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LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL 3 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
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COMPLETE edition of the learned 
and efteemed works of the late Sir 
WILLIAM JONES, is in the prefs, and 
will be publifhed early in the winter, 
by Mefirs. Robinfon, in four volumes, 
quarto. 
‘An Englifh tranflation, in three vo- 
lumes, of the long expected voyage of 
La Perouse round the world, which 
has juft made its appearance at Paris,. 
under the aufpices of the French govern- 
ment, is announced for publication in 
London, about the end of June. ' A work 
more interefting to the geographer, aftro- 
momer, naturalift, and general reader, 
has feldom claimed the attention of the 
public. 
The Abbé GautTrer has lately pub- 
lifhed in London, the firft part of his 
readings for the ufe of children of differ- 
ent ages; the fecond courfe, containing 
a pleafant introduction toa knowledge of 
the principles of grammar, is in the prefs. 
The Academy of Infcriptions and Belles 
Lettres, at Paris, exprefied its marked 
“approbation of the Abbé’s plan fo long 
fince as the year 1787. 
A fecond edition of Dr. RoLLO’s work 
en the diabetes mellitus, and the refults 
ef the trials of various acids and other 
fabftances, in the treatment of the lues 
venerea, further iiluftrated by additional 
faéts; is preparing for the prefs. 
The increafed attention to foreign lite- 
rature in this ifland, is-eyinced by the re- 
{pectable patronage afforded to the German 
circulating library, eftablifhed a’ few 
years fince in London; the proprietor of 
which, from an original {tock of 70 vols. 
has lately been enabled to encreafe it to 
2000, in ali branches of learning. 
Mr. MALONE’s edition of ‘* Dryden's 
Profe Works,” is in great forwardnefs for 
publication, and will confit of three large 
volumes. The profe of Dryden 1s widely 
fcattered among his numerous poetic and 
dramatic pieces, fome of which are rarely 
to be met with, even among the libraries 
of the curious. A complete. collection 
has, therefore, been a literary defidera- 
tum, and many of our readers will be 
pleafed to learn that the tafk has fallen 
into fach able hands. 
The Rev. Henry Ketr, A. M. 
Author of ‘* Bampton Leftures, 1792,” 
amd of © Suuenile Poems, 1793," has 
nearly completed a work on prophecy. 
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Reading rooms, as well as parochial 
reading focieties, are rapidly extending 
themfelves in every part of the kingdom, 
The idea of a popular reading-roomy 
fuggefted in our firft number, has been 
adopted in feveral places in London; we 
hear of a fimilar eftablifhment in Edin- 
burgh, ona larger feale, under the cen- 
duét of Mr. ELtnrottT, bookfeller. Our 
opinion of the great utility of thefe infti- 
tutions, will induce us at all times te 
mention their eftablifnment with refpeét. 
Mr. DYER is engaged in printing his 
Poetical Works, in three volumes, oc- 
tavo. One volume is nearly printed off, 
and the whole will be ready for delivery 
to fuberibers, by January 1799. They 
confit of defcriptive poems ; odes facred 
to freedom, love, and benovelence; tran{= 
lations, fatires, and epiftles. ‘The po- 
ems will be accompanied with critical ef- 
fays. A fewonly of the poems have been 
printed before, and thofe will appear in 
the prefent colle€tion with material altera- 
tions. : 
Mr. Tones, Unitarian Minifter) at 
Plymouth, is now preparing, and will 
{con fend to the prefs, a work in one vo- 
lume, octavo, bearing the following title, 
‘© The Forgers of the Miraculous Con- 
ception of Mary; the Deification of Jefus, 
and of the Sybilline Oracles; together 
with the Oppofition made to thefe Doc- 
trines, by the Apoftles, brought to light 
from Jofephus, being a Convert and an 
Apologift ; and alfo from an Allegorical 
Hiftory of the Corruption of Chriftian- 
itv, by a renowned Apoftate in the fecond 
Century, and from various other ancient 
Authors, Jewifh, Pagan, and Chriftian.”* 
Dr. Duncan, junior, has for fome 
time been employed in preparing for the 
prefs a tranilation of the ‘* Ai/fory of Me- 
dicing,’ by KuRT SPRENGEL. To write 
a hiftory of that {cience, it was neceflary 
to colleét, and bring under proper points 
of view, the faéts which are fcattered in 
a thoufand works; to read the writers of 
each-age and nation in the original; te 
enter into the fpirit of the times when 
they wrote; and to ftudy the hiftory of 
fociety, and the fciences, wherever they 
were connected with medicine: all this 
Profefflor SPRENGEL is faid to have ac- 
complifhed. . 
Dr. Joun HIL1, profeffor of humanity 
wh the univerfity of Edinburgh, is un- 
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