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LITERARY avd PHILOSOPHICAL ; 
Sao Be a 
VY ARLP TL Ess, 
including Notices of Works in atid, . 
Domeftic and Foreign 
Co LAUDERDALE has inthe prefs'a 
work entitled, “ Thoughts on the Fi- 
nance of the Country, fuggefied by the mea- 
fures of the prefent Jeffion.”’ 
The firft volume of Mr. STEBBING 
SHaw’s Hiftory of Staffordfhire, has been — 
fome time in the prefs, and will thortly 
make its appearance. i 
The Society of Antiquaries of Lon- 
don, propofe to publifh a magnificent 
work, confifting of Diawings and De- 
{criptions of the Englifh Cathedrals. 
The editor is to be Mr. CARTER, and 
the firft part will contain the Cathedral 
of Exeter. : . 
Mr. PoLWHELE, author of “ The 
Influence of Local Attachment,’ &c. is 
preparing a poem, in heroic verfe, to be 
entitled, “ The Old Englifh Gentleman.” 
A work on the Antiquity of the City 
and Suburbs of Rome, by Mr. An- 
DREw LuMspDéEN, Is now inthe prefs. 
- A novel, entitled, ‘* The Wrongs of 
Woman,’ will fhortly make its appear- 
ance, from the pen of the author of 
The Rights of Women.” 
Specimens of Britifh Minerals will 
fhortly be publithed, from the cabinet of 
Mr. ASHLEY, of Cornwall. | 
Mr. CaHarnocx has publifhed the 
Profpeétus of an intended Hittory of 
Marine Architeéture. _ He has already 
been engaged upon this work upwards 
of twenty years; and it will coft him, 
before completed, upwards of fix thou- 
fand pounds. It will be comprized in 
three or more volumes, royal quarto, and 
will be illuftrated by upwards of one 
hundred plates. Nine guineas will be, 
the price to fubfcribers. 
Meffrs. Berrpy and BEWICKE, en- 
gravers, at Newcaftle, are preparing for 
early publication, a work on Britifh 
Ornithology, fimilar, in plan and execu- 
tion, to their much admired Hiftory of 
_ Quadrupeds. 
Mr. T. TuHompson, of Hull, has 
already committed to the prefs the shrd 
edition of his publication on TITHES, 
Including an account. of Tires: in 
Scotland. ce 
_ A new and elegant edition, in large 
o€tayo, of “ Vitarum Plutarchi Epitome: 
hoc eft, Grecorum et Romanorum [!luf- 
trium Res pefte, in Compendium re- 
daéte, per Darium Tibertum, Equitem 
_ Cefenatem ; is announced, by fublcrip- 
tion, to be publifhed under the care and 
direction of the Rey. T. Satmon, M.A. 
of Wadham College, Oxford. 
Mr. Bristow, of Canterbury, has 
iffued Propofals for an oétavo edition of 
the Hiftory of Kent, in eight volumes ; 
‘with the maps, views of feats, antiqui- 
ties, &c. The firft volume has juft been 
publithed, and the remaining ones will 
appear, fucceftively, at the end of every 
five months afterwards. This publica- 
tion will by no means interfere with that 
of the 4th volume of the folio hiftory, 
printing by Meffrs. Simmons and Kirk- 
by, which is in great forwardnefs in 
the Prefs, and is intended to be pub- 
lifhed a confiderable time prior to the 
two laft oftavo volumes of this edition, 
containing thofe parts of the county de- 
{cribed in that publication. 
A volume of Sermons, on various fyb. 
jects, by the Rev. WiLL1AmM Woot- 
COMBE, M. A. late Prebendary of Exes 
ter, &c. is announced for publication, 
by fubfcription. © 
A collection of Mathematical Tables, 
in one volume oétayo, by Dr. Mackay, 
of Aberdeen, is prepared for publica- 
tion, by fubfeription. 
Propofals. are circulated, for publith- 
ing, by fubfcription, a Reprefentation of © 
a feries of Medals, defcriptive of the 
Roman Hittory, executed by DassiER. 
They will be comprized in five or fix 
plates, with ten or twelve medals on 
each, and be engraved inthe fame man- 
ner as the Sovereigns of England, 
A Member of the Univerfity of Oxford 
has circulated the Profpeétus of a Tranf- 
lation into Englifh, of the Botanical 
works of LINN #US (as contained in his 
Genera & Species Plantarum), with every. 
addition and improvement, down to the 
prefent time: colleéted from the bet 
writers; and forming, together, a com= 
plete Syftem of Univerfal Botany. He 
alfo propofes, if this undertaking fhould 
meet with encouragement, to publifh a 
fupplement, containing practical Botany, 
as divided into. Medical, Mechanical, and 
Alimentary ; including whatever is ex= 
perimentally known, of the Virtues of 
plants, as connected with Medicine, the 
Arts, or as Food for Infeéts, Cattle, and 
Man. The work will be extended to 
-fix volumes in o€tavo. ‘The price eight 
fhillings per Volume. The firft volume 
will be publifhed, as foon as a fufficient 
number of fub{cribers are obtained. 
Il 2 MADAME 



