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LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Including Notices of Works iu Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
** Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
SECOND volume of Dr. Tror- 
TeER’s Medicina Nautica is now in 
the prefs, and will be publifhed early in 
February.—The plan of the former part 
of this work is more or lefs continued, with 
communications from Navy Surgeons, in 
noft foreign ftations as well as in the fleet 
at home. 
Mr. MACKINTosH, the celebrated 
author of § Vindicie Gallice, propofes to 
deliver 2 Courfe of Leftures in Lincoln’s 
Inn Hall, on the Law of Nature and 
Nations, comprehending the whole Phi- 
lofophy of Morality, Government, and 
Law. They are to be continued three 
times a week during the fitting of the 
Courts in Weftminfter Hall. 
The publication of the ‘ Brati/h Medical 
Fournal’ is deferred by unavoidable cir- 
cumftances till the firft day of March, 
when it will make its appearance under 
the more comprehenfive title of the § Me- 
dical and Phyfcal Journal. Mr. W. 
Mudie, of Edinburgh, will aé& as its 
agent for North Britain, and Mr. Col- 
bert, of Dublin, as its agent for Ireland. 
‘The profpect of patronage and of valuable 
corretpondence is already exceedingly 
flattering. 
Mr. F. Twiss has for twelve years 
paft been employed in the compilation of 
an Index to Shakefpeare, which he has 
now brought to a conclufien, and pur- 
pofes to publifh ia the courfe of the en- 
tuing winter.—This moft elaborate Index 
ts on a plan, different from any which 
has hitherto appeared, as it contains a 
diftinét enuineration of every fubi{tantive, 
adjective, verb, participle, and adverb, to 
be met with in Shakfpeare’s plays, with 
a particular reference to every pafiage, 
tn which they occur, in/ a manner 
adapted to every edition. 
bout the end of March will be pub- 
lifhed ina quarto volume, by John and Ar- 
thur Arch, * Grove-Hill,’ a def{criptive 
Poem and an Ode to Mithra, by the Rev. 
Txaomas Maurice, author of the Hif- 
tory of Hindoftan, &c. 
Mifs PLumprre, the tranflator of 
Kotzebue’s Lover’s Vows, and of his 
Count of Burgundy is at this time en- 
gaged in the tranilation of the two fine 
Dramas of that Author, entitled the 
© Virgin of the Sun,’ andthe ‘ Death of Rollo.” 
Propofals will fhortly be publithed for 
an abridgement of *‘ Dr. Doddridge’s 
Family Expoftor, as a continuation of 

Mr. Job Orton’s work on tke Old Tefta~. 
ment, according to the plan which the 
author himfelf had formed, in two large 
volumes, 8vo. 
For the fake of thofe who wifh to learn, 
orto teach Dr. Doddridge’s Short-hand, 
(which was an improvement upon Riche’s 
fyftem, recommended by Zocke,) one who 
had been a pupil in the Doétor’s academy, 
propoies to publifh the rules in a method 
entirely new ; the characters made with a 
pen. In fome copies blank fpaces will be 
left to be filled up by any one who pre~ 
fers doing it himfelf, 
A new edition of the Biographical 
Work, entitled * Public Characters of 
1798," is in the prefs, with additions, 
and corrected and revifed in every ar- 
tiele, 
A fourth Set. of Glees, for three, 
four, and five voices, by Joun Daney, 
_together with ¢ The Ode to Hope,’ ineight 
parts, prefented to the Glee Club, is in- 
tended to be publifhed by fub{criptioa, 
for the benefit of the author’s family ia 
the month of March, 1799, priceros. 6d. _ 
Mr. Brown, author of a Treatile on 
Scrophulous Difeafes, has in the prefs a 
Poem, intitled § inkle and Yarico,’ founded 
on Mr. Coleman’s celebrated Opera of 
that name. He has alfo made confidera- 
bie progrefs in his work on the Anatomy 
and Phyfiology of the Tecth. 
A new edition, with confiderable al- 
terations and improvements, will fhortly 
make its appearance of the work, entitled 
* Literary Memoirs of Living Authors. 
An interefting work, tor the ufe of 
young perfons, is in the prefs, and will 
be ready for delivery in the courfe of this 
_month, entitled « The Difcovery of Ame- 
rica; comprifing the Life and Difcoveries 
of Chriitopher Columbus,. with frontif- 
piece and map; trom the German of 
J. H. Camps, the Author of Young 
Rebinfon. 
Profeflor DANZEL, of Hamburgh, has 
circulated propofals for publifhing by 
fub{criptions of one guinea, ‘ A Deferip- 
‘ton,’ in French, illuftrated with eighteen 
engravings, | 
r™m0.*Of an Acroftatic Machine, to direé& 
Air-Balloons, called Danzchime; 
24, Of a fecond Aeroftatic Machine, 
pointing ow: the means of direétion ; 
3%. Of a third, affording another way to 
direCt Air-Balloons ; 
4°: Of an Hydraulic Machine, to put im 
motion the rudder of a ship; and, confe- 
guently 
