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impoffible thefe objeéts fhould be fully ob- 
tained, whilft women, the guardians of 
our childhood, were ;excluded, fuggefted 
to the before-mentioned gentlemen, the 
plan of a new courfe, accommodated toa 
female audience.. Many ladies, with a 
becoming zeal for ufeful information, 
have been forward in promoting this de- 
fign, and there is no queftion of its ulti- 
mate fuccefs. 
Dr. Beddoes mtends to deliver a courfe 
of chemical leGtures at Briftol; exhibit- 
ing on an extenfive apparatus, the gene- 
ral principles of chemiftry, with the im- 
provements which have been made at 
different periods in this valuable branch - 
of ftudy. The propoial was made at the 
earneft folicitation of a few friends.— 
Dottor B. propofed a courfe of chemical 
seGurcs at three guineas the courfe, to 
confift of about thirty ;. but as he withed 
the point to be fpcedily decided, he men- 
tioned in his advertitemént that unlefs 
one bundred names were given.in the firk 
fortnight, he fhould aitogerher relinauith 
the defiyn. More, however, than that 
number were given in the-firft week ! 
Among the books recently publithed at 
Madrid, the following are the moft de- 
serving of notice: 
Origin of Caftiilian Poetry, im one volume, 
quarto: This work isodivided into four parts, 
the firft of which examines the fources from 
whence the Cafftillian poetry has been drawn; 
namely, the poetry of the primitive Spaniards, 
and the Latin, Arabic, Provencal or Limofin, 
Portuguefe, and other poets. * 
_ ‘The Crigin, Progrefs, and Stages of Caftillian 
Poetry. Pie ; z 
An Examination of whatever belongs to ‘the 
Origin of Spanith poetry, in each of its priipul 
Kinds in particular. is 
ColleGtions of -Cafillian’ Poetry, the eom- 
ments and notes by which it has beemillu@rated, 
and the tranflations in the Caftillian tongue from 
the ‘poets of other nations. » TKetwhole termi- 
nated by a complete lift. of the2@a(iillian poets. 
_ Index to ths work, entitled. « Literary Me- 
moirs..’ This work is pubhfied in numbers, 
making three volumes yearly. It made its firft 
“appearance at the commencement of 1491. 
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‘The World, a Dream. This is a fatire on the 
manners ofthe prefent age. It defcribes men as 
they aré, and points out ‘te them: what they 
ought to be. 
The cultivation of rice is ftill continu- 
-edin many parts of the kingdom of Va- 
tencia, in Spain, notwithitanding repeat- 
ed: prohibitions. Don Antonio Jo- 
ster CXVANILLES, .in -his . valuable 
work-on the Natural Hiftoxy, Geography, 
Agreculiure, Population and Vegetable Pro- 
_aucis-of the Kingdom of Valencia, has en- 
~- ered Into-a very interefting difoulfion of 
ne 2 Sree 
* tae 
me as 
Literary News —Spain.... Sweden, Fe. 
{ Jan. 
the important queftion, whether the cul- 
tivation of this grain ought to be totally 
profcribed in Spain, on account of the 
fatal confequences attending it.» To de- 
termine this point, he takes a review of 
the maladies occafioned. by its cultivation, 
which requires a {wampy foil, and.at the 
fame time a fultry climate. He givesa 
table of the births and deaths,from the year 
1730 to 1787, in the different places in 
which the cultivation of rice has been 
practifed. . The refult is, that durimg the 
fpace of Sfty-eight years, there have been 
born 42,022 children in. the places where 
rice was not cultivated, and only 36,248 
where the cultivation. of rice was carried 
on. On the other hand, during the fame 
period of rifty-eight years, 39,595 perfons 
have died in the places where rice was 
grown, and only . 29,630, im the places 
where it was not cultivated. 
Among the branches of fzence moft fuc- - 
cefsfully cultivated in SWEDEN, appear 
to be political butory, geography, phyfic, 
natural hiftory, and rural economy. The 
Swedes are rich in geographical and ma- 
rine charts. The firft velume of the 
Marine Arlas, publifhed in 1995, by the 
vice-admiral NoRDENANKER, is jufily 
entitled to particular commendation. In 
the theological: department, a new tran- _ 
flation of the Bible, patronized by the 
late Swedith monarch,, and undertaken at 
his particular inftance, is preparing forthe 
prefs, and now actually in a ftate of great 
forwardnefs. Of this tranflation)an Efay, 
by way of profpectus, appeared in 1772. 
The® wéw  verfions pof thé Pfalms; of 
‘David, by the leaned Dr. TinestTa- 
“pius,; may dikewife be confidered as a 
‘{pecimen and appeadage ©to jthis grand 
undertaking. In the dame year (1772) 
“WaARmHOLzZ publifhed the feventh vo- 
lume of his Bibliorbeca Hiforico-Sveo-Gotbi- 
ca, which completes that learned and in- 
itruéfive work. GANANDER publifhed 
at Abo, in 1789, a Mytaolopia Fennica ; 
and there has appeared very recently’ the 
firft part’of' the new edition of PauL 
Justen’s Chronicle of the Bifhops of 
Finland. As tranflators, the Swedes 
tranflate a great number of German books, 
but comparatively very few. from the 
French and Englith languages. ~The firit 
Literary Fournal, which made its appear-. 
ance in Sweden, was publifhed by Doétor 
OLaus CELsIvS,. in 1742..: Since that 
as 

* An English tranflation of Tingftadius’s. 
Verfion appeared in London -about four years 
ago. Though little known, it contains many 
valuable and important novelties. << 
period. 
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