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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. [.Nov 1, 
The first two volumes (besides an ad¬ 
ditional volume, containing Abstracts 
of the British Navy) of Mr. James’s 
Naval History, comprising the whole of 
the war from 1793 to tire peace of 
Amiens, will, it is understood, mare 
its appearance before the public in the 
early part of November. 
Those panders of corruption and pre¬ 
judices, the degraded writers m trie 
Quarterly Review , have impudently 
defamed tlie conductor of tills inde- 
pendent Miscellany for recommending 
as curiosities, the hooks ol the Apocry¬ 
phal New Testament, lately reprinted 
from the versions oi Archbishop s\ ape 
and the Rev. Jeremiah Jones. The 
article in question is a piece of decla¬ 
mation, as powerless hi argument as 
deficient in learning. ^ 
In a few days will be published, The 
Weald of Sussex, a Poem, by E. 
Hitchener. This poem abounds in 
moral passages, as well as descriptions 
of local scenery; and is enriched with 
a variety of interesting historical notes. 
Miss Macauley has a new work in 
the press, entitled Tales of the Drama, 
founded on the most popular acting 
plays. 
Mr. Samuel Frederick Gray, 
author of the Supplement to the Phar¬ 
macopoeias, announces A Natural Ar¬ 
rangement of British Plants, according 
to their mutual relations, as pointed 
out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, 
and other scientific botanists; with 
their characters, differences, synonyms, 
descriptions and uses. The whole pre¬ 
ceded bv an introduction to botany, 
with figures illustrative of the terms. 
A volume is in the press which is in¬ 
tended to match Prior’s Account ot all 
the Voyages round the World, under 
the titie of The Universal Traveller. 
It will contain an abstract of the chief 
books of travels in all countries, and 
be illustrated with one hundred engrav¬ 
ings. 
Kotzebue’s Voyage round tlie World 
being completed in two Numbers of the 
Journal of Voyages and Travels, the 
ensuing Number will consist of M. 
Necker de Saussure’s Travels in Scot¬ 
land, and the next following Number 
will contain Krusentern’sVoyage round 
the World, which has just appeared at 
Paris, with a folio atlas of engravings. 
Every Number of the Journal of 
Voyages thus contains as much of this 
interesting species of literature as is 
commonly sold at 15 or 20 times its 
price. 
A new volume of the Annual Obitu¬ 
ary is preparing, and will appear at the 
usual period. 
The General Index to the Monthly 
Magazine is nearly finished, and will 
be printed with all the speed which the 
nature of such a work permits. 
The Beauties of Ireland, by Mr. J. 
N. Brewer, is announced for publi¬ 
cation before the end of the present 
year. Mr. Brewer has been engaged 
for a considerable time in preparing 
this work, in which lie has received 
important aid from the Genealogical 
and Topographical MS. collections of 
Colonel Bervey de Montmorency-Mor- 
rcs, unreservedly opened for his use 
by that truly respectable gentleman 
and scholar. The work is to be pub¬ 
lished in parts or numbers, embellish¬ 
ed with engravings by Storer, after 
original drawings, chiefly by Petrie, of 
Dublin. The antiquities and topogra¬ 
phy of Ireland are progressively be¬ 
coming objects of considerable interest, 
and this work appears calculated to 
supply a desideratum long felt in topo¬ 
graphical literature. 
Mr. Gill, for many years one of the 
chairmen of the Committee of Me¬ 
chanics in the Society for the Encou¬ 
ragement of Arts, Manufactures, and 
Commerce, in the Adelphi, assisted by 
a circle of mechanical friends, in this 
and other countries, is preparing for 
publication a Technical Repository of 
Practical Information, on subjects con¬ 
nected with the present daily improve¬ 
ments and new discoveries in the use¬ 
ful arts. The first part is promised in 
January of the ensuing year. 
Mr. Joseph Lowe has in the press 
an octavo volume on the Prospects of 
England, in regard to Agriculture, 
Trade, and Finance. 
Shortly will be published a volume 
of Poems, by J. F. Rattenbury, con¬ 
sisting of Edgar and Ella, a tale found¬ 
ed on fact—a Versification of the First 
Book of Fingal—The Semi noil Maid, 
an American tale—A Paraphrase of the 
First Chapter of Genesis—Lines on an 
Intolerant Preacher—Monody on a Fa¬ 
vourite Parrot—To Woman ; Anacre¬ 
ontic-Lines on the Spanish Revolu¬ 
tion—To a Disciple of Mahomet— To 
Memory. 
Mr. Thomas Webb, author of Ele¬ 
ments of Greek Prosody and Metre, is 
preparing a Greek and English Proso- 
dial Lexicon, with Synonyms and Ex¬ 
amples, marked and scanned in the 
manner of the Latin Gradus. 
The 
