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tion in medium oétavo, and another of a 
portable fize as before. é 
Mr. GILBERT WAKEFIELD requefts 
the favour of the fubicribers to his Greek 
and Englifh Lexicon to call or fend for 
their fubfcriptions at Mr. RutT’s. in 
‘Thames-ftreet, or Mr. Poin Lips’s in St. 
Paul’s Church-yard, as the public at 
large fhews no difpofition to a patronage 
at all adequate to fuch an undertaking. 
The projeétor, in thus relinquifhing a moft 
arduous and irkfome enterprize, feels no 
uneafinefs beyond a fenfation of forrow in- 
feparable from his principal motive to this 
formidable work—the motive of facilitat- 
ing and promoting ufeful and folid learn- 
ing.—The public, however, may have 
reafon to regret the failure of this project 
from their coldnefs and unconcern: fince 
a Greek and Englifh Lexicon, completely 
executed on the extenfive plan propofed, 
would unqueftionably prove a work inte- 
refting and important in the highett degree 
by its influence on claffical and philologi- 
cal literature. 
Dr. Nesprr has inthe prefs a fyfema- 
tic work on Diet. It will include the ap- 
plication of all the mo@ern difcoveries in 
chemiftry and medicine ro this important . 
fubje&t, and will be written in a familiar 
ftyle, adapted as well to the ufe of families 
and unprofefiional readers, as to gentle- 
‘men of the medical profcffion. Such a 
book has long been a defideratum, as the 
few books exifting which notice articles of 
diet are either out of date, or mixed with, 
much extraneous and ulelefs matter. 
Mrs. Fenwicx is engaged upon a com- 
plete Courle of Letters, fuppofed to be ad- 
dreffed from a mother to her daughters at 
boarding-{fchool, of the ages of twelve and 
iixteen, on manners, conduét in life, and 
the leading cbjeéts of taffe, fcience, and 
literature. In their coniprehenfivenels and 
matter they are intended to apply to the 
fame points as Lord Chefterfield’s Letters 
to his Son, inculcating, however, a due 
feverity of morals and refpeét for revealed 
religion. The book will be printed inthe 
‘manner of a f{chool-book, cicfely, and in 
one thick volume. 
A new edition of Dr. Denman’s In- 
troduétion to Midwifery, which has been 
fome time out of print, is now ready, with 
confiderable. improvements, im two large 
volumes in ofiavo. 
The Doétor has alfo ready fer publica- 
tion two elegantly engraved: plates, in 
quarto, of the Polypus of the Uterus. 
A friend of Dr. Prieftley’s has lately 
_ received from hima’ a manufeript on fhe 
knowledge which ibe ancient Hebrews had 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
{ March 
of a future State—It will be publithed fpee- 
dily. . | 
An elegant edition of Mr. Cowrer’s 
Poems, printed on a large type, may be 
expected in a few days. 
The fecond volume of the abridged edi- 
tion of Doddridge’s Family Expofitor is 
now completed, and the whole work ready 
to be delivered to the fubferibers. The 
editor has it in contemplation to publith a 
new edition of all the Sermons of the fame 
author, of which there has been no com- 
plete colle€tion, and feveral of which have 
been long out of print. The work will 
be comprifed in two volumes o€tavo, uni- 
form with the above, and Memoirs of the 
author will be prefixed. my 
Mr. WHATELY, wholately publithed a 
Treatife on Ulcers, bas now ready for 
publication Pradical Obfervations on the 
Goncrrh@a Virulenta in Men. 
Mr. Mark Nog Le announces a Hif- 
tory of the College of Arms from- the 
Reign of Richard 111. to the prefent Time, 
taken from records and other authorities. 
A complete edition of the valuable works 
of Mifs Hannan More will fhortly be 
peblithed in eight volumes. _ ‘j 
Mr. W. H. Irevanp has in the prefs a 
volume of Ballads in imitation of the ftyle 
of Chaucer, Spenfer, &c.+a fpecies’ of 
compofifion in which he has proved him- 
felf well qualified to excel. 
A new edition is in the prefs of-Mac- . 
LAURINS Fluxions, very carefully correct-. 
ed, to which will be prefixed: Memoirs of 
his Life. ‘The extreme’ fearcity of this 
work, and its preient high price, will, it is 
prefurned, make this new edition very ac- 
ceptable. 
Another Hiftory of Helvetius is an- 
nounced by Mr. F. H..NayLer, an at- 
tempt which muft be admitted to be ardu- 
ous after the refpeétable work of Mr. 
PLANTA. 
Mr. Brcueno, author of feveral works 
on the Prophecies, will publith ina few 
days what he calls the Deftiny of the Ger- 
man Empire. . . 
Mr, Rs Roe will fpeedily publith 
work, entitled ** The Elements of Englith 
Metre, illuftrated with a-Variety of Ex- 
amples, by the analogous Proportions of 
annexed Lines, and by other occafional 
Marks.” This publication is defigned to 
exhibit a clear and concife, yet compre- 
henfive, view of the fubject. 
Mr. Davip Morricé, many years a 
private teacher of eminence, will publifh 
ina few days a practical book onthe Art 
of Teaching, or of communicating Inftruc- - 
tion, 
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