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VAR Bl eeby: 
LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL ; 
including Notices of VF orks in Hand, 
Domeftic and Foreign. 
ME AIKIN has prepared for the prefs, 
a Journal of a Tour through the 
greater part of North Wales, and pert 
of Shropfhire, with various obfervations 
in mineralogy, and other branches of na- 
tural hiftory. | 
Lord MountMoORREs has fet an ex- 
cellent example to opulent authors, by 
prefenting the profits of his late hiftory of 
the Irifh Parliament to the LITERARY 
Funp. 
Mr. Nitsex. has announced his in- 
tention to commence, in January, acourfe 
ef Twelve Leétures on the natural con- 
ftitution ef the human mind, according 
to the principles laid down in his ‘* Ge- 
neral and Introductory View of Profeffor 
Kant’s Philofophy.” 
he Fourth Part, bemg the laft, of 
Mr. Hutcuinson’s valuable History of 
the County of Cumberland, will be pub- 
dithed in the courfe of the winter. It 
-has been delayed fome time by the great 
quantity of intercfting matter which has 
Jately come to hand, and by the number 
of additional plates which are in the 
hands of the engraver. En the corapila- 
tion of this work from original and va- 
uable fources, witheut difregarding anti- 
_giities and genealogies, particular atten- 
tion has been paid to the more practical 
and ufeful fadjects of agriculture, manu- 
faétures, botany, and mineralogy, which 
latter.is a very importaat article in the 
hiftory of that county. The public are 
indebted for the work to Mr. JOLLIE, 
a refpeétable bookfeller at Carlifle, who, 
during fix years, has carried it on at a 
very heavy expence.’ 
On the fummit of the cupolaof the - 
Pantheon, at Paris, it is propoted to place 
a coloffal figure of Fame. The mocel of 
this fiarae, which is be caft in bronze, 
is already finifhed by Dejoux. Its 
height is 30 Englith feet. It bears a 
trumpet in one hand, and in the other, 
a palm and acrown; ftands upright, is 
clothed witha floating tunic, and a clofe 
gown. Two enormous wings cover its 
back ; one of its feet refis on an hemif- 
phere, and the other is in the air. This 
work has alrcady engaged the artift three 
rears, and it will require as many more, 
oe it will be completed, 
With a vicw to improve the art of 
éefign, moulds. of thg fineft antique 
models! have been dciftributed by the 
French government throughout. the 
{chools of the departnrents. 
The French Literary Journals ex- 
prefs confident hopes, that fome of the. 
literati of the Univerfity of Oxford wul 
prefent the world with remarks, iluftra- 
tions, &c. of the important Herculaneum 
MSS. now in the library of »Chrift. 
Chureh. 
The author of the new Pafigraphy, 
without explaining precifely the nature, 
of his inventior, has publiihed, in the 
Parifian Journals, an idea of it by the 
following comparifon : “ It will be with 
Pafigraphy,” fays he, “ as with Geo- 
graphy, where a certain point of inter- 
{e€tion denotes a town, or an ifland. Leg 
the town, &c. be called either Cox/fan- 
tinople or Stamboul, Londres. oF London, 
Paris or Parigi, Ratifbonne or Regcn- 
‘bourg, La Haye or S’graven Hagen, &c. 
thofe who can take at the firlt glance 
the longitude and latitude, will imme- 
diately name the country, the province, 
and the place, every one in his own lan- 
guage.” 
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has 
confented to give the impreffions of the 
engraved ftones of the gallery of Fio- 
‘rence, in exchange for the impreffions 
of thofe of the cabinet of antiquities in 
the National Library, at Paris. Ths 
Florence colle€tion is perhaps the fineit 
exifting. 
CovLoms, a Phyfician in the French 
Marine, has lately prefented tothe go- 
vernment, a confiderable Herbary, col- 
leéted by him at Cayenne. It contains 
50 genera, and 200 fpecies, which were 
pot to be found in the Mufeum of Natu. 
ral Hiftory at Paris. The Directory has 
prefented tothe fame inftrtution avery rare 
fhell, the argonauia vitrea L. G- which 
the cirenmnavigator Huon, who went 
in fearch of LA PEYROUSE, had «ar- 
nefily recommended and bequeathed be- 
fore his death to the republic. . 
Le Granp, an architeét, has lately 
prepefed to the French government, te 
reflore the cclebrated Thermee Juliane 
at Paris. ; 
The National Inftitute, in the filling 
up of vacancies in its number of mem- 
bers, has adopted a fimple and con-~ 
venient mode of nomination, which de-- 
Lerves 
