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Jume of Lyrical Tales; and her three 
oétavo volumes of poetry, to which fhe 
has a brilliant lift of fub{cribers, will be 
forthcoming next winter. 
We have much pleafure in being able to 
announce, that a new edition in quarto of 
the great Englith Cyclopedia, by Dr. 
ReEEs and affiliants, will {peedily be com- 
menced in parts and in weekly numbers. 
The meft competent writers and artiffs 
are employed in every department, and the 
work will be rendered worthy of the pa- 
tronage of the Britifh nation in this en- 
lightened period. Itis fuppofed that it 
will extend to about twenty volumes, or 
four hundred weekly numbers. 
A fplendid edition of Don Quixotte, 
(newly tranflated) will make its appear- 
ance very fhortly, in four volumes o¢tavo, 
with plates, &c. &c. 
_ Mr. PayNe, author of the Epitome of 
Modern Hiftory, and of other pieces, has 
ready for publication the firft volume of a 
Concife Hiftory of Greece, to be com- 
prifed in three velumes, oftavo, and 
brought down tothe time when Greece 
became a Roman province. ‘The firft vo- 
lume brings the hiftory down to the thir- 
teenth year of the Peloponnefian war ; and 
the concluding chapter contains a view of 
the caaratter of the Greeks in their focial 
habits, their internal policy, and civil go- 
vernment ; the ftate of literature and the 
arts in the brighteft period of their hif- 
tory ; their language, eloquence poetry, 
the ancient tragedy, comedy, nmiufic; of 
the polite arts, painting, {culpture, ar- 
chite&ture : concluding with an account of 
the Grecian plilofophy, and the character- 
iftic tenets of each fect. The fecond 
volume is 1n the prefs, and is intended to 
be publifhed in a few months; the third 
volume in the courfe of the enfuing win- 
ter. 
Mifs PLuMpPTRE Is preparing a novel 
for the prefs; and the public may expect 
as much pleafure in this lady’s original 
work, as it has already received from her 
tranflations. 
Mrs. Fenwick is alfo writing another 
novel. Her elegant {pecimen of ‘* SE- 
crecy” has fufficiently proclaimed the 
powers of her pen. 
Mr. Prart has another volume of 
¢* Gleanings in England,” ready for pub- 
lication. 
Ina few days will be publifhed, by 
Melirs. Ancu, a Chart of the Conftella- 
tions, exhibiting all the ftars which are 
vifible in Great Britain and Iveland, 
diffected in the manner of a map; and 
is thus’ defigned to render the relative 
pofitions of the ftars, and their diftribu- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligenee: 
fAuguft t; 
tion into conftellations, familiar to young 
perfons. 
The high price of Rags and Paper has 
occafioned two expedients to be reforted 
to, which it is to be hoped will have the 
effect of lowering them. One is to reduce 
to a pulp all kinds of paper which have 
been printed or written upon, and having 
extracted the colouring and oily matter, to 
re manufacture it; the other is to obli- 
terate the ink, &c. from the furface of the 
ufed paper, and thus to convert it again into 
perfect white paper. Both attempts de- 
ferve encouragement ; and by conferring 
an increafed value upon old paper, may 
occafion much of it that has heretofore 
been wafted or burnt, to be brought te 
market. As an ericouragement to its pre- 
fervation it would be praife-worthy in 
all perfons whofe bufinefs creates much 
wafte writing or other paper, to beltow 
the produce of it as a perquifite upon their 
clerks or fervants. A greater evil could 
not have befallen literature than the pre- 
fent advance in the price of paper, and 
confequently in that of books. It cannot, 
however, be too often repeated, that the 
monopoly of rags and. paper, as of the 
neceflaries of life, &c. is in great part, if 
not folely, occafioned by the difceunting 
accommodation afforded by the Bank of 
England. This pernicious fy{tem of pa- 
per credit isnow perhaps become unavoid- 
able, but its ruinous effects are every day 
becoming more apparent. During the 
American war, the weekly difcounts at 
the Bank feldom exceeded two hundred 
thoufand pounds; and they are now iel- 
dom beneath two millions ! 
“A bookfeller in this city, known to the 
public by a Compendious Hiltory of the 
Art of Printing, intends to publifh an im- 
proved edition of the late Dr. Harwood’s 
View of the prefent State of the Greek and 
Latin Claffics, in alphabetical order, con- 
taining the whole of the Doétor’s remarks, 
divetted of his egotifms. The additions 
are chiefly taken trom De Bure’s Bibliogra- 
phie Infiructive, and the Didionnaire Bi- 
bliographique, publifhed at Paris in 1796, 
affitted by the foreign and domeftic jour- 
nals.to the prefent time. 
Dr. Pike's difcovery relative to the 
culture of corn (which confitts chiefly of a 
very fimple infirument) isto be communi- 
cated to fubicribers at the end of this 
month, that they may reap the advantage 
in the enfuing {owing feafon. Dr. Pike 
is engaged upon a large work ona gricul- 
tural fubjeéts ; and wil! ipeedily publith a 
fmall medical work for the ufe of families, 
under the title of Machaon, announced te 
the public fo long as fourteen years soe 
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