-¥800.] Seventy Articles of Literary and Philofophicad Intelligence. 157 
eighteen books, and will extend to two 
handfome volumes in octavo. 
Mr. Cyarzes R. Arkin has under- 
taken to collect and arrange, in the compa{s 
of a fmall trast, all the faéts which have 
tranfpired relative to the INOCULATION 
FOR THE Cow Pox, including practical 
directions, &c. &c. Suchacomprehentive 
work is now rendered neceflary by the late 
multiplication of pamphlets and facts on 
this truly important fubject. 
Mr. joun Barrow, auditor-general 
of public accounts at the Cape of Good 
Hope, has in the prefs a volume cf Tra- 
vels into the Interior of Southern Africa, 
in 1797 and 1798; to which will be an- 
nexed a defcription of the prefent flare, 
population and produce of the extenfive 
colony at the Cape, and a map conitruéted 
from aétual obfervations. 
A fecond edition of Dr. CalsHoim’s 
Effay on the Malignant and Peftilential 
Fever of Grenada, greatly enlarged, will 
be {peedily publithed. 
The poems of Mr. G. Dyer are 
printed; but as, from the nature of the 
work, they have been fo long delayed, they 
will not be publifhed, for obvious reafons, 
till the winter. 
The Medical and Phyfical Fournal, 
which, under the diregtion of the Doétors 
BraDLey, BaTTy, and NOEHDEN, con- 
tinues to enjoy a larger degree of reputa- 
tion than any other medical periodical 
work in Europe, is now regularly tranf- 
Jated into German, and republifhed with 
notes, &c. upon the continent. Its recep- 
“tion in America has been evinced by the 
extracts from it publifhed in the beft 
periodical works of the United States; and 
its univerfal currency in Great Britain 
and Jreland is proved by the variety of 
its correfpondence from all the moft intel- 
ligent and celebrated practitioners. 
Mr. THOMAS SKINNER SurRR, author 
of George Barnwell, &c. has nearly fi- 
nifhed a novel under the title of ** Sp/ez- 
did Mifery.”” 
A Memoir of the life of the late Dr. 
ROBERTSON, the hiforian, including 
many. of his letters, and a critical account 
of his writings, will, in a fhort time, be 
given to the public, by Mr. Duca.p 
STUART, of Edinburgh, It was com- 
pofed feveral years fince. Its publication 
has been delayed, till Mr. Stuart could 
procure fome of Dr. Robertfon’s letters to 
his friends, which he was defirous to in- 
fert in his Memoir. 
Dr. James Grecory, of Edinburgh, 
bas juft printed a Memorial! for the patrons 
of the Infirmary, or Public Hofpital, of 
that city; in which he propofes, that the 
furgeons of the inftitution thali in future 
be permanently attached to it; and points 
out many difadvantages attending the pre- 
fent mode, in which all the refident {ure 
geons of the College ferve in the Infir- 
mary by rotation. In this memorial, he 
enters deeply into the confideration of cei= 
tain differences fubffting, at prelent, 
among the furgeons of Eainburgh, and 
introduces many interefting anecdotes ia 
the medical hiftory of that celebrated {chool. 
Davip Hume, efg, profeflor of Scottifla 
law, in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, and 
nephew to the hiftorian and philofophery, 
has juft printed a valuable juridical work 
upon crimes, which will {peedily be pub- 
lithed in London. It forms a continuation 
of his work on the criminal law of Scot 
land ; but enters more freely than that 
work into the general and philotophical 
difcuffion of the fubje@t. 
A review of the Agricultural Survey of 
the county of Lincoln by Mr. YounGy 
in which fome of that gentieman’s errors 
are with great feverity expofed, will 
{peedily be publifhed by THomas Sroney 
efq. of Ampthill, in Bedfordthire. 
A journal of feveral years’ refidence at 
Nootka Sound will, probably, be pub- 
lifhed next winter, by a gentleman who 
bas lately arrived in tovvn from that place. 
Mr. Nose, furgeon in Birmingham, 
will, in a few weeks, publifh Part I. of a 
Treatife on the Ophthalmy, and thofe dif= 
eafes which are induced by Inflammations 
of the Eyes, with methods of cure confi- 
derably different from thofe in common 
ufe; to which will be fubjoined an En- 
-quiry into the Powers and Efficacy of 
many Applicaticns, which are generally 
efteemed, and had recourfe to, in differ- 
ent difeates of the eyes. The fucceeding 
part wili be presared for the prefs as {con 
as poflible. 
Dr. Carson, praétitioner in midwifery; 
of the fame town, is engaged ina fwall 
Work on the treatment of Pregnant Wo- 
men, in which it is his intention, princi- 
pally to point out the moft probable and 
advantageous means of preventing abortions 
The Society for the Eftablifhment of a 
Literary Fund have undertaken a publi- 
cation under the direction of Mr. Joun 
REEVEs, and Mr. Davip WiLLIaMs. 
The work to coaift of an Introduction, 
by Mr. Boscawen; of Lettersvr Ellays 
on Subjects of Importance to the general 
Obje&t of the Society, addrefled by Mr. 
Reeves to Mr. David Williams, the ori- 
ginal founder of the Inftitution; and of 
anfwers to thofe eflays or letters, com- 
priing a Hiftory or an Hiftorical Memoir 
of the Enftitution, by Mr. Williams ; to 
which 

