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VAR TE Fl Es; 
tis LITERARY asd PHILOSOPHICAL$ ir 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Forege, 
* = Authentic Consmunications for this Article are earnefily flicited from all our Friends, 
Sieg RICHARD CUAVTON, bart.’ has 
jut completed h's tranflation of Ter= 
hove’ s “Memoirs of the Houfe of Me- 
dici, from ‘its “origin to the death of 
Francefeo; the f{econd Grand Duke of 
Tufcany, and of the great men whe 
fourithed in Tufcany within that pe- 
riod.”? It will be publithed in two large 
eras quarto, with engraved portraits, 
and notes and obfervations, by the grant 
lator.—Mr. ‘Tenhove, the author, was a 
brinch of one of the moft refpectadle 
families in the United Provinces. He 
difcovered early a predominant tafte for 
elaffical knowledge, medern languages, 
and the fine arts. *His Memoirs isa pro- 
duction of great erudition and elaborate 
refearch. Sir RricHarD CLAYTON 
has thrown the twenty-fix books of the 
original into thirteen chapt ers, on the 
plan of Mr. Rofcoe’s valuable Life of 
‘Lorenzo de Medici. 
The fame publifhers (Me%rs.. Robin- 
fons )have nearly ready for publication the 
Abbé SPALLANZANI’s “© Travels in the 
‘Fwo Sicilies, and fome Part of the Ap- 
penines ; containing an. accurate and 
phiicfophical defcription Bs 
fEtaa, ee of Stromboli, and the other 
Linari iffands.: with chemical analyfes of 
their volcanic Pe an account of 
the Coral Fifhery,-in the Strait of Mef- 
fina: Remarks on the prefent ftate of 
SeyHa and Cha arybdis 3 - and Obfervations 
en the manners and Payne: ers of the Fn- 
habtrants- of the A®clian or Lipari 
Hlands. —This work: will Appear in 
four volumes oétavo, iluitrated by eleven 
large engravings. 
Several interefting publications have 
lately made their appearance’ at Ma- 
drid *. Among thefe, the following are 
partic ay deferving of notice, An- 
nals of Arts. Sciences, and Literature, in 
numbers, the tenth and laft publithed of 
which, contains, with other matter, ae 
fervations on Comedy, by M. SULCE R 3 
Difertation on the Origin and Progref {5 
% We have lately adopted tome new arrange- 
ments which will enable us to prefent the li- 
teary and fcientific news of Spain, and the 
other countries of the fouth cf Europe, to the 
Public, before it can ape either In France or 
Engvecd, through any ether channel. 
Vefuvius and’ 
of Botany ; on the Effeéts of Mufic in the - 
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Cure of Difeafes ; Information relative to — 
various Excavations about+o be made in 
Greece 3 general Confiderations on For-. 
tifications, .&zc.—-Literary -Memoizs for 
the Months of April: and. May, 1797: 
This work contains fomecurious original 
matter, and feveral tranflations from the 
French.—The Inftraétive, Curious, and 
Avreeable Mifcellany, in three volumes. 
It would appear, by the heads of the 
contents contained in the advertifement, © 
that the matter of this work anfwers to 
its title—Generai Chronicle-of Spain, in 
fifteen volumes guarto._—H iftorical Com- 
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pendium of the Kings of Arragon, from 4 
its- firtt Eftablifiment as a Monarchy to 
irs Union with Caitille—Mathematical 
Traéis, compofed for 'the Infru@ion of 
the Pupils belonging to the Royal Obfer- 
vatery of Madrid.—In addition to thefe 
and various cther original works, there 
are many tranilations from the French 
and other lanuuages. - Among thofe from 
the Englifh, are the New: ‘London 
Pharmacopceta, andthe ae of @har- 
lotre Summers. 
The firt volume of a New Botecand 
B gd Dichonary, by Dr. AKIN 
and the late Dr. ENFIELD, quarto; to 
be comprifed in eight or tea velumes, 
will be publithed in the courfe of the 
fpring. 
On the zoth of November laft, the 
Lyceum of Arts held at Paris its fifty. 
fixth public fitting. In one of the apart- 
ments of the. Lyceum, there Is now ex- 
hibited a chef d cewvre of art, a fuperb 
plan in relief, of Paris, the fuiperficies of 
which cee 150 fquare feet. 
N. Paces, an officer in the French 
fervice, under the ancient regime, au- 
ther of a book of Travels, which “has 
been favourably received beth in Eng- 
land and France, has juft. publithed: at 
ee in three o€tavo volumes, Travels 
n Afia, Africa, and America, in 17858, 
wee: and 1790, preceded by a Four in 
Italy and Sicily in 41787. In this work 
the author treats of the arts, {ciences, 
commercial and natural produétions, 
manners, and ufages of the inhabitants 
of thefe three quarters of the globe, as 
well as of the hiftory of their goverments, — 
ancient and modern. - 
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