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VARIETIES, Literary anp PuriLosopHicaL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*..* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
ocTor Percival, of Manchetter, 
} has in the prefs, and nearly ready 
for publication, a work which will compre- 
hend a General Sytem of Medical Ethics. 
The outline was fketched feveral years 
ago, and confitutes the code of regula- 
tions by which the Faculty of the Man- 
chefter Infirmary agreed to regulate their 
official condu&t, and their intercourfe with 
each other. But the extended work will 
be addrefled to the Medical Profeffion at 
large ; and will include alfo the duties of 
fuch of its members as are. unconnected 
with public eltablifhments of charity.— 
The aphoriftic form has been chofen, as 
beft’ calculated to’ define with precifion 
thofe principles ‘of urbanity and reéti- 
tude which fhould govern the conduét of 
the members of the medical profeffion to 
their patients and to each other. Copious 
Notes and Tiluftrations will form an Ap- 
pendix, and will complete the plan of the 
undertaking. 
Mr. Gopwin’s expected work on the 
Life and Times of Chaucer will pofitively 
- make its appearance about the middle of 
July. It will comprehend views of the 
progrefs of fociety, manners, and the fine 
arts, from the dawn of literature, in mo- 
dern Europe, to the clofe of the fourteenth 
century, with charaéters of the principal 
perfonages in the courts of Edward the 
Third, and Richard the Second. . 
Mr. PratT is about to prefent the 
public with his Poem of the Poor ; or, 
Corrace-Picrures, illumined by five 
interefting Engravings byCorpon, from 
the Defigns of De Loutherburgh. 
The Revi Mr. CartwriGurT is pre- 
paring for the prefs-a new edition of his 
popular tale of Armine and Elvira, with 
fome other Poems which have not yet been 
publifhed. > } 
Mr. Tuomas Brown, of Edin- 
burgh, defires us to ftate, that he has ne- 
ver had any influence in the management 
of the work called the Edinburgh Review; . 
that he has contributed only a few  arti- 
cles to it, and that he has now declined 
all connexion with it. We cheerfully 
perform this a@ of jufticeto Mr. Brown, 
in favour of whofe refpectable talents on | 
former occafions we have borne willing 
teftimony.* 
* A correét lift of the young men con- 
cerned in writing this Review appeared in 
@ur Magazine for April.. 
Montuix Mag, No. 102, 
The third Number of Mr. WiLtiams's 
Picturefque Excurfions in Devonfhire and 
Cornwall will be publifhed early in July. 
The Pofthumous Works: of the late 
Dr. Hunrer, Author of Sacred Biogra- 
phy, with a Life of the Author, will ap- 
pear in the courfe of the fummer. . 
The Rev. Joun Hot_anp, of Bolton, 
has jut publifhed Effays on Hiftory, par- 
ticularly the Jewifh, Affyrian, Perfiart, 
Grecian, and Roman; with Examinations 
for the Ufe of Young Perfons ; alfo, Geo- 
graphical Exercifes, Modern and Ancient, 
ona new Plan. Both publications are 
extremely well adapted for the inftruCtion 
of youth. 
Mr. T. F. Dipptn, Author of the Yn- 
troduétion to rare and valuable Editions 
of the Greek and Roman Claffics, has of 
late been employed in amaffing materials 
for a fecond edition of that work. The 
fecond edition is intended to contain a par- _ 
ticular account of Polyglott Bibles, edi- 
tions of the Greek Septuagint and Tef- 
tament ; accompanied by Critical Notes 
from the Prolegomena of Mills and Wet- | 
fein. It is intended that the former 
publication fhall bea fort of key or book 
of reference to the fecond edition, which 
will adopt the fame method of arrange- 
ment ; but which will afford more copious 
Intelligence on points that have been 
therein but flightly difcuffed. 
The fame Gentleman is about to publifh 
acomplete Account of the Evidence be- 
fore the Committee of the Houfe of Com- 
mons, on the Claim of Dr. Jenner to 
Remuneration, as the Difcoverer and 
Founder of the Vacciolous Inoculation.— 
The work will be preceded by a fuccinét 
Hiftory of the Origin, Progrefs, and Ra- 
vages of the Small pox. 
Mr. BrisTED, of the Honourable So- 
ciety of the Inner Temple, has been long 
“preparing for the prefs his Anthroplano- 
menos; or, Tour in the Highlands of 
Scotland, containing an account of fome 
very interefting incidents which occurred 
in a pedeftrian route in the year 1804 
through a part of the Highlands, It is 
expected that this work will be ready for 
publication the latter end of July. 
An elaborate Account of the Life’ and 
Writings of the late Dr. GeDpbEs, by Mr. 
Joun Mason Goon, Author of a ‘new’ 
Tranflation of Solomon’s Songs, &c. is 
in the prefs, and will be publifhed in the 
ensuing month, 
4h Since 
