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VARIE T DES; 
Liverary and PHILGSOPHICAL; 
~ Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftie and Foreign. 
* 4% Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully receded, 
i R. Browne, the celebrated trac: 
‘veller, is returned from his {cien- 
tific expedition to Abyffinia. Jt is with 
regret we mentton, that he has not been 
able to enter into that kingdom, having 
in vain made two attempts, after an in- 
terval of nearly two years. The firft was 
_ fruftrated by a war, which then raged on 
_ the frontiers, between the government of 
Darfour and that of Kordovan: the fe- 
cond by the fufpicions entertained in the 
eaft againft Franks in general, whofe 
commercial fpirit has often been preceded 
by fingle miffionaries, and followed by 
war and devattation. Neverthelefs, we 
muft admire the literary zeal which thus 
animated a young gentleman of fortune 
to facrifice his eafe, and expofe his life to 
imminent hazards, merely to ferve the 
caufe of geography, and fcience in general. 
His obferving eye and well-informed 
mind, mutt render his obfervations on 
Egypt and Syria, in which he refided 
nearly feven years, interelting at all times ; 
_ and ftill more fo at the prefent, when the 
attention of all Europe and the Eaft is 
centered on the expedition of Buona- 
PARTE. We hope Mr. Browne will 
‘be prevailed on not to remain in an Ori- 
ental indolence, but to indulge the pub- 
lic with an account of his travels ; which, 
we flatter ourfelves, would be found move 
inftructive and interefting. than thofe of 
Volney or Savary. 
The learned HERBERT Marsh, B.D. 
fellow of St. Joha’s College, Cambridge, 
has teady for publication an ‘* Hiftorical 
Review of the Caufes of the prefent War 
between Great Britain and France, wholly 
founded on authentic documents, which 
@re accurately quoted in the originals, 
from the Convention at Pilnitz, in Au- 
guft 1791, to the declaration of war 
againft Great Britain in February 1793,” 
On the firft of February, 1799, Mr. 
Phillips propofes to cominence 4 periodi- 
cal medical work, under thetitle of “¢ The 
Britifh Metical Fourual.?? In addition to 
the permanent ailiftance of an able Editor, 
he has received promites of fupport from 
Various eminent phyficians; and to a 
work of fuch extenfive and acknowledged 
utility, he confidently expects the corre{- 
pondence of enlightened practitioners, 
wherever the Enclith language is read. It 
ig adiigrace to Britain, that ithas {2 long 
been without an a€tive and fpirited work 
of this delcription. Germany furnifhes 
nearly thirty; France three or four; and 
even the nafcent ftate of {cience and lites 
rature in America furnifhes one refpestas 
ble medical journal ! 
Mr. FREND has announced, in his let. 
ter to the vice chancellor of the univerfity 
of Cambrige, that the fecond part of his 
Principles of Algebra are in the prefs. 
In this work, he clafles equatiens accord. 
ing to the number of unknown terms and 
rejecting the generation ‘of equations by 
multiplication, eftablifhes the theory upon 
direst demontiration. A. {pecimen of his 
principle he has given in a letter to the 
vice chancellor, on being candidate for 
the Lucafian profcfforfhip of mathema- 
tics. The work itleif will make its ap- 
pearance about Chriftmas. 
Mifs PLUMPTRE, who has acquired fo 
much reputation by her elegant and com- 
plete tranflation of Kotzebue’s “* Lover's 
Vows,” is engaged upon the tranflation 
of three other of the beft of his dramas, 
which fhe propofes to fubmit to the pub- 
lic in the courte of December and Janu- 
ary. The literary and difcerning part of 
the public will gladly avail themfelves of 
thefe faithful tranflations of the German 
dramatilt, and doubtlefs prefer them for 
the clofet to any altered or abridged edis- 
tions. 
Major JonN Taytor, of the Bom. 
bay eftalblifhment, has in the prefs, 
“ Travels from England to India, in the 
Year 1789," by the way of the: Tyrol, 
Venice, Scanderoone, Aleppo, and over, 
the Great Defert to Bufforah; with occa- 
fional remarks, defcriptive of countries, 
manners, and cuftoms. 
Mr. B. Hurcuison, of Southwell, 
has nearly completed at prefs, a work in 
two volumes, octavo, of the biography of 
medical and. philofophical men, of all 
ages and countries. 
Dr. Mavor’s Britith Biography, for 
the ufe of {chools, will not be ready for 
delivery before the tenth of December. 
The Rev. J. Jonesy of Plymouth, 
propotes to publish by fubleription, in 
fucceffive volumes, a work, the obje& of 
which is to develope a feries of events cal- 
culated to remove the objections made by 
unbelievers again the truth of chrifti- 
anity. The volume to be firk offered to 
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