442 Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. [Doc. 1, 
The Encyclopaedia Metropolitan, 
which has been suspended in conse¬ 
quence of the failure of its late pub¬ 
lisher, has fallen under -the manage¬ 
ment of new proprietors, who will pub¬ 
lish the fifth part of that work, 1st of 
January, 1S22. 
Early in January will appear a small 
volume by Mrs. Davis, of Frome, en¬ 
titled Helps to Devotion, in the entire 
language of the Scriptures, on a plan 
suggested by the late Mrs. Rrunton. 
Dudley Fosbroke, M.A. F.A.S., 
author of 44 British Monachism,” &c. 
announces Berkeley Anecdotes; con¬ 
sisting of Abstracts and Extracts of 
Smyth’s Lives of the Berkeleys, illus¬ 
trative of Antient Manners and the 
Constitution, and including all the Pe¬ 
digrees in that celebrated Manuscript; 
to which are annexed, a copious History 
of the Castle and Parish of Berkeley, 
consisting of matter never before print¬ 
ed ; and Biographical anecdotes of Dr. 
Edward Jenner, &c. 
Mr. Hone’s Answer to the Quarterly 
Review, in refutation of the ealuinnies 
in the article on the Apocryphal New 
Testament, and in defence of himself 
for having published that work, will 
appear in a tew days. 
A volume is in the press correspond¬ 
ing iu size with the Vocal Library, 
which will contain nearly 2500 Anec¬ 
dotes, the best in the language; it 
will be entitled the Anecdote Library. 
Mr. Seward’s six volumes did not con¬ 
tain above 500 articles; Andrews’s not 
200; Adams’s not 150; the superior 
pretensions of this volume may there¬ 
fore be determined numerically, while 
it will be published at a lower price 
than either. 
A History of Lady Jane Grey and 
her Times, by Mr. George Howard, 
is announced for publication in De¬ 
cember. It will illustrate the manners 
and customs of former days, with nu¬ 
merous Anecdotes of the distinguished 
Persons and Events of that period, and 
will embrace the earliest records of the 
Reformation, drawn from sources hi¬ 
therto unexplored. 
Mr. James Townsend is preparing 
for publication, a translation of the 
Bachelor of Salamanca, a novel by Le 
Sage. 
The Rev. Mr. Piggot is engaged on a 
small work entitled the Young Suicide 
Preserved ; a narrative founded on the 
case of Mr. G. J. Furneaux, who shot 
himself at White Conduit House, Sep¬ 
tember, 1821. 
December the 1st, will be published 
and continued weekly, price one shil¬ 
ling, the Focus of Philosophy, Science, 
and Art, concentrating the spirit of the 
knowledge of the day. Every British 
journal of scientific character, will be 
ransacked for useful matter of fact, and 
selections will be occasionally made 
from the best foreign authorities. 
The Preacher, in 6 vols, 12mo. is pre¬ 
paring for publication, consisting of 
Sketches of Original Sermons, from the 
MSS. of two eminent divines of the last 
century, with a familiar Essay on Pulpit 
Composition, principally intended for 
young ministers and lay preachers. 
In a few days will be published the 
following discourses, by S. Sleigh 
Salisbury. Joyful Anticipations ; a 
Sermon occasioned by the death of Mrs. 
Sloper; Infant Hosannas; a Sermon 
containing many particulars of the life 
and death of a child belonging to the 
Scot’s Lane Sunday School. 
The Author of the Mystery, or 
Forty Years Ago ; and of Calthorpe, or 
Fallen Fortunes, is about to come for¬ 
ward with a Tale, entitled Lollardy, 
founded on the persecutions which 
marked the opening of the Fifteenth 
Century. 
Mr. Hay has published some obser¬ 
vations in the Quarterly Journal, on 
an ancient Monument of Sculpture in 
stone, representingthe Theban Sphinx, 
which has recently been discovered at 
Colchester. This singular figure, which 
from its beauty, might naturally be 
expected to be of the finest marble, 
was sculptured in freestone. This 
Sphinx was found in the midst of a 
great number of fragments of another 
species of stone, equally unknown at 
Colchester as a native product, and 
vulgarly called Swannge, from the 
place where it is dug in the Isle of Pur- 
beck. 
The general dimensions of the an¬ 
tique are as follows: 
Inches. 
Length of the base, . . . 25± 
Medium breadth of the base, . 10 
Height from base to top of Sphinx’s 
head, . . • • .25 
The face of the Sphinx, measuring 
from under the chin to the crown 
of the head, .... 5 
The stone was found at the depth of 
about two feet from the surface of the 
soil, in trenching the ground around 
the General Hospital, lately erected at 
Colchester. It was discovered in an 
almost perfect state, there being only a 
