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this work, we fhall mention the names of 
Dr. Fordyce, Dr. Hunter, Dr. Baillie, and 
Everard Home, Elq. 
The fecond volume of the Medical and 
Phylical Journal, conduéted by Doétors 
Brapvey and Wixvicn, has juft been 
completed, and the work proceeds in 
monthly numbers, fupported by an extent 
of correfpondence and patronage, that has 
not been before equalled in this country. 
Knowledge and learning, as well as 
agriculture and commerce, are rapidly ad- 
vancing on the other fide of the Atlantic. © 
The very refpectable American Philofophi- 
cal Society, held at Philadelphia, for pro- 
moting ufeful Knowlcdge, we find, have 
publifhed the fourth volume of their Tranf- 
actions, in quarto, the fame fize with thofe 
already pub-ifhed. It is juft imported into 
this country, and contains a great number 
of valuable papers on philofophical fubjeéts, 
mathematics, mechanics, natural hiftory, 
antiquities, topography, trade, &c. &c. 
Mr. Witt and Dr. WILLICH announce 
a monthly German Mufeum, ona very 
promifing and interefting plan ; and, as is 
ufual, the new year gives birth to a vari- 
ety of projets of monthly publications, 
which, it is more than peobable, will not 
exift till its clofe. 
Mr, SaALZMANN, mafter of an academy 
in Germany, and author of a popular work 
for children, entitled E}ements of Morali- 
ty, thinking that fufficient attentionhas not 
been given to exercife the body in educa- 
tion, has drawn upa courfe of plays or 
games for that purpofe, under the title of 
Gymnafics for Youth, a tranflation of 
which will appear early in this month, il- 
luftrated with plates, in one 8vo. volume. 
The enormous price of paper and rags, 
eccafioned in great part by an unprincipled 
monopoly of one or two wholefale ftation- 
ers in London, has compelled the principal 
London publithers to refolve not to print 
any new work of confequence till paper 
can be procured at a fair and moderate 
price. It isto be lamented in this inftance, 
as in feveral recent cafes of monopoly, that 
the difcounting accommodation of the 
Bank of England, inftead of ferving trade, 
is thus vilely abufed, and converted into 
a means of injuring and oppreffing the ftr- 
ple manufactures of this country. 
A work, entitled the Parent’s Afliftant, 
was publifhed in a few years ago by Mils 
EpGEWoRTH, author of a great part of 
Praétical Education, and was received as 
might be expected from a work which 
ranks in the firlt clafs of books, for the 
amufement and inftruction of children, 
kaving gone through feveral editions, She 
. Monruyiy Mac. Ne. LI, 
Literary and Philfophical Intelligence. 
989 
has added a number of entertaining fiories, 
and we underftand that ber book(eller in- 
tends to publifh a little volume on the firft 
day of every month, to commence on the 
firft of January, that children may look 
forward to their ttory-book, as well as la- 
dies and gentlemen their magazine or re- 
view. This work may make eight or ten 
volumes at 1s. 6d. each. 
Early Leflons for Children, by Mifs 
EDGEWORTH, are inthe prefs: they are 
intended, as Mrs. Barbauld’s and Mrs. 
Trimmer’s were, for children beginning to 
read. 
Mr. EDGEWORTH’s Primer, conta ning 
a new and expeditious method of teaching 
children to read, is in the prefs. 
A Tranflation of the Medieal Inftitu- 
tions of Burfenus, by W. C. Browne, 
is fo far advaneed, that the firft volume 
wiil be publifhed in the courfe of January. 
Dr. DuNcAN’s Annals of Medicine for 
1799, will appear in a few days. 
Cafile Rackrent, an Hibernian Tale, 
taken from faéts, and from the manners 
of the Irith Squires before the year 1782, 
is ready for publ.cation. This little work 
will throw great light upon the manners 
and character of the Irifh; and few, we 
believe, will be found to furnith more 
amufement. A gloflary is prefixed; but, 
unlike moft other gloflaries, it abounds with 
entertainment as well as information. 
In the courfe of the next month will be 
publifhed, the fifth edition of the Account « 
of the Shrewfbury Houfe of Induttry, by 
J. Woop. To this edition will be pre- 
fixed a copious introduction, containing 
extracts from the writings of Bacon, 
Locke, Child, Cary, Fielding, Townferd, 
Eden, Ruggles, Good, Saunders, &c. &c. 
on the parochial fyftem ; deductions from 
their combined fentiments ; obfervations 
on the wages of the poor ; on the very dif- 
ferent fituations of the town pvor trom 
that of the country or cottage paupers ; a 
circumftance not advertcd to, though cer- 
tain y requiring very {erious confiderations 
in order to the eftablifhment of any well 
digetted pian for ameliorating their condi- 
tion. A review of the objections that have 
been advanced againit poor-houfes, and 
hou es of induttry. A ftatement ot facts, 
tending to prove, that it is not neceflury 
to provide upon f» largea {cale as has been 
propoled, for the general employment of 
all the parochial poor. Remarks upon 
the abfurdity both of indiferiminate allow. 
ances, and indi/criminate confinement to 
a poor- houfe; and the importance of difcri- 
mination, as the grand hinge upon which 
every plan of parochial reform ought to 
6L turn, 
