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VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PHILoOsoPHIcAL, 
{March ij, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. - 
¥* Authentic Communications for this Article wil] always be thankfully received. 
? > <a fe j nets! 
PW HE tate Benner Lancron has left 
a a connected account of the Life and 
Literary Hiftory of the late Dr. Jounson; 
_with dire&tions for its pablication. This 
~ gentleman’s intimate acquaintance ‘with 
the hero of his memoirs affords the promile 
of a very interefting work. : 
"The practice of Stereotype Printing 
lately adopted in Paris by Dipor, ap- 
pears to be one of the moft confiderable im- 
provements connected with literature that 
has been made fince the 
moveable types. Thofe who confound 
the block-printing with*the folid pages 
produced in Didot’s manner, are mittaken 
in their notions of its advantages. The 
~ folid blocks were carved cr cut with great 
jabour in a mafs, whereas Didot’s folid 
pages are caft from pages firft fet up 
with moveable types, and the moveable 
types are thus converted te the beft ufe of- 
which they are fufceptible. Upon the fte- 
rectype plan, the page is firft fet up 
in moveable types, a mould or imprel- 
fion is then taken of the page with any 
fuitable plattic material, and afterwards as 
many folid pages are cat from the mould 
as may be wanted. The expence of a 
folid page does not exceed that of re- fetting . 
if in moveable types, and the obvious ad- 
vantage lies in the power which they give 
of taking off as many impreffions at any 
one time as are ‘likely to be fold. 
Books by this invention will be greatly re- 
duced in value, and thofe ftandard works 
for which there is a conftant demand will 
never be out of print. Didot is enabled 
to fell-at Paris neat. editions of Virgil, 
Phedrus, Cornelius Nepos, Horace. Sal- 
Tuft, Ovid, the Vicar of Wakefield, the 
Sentimental Journey, and Lady Montague’s 
Letters, as low as feven-pence halfpenny 
per copy. Mr. Puillips, of St. Paul’s 
Church yard, hopes to be able to prefent 
the Britith public, in a fhort time, with 
neat and correét editions of the clafftes, and 
of many of the beft Englifh authors, on 
terms equally moderate. : 
A Tranflaticn is in the prefs of aimoft 
re 
Dr. IrarD, Phrfician te the Infityse fox 
the Deaf and Dumb at Paris, containing 
an account of the firft dawnings of reafon 
and of the education of the:young favage 
caught.a few years fince in the woods near 
Aveyron, . 
+ 
invention of 
fing little work, lately publifhed by’ 
Mr. TF. Jones, of Brecon, is preparing 
for publication his Eisftory of Brecknock~ 
Soirée, a svork long defired by the lovers of 
topegraphical literature, as few countries 
afford fo many interefting fubjeéts of Bri- 
tifh and Roman antiquities, of which the 
greater number are hitherto undefcribed« 
In the fifth number of his popular Ef- 
fays on Health, Dr. Beppors propofes to 
confider heat and cold, as they are caufes _ 
of Difeafes, and to explain how their in- 
jurious effets may be avoided. 
The Rev. E. Davies, of Olvefton, in 
Gloucefterfhire, has circulated propofals 
for pubdlifhing by fubfeription ‘an Effay 
on the Origin of the Celtic Dialeéts, com-- 
pared with Hebrew, Greek, and Latin ; . 
on the fir Introduétion of Writing into 
the Weft of Europe, and other Branches 
of literary Antiquity: this work is to be 
comprized in ofe volume, large ottavo ; 
and we underftand, that the lift of fub- 
{cribers is more coy ious and {plendid than 
any that ha appeared for many years, 
The Rev. JonarHAN BOUCHER, vicar 
of Eplom, has iffued propofals for printing 
by fubfcription, in two volumes, quarto, 
a Gloflary of the Ancient Englith Lan- 
guage, in two Paris, confilting of Provin- 
cizlifms and Archaifs, intended as 4. 
Supplementto Dr. Johnion’s Digtionary, 
The work which has employed the pen 
and pencil of Mr. BroOksHaW, relative. 
to the Fruits cultivated in this country, 
will appear thortly. 
_ A new edition of Dr. Watts’s Hymns 
is prepared for the prefs, and fpeedily will 
be publifhed, by the Rev. S. ANDREWs, 
of Rochford, in-which fome offenfive pal- 
fages arechanged for thofe which are more 
{criptural ; fome hymns are wholly omit- 
ted, others are abridged, and various cor-. _ 
rections made, witha Supplement on pracs 
tical fubjeéts. | bait 
nes Woodbouje, JOoURNEYMAN 
KERY” is about to publitha col-_ 
lelion of Mifcellaneous Poems; and is. 
likewife preparing for the prefs a Jarger 
work, entitled “* The Life and Lucubra- 
tions of Crifpinus.”’ . é 
Dr. GarNETT, who is at prefentren- 
_ gaged in Le&tures on Chemiftry and Phyfi-, 
> ology, 
