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The following Courses of Lectures 
will be delivered in the ensuing season 
at the Surry Institution - 
On Painting, by C. F. Pack, Esq.; to 
commence on Friday, the 2nd of Novem¬ 
ber, at seven o’clock in the evening pre¬ 
cisely, and to be continued on each suc¬ 
ceeding Friday. 
On the Elements of Chemical Science, 
by John Murray, Esq. F.L.S. M.W.S. 
&c.*, to commence on Tuesday, the 6tli of 
November, and to be continued on each 
succeeding Tuesday, at the same hour. 
On Music, by W. Crotch, Mus. D. 
Professor of Music in the University of 
Oxford ; and, 
On Natural Philosophy, by Charles 
Frederick Partington, Esq.j early 
in 1822. 
Miss Edgeworth will scon publish 
Frank, a Sequel to his History, in the 
Early Lessons. 
The Rev. Edmund Butcher has a 
volume of Prayers in the press, intend¬ 
ed for the use of families and private 
persons ; including a prayer adapted to 
each discourse in the three volumes of 
Sermons by the same author. 
Dr. Leach will speedily publish the 
Synopsis of British Mollusca; being an 
arrangement of bivalve and univalve 
shells, according to the animals inha¬ 
biting them, intended as an introduc¬ 
tion to the study of conchology, illus¬ 
trated with plates. 
In a few days will he published, Pa- 
ramythia; or, Mental Pastimes: being 
original anecdotes, historical, descrip¬ 
tive, humourous, and witty, collected 
chiefly during a long residence at the 
court of Russia. 
A new and improved edition of Mr. 
Henry Siddons’ Translation of Engel 
on Gesture and Action, is in the press, 
and will appear in November. 
Proposals have been circulated for 
publishing a Picturesque Promenade 
round Dorking : including a variety of 
original and interesting matter, in 
which will be found a full and accurate 
account of the panoramic views from 
Box Hill and Leith PI ill; also descrip¬ 
tive sketches of the several Gentlemen’s 
Seats interspersed throughout the luxu¬ 
riant and enchanting landscape; ac¬ 
companied with biographical notices, 
and well-authenticated facts, connect¬ 
ed with subjects of contemporary in¬ 
terest. 
Dr. J. Reade is preparing for publi¬ 
cation a Treatise on Vision, founded 
on new and interesting experiments. 
Mr. Evans, Printer, of Bristol, is 
about to produce a Chronological Out¬ 
line of the History of that Ancient and 
Opulent City, designed as a text-book 
of all other works upon the same sub¬ 
ject, and embellished with architec¬ 
tural drawings by Mr. O’Neill. It will 
have an introductory chapter, descrip¬ 
tive of morning walks through Bristol, 
for the especial information of stran¬ 
gers—a plan not heretofore adopted. 
On the flrst of November will be 
published the first Number of a series 
of Classical Illustrations of the Works 
of Eminent Composers for the Piano 
.Forte, in which all the modulations, 
and other variety of scientific beauties 
contained in them will be clearly illus¬ 
trated through a new order of musical 
designation, by J. Relfe, Musician in 
ordinary to his Majesty. 
On the 1st of January will be pub¬ 
lished, a New Poem, by the author of 
the Widow of Naia, &c. entitled Irad 
and Adah, a Tale of the Flood, to which 
will he added Lyrical Poems, princi¬ 
pally sacred, including translations of 
several of the Psalms of David. 
In the pi ess Cice) o de tdffictiSy de 
AmicUla et de Senectute , printed in 
4Smo. with diamond type by Corrall, 
uniform with Horace and Virgil, re¬ 
cently published. 
Mr. Butler will shortly publish an 
Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geogra¬ 
phy, for the use of schools. 
An octavo volume is nearly ready for 
publication, called The Conveyancer’s 
Guide, a burlesque poem ; the second 
edition, considerably enlarged with nu¬ 
merous notes, adapted for the young 
student at law, by a Conveyancer of 
Gray’s Inn. 
Shortly will be published, a new 
edition, neatly piinted in one volume, 
octavo, corrected and improved, of 
Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles, 
by John Dick, D.D. Professor of Di¬ 
vinity to the United Secession Church, 
Glasgow. 
A new edition is printing of Neale’s 
History of the Puritans, by Toulmin, 
5 vols. 8 vo. carefully revised, corrected, 
and enlarged, by W. Jones, author of 
the History of the Christian Church. 
The Rev. Dr. Evans, of Islington, 
lias in the press a small volume, entitled 
Recreation for the Young and the Old 
—An Excursion to Brighton—A Visit 
to Tunbridge Wells—and a Trip to 
Southend, with an alphabetical list of 
all the watering-places in the King¬ 
dom. 
The eighth and concluding volume 
of Howe's Works, is printing. 
Happiness 
