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VARIETIES, Literary AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
» *,* Authentic Communications. for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
HE Bookfellers of London have re- 
folved to publifh an uniform edition 
of fuch works as may be deemed Briti/h 
Clafics. The work will extend to forty- 
five volumes, and be printed in a pocket 
fize. 
~ Mifs Aixin will publifhin a few days 
a fmall volume of Poetry for Children; 
conlifting of fuch pieces, partly original 
and partly felected, as may properly be 
committed to memory at an early age. 
_ Dr. Beppoers has deferred the publi- 
cation of his Effays on Health till the fit 
day of December, inftead of the firft of No- 
vember, as was at firft propofed. . 
Mr. HoLcrortT now fefides at Paris, 
and there is {ome reafon to hope that in the 
courfe of the enfuing winter he will fa- 
vour the public with an account of his 
Travels in Germany and France. An 
account of the latter country, from fo acute 
and enlightened a writer, could not fail to 
be very 7 interefting to all Europe. 
Mifs Hay’s large work of Female Bio-« 
graphy will be printed this winter and be 
publifhed early inthe fpring. It will in- 
clude the lives of diftinguifhed women of 
all ages and countries. 
The Rev. J. Bitptaxe, Matter of the 
Grammar-School at Plymouth, has in 
the prefs an Elementary Book of Geogra- 
phy, which promifes to be really adapted 
to the pre tical bufinefs of education. 
All the exifting works which profefs to 
teach Geography, are either too fall, and 
filled with nothing but. proper names and 
technical phrafes; or they are too darge, 
and contain niuch extraneous, ufelefs and 
obfolete matter. Mr. BiidJake’s work 
will be divided into two parts ; the one 
didactic, containing the divifions of the 
earth and the rationale of its motions; 
and the other, entertaining, to confit of 
popular accounts of the manners and cuf- 
toms of nations, decorated with nearly 
forty copper- plates. 
Mr. Buair is collesting materials for 
an Hiftorical Account of all the Hofpitals, 
Tofirmaries, Di! penfaries; and Medical So- 
cieties in the Metropolis. Such a work 
cannot fail of being highly interefting to 
*the public in ‘general, as well as to the 
medical world in particular. 
Mr. Monreriors, a Notary-public of 
London, has in the prefs a quarto volume 
of Commercia) and Notarial Precedents, 
which cannot fail to be of great ufe te 
merchants, and all perfons. conneéted with 
fhipping and commerce in Great Britam 
and the colonies. 
The new quarto edition of the great 
Englifh Cyclopedia, by Dr. Regs and 
affittants, will be commenced immediately 
after Chriftmas. 
A Tranflation of Guiton Mor- 
vEAu’s Treatife on the means of, de- 
ftroying Contagion, &c. has been under- 
taken by Dr. Haut, and will fpeedily be - 
publifhed. 
Dr. PRIESTLEY writes from America 
in good health and fpirits, defcribes in 
glowing terms the rapid flate of improve- 
ment, and the wonderful increafe in the 
population of that country, and leads his 
numerous friends in Great Britain to 
hope, that on the return of peace he may 
be induced to pay a fhort vilit to his na- 
tive country. 
Cordage manufa&tured from the long 
beard which grows on the fhells of cocoa- 
puts, is found fuperior in every defirable 
point to that produced from hemp. The 
materials are colleéted in the Laccadive 
Iflands, where it is produced in immenfe 
quantity, and fome of the largeft-(ized 
cables have been made and tried on board 
the fhips compofing Admiral BLanKer’s 
fquadron. They aniwer perfeétly well, 
and from their elaftic nature are deemed 
more ferviceable in a high. {welling tide 
than thofe formed of the beft hemp. ° 
The objcét of the new voyage of difco- 
very,(the Inveftigator, of 22 guns, Lient. 
FLINDERS, which lately failed‘from the 
Nore) is to examine the whole of the coatt 
of New Holland, and to difcover what 
large bays, efpecially rivers, are to be 
found there. Lieut. Flinders is accom- 
panied by men of fcience; WESTALL, a 
brother of the celebrated artift, goes out 
as the draftfman. 
An Englifh Dramatic Library, by the 
Editor of the German Erato, will foon 
make its appearance at Hamburg, and 
commencewithAddifon’s Tragedy of Cato. 
Mr. PoppLeron, an Enclifhman, has 
-publifhed a Guide Pratique, which is 
highly fpoken of in the German papers. 
Hayuevy’s Life of Milton is republith-- 
ed, in Englith, odZavo, at Strafburg :—A 
flattering * proof of the extenfion of the 
Englifh language upon the continent. 
: MoNrTAGUE'S 
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