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All the books fold for upwards of three thou- 
fand pounds. 
Several literary gentlemen of this coun™ 
try, aré about to inftiture a Society for th® 
cultivation of Eaftern Litera ture. Weun- 
derftand they propofe to publish annually a 
volume of papers and memoirs, and tohold 
periodics | meetings in London. TheSo- 
ciety at prefent BOARS of above fifty mem - 
‘bers, among whom are ‘The Bifhop of Dur- 
ham, the Bifhop of Meath, Sir G. Staunton, 
oir RK.’ Chambers, Sir F. Drake, Sir Wm. 
Oufeley, Col. Symes, Dr. Baird, Dr. 
Moodie, Dr, Browne, Capt.Francklin,, the 
Perfian Traveiler; Mr. Browne, the Egyp- 
tian Traveller; Mr. Moiles, and Protetfor 
OrrentTaL Society.’ 
Dr. Nisbet is printing the firt Lieut 
vof his Clinical Guide, containing the Treat- 
ment and Difeafes of Children. 
Dr. GreGory will fpeedily publith, 
under the title of Elements of a Polite eee 
cation, fuch an abridement of the Letters 
of Lord Chefterfield, as will contain only 
the valuable and unexceptionable parts of 
that work. It has long been acknow- 
ledged that no book in the Englifh lan- 
guage contains fo great a fund of ufeful 
pr aStical knowledge, and at the fame time 
prefents us. with fo happy a model of the 
epiftolary ftyle as Lord Chefterfield’s Let- 
_ ters, but it was to be regretted that as 
. fome repetitions, 
they originally appeared, they contained 
fome paflages morally exceptionable, with 
nd‘fome trifling matter 
which prevented thei 
anto the hands of young perfons. 
The learned Dr. Hacar, of Vienna, 
awvho is at prefent in London, has under- 
taken to fuperintend an Englifh tranflation: 
of his Pzéture of Palermo, a a pleafing work, 
~which has been molt» favourably received 
: in Italy, France and Germany. 
- 
A fmall-work, entitled, Scientific Dia- 
dogues, written with the view of rendering 
the ftudy of mechanics and natural philo- 
fophy ealy to children, 1 is expected in a few 
- days. 
The curiofity of nay relative to 
the prefent ftate of France, has been grati- 
-fied in a confiderable degree, by the inter- 
efting letters of Doctor Buccs’, the Pro- 
feffor of Aftronomy in the univertity of Co- 
penhagen. An Enelifh tranflation of his 
work trom the original. Danith, 
“pear in London in the courfe ae June, in 
Tes 
two volumes duodecino, Our readers 
wg 
ir being generally put. 
will ap- 
will be enabled to judge of the value of the 
work, from the interelting Analyfis of the 
firft volume which is given in the former 
part of this Magazine. 
The Cow-Pock Inftitution has deter- 
mined to preferve, for the ufe of the public, 
a fteck of efficacious vaccine matter, which 
will be diftributed under the feal of the 
Inftitution, the impreflion of which is a 
Cow, with the motto ** FeLiczores Inferit.”” 
The recent invention of M. MioneT, 
by which the Medals of the National Mu- 
feum at Paris is in part, end foon will be 
entirely laid open to the world, having en- 
gaged the attention of the curious, in cone 
fequence of the notice given in. the Monthly 
Magazine of laft month, it may be defirable 
for the ‘public fo eae that ‘pecimens of 
his impreffions are to be feen, and that cr- 
ders for them will be taken, at Mr. Geil- 
weiler’s in Parliament Street. 
A. work intended to unite the amu- 
fing fiyle of a modern tour, with teue- 
graphical hiftory and antiquarian infor- 
mation, is propofed to be publifhed in the 
courle of, the prelent year, under the title’ 
of “\The Beauties of Wiltfhire. Mr. Brit- 
TON, the author, has been indefatigable in 
his refearches. 
lithed with feveral views, among which 
willbe Salifoury Cathedral, Stonehenge, 
Fonthill, Wilton, &c. 
‘The widow of the late Rev. Mr. Tas- 
KER, rector of le etehs Devon, well 
known for his verfion of Pindar, and his 
Poems, is about to publith the whole of 
her hufband’s works by fabf (crjption. 
Dr. Warkins, author of the Univerfal 
Biographical Dictionary, will thortly pub~ 
lifh a work, entitled, Scriptural Biogra- 
phy, in one volume, duodecimo, for the 
ufe of {chools and families. 
The Rev. FrRaNcis WRANGHAM is 
about to, publifh a volume of thirteen Ser- 
mons, founded upon Dr. Doddridge’s Rife 
. aud Progrefi of Rekgion iw the oe with 
two or tiree eadiern al difcourfes, inclu- 
ding a fecond edition of his fermon, Rome is 
Fallen. | 
Weunderftand Mr. COTTLE’s poem of 
Alfred will be publithed in July. 
The farft volume of Mr. FraNkKLIN’s 
complete and ‘comprehenfive Hittory of 
Egypt is nearly ready for publication. 
A chemitt of Guadaloupe has found 
out a. method of extra€ting trom the fu- 
gar cane a fixth part of fine {ugar more 
than has been hitherto obtained. 
A temple is about to be ereéted at Lax 
enburg, near Vienna, in which the ftatucs 
_ of the moft eminent heroes and ftatefinen, 
who have fignalized themfelves in the jer- 
vice of the Auftrian government, are to be 
placed. 302 The 
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