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whole, be corre&t in the drawing, the 
quantity of hair, and difpofition of the 
drapery, give the head an appearance of 
being too large for the body. ‘The prints, 
confidered as a whole, are poetically con- 
ceived, and by the admirers of Offian, 
will be confidered as chefd’euvres of 
art: by the admirers of eafy and flowing 
verfification, they may poffibly be thought 
rather overcharged. 
On the firft of September Mr. Rresav 
propofes to publifh, at ros. 6d. No. I. of 
Fiews on the Paddingtou Canal, containing-two 
plates, in agua tintz, and handfomely co- 
Joured. The #t View is from the Entrance 
at the’ Bafon, with the Warehoufes now - 
erecting, and the Paffengers Setting-off in 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligenee. 
[Sept. 1, 
the Packet-boat. The 2d plate is a View of 
the Grand Proceffion at the Opening, cn the 
roth of July. 
Mr. VANDENBERGHE has iffued propofals 
for publifhing, by fubfcription, two prints, 
from a much-admired pi€ture from Lifs*s Col- 
lection at Antwerp, painted by Dietricy, and 
mentioned by Sir Jofhua Reynolds in his 
works; the fubjeét. of which reprefents 
Diana and the Shepherdefs. Thecompanion, 
(painted by the fame Mafter), reprefents 
Nymphs Bathing; which will be ready for 
delivery in the month of February, 4802. 
The fize of the prints, 29 inches in length, 
by 22 inches in height; and the price ta 
fubfcribers, 51. 58.3; Of proof-impreifione, 
rol, 10s. 
VARIETIES, Lirerary anp 
PHILOSOPHICAL. 
Including Notices of Werks in Hand, Domeftte and Foreign. 
© * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
=e ge 
R. Bepnpoes has announced for pub- 
lication,on Monday, November the fe- 
cond, the firft number of a Series of Effays 
on Health. A number to appcar on the 
firit day of every month, till the work is 
compleated ; the price of each number not 
to be below Oxe Shilling, nor above Two 
Shillings ; the number of Effays not to falk 
fhort of -Zwelve, nor to exceed Six- 
teen. 
Mr. PrRaTT’s pen is at this time em- 
ployed on a fubjeét the moft interefting to 
the community. It as on a poem, inti:led 
BREAD; or, the Poor; addreffed to the 
Rica ; a theme worthy the Mufe of 
** Sympathy.”” It is expected to make its 
appearance at the clofe of the month. 
The fecond volume of Mifs Epce- 
worTu’s Moral Tales for Young People 
is jut finifhed. 
Mr. Boyp, the tranflator of DANTE’s 
INFERNO, is now employed upon a tran- 
flation of the ARAUCANA, in which he has 
made confiderable progrefs. 
_ The third and fourth volumes of the 
Scientific Dialogues are now in the prefs, 
and will be publifhed in the courfe of the 
next month. Thefe volumes will contain 
complete, but very familiar, introduétions 
to the feiences of hydroftatics and pneuma- 
tics, illuftrated by a great variety of ex- 
periments, and eight plates by Mr. Low- 
ry. The whole work will be finifhed 
in the courfe of a few months, and wiif 
comprife a complete fyftem of natural and 
experimental philofophy and chemiftry, 
adapted to the ufe of young people. 
A fecond edition of Mr. HEnry’s Epi- 
tome of Chemiftry is now ready : the firft 
was fold off in a few days. . 
Dr. WILLAN has juft completed the fe< 
cond order of his Defcription and Treat- 
ment of Cutaneous Difeafes. This order 
contains fcaly difeafes of the fkin, and is 
illuftrated with thirteen coloured plates. 
Mr. T. Cxrio Rickman has in the 
prefs two volumes of Poems, which he in- 
tends to publith at a fub{cription of half 
a guinea. 
Dr. R. Haut has completed a tranfla~ 
tion of Morveau’s recent Treatife upon” 
the Means of Purifying Infe&ted Air, Pre-= 
venting Contagion, &c. &c. 
The proprietors of the libraries at 
BaTu have, with great juftice and pro- 
_priety, advanced their terms to half a 
crown per week, a crown per month, half 
a guinea per quarter, and one guinea per 
annum. An advance in the terms of {ub- 
feription to circulating-libraries, book- 
focieties, and public-libraries, is- rendered 
indifpenfible by the new duty upon paper, 
and the confequent advance in the price 
of new publications. To keep pace with | 
the price of paper and that of books, the 
fub{criptions ought univerfally to be in< 
crealed 
