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258 | Literary and Philfophical Intelligence. 
jury the tap-root may have received by 
removal. | 
By the method recommended by Mr. 
Yates, we are afiured that timber may be 
produced in about fifty years, of equal 
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quality, and much fuperior in fize, to that 
which has heen above one hundred years 
growing without the affiftance of culti- 
vation. | 
VARIETIES, Lirzrary AND PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
** Authentic Communications for this Article will alzays be thankfully received. 
eS See 
W\ /[ R. MARSH, of St. John’s College, 
Cambridge, has been lately enga- 
ed in writing an elaborate Defence and 
Tiluftration of the Hypothefis propofed in 
his Differtation on the Origin of the Gof- 
pels. He enters, as we have been inform- 
ed, more fully into the fubject, than he 
had done before, in order to remove the 
prejudices and miftakes, which a partial 
and imperfect view of the fubject had oc- 
cafioned. Ill health has very much re- 
¢arded, and has at length wholly interrupt- 
ed, the progrefs of his labours. We 
hope, however, that this interruption will 
foon ceafe, and that he will fhortly be ena- 
bled to refume and to finifh a work, in 
which all admirers of facred criticifm muf 
take confiderable intereft. 
A Review of Books, to be publifhed 
quarterly, has lately been commenced at 
Edinburgh, by fome young men. of pro- 
mifing talents. Mr. *yDNEY SMITH, the. 
author of two volumes of Sermons, Mr. 
BroucuHam, Mr. Horner, and Mr. 
JAFFRAY, three young advocates, together 
with Mr. Brown, the author of fome in- 
genious Obfervations on Darwin’s Zoono- 
mia, are the critics who have thus under- 
taken to direct the tafte of their country- 
men. - : 
The Profpeétus and Specimen of Dr. 
DrakeE’s propofed edition of the Britith 
Effayifts, improperly called the Claffics, 
will not fail to fatisfy the public. that 
the work is deferving of patronage, Mr. 
(Cuatmers’s long promifed edition of 
the fame works will very {peedily be pub- 
lithed. 
Shakefpeare, an author-whom the pub- 
dic appear to patronize with perfevering 
_ avidity, will fhortly be publifhed in a new 
and very elegant form. Mr. KearsLeEy, 
‘to whofe tafte, in his edition of the Poets, 
and fome other works, the world are 
under obligations, announces a new edi- 
tion of Shakefpeare, to correfpond with 
2. 
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Dr. Aikin’s edition of the Poets, with 
embellifhments by all the beft artifts. 
The Tranflation of Sue’s Hittory of - 
Galvanifm, announced in a former Num- 
ber, will be accompanied by a familiar 
and pra&tical Introduction to that Sctenceé, 
and by circumftantial details of the 
lateft experiments and difcoveries, by the 
Tranflator. 
Mr. Burven, of Gloucefter (a profef= 
fional artift), has juft iffued “¢ Propofals 
for publifhing by fubfcription fix Piétu- 
refgue Views in the County of Gloucefter; 
to be engraved by Mr. W. Poote. A 
fheet of letter-prefs will accompany each 
view; and, if Mr. Burden fhould meet 
with encouragement, he purpofes to pub- 
lifh a complete Series of Picturefque 
Views of the County of Gloucefter, of 
which the above will form the firft number. 
Mr. Luwn, of the Claffical Library, in 
Soho-fquare, intends to reprint PoTTER’s 
Antiquities of Greece, 2 vols. 8vo. upon 
a better paper, and in a more correct man~ 
ner, than the laft edition. 
A periodical Effay has lately been com~ 
menced in London, under the title of The 
Organ; or, Spirit of Public Opinion. 
The author is a gentleman weil-known in. 
the literary world, and his labours on this 
occafion appear to attraét confiderable atq - 
tention. 
Meffrs|s HamiLTon and CAMPBELL © 
have announced a Geographical Diétio- 
nary of Afia upon a new and extenfive 
Plan, with Maps by Mr. ArRrow-— 
‘SMITH. 
Dr. Bucuan’s Advice to Mothers, a 
-work long fince announced, will {peedily 
make its appearance. 
Mrs. Gooca has announced Memoirs 
of her own Life, in four volumes, by fub- 
{cription. . : 
Mr. Maxey has in the prefs a new 
and elegant Tranflation of Florian’s Pal- 
toral Romance of Eftelle. | 
