345 Sixty Articles of Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. [Nov. 1, 
publifhed of ‘* The Complaynt of Scot- 
tand,”’ printed about 1549, with a prefa- 
tory differtation and gloffary, in one volume, 
Bvo, 
pics ere knovn to exift ; one copy in the 
Britith Mufeum, another belonging to the 
duke of Roxburgh, one belonging to Mr. 
John M‘Gowan, Writer, and another to 
Mr. George Paton, of the Cuftom Houfe, 
Ediaburgh. . All the cop'es are imper- 
fect ; the copy in the Britith Mufeum 
and that belonging to Mr. Paton have 
been completed trom each other. 
The lovers of Scottifh and Englifh poe- 
try will be pleafed to learn that Hefor 
Macneill efq. the author of «* Will and 
Jean,’ and other popular compofitions ia 
the Scottith dialeét, will foon give to the 
world a correct and uniform edition of his 
<< Poetical Works,” including many pieces 
never before printed. The work is un- 
dertaken at the expence of Meffis. Confa- 
ble and Guthrie, and Manners and Mil- 
Jer, bookfellers, in Edinburgh, and will 
be printed by Benfley, in London, ia two 
volumes, foolfcap oftavo, with engra- 
vings, defigned by Burney. 
Mr. Gray bookfeller, in. Edinburgh, 
has in the prefs a new edition of « The... 
Fortunate Shepherdefs,”’ and other poems, 
by ALEXanneR Ross, with a iite of the 
author, and obfervations on his genius 
and writings. 
A work of importance to all perfons 
eoncervedin the education of children is 
juft completed. It is intitled ‘«* The Parents” 
Friend,’’and contajns the different opinions 
of the principal writers on educaticn, 
from the time of Montaigne to the prefent 
day, methodized and arranged under their 
yelpective heads, with a general index: 
to which are added {ome obfervations by 
the compiler, particularly on thofe points 
neglected by other writers. The compiler 
has carefully peruled above 75 volumes on 
the fubjeét, and has made extra&s from 
64. 
An abridgment of Mifs and _ Mr. 
EDGEWORTH’S valuable work on ‘ Prac- 
tical Education” is in hand, and will be 
Speedily publithed. 
Mr. JouN Bexy has made great pro- 
grefs in a work on Military Surgery, that 
has been, for fome time, earneftly expected 
from him, It will probably fill two vo- 
lumes in 4to, wich will contain many il- 
{uftrativeengravings. Its publication will 
be early in the enluing year. 
Mr. Heron will tpeedily publith, in a 
Letter to Mr. Pitt, the refult of certain 
relearches, in which he has been for 
Of this curious work only four co- 
fome time engaged, concerning the “ Free-_ 
dom of Trade, and the means of perma- 
menily eftablifhing a due proportion be- 
tween the produce and the con{umptien of 
provifions in Great Britain.”—Its object 
will be, in the firit place, to thew, that 
the natural freedom of trade has never yet 
been rightly underftcod , and that, inorder 
to protcét tnis natural freedom of trade, a 
great fyftem o: new and altered inflitutions 
is neceflary in the financial and cecumeni- 
cal legiflaiion of the Britifh empire. In 
regard to provificns, it will propole a plan 
of extreme plainnefs, and eafe in execu- 
tion,—‘or procering monthly returns to 
the cffice of the Secretary of Stare for the 
home department, of the whole quanti- 
ties of provifions in the ifle ; and for vary- 
ing the prices and the expedients fer fup- 
ply, according as the proportions fhall ap- 
pear to vary between the quantities og 
hand and the neceffary confumption. 
Dr, Jones, of Yarmouth, is preparing 
for the prefs an Englith edition of the 
<¢ Mecanique Celefie,” of Laplace. This 
tranflation will contain the {ubfequent dii- 
coveries of Laplace, regularly communi- 
cated to the tranflator, and in confequence 
will be very complete. 
The ingenious author of the ‘¢ Farmers” 
Calendar,’’ has in the preis, an original 
work, intituled, ‘© The Modern Land- 
Steward,” in which the duties dnd funétions 
. of Kewardfhip are confidered and explained, 
with their feveral relations to the interefts 
of the landlord, tenant, and the public. 
The late James Macpherfon, efq. left 
to bis friend, Mr. Mackenzie, of the Tem- 
ple, the care of vindicating his fame, by a 
publication of the GagLIC ORIGINALS 
oi the Poems of Oss1an. Some impor- 
tant refearches, te afcertain their authen- 
ticity, have been fince made by the High- 
land Society of Scotland. Mr, Macken- 
zie has not been negligent of the confi- 
dential truft of his friend. He is now pre- 
paring to publifh, in a very fplendid form, 
a new edition of Offian, in which the 
Gaelic Oviginals, the admirable Engl.th 
tranilation by Macpherfon, and a literal 
Latin verfion, will appear together. In 
this form of publication, the work will, 
no doubt, find its way over all Europe, 
and wherever European literature is known. 
The WersTMInstER Library has 
been gradually fo enlarged, and placed on 
fuch a footing, by ftri€t yet agreeably ac- 
commodating regulations, that it now fup- 
plies, in a very confiderable degree, the 
ule of a public library for both London 
and Weltminftxr. It is pleafing to fee 
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