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works of fome young, but rifing artifts, 
who have not yet obtained a name pro- 
portionate to their merit.—Like former 
exhibitions, the prefent one proves that 
the branch of the art in which our painters 
are’ moft encouraged, to which they: 
chiefly devote themfelves, and in which 
they fucceed the -beft, is portrait paint- 
ig. It contains, neverthelefs, a num- 
ber of works of fancy and fentiment, 
which do equal honour to the genius and 
difintereftednefs of the artifts, confidering 
how little fuch fubjeéts are in requeft. 
‘The number of thofe who have attempted 
landfcape.is fmall—fill fmaller of thofe 
who have fueceeded. Of the drawings, 
fome are truly beautiful—others highly 
pleafing and refpectable. In fculpture 
the exhibition this year is particularly 
poor. It can only boaft a few heads, 
_and bas-reliefs, which however well exe- 
euted, are of little confequence, when 
compared. with the groupes and figures as 
large as life, which thé public have con- 
templated with pleafure in former years. 
But, whatever may be its defects, the 
perfons who are acquainted. with the ftate 
of the arts abroad, will fee! no hefitation 
in pronouncing that no foreign fehoolt 
can produce an annual exhibition equal 
to that of England. 
{ifs Linwoop’s exhibition of pic- 
tures in‘needle-work, continues to attraét 
and aftonifh the lovers of the fine arts and 
the fafhionable. world. No private col- 
le€tion has ever been more refpectably 
patronized in this metropolis. 
Mefirs. BoypeELt have added a dozen 
new pictures to the Shakefpeare Gallery, 
by SMIRKE, WESTALL, WHEATLEY, 
and Ricgaup., The gallery is alfo en- 
riched at this time by the whole of the 
beautiful Milton drawings by WeESTALL. 
‘The thirteenth number of the Shakefpeare 
will be ready for delivery in the courfe of 
the month. 
The fame gentlemen having purchafed 
the admired pictures of the ¢ Seven Ages,” 
by SmMiRKE, which are now exhibiting 
at Somerfet Houfe, propofe to publifh 
prints from them, of the fize of the ori- 
inals. 
Mr. JoHN IRELAND’s fupplementary 
volume to ** Hogarth Illuftrated,” will 
ofitively be delivered in a few days. 
>Mr.CaPreL-Lort writes to us from 
- Profton*, that after repeated obferva- 



* In his letter of taft month, in a few 
copies;-our: readers are requeited, tor ‘¢ Bo- 
fton,*. to-read Trefon, and for $* fin,” te 
read Life. 
Exhibitions... Englifp Literature. 
tions from the 13th inft. to the 22d, both 
inclufive, he is wholly difappointed as to 
the expeéted re-appearance of the /olar 
Jpot ; and mutt thercfore conclude no more 
will be feen of it. This, confidering its 
permanence for feveral revolutions, and 
its apparently unaltered ftate as to figure, 
denlity, and fize, when it) was laft feem, 
is to him exceedingly unexpeéted. 
Dr. SOMERVILLE, author of ‘* Te 
Hiftory of Political Tranfactions, and of 
Parties, during the Reign of King Wil- 
liam, has in the prefs a complete hiftory 
of Great Britain, during the reign 
of Queen Anne. The author has had 
accefs to a great variety of original papers, 
fome of the moft curious of which will 
be printed in an appendix at the end of 
the volume. | 
The Literary and Philofophical Society 
of . Newcaftle-upon-Tyne, have juit 
printed their ** Fifth Year’s Report ;”’ and 
likewile feme copies of ** Two Effays,” 
read before them by JOHN RaLPu FEN- 
wick, M. D. one containing ‘* Refiec- 
tions on Calcareous Manures;*? the 
other, ** Some Reflections on the Im- 
portance of Elaftic Fluids in Vegetation; 
and on the Prefervation and Application 
of Fold-yard Manure.” 
Mr. ComsBe, the author of * The 
Diaboliad,” is engaged upon a work to 
be publithed in’ four volumes, which 
will include biographical fketches of 
eminent charaéters, and the hiftery of 
the moft conliderable-events of the prefent 
Teipgn. \ : 
Captain Davip CoLuins, of the ma- 
rines, judge advocate, and fecretary of 
the colony, has announced for fpeedy 
publication, ** An Account of the English 
Colony ia New South Wales,” trom the de- 
parture of the firft embarkation m the 
year 1787, to the 29th of September 1796 : 
with occafional remarks on the natives of 
New Holland, from aétual ebfervation. 
He propofes to add an Account*of New 
Zealand and its Inhabitants, taken, by 
permifficn, from the MSS. of Lieutenant 
Governor King. 
Mr. ALuiwoop, fellow of Magdalen 
college, has circulated propofals for pub- 
lifhing by fubfcription, a work on “ The 
Literary Antiquities of Greece: as deve- 
loped man attempt to afcertain princi- 
ples for a new analyfis of the Greek 
tongue; and to exhibit thofe principles 
as applied to the elucidation of many 
paffages in ‘the ancient hiftory of that: 
country, ‘I’o which he propofes to edd, . 
forne obfervations concerning the origin 
ot ieveral of the literal characters in ute 
among the Grecians. -The 
