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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand , Domestic and Foreign. 
M r. WALDECK, a German, has 
recently arrived' in England 
tram India, and is preparing an account 
of his travels through Africa, from 
Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope. Of 
the authority of his journey there is no 
doubt. It appears that at the foot of 
the mountains of tile moon, he found 
an inscribed pillar, erected by a Roman 
consul, about the period of the reign of 
Vespasian. He found a level on the 
top of those mountains nearly 400 
miles broad, on which he discovered a 
temple of the highest antiquity, and in 
fine preservation, and still used for re¬ 
ligious purposes by the inhabitants. 
South of the level, he passed a descent 
of fifty-two day’s journey, and when 
advanced about nine days, he found the 
skeleton of a man, with a telescope 
slung on his shoulder, marked with the 
name of Harris, and also a chronometer 
made by Marchand. There were also 
two other skeletons, and it was supposed 
the owners perished for want of water. 
The manuscript is preparing, and the 
work will speedily appear in London, 
accompanied by engravings. Mr. Wal- 
deck was accompanied by four Euro¬ 
pean companions, only one of whom 
survived the hardships of the journey, 
and now resides in Paris. 
Arthur Brooke has in the press a 
new volume entitled, Restrospection, 
and other Poems; which will appear in 
a few days, with a portrait of the inge¬ 
nious author. 
Professor Monk has been occupied 
for three or four years in preparing a 
life of Doctor Bentley; a work which 
it is expected, will be put to press early 
in the ensuing spring. The biography 
of this scholar, the most celebrated of all 
who ever in England established a repu¬ 
tation in the department of classical 
learning, is intimately connected with 
the history of the University of Cam- 
bidge for above forty years, a period of 
unusual interest, and with the literary 
history of this country for a still longer 
time. It has been frequently remarked, 
that such a work is a desideratum in En¬ 
glish literature, and this it is the au¬ 
thor’s endeavour to supply. He has in¬ 
dustriously sought for documents which 
may throw light upon the events of 
those days, or tend to elucidate the 
character, the conduct, and the writings 
of Bentley. For this purpose he has 
searched the voluminous manuscript 
collections of Baker, of Cole, and of 
Hearne, as well as other records pre¬ 
served in the British Museum, the 
Bodleian, the Lambeth Library, &c. 
He has been indulged with an unre¬ 
served access to all the registers and 
other documents belonging to both the 
University and to Trinity College; 
which in conjunction with various let¬ 
ters and private papers, and a full as¬ 
semblage of legal records, have enabled 
him to unravel and explain the curious 
conflicts which Bentley went through 
iu the course of his long academical 
life; and which, no less than his writ¬ 
ings,brought him in contact with many 
of the most illustrious characters who 
were his contemporaries. Professor 
Monk has also availed himself of that 
very important correspondence between 
Bentley and the first scholars of his age, 
which has beeh spoken of in p. 403 of 
tile Museum Critieum; as well as of a 
still more extensive assortment of pa¬ 
pers, comprising letters of Bishop At- 
terbury, Bishop Sherlock, Bishop 
Greene, Dr. Conyers Middleton, Dr. 
Andrew Suape, Bishop Hare, Bishop 
Zachary Pearce, and many other highly 
distinguished characters, who were 
intimately connected with the leading 
events of Bentley’s history; also the 
whole of the manuscripts left by Dr. 
Colbatch, his principal opponent in 
Trinity College. 
Speedily will be published in four 
volumes, 8vo. the History of Tuscany, 
from the most remote and obscure times 
of Etruscan Antiquity, down to the 
establishment of the Grand Duchy, 
It is interspersed with Essays upon the 
Origin and Progress of the Italian Lan¬ 
guage ; the Commerce of the Tuscans ; 
the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of 
the lower and middle ages, and with co¬ 
pious notes and illustrations. The whole 
by Lorenzo Pignotti, Royal and Grand 
Ducal Historiographer, &c. &c. &c. 
translated from the Italian, with the 
addition of the life of the Author, by J. 
Browning, esq. 
The second volume of Sir R. K. 
Porter’s Travels in Georgia, Persia, 
Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. 
is nearly leady for publication, it will 
he illustrated with numerous engra¬ 
vings of Portraits, Costumes, Antiqui¬ 
ties, &c. &c. 
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