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YR. TOOKE’s Life of the tate Em- 
prefs of Ruffia, will fhortly make 
its appearance in thrée volumes, embel- 
hifhed ‘with pertraits. 
’ A’ Pour in Switzerland, from the bril- 
liant pen of Mifs H. M. Williams, will 
be publithed early in March. . 
‘The much’ expected edition of the 
Works and Letters of the late Earl of 
Orferd, and Captain G. VANCOUVER’s 
Voyage round the World, are in confider- 
able torwardnefs. 
The firft part, containing the firft ten 
numbers of a {plendid «* Hiftorical Atlas 
of England,” on an entire new plan, by 
Mr. AwpreEws, Geographer of Piccadil- 
ly, will make its appearance in a few 
days. This work does great credit to 
the inventor; and the letter prefs which 
accompanies it, containing accounts of 
the rivers, mines, mineral waters, fifh- 
eries, &c. and of the civil, military, eG- 
clefiaftical, naval, biogr fphical, com- 
mereial and parliamentary hittory of Eng- 
-land, ancient and modern, for ee magni- 
ficent {pecimen of Engtith typography. 
Mr. ANDREWS alio propofes to pub- 
lifh, in the courfe of next month, a ** Ge- 
ographical Atlas of England,” upon a 
fimilar, though lefs exte enti ive, pian than 
the above, for the illuftration of the Hit 
tory of England, and for the improvement 
of youth. 
A tranflation by Mr. JOHN CIFEORD, 
ef CAMILLE JORDAN’s Addrefs to his 
Conflituents on his late Profcription, will 
fhortly make its appearance. 
Mr. MurRPiHyY is about to publifh a 
tragedy on a very interefting fubject, but 
which, from the prefent {tate of the dra- 
ma, he does not think it prudent to bring 
eut on the ftage. Hie is alfo engaged on 
his long-expested “Life of Samuel Focte. 
Dr. Brsser will fpeedily publifh a 
Life of Mr. Burke. 
Mr. CorTrr; of Briftol, is about to 
publith a moral and deferiptive poem, 
called “* Malvern Hill.”’ 
The fermons of the late Mr: JARDINE, 
-are nearly ready for delivery. 
' Mr. Ltoyp and Mr. Lams are about 
to publish two volumes of miicellaneous 
pieces, to be entitled “* Blank Verfe.” 
Avolume of Letters fromthe late Rev. 
Sir Soyigel STONSHOUSE, Bayt. to the 
Rev. Mr. STEDMAN, of Shrewibury, is 
preparing for the prefs, 
. terations ; 
A. new edition of Mr. SourHEY’s 
«¢ Joan of Arc,” is in fhe prefs. . This 
work has undergone very confiderable al- 
the additional notes will be 
numerous, and an analyfis of the poem 
Chapelain is to be prefixed. The niath 
book, greatly enlarged, will be publithed 
fe -parately, under the title of “ The Vifion 
ot the Maid of Orleans.” 
A new and elegant edition, with con- 
fiderable improvements, of ‘¢ The Sca- 
fide;’? a poem in familiar epittles, from 
Mr. SIMKIN. SLENDERWIT, fummer- 
ifing at Ramigate, to his dear mother in 
town, will make its ‘Appearance in afew 
days. 
The pofthumous works, in profe and 
verfe, of the late Jon’ MACLAURIN, 
Lord DREGHORN, long an eminent ad- 
vocate at the Scottifh bar, and‘in the lat- 
ter part of his life, a diftingwithed mem- 
ber of the Supreme Civil Court ot Scat- 
land, are now in the prefs at Edinburgh, 
and will be publithed withina few months, 
intwo volumes, $vo.. An Ode to War, 
belonging to this collection, is fpoken of 
as difplaying fome very noble ftrokes of 
the picturefque, the terrible, and the true 
fublime. 
Mr. MALCOLM Laine i is expected to 
publith m the courfe of the prefent years 
«The Hiftory of Scotiand, during the 
feventeenth Century.”? Litile doubt. ts 
entertained, but tis work ‘will, in elabo- 
ratenefs of fearch, in ardent patriotifm of 
fentiment, in the adaptation of hiftory to 
illuftrate and confirm popular opinions in 
plilofophy, greatly excel that portion ef 
Mr. HERoN’s Hiftory of Scotland, which 
relates to the fame period. 
Mr, JOHN KioMeE, whofe tragedy of 
Douglas. is ftill- the pride of the ‘Britith 
dr ama, is underftood to have been for 
many years engaged in the compolition of 
a pF ‘Hittory of the Rebellion of.1745.”” 
Motives of perfonal delicacy, it is, fear ed, 
will difpofe “him to decline publi uhing this 
valuable work in his own life- time, but 
rather toleave tt at his death, fo that it 
may be delivered by pofthumous publica- 
tion, asa valuable legacy to pofteri ity. 
Mr, ANDREW DauzieL, the able 
pr ofefior of Greek lancuage and literature 
inthe Oniverkty of Edinburgh, ig expect~ 
ed aoe to fend to the preis, ‘A. Selec 
tion of Latin DN compo ded, by emi- 
nent Natefmen, in the end of the fratcenth, 
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