GO 
F Mr. Puriiyes has entered into an en- 
gagement with the family of the late Ge- 
neral Wafhiugton, to publifh, in London, 
the Memoirs of the Life of that great 
man, drawn up from his own papers. 
“The work is edited by Mr. MARSHALL, 
Chief Juftice of the United States, a gen- 
tleman eminent for his talents, and who 
was intimately acquainted with Wafhing- 
ton during his life; and it will be revifed 
by Judge Wasuineton, the nephew of 
the General, his principal heir, and the 
prefent poffeflor of his feat at Mount Ver- 
none It will-extend to four or five oftayo 
volumes, will be elegantly printed, and 
be fuitably decorated with a portrait, and 
with views, maps, and plans. And as 
fuch a work is equally interefting to Eu- 
rope and America, it is intended that the 
publication fhall take place in London and 
Philadelphia on the fame day. It is 
believed that the firft volume will make 
its appearance in April or May. 
Mr. R. DaGtey is preparing for pub- 
lication, by fubfcription, a Selef&tion of 
Antique Gems, to be engraved in the 
manner of chalk, from his own drawings. 
The fele&ion will comprife the moft ad- 
mired and beautiful fpecimens to be met 
- with in the Greek fculptors, and chiefly 
fuch as have not been made public. It 
will alfo contain the greateft variety of 
{nbjeéts and heads illuftrative of the Hea- 
then Mythology, and the Fabulous Hif- 
tory of the Ancients, together with the 
animals, fymbols, and fragments, found 
on ancient gems. It will be printed in 
twenty numbers, quarto, each number to 
- contain from feven to nine fubjeéts, at 
5S. each. 
Mr. Joun MayYwne has in the prefs a 
Poem on Glafgow, which, as it abounds 
with local allufions, he has illuftrated by 
very interefting notes. 
Dr. Forgss, of the Univerfity of Edin- 
burgh, has in iorwardnefs Memcirs of 
the firft and moft eminent Founders of the 
Edinburgh Medical School, with an Ac- 
count of their Works. In this publica- 
tion the literary hittory of the celebrated 
Collen will be particularly confidered; a 
critical cftimate of the moit important of 
his works will be formed, and the merit 
of his doétrines will be candidly appreci- 
ated. In this department of his labours 
the author will be naturally led by his 
fubjeét, to review the tenets of Brown, 
the far-famed rival of Cullen; and he 
hopes to be able to exhibit to his readers 
a correct ftatement of the fpeculative opi- 
nions of thefe renowned medical theorifts, 
Literary and Philofaphical Intelligence. 
{Feb. 1, 
Both Brown and Cullen now repofe in the 
fi'ent chambers of death: their refpective 
theories may therefore be canvafled with 
temper, and without reviving, in Britain 
at leaft, thofe hoflile literary feuds which 
now rage in fome of the moft celebrated 
feminaries on the Continent, and which ° 
here too once embroiled the peace of fo- 
ciety, and marfhalled medical men un- 
der the banners of their refpeétive lead- 
ers. 
_ Mifs Hatrrretp has in the prefs, and 
will publifh in the courfe of the prefent 
month, ‘¢ Letrers on the Importance of 
the Female Sex, with Obfervations on their 
Manners, and on Education.” 
A Tranflation of Sye’s popular Hi 
tory of Galvanifm, with Notes, Supple- 
mentary Matter, and Copper-plates, is in 
forwardnefs, and will be publifhed in a 
‘few weeks. 
Captain WILsoN, the gentleman who 
was wrecked at the Pelew Iflands, is jut 
returned from China, and reports, that 
the Keys to the Chinefe Lamguage, lately 
publifhed in London by Dr. Hacer, 
have been prefented to the gentlemen of 
the Englifh factory at Canton, and to 
fome of the Chinefe literati, and that the 
work has met with their complete appro- 
bation. Several perfons, and among them 
a fon of Captain Wilfon, have been in- 
duced, by the aid of this introduétion, to 
commence the ftudy of the Chinefe Lan- 
guage. Dr. Hager is now at Paris, pre- 
paring for publication a Chinefe and 
French Dictionary, under the patronage of 
the French Government. 
The new year has been diftinguifhed by 
the commencement of two new Daily 
Papers, the proprietors of which are an 
Affociation of the London and Country 
Bookfellers, Information relative to fuch 
New/papers, as devoted, in a more efpe- 
cial manner, to the interefts of literature, 
may be properly communicated through 
the medium of the Monthly Magazine. 
The title of the Morning-paper is the 
Britifh Prefs, and that of the Evening- 
paper is the Globe. Of all new under- 
takings none are oppofed by fo many dif- 
ficulties as daily newfpapers. ‘Thefe are, 
however, now in a confiderable degree 
furmounted: and if @ committee com- 
pofed of rival tradefmen, can perfuade them- 
felves to a€tiupon their ordinary principles 
of energy, and unite themfclves in the 
common caule of literature, there is no 
doubt but the Morning-paper of the 
Bookfellers will prove every day more 
deferving of the preference ot the pues 
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