whatever relates to the 
real progress of the arts, and to the interests of American 
artizans and manufacturers, such as accounts of all their 
discoveries and inventions, economical processes, practical 
applications of the physical sciences, abridgement of labours, 
domestic receipts &c. will be comprehended in the plan. 
To these will be added specifications of the most useful 
patents, both of our own and of foreign countries, thus 
giving to the work these advantages of the ‘“ Repertory of 
Arts,” of London. Space will be afforded for bio- 
graphical sketches of eminent mechanics aid engineers, 
One department of the Journal will also be devoted to 
notices relative to the progress of Education, comprising a 
statement of improved modes of teaching,—of foreign 
schools and institutions distinguished for the excellence of 
their systems—-of useful school books &c. &c. This 
department however will be subordinate to the main objects 
of the journal. A monthly journal, limited to objects of 
this nature, will not, (as the Editor states his belief,) essen- 
tially interfere with any known periodical work in the 
United States. 
