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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
be to modern mathematics what Ward’s 
system was to the same sciences a cen¬ 
tury ago, and in ordinary education 
will furnish a system adapted to follow 
the study of arithmetic. Such a volume, 
by bringing the mathematical sciences 
within the reach of general students, 
will, it is hoped, tend to revive pur¬ 
suits which during the last fifty years 
have been too much neglected. 
Miss Hutton has completed the 
third volume of the Tour of Africa; 
containing a concise account of all the 
conntries in that quarter of the globe, 
hitherto visited by Europeans, which, 
with the two preceding volumes, form 
an epitome of all the knowledge which 
has yet been obtained relative to that 
interesting portion of the globe. 
Mr. Robert Bloomfield, author 
of the Farmer’s Boy, &c. announces a 
new work, under the title of the May- 
Da)'' of the Muses. 
The Private and Confidential Cor¬ 
respondence of Charles Talbot, Duke 
of Shrewsbury, principal Minister to 
King William for a considerable period 
of his reign, is printing, under the di 
rection of the Rev. Archdeacon Coxe. 
This collection comprises his epistolary 
intercourse with the king, as well as 
with Lords Somers, Sunderland, Ox¬ 
ford, Halifax, and other distinguished 
characters of the time; and is eluci¬ 
dated with historical and biographical 
notices, and with a portrait of the Duke 
of Shrewsbury, from an original paint¬ 
ing, by Sir Peter Lely. 
Dr. 'John Mason Good, F.R.S. will 
speedily publish a body of medical 
science, under the title of The Study 
of Medicine, comprising its Physiology, 
Pathology, and Practice, in four vo¬ 
lumes, 8vo. These volumes, in addi¬ 
tion to that lately published on Noso¬ 
logy, will complete the author’s design ; 
and constitute an entire hotly of Medi¬ 
cal Science, adapted equally to the use 
of lecturers, practitioners, and students. 
Travels iu the Interior of Southern 
Africa, by William Burchell, Esq. 
with an entirely new map, and nume¬ 
rous other engravings from the author’s 
j>wn drawings, are in the press. Mr. 
Burcheli’s Researches in the Interior 
of Africa, during five years, over 4,500 
miles of ground, besides numberless 
lateral excursions, have produced a 
multitude of discoveries and observa¬ 
tions which have never yet been laid 
before the public. 
A General History of Wines is an¬ 
nounced, comprising Observations on 
[Nov. I. 
the Wines of the Ancients ; a Topogra¬ 
phical Account of all the principal Mo¬ 
dern Wines ; and a Chronological His¬ 
tory of the Wines used in England, 
from the earliest period to the present 
time. It will be printed elegantly in 
4to. with embellishments. 
Memoirs of the Court of King James 
the First, by Lucy Aikin, are print¬ 
ing in 2 vols. Svo. 
Mr. Jas. Mills, author of a History 
of British India, is printing Elements 
of the Science of Political Economy. 
The second volume, will appear 
in a few days, of Travels in Georgia, 
Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, 
&c. &c. during the years 1817* 1818, 
1819. 1820, by Sir Robert Ker Por¬ 
ter. 
Part I. of Lectures on the Elements 
of Botany, containing the anatomy and 
physiology of those organs on which the 
growth and preservation of the plant 
depend; with explanations of the ter¬ 
minology connected with these parts. 
Illustrated with marginal cuts and 
copperplates, by Antony Todd 
Thomson, F.L.S. will speedily he 
published. 
A plan has been lately suggested, and 
will be acted upon at Edinburgh, for 
instructing by lectures and demonstra¬ 
tions, the operative mechanics of that 
city in the principle of those 'branches 
of science,- which are useful in the 
various trades that are carried on there. 
It may readily be conceived that to the 
ingenious men who will have the op¬ 
portunity of deriving benefit from these 
lectures and scientific demonstrations, 
the stimulus to improvement and to 
invention will he powerful indeed. In 
our metropolis, likewise, it is to be an¬ 
ticipated that similar opportunities of 
instruction in the mechanic arts, and 
in those branches of science which are 
applicable to them, and adapted to the 
previous acquirements of the working 
artizan and mechanic, would be emi¬ 
nently useful; and it appears reasonable 
to hope that no obstacles would present 
themselves to such a scheme hut what 
could be readily surmounted. The es¬ 
tablishment of such schools of instruc¬ 
tion would probably succeed if left to 
private adventure, and if they should, 
no national aids to set them in motion 
would he required. 
A subscription has been opened for 
a bust of Charles Hutton, LL.D. 
F.R.S. &c. &c. to be executed in marble 
by Mr. Sebastian Gabagan. It is intend¬ 
ed as a mark of respect and veneration 
for 
