200 
Scotland, is employed in the compietion 
of an o€tavo edition of Ljchylus, which 
was, feveral years fince, begun by him. 
This edition will exhibit the. notes, 
-énrendations, and various readings. .of 
Poxson, that Corypoeus of Greek eru- 
ditron. tis diferent from the, folio Es- 
cHyiuvs, lately printed by Foutrss., It 
s. the genuine edition of Parson, and 
in printing at the expence of Mr, 
Exvcmsty, bockfeller in Loadon, 
The fame Mr. Foutis is. preparing 
for publication a complete Hiftory cf the 
| EascGow Press of his. Father. and. 
Uncle, the late celebrated NosiRT and 
AxDREW FouLis; a work which can- 
not fail to prove extremely interefting to 
the lovers of hterary anecdote and of ty- 
pographical hiftery. 
Mr. Davip Dare of Glafgow, the 
proprietor of the cotton works of La- 
NEKK ; whois beiieved to have formed 
that vaft manufaciuring eftablifhmenr, 
mot more for the purpofe otf lucrative 
trade, than in order to provide means of 
fupport and education for deftitute child- 
ren ; has, by a peculiar fort of fubdivi- 
fion of the labour of inftructing children 
to readj—the invention of fome cf the 
perfons employed in the works,—con- 
trived to render the frf branch et liter- 
ary education, innritely eafier to the 
children themtelves and to their teach- 
ers, then it Ras yet been found in any 
Scottiih {chool. 
Mr. GeoxcGe MEIKLE, mill. wright, 
ef the county of Clackmannan in Scet- 
fand, sifted -by the 
Francis Kinlock, bart. of Gilmatov, is 
row cerainly krown to have. been. the 
inventcr of the: Threfhing-Ma- 


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ps its invention by H—, 
Pruffian mechanic, men- 
tioned by BEcKMaNN, might be prior 
to, or contemporary with, that by Mei- 
kle. But Meikle, it is certain, didnot 
borrow, but invent, in this infiance. 
Mr. NeLsoN, a very ingentous. che- 
mift in. Edinburgh, has contrived. to 
improve the proce{s of preparing. /oap of 
wool, and.to render it Jefs expentive, by. 
eolleting fome ceriform products of this 
procefs, which its firft authors had /affered 
to efcape. Ri lca 
Di. A. F.. M, WiL.icH,of_Edin- 
burgh, has in the prefs, a_work upon 
the Phil-fophical Svftem of Kant, under 
the title of ‘Elements, of the Critical 
hilofophy ; with. a fuccinét Account of 
its Origin and Tendency.” He is alfo 
preparing * A Syftematic View of Die~ 
tetics,” as oppofed to the heterogencus 
Sixty Articles of original Literary Intelligence. 
ae 
courfe of afew days. 
108. 
materials feattered in Family Guides, 
&e. Detailed accounts of the plans, &e. 
of thefe works {hall be inferted in a fu-- 
ture Number. . 
_ Dogiors GLerG of Stirling, Roprson 
of Edinburgh, and BaRcLAy from 
*Perththireg have announced their inten— 
tion of fpeedily publilbing a Supplement 
ta the Encpelopedia Britannica, m whica 
they promife to corre ail its errors, | 
and to fupply all its deficiencies * * *, 
The Fittory of Scotland frem the 
earlieft AXra of its Occupation by human 
Inhabitants, to the prelent Yime ; coms 
prehensing, with the deduétion of the 
national tranfactioxs, the expohtion of 
the Lalours, Kxowledge, Enjoymeuts of the 
Scots ; the work of Mr. Heron of Edin= 
burgh, will be publithed about the end’ 
of the prefént year, in London and 
Edinburgh, complete, im 5 vols. Svo. 
- The two moft efteemed and intelligent 
Journals pnblifhed at this time in France, 
are La Decapy, Pbhilofopbigue,  Eitte- 
rairé, e¢ Politique, ably conduéted by Ff. 
B. Say,+and the MaGAzIn Eneye ~ 
CLOPEDIQUE, or Journal: des Sciences, 
des Lettres, et des Arts, conduéted with 
equal ability by A.L. Mririn. The 
ANNALES DE CHIMIE are revived un-. 
der the direétion of FourcrRoy, Vau- 
QUELIN, GuyToN, and other celebrat- 
ed chemifts:*: : 
EULER’s Elements of Algebra wilk 
make their appearance in Engiith in the 
The edition will 
contain the hiftorical and ‘critical Notes 
of M. Bernoulli, the Addittons of M. 
De la Grange, original Netes by the 
Sranflator, Memoirs of EuLer, and 2 
Praxis to the whole work, ccAfifting of 
above two hundred Examples.) 
Mr. CHARLES LLoyp is preparing a 
Tale for the Prefs, ima feries. of Letters, 
under the title of Edmund Oliver. ~~ 
The two remaining volumes of Mr: 
Dutton’s Tranflation of Sebaldus No- -- 
thanker (the publication of which has 
been unavoidably delayed, owing to the 
unfortunate lofs of. the manufeript copy | 
by fhipwreck) are now in the prefs, and 
will appear in a few weeks. 
The Syndics. of. the Univerfity - of 
Cambridge have agreed to publith the 
Church) Hiftory of Mr. Mizner, of 
Hull; but for fear of accidents, (not on 
* Allthe interefting and original faé&ts con- 
tained in each of shefe valuable works, have 
been, and will continue to be, regularly and Ex- 
cLustveLy prefented to the —Britifh Public, . 
through the medium of the MontHLy Ma-= 
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