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and ‘unaffected manners. Mr. Artaud 
has painted him with an air of fharpnefs 
anc fierté, or rather pertnefs—which he 
never wore. Ina word, we cannot help 
confidering it as the portrait of fome one 
who had a flight refemblance of Barto- 
lozzi; but was, at leaft, twenty years 
younger than the Royal Academician. 
Fufeli’s Defigns for Shakefpeare’s plays 
multiply. Thofe from Loutherbourg are 
fpirited, but have, perhaps, more fierté in 
the compofition than belongs to the 
Englifh Drama. Bromley has engraved 
the four that are publithed from Fufeli, in 
a very good ftyle: we have not learnt 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, * [March 1, 
who ig to be the engraver of the fuc- 
ceeding numbers. ‘To give a faithful 
copy of Fofeli’s manner, is not eafy. 
His manner is peculiar to himfelf, and 
may perhaps be better defcribed {by ne- 
gatives and fuperlatives, than any other 
way. His female figures may not have 
that fafcinating beauty which attracts and 
captivates, but they are never deficient in 
bone or mufcle: his men may not be 
graceful, but they are never feeble; they 
are energetic—and if of a robuft form, 
gigantic: his boors are ruflic; and his - 
madmen abfolutely frantic! 
VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PHILosopHIcaL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeffic and Foreign. 
# 6% Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
——— 
HE accidental difcovery, during the 
- Jaft month, of a great number of 
unpublifhed Letters of Lady MARY . 
WORTLEY MONTAGUE has oc- 
cafioned the Marquis or Burs, her 
Ladyfhip’s grandfon, to determine to 
prefent to the public the invaluable 
treafures of her literary remains, which 
till now have been locked up in chefts 
with mufty family papers. It appears, 
that during this illuftrious woman’s laft 
refidence abroad, between the years 1739 
and 1761, fhe regularly ‘correfponded 
with her family; and her letters, du- 
ring that period, as defcribed by Ho- 
race Walpole, who had feen them, were 
even ftill more diftinguifhed for intelli- 
gence, wit, and elegance, than her Letters 
from Conftantinople, fpurious and muti- 
lated copies of which are already before 
the public. ‘Ihe whole of this latter cor- 
refpondence, together with her Turkifh 
and other correfpondence, printed from the 
‘MSS. in her Ladyfhip’s own hand-writ- 
ing, are: intended, on this occafion, to be 
prefented to the world; and, as fhe was 
no lefs diftinguiflied in her day as a poetefs, 
than as the correfpondent of the moft ce- 
jebrated writers, many of her unpublifhed 
poems, and a great number of original 
letters of Pope, Young, Fielding, &c. 
&c. will form part of the intended publi.’ 
gation, ‘The work will extend to fix ele- 
gant volumes, and will be illuftrated with 
notes, portraits, and other engravings. 
Mr. STEPHENs’s Hiftory of the lat 
War, a work which will be diftinguifhed 
no lefs by the claffical elegance of its 
language, than by its authentic fources of 
information, will be publifhed inthe month 
of March. 
Mr. WALKER, who. tranflated the 
Duke of Nivernois’s’ Fables, has in the 
prefs a poem, intitled the Champions of 
Order, in praife of the exertions made by 
the civil and military heroes of Britain 
during the late conteft. 
Mr. Repton’s elegant work on the 
Theory and Praétice of Landfcape Gar- 
dening, printed by Benfley, and illuitrated 
with many Plates, will be ready to be de- 
livered to the fubfcribers in the courfe of - 
March. 
Mr. JamMEs MALTON’s work on Vil- 
las, announced for publication in January 
Jafi, has been delayed, but it will certainly 
make its appearance early in March. 
Every Tuefday evening, Mr. Biair 
delivers a Courfe of Le&tures on Pi&tu- 
refque Anatomy, and the Animal Eco- 
nomy, wherein the Struéture and Func- 
tions of the Human Body are familiarly 
explained, and illuftrated by anatomical 
Preparations, Drawings, Models, Cafts, 
and a living mufcular Subjeét ; for the 
Information of {cientific Perfons, Ama- 
teurs of Natural Hiftery, Students in the 
liberal Arts,and profeffional Men in general. 
A friend to liberal inquiry has it in 
contemplation to make a Seleétion from 
the Works of Dr. Geddes on the Subject 
of the Scriptures. Many valuable obfer- 
} vations 
