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former, whereas the island of Ceylon is 
the largest of the two. The continents 
are divided according to their natural 
geography, which is a permanent divi¬ 
sion, and not according* to their civil 
geography, which as Mr. Pinkerton has 
justly observed, becomes antiquated in 
a very few years. Its breadth will be 
six feet, and the countries delineated 
upon it will be four times as large in 
proportion as those upon an 18 inch 
globe, by which means it may super¬ 
sede many particular maps. * It will 
also contain of course all the recent 
discoveries in Africa, Asia, and Ame¬ 
rica, to the period of its publication. 
Mr. Mills’ Elements of the Science 
of Political Economy, will be published 
early in November. 
Miss A. M. Porter is writing a Ro¬ 
mance, to be entitled Roche Blanc, or 
the Hunters of the Pyrennees. 
A new volume by the author of the 
beautiful Tale of Ellen Fitzarthur, en¬ 
titled the Widow’s Tale, and other 
Poems, will be published early in De¬ 
cember; also a new edition of Ellen 
Fitzarthur. 
The Synopsis of British Mollusca. 
by William Elford Leach, M.D. 
will be ready for publication on the 
10th of November. 
Mr. Samuel Frederick Gray’s 
Natural Arrangement of British Plants 
is very near its completion. 
We understand that a splendid ex¬ 
hibition of drawings, principally by 
Turner and other distinguished artists 
is now forming, and will be opened for 
the inspection of the public at No. 9. 
Soho-square, about the 1st of January 
next. J 
Dr. Watkins, author of the General 
Biographical Dictionary, will shortly 
publish a work consisting of Memoirs 
of Self-educated Persons," who by their 
own exeitions have risen to eminence 
in literature and science. 
Miss Benger is engaged in Memoirs 
of the Life of Mary Queen of Scots 
which will be published in the course 
of the winter. 
Early in next month w ill appear the 
Aid to Memory, being a Common Place 
Book, arranged upon a new plan, with 
an alphabetical index, consisting 0 f 
upwards of one hundred and fifty heads, 
such as occur in general reading ; and 
suited alike to the student, the scholar, 
the man of pleasure, and the man of 
business, by J. A. Sargant. 
A work entitled the Present State of 
Europe, will shortly appear. 
Monthly Mag. No. 361. 
In a few r weeks will be published, an 
Appendix to Professor Orfila’s Gene¬ 
ral System of Toxicology, or Treatise 
on Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal 
Poisons, containing all the additional 
matter relating to that science pub¬ 
lished by the author in his last work 
entitled 44 Lectures on Medical Juris¬ 
prudence,’ and thus rendering com¬ 
plete the former treatise on poisons ; to 
which will be added twenty-two co¬ 
loured engravings of poisonous plants, 
insects, &e. 
A new edition is in the press with 
considerable additions, of Systematic 
Education, or Elementary Instruction 
in tlie various departments of Literature 
and Science, with Practical Rules for 
studying each Branch of useful Know¬ 
ledge, by the Rev. W. Shepherd, 
the Rev. J. Joyce, and the Rev. Lant 
Carpenter, L.L.D. 
About the middle of November will 
be published a new edition of that great 
guide to the stage in its most interest¬ 
ing time, Colley Cibber’s Apology 
for his own Life, enlarged by about two 
hundred notes upon the biography, 
ci itieism, narrative, and anecdote of 
the author. The work will also have 
an index, (for the first time) and edi¬ 
torial preface and portrait. 
Dr. Reade, of Cork, has published 
a variation of the common experiment 
illustrative of refraction, and by using 
a glass vessel instead of an opaque one; 
and he seems to prove beyond the pos¬ 
sibility of dispute, that an image is 
formed at the surface of the water, or 
tianspai ent medium, which becomes 
the object of vision, consequently that 
there is no bendingof rays, and no such 
piinciple as refraction l Any person 
may verify this experiment, and by 
hold ing the glass in different situations 
and by shaking the water, satisfy liirn- 
selt that the old doctrine of refraction 
is an error, and consequently that all 
om c.iagrams and illustrations on this 
subject are so many false analogies. By 
other equally simple experiments, he 
sliews, that in forming an inverted 
image there is no crossing of rays, but 
t lat the image is the result of reflexion 
within the lens. Ever principle of the 
New tonian philosophy, after flourishing 
for a century, seems, therefore, likely 
to be exploded, and nothing remains 
but diagrams, unconnected with the 
true operations of nature. 
Hints towards the right Improvement 
of the present Crisis, by Jos. Jones, 
M.A. are In the press. 
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