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VARIETIES, Lrrzerary anp PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Dometic and Foreign. 
*4° Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
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R. HAGER’s Introduflion toa 
knowledge of Chinefe Writing and 
of the Chinefe Language, is printing in 
London, in a faperb manner, by Benfley, 
decorated with feveral hundred charaéters 
and engravings. This curious work, the 
firft of the kind which bas appeared in 
Europe, will contain a familiar explana- 
tion of the Chinefe elementary charadters, 
and enable any perfon to underftand and 
read the common Chinefe books. It will 
equally intrcduce the Chinefe, to an ac- 
quaintance with the Englith language. Pre- 
fixed will appear a Jearned differtation on 
the Chinefe letters, and on their various 
changes from their origin to the prefent 
time, together with a comparifon of them 
with the Egyptian, Mexican, and other 
ancient hieroglyphics. 
The admired Pi@ure of Palermo, writ- 
ten by the fame learned author, during his 
examination in that city of the Arabic 
Forgeries of the Abbé Vella*, has been 
elegantly tranflated by Mrs. Rozinson, 
~ and will be publifhed in two or three weeks. 
Some engraved fpecimens of the mof im- 
portant of Vella’s forgeries will be intro- 
duced in the courfe of the work. 
A fingularly curious work, being .an 
account cf the Britifli {lands prior to the 
Invafion of Crefar, has lately been difco- 
vered in the poffeifion of the Bramins of 
Benares, Britain is, in this treafure of 
antiquity, called by anadme which figni- 
fies the Holy Ifland. The Thames, rhe 
Ifis, and other rivers, are called by names 
very fimilar to their prefent ones, and 
Stonehenge is deferibed as a grand Hindoo 
temple! A tranflation of this intereiting 
MS. is preparing for early publication, 
by the Afiatic Society of Calcutta. 
. The great map of Perfia, on which Sir 
WILLIAM OUSELEY has been employed 
for two years, is now almoft completed. 
The fcale is fo large as to admit of many 
hundred names not to be found in any 
other maps; and it comprehends not only 
the Empire of Perfia, but the adjoining re- 
gions on the eaft and welt part of India and 
Tartary, Mefopotamia, Armenia, &c. 
‘The names are all written in the Arabic 
or Perfian character, as Sir William de- 
figns this map for the Perfian monarch, 
to whom he intends to prefent it in perfon. 
He will preferve, we underttand, a copy of 
it, with the names written alfo in Euro- 
pean letters, and will probably publifh it. 
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* Vide Monthly Mage Nos 36, p. 129% 
In addition to the information we have 
already given refpe&ting the publication 
of Artitorle’s Metaphyfics, by Mr. Tuo- 
Mas LT aYLOR, the Platonift, we are fur- 
ther enabled to fate that a Differtation on 
Nullities will be annexed by Mr. Taylor 
to this work. In this differtation Mr. 
Taylor promifts, from the fingular nature 
and importance of the difcoveries which he 
has made in this very obfcure fpecies of 
algorithm, to unfold AN ENTIRE NEW 
BRANCH OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE 5 
and at the fame time to elucidate the na- 
ture of the To EN, or The Onze, of the Py- 
thagoreans and Plato, which is fo often 
mentioned by Ariftotle in the courfe of his 
Metaphyfics. 
Dr. Moopre, of Bath, who was pro- 
feffionally employed with his Majeity’s 
forces in India, during the laft war, is 
preparing for the prefs a Hiftory of the Mi- 
litary and Political Tranfa&tions of the Bri- 
tifh Nation in Hindoftan, from the com- 
mencement of the war with France in 
1744, to the conclufion of the peace with 
Tippoo Sultan in 1784. This work wiil 
be comprifed in three large volumes, royal 
quarto, embellifhed wish upwards of thir- 
ty maps, charts, plans and views, iluftra- 
tive of the fubject. The very great ex- 
pence attending a work of this compre- 
henfive nature induces the author to foli- 
cit the patronage of the public ; more par- 
ticularly hoping for the encouragement of 
the Britifh officers who are or have been 
employed in India, as they muft feel them- 
felves peculiarly interefted in the important 
fubject which now engages his attention ; 
for, although emolument be not his objeét, 
yet he is defirous of prefenting his work 
to the public without incurring any con- 
fiderable rifk by the impreffion. 
A new general Survey of Great Britain, 
by the Meffrs. DanreL and SAMUEL 
Lysons, is in great forwardnefs. It will 
be illuftrated with maps, plans and en- 
gravings of antiquities, and be printed in 
guarto. The publication will commence 
with the counties of Bedford and Bucks. 
At the fame time will be publifhed, fe- 
parately, a feries of Views of the moft in- 
terelticg and pidturefque Objeéts in each 
county, by Mr. WiLLIAM Byrne, from 
drawings by the moft eminent artifts. 
The Epic Poem of Richard the Firfts 
from the elegant penof Sir James BLAND 
Burcess, will publicly appear early in 
the winter. We underitand it conifilts of 
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