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VARIETIES, Literary. Anp PHILOSOPHICAL. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
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Von Korzenye” $ work, entitled 
\ [ oThemoft remarkable Year of my Life, 
containing ‘an account of ‘his banifhment 
and journey into the diftant regions of 
Siberia, and of his other wonderful and 
romantic adventures in Ruiffia, has been 
tranflated into’ Enolith, from his own ma- 
nufcript, by Mr. tas CVORD. at Berlin, 
and will make its appearance in London 
in the courfe of January. Thofe who 
have read it de(cribe it ‘as one of the mof 
interéfting works “that has appeared for 
fome years paft.’ Since the beginning of 
(Dcfober; M. von Kotzebue has refided at 
‘Weimar, and has been writing an exten- 
five drama, the fubje&‘ of which is taken 
from the Crufades.» The new theatre at 
Berlin is, on the 1ft of-January, 1802, to 
lhe opened with this piece, by order of the 
King of Proffas who’ is very partial ‘to 
lKotzebue’s plays. °°, 
Mr. Bowyer, of Pall-mall, intends to 
publifh ten numbers, each containing four 
Wiews uv Egypt, front the colleétion’ of 
‘Sir Roperr Ainsxiz, taken during his. 
\imbafly to Conftantinople by Luicr 
IMayer. The? fubjects are, Views of 
Alexandria, Aboukir, Rofetta, and Grand 
(Sairo; of the Palate of Mourad Bey; 
aif different parts of the Banks of the 
Wile; external and internal Views of the 
‘Pyramids; Pompey’s Pillar; Obelifks, 
Catacombs, Sepulchres, Mofques, Vil- 
laces, Arabian Fairs, Balls, &c. “The 
Views will be accompanied with’ brief 
hiforical; and co gh eosin obfervations, 
ainG incidental illuftrations of the manners’ 
aid cultoms of the natives. Mr. Bowyer 
has alfo purchafed the Manufcriot written 
hy the Athenian Reveley, of his obferva- 
ticns made in his tour through Egypt 
upon the different objeéts of antiquity, 
‘particularly their exact meafurement, &c. 
‘which wili render the Hiftory accompany- 
rng thele Views the moit authentic ever 
Pp: ubliflied ; 3 and itis intended that Mr. Re- 
veley’s account fhall never appear but in 
this work. 
Mr. Tromas TAyYLor’s long-expect- 
el -Tranflarion of the entire Works of 
Plato is printing rapidly at the expence of 
the Duke of Norfo! k,. and will probably 
make its appeanance in the courle of the 
Sy img, inten handfome nbclb adaie quarto. 
rhe eaten efs edition of Shakefpeare 
published by the Boypex.s’at length ap- 
proaches to a ¢onclufion, and only one 
Number remains to be delivered: Thiswork 
will long continue a monument of glory 
to its pablifiers, and fo the age which 
patronized it. 
We' congratulate the public on the 
profpect, that Stereotype-printing will 
foon be introduced mto this metropolis; 
under the patronage and direétion of a noe- 
bleman who “has long deferved well of his 
country for' his attention to the ufetul 
arts: The addptica of this invention, 
and the probable redu@tion of the ruihous 
and oppreffive duty upon paper, will again 
reduce the price of books to their former 
ftandard. 
A splendid” work is announced to be 
publifhed’ in quarterly fhumbers, intiled 
“Scotia Depiffa; or, the Antiquities, 
Public Buildings, Caftles, Noblemen. and 
Gentlemen’s Siak, Cities, Towns, and 
Picturetque Scenery,of Scotland illuftrated; 
ina Series of fimfhed etchings, by Mr. 
Frrruer, from accurate Drawings made 
on the fpot by Joun CLauneé NaTTeEs, 
from 1797 to1$00 3 the whole accompanied 
with Deteri iptions, antiquarian, hiltorical, 
and pictureique.” 
The Rev. Mr. FIELD, of Warwick, 
propofes to publifh, in the courfe- of is 
prefent month, a fecond edition, with cor- 
rections and confiderable additions, of his 
Introduétion to the Ufe of the Globes. 
A much greater number and variety of 
problems, and a larger collection of ex- 
amples for practice, are given, than ‘are 
ulually to be fouid in works of a fimilar 
nature. It is accompanied alfo with a 
feries of queftions for examination. 
Mr. Mitvar, in Bond-ftreet, who has 
publithed the Coftume of China with fo 
much applaufe, announces the firft number 
vof the Coftume of Turkey, both Afiatic 
and European ; including that of the 
Greek Iflands of the Archipelago; in a 
Series of coloured Engravings, illuftrative 
of the fingular and diverfified Manners, 
Cuftoms, and Drefles of thofe interefting 
Nations ; faithfully copied from Draw- 
ings, taken on the Spot, by OcTaV!IaNn 
DatvimarT, with Defcriptions in Eng 
lifh and French.. The work will confift 
of eight numbers, each number containing. 
feven and fometimes eight plates, coloured 
after the exact manner of the or iginal draw- 
_ings; the fize will be wy io 4'0, and the 
price 
