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munications more intelligible.’ The firft 
part has appeared of the *« Philfophical 
Tranfattions of the Royal Society of Londou 
Jer the Year 1798,” alfo the iourth vo- 
jume of “‘ Tranfactions of the Royal Society 
of Edinourgh ;° both thefe volumes con- 
tain as ufual, much curious and import- 
ant matter. The firft volume is finithed 
of Mr. NICHOLSON’s “*Fournal of Na- 
zural Philofophy, Chemiftry, and the Aris 3? 
fome few and important papers in this 
work are new, but the greater number of 
them are extracted from other pnilofo- 
phical publications, either at tull length, 
or under an abridged form; the abridge- 
ment, however, it is but juftice to fate, 
is generally clear and comprehenfive. 
FINE ARTS. 
Mr. DauLsBy’s * Defcriptive Catclogue 
af the Works of Rembrandt, and of bis Sche- 
fars Bol, Lrvens, and Van V izty? would 
have been a very dry uninterefiing vo- 
Jume, had not the author enlivened it with 
critical obfervations, which at once dif 
play a delicacy of tafte, a correctnefs of 
judgment, and an acquaintance with the 
principles of the art on which he writes. 
Mr. Mauton’s * Effay en Britifh Cot- 
zage Architecture,” is avery elegant little 
work ; and we are fanguine in the hope 
that it may contribute, together with the 
Jabours ef Mr. Price and Mr. GiLrin, 
tothe decoration of the country. All 
thefe gentlemen dwell on the neceffity of 
adapting the ftyle of architeture’to the 
fcenery ; and reprobate with proper at 
perity the making no diftinction between 
the cottage of a ruftic and the fhop of a 
citizen. Mr. MALTon’s efiay is illuf- 
trated with defigns and plans, neatly ex- 
ecuted in aquatinta. An anonymeus 
North Briton has publifhed an effay to- 
wards the improvement of the mufical art ; 
it is entitled ¢* Melody the Soul of Mujic :* 
if melody be the toul of mufic, yet can 
we not by any means confent to banifl 
ghe enrichment which harmony gives 
from our fymphonies and concertos: but - 
what fhall we do with our choruffes? 
Heavens, what profanation to rcb of 
their full complicated harmony, the iub- 
lime anthems of Handel, in order to make 
his mufic more fimple! his tomb in the 
abbey would open, and the indignant 
fhade of the venerable and injured old man 
fpeak in a voice of thunder to the barba- 
yian violator of his facred ftrains! We 
recommend this pamphlet to perufal; it 
is elegantly written, and our objection is 
not againt{t the auihor’s love of fimplicity 
but againft the extreme into which he {ut- 
fers nimfelf to be carried by it. 
| ~Retrofpee? of Bomeftic Literature....Fine Arti, Ge. 
[Sur. 
In the prefent dearth of 
. ORIENTAL LITERATURE, 
the information will be gratetul, that ar 
oftavo edition of the 
fearches,” is publifhed in London from 
the prefs of Mefirs. Vernor and» Hood. 
The only additional work which we can 
clafs under this head, is Mr. CAmpP- 
BELL'S edition of the “* Indian Caferver,” 
by the Jate Hugh Boyd, efq. Itisto this 
genticman that the ‘editor of * Anecdotes, 
Biesraphical, Literary, and Political,” at- 
tribuies with much confidence the letters 
ot Junius; the prefent eflays embrace a 
variety 0: topics relating to criticifm and- 
morais; they appeared at Macras in the ° 
year 1794, through the medium of a pe~ 
riodical publication, entitled « Tse Hir-. 
carrab. 
ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS. 
It is with great pleaiure that we an- 
nounce the long-expeéted publication 
from the Clarendon Prefs, of the lare Dr? 
Bradley’s ** <Affronomical Obdfervations 
made at the Royal Obfervaiory at Green- 
wich, fromthe Year 1750 to 1762.” The 
firft volume is magnificently publifhed 
under the fuperintendence of Dr. HORNS- 
BY; it is fold by ELMsLey and Brem- 
YER, at five guisieas in fheets. The cu-- 
rious hiftory which attends thefe valuable 
papers is well known. Mr. Ewine’s 
<< Pradical Aftronomy”? is not offered to 
the public, as a complete and fcientific 
treatife, but as an eafy introduction to the 
{cience, and as calculated to enable thofe 
ftudents to folve its problems, who are 
acquainted merely with arithmetic, the 
circles of the fphere, and logarithms; the 
work is executed with judgment. Mr. 
JoHN WorsDALE’s ‘ Genethlacal Aj- 
ivology,’’ may one day, perhaps, procure 
him the honour of an aerial elevation: 
Dr. Katterfelto is faid to have been 
more than once under obligations to his 
renowned black cat, for being tofied ina 
blanket: A fecond edition has appeared 
of Mr. Woop’s “ Principles of Meibe- 
matics and Natural Philojophy;” this werk 
is intended to comprife the fubftance ‘of 
the IeGiures on thofe fubjeéts which are 
ufnally read in the Univerfity of Caim- 
bridge. The very acute proieflor ot ma- 
thematics in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, 
Mr. JoHN PLAYFAIR, has publithed the 
‘© Elements of Geometry, containing the 
Sri fx Books of Euclid, together with twa 
Books on the Geometry of Solids; to which 
are added, Elements of Plane and Spherical 
Trigonometry.’ Mr. PLAYFarR, inthis 
mof mafterly work, has endeavoured to 
unite the exaCinefs of the ancient geomie- 
tricians 
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