Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, S7l 
le 11.] 
Fuel; or coloured Figure?, and Descriptions 
of the Plants^ -referred Ly Botanists to the 
Genus FiKus. By Da^ivson Turner^ 4to. 4/. iSs. 
It seldom happens that a work uniting 
so much real utilit}' and grapliic beauty 
as this, comes from tlie press. The en¬ 
gravings possess the merit of beautiful 
botanical drawings, and are true guides 
to the plants they represent. 
Studies from Nature ; containing servent'^-eight 
EngranJings of Scenery, selected from the 
Mountains of Cumberland, fVestmoreland, and 
Lancashire, from drawings taken on the spot, 
and engraved by IVdllam Green ; folio, 5/. os. 
This volume not only supplies very 
interesting illustrations of the romantic 
and ever-varied scenery of Cumberland, 
Westmoreland, and Lancashire, but the 
plates are also in themselves beautiful 
representations of picturesque scenery. 
Portrait of the late Sir Joshua Reynolds, pre~ 
sidtnt of the Royal Academy, from a Picture 
painted by himself.^Cadell and Davies. 
This portrait, with the mere exception 
of Caroline Watson’s fine frontispiece 
to Malone’s Life of Reynolds, is certainly 
the best engravi[?g of tha!. great master 
of the English school of paiadng; and, as 
such, is highly interesting to every artist 
and amateur of high pictorial celebrity. 
The annual course of lectures on 
painting, sculpture, architecture, and 
anatomy, at the Royal Academy, begihg 
in tiie course of the present month. 
Chichester cathedral is now embsL 
lished with four beautiful monuments, 
by Flaxman, besides the justly cele¬ 
brated one of the poet Collins. One 
of them, an exquisite basso-relievo, to the 
memory of an amiable and accomplished 
young lady (Miss Cromwell) was much 
noticed at the Royal Academy. And 
another contains two most beautiful 
figures of Faith and Hope, supporting a 
sarcophagus (to the memory of Mrs- 
Deare), and is scarcely to be surpassed 
in modern sculpture. 
Messrs. Boydells, of Cheapside, have 
imported’a fine collection of the newest 
works of art, lately published in Paris* 
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VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical*. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign, 
Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
*9 
LetterfromCAPEL Lopft, Esq. to Sir Richard Phillips, relative to the Come 
dated Troston, October Q.Oth, 1811. 
SIR, 
Y OU may with good reason express surprise that the comet, seen last spring 
and summer in the VVest Indies, should not be the same comet which we now 
see. I was myself surprised; I took it for the same; and it seertis at first to have 
been so considered in France. But observation will, I think, no longer allow tha 
supposition. 
That comet, it appears, must have passed its perihelion some time in July; the 
present, according to the computation of Burckhardc, which seems to agree with its 
observed right ascension and declination, on the 12th of September. That comet ap¬ 
pears to have had its perihelion soutinvard, and this greatly northward, of the 
ecliptic. The conclusion seems necessary, that, however their path, if continued, might 
appear to coincide, (which is by no means unexampled) they cannot be the same„ 
but must be different comets. If t/hey are the same, the supposition of that seen in 
the West indies having passed, ils perihelion in the south, and about July, must be 
given up. 
The diverging division of the train of the comet continues, and its moderate 
curvature. The brightness of 4, or 5, or 6, degrees, next to the head, is permanent 
and exceedingly striking. For three weeks, up to Oct. 15, the Coma, which composes- 
the train, has extended from 10 to 12 and Ifi degrees. ’And it has been perma¬ 
nently about 12. According to this, its real length, having regard to its distances 
may be fairly estimated at twenty-five millions of miles. I tlnnk it is difficult t® 
state the nucleus at much less than twice the diameter of the earth. 
At present there is not, and hag not been, any appearance of a phase In the nucleus;, 
yet it has much the steady and equal ligkit of a planetary disc; and not like that 
of 1807, as if iUtuiiinated by a li^bt of Us own. 
I nere 
