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parated by lines like the Chinefe, are to 
be read perpendicularly, as may be feen in 
Dr. Hacer’s Introduftion to the Chinefe ; 
or horizontally ; or fometimes one way, and | 
fometimes the other. 
The Eaft India Company propofes to 
publifh at its own expence engravings of 
the twelve Babylonian bricks which it 
poflefles, and to fend impreffions over 
Europe for the infpection and opinions of 
the learned. ; 
The Bodleian Library at Oxford contains 
two copies of the Kammua, or famous 
Ceremonial-book of the Priefts of Awa, 
Pegu, and Siam. Both of them are writ- 
ten with black letters, on gilded palm-tree 
leaves, in the fame manner as the copy 
which formerly belonged to the Propa- 
ganda, but now fuppofed to be at Paris. 
‘They are alfo fimilar to the copy lately 
brought to Europe by Col. Symes. So 
that we now poliefs at leaft four copies in 
Europe. ; 
The fame library contains no lefs than 
five Mexican Hieroglyphic Paintings, a cir- 
cumftance which feems to have been un- 
known to the learned author. of the Hi/ory 
of America, when he remarked, that ‘* the 
only other collection of Mexican Paint- 
ings, as farasI can learn, is in the Impe- 
rial Library at Vienna.”"—Robertfon’s Hy. 
of Amer. vol. iti. wote 35. 
The Rev. W. SHEPHERD, of Gateacre, 
near Liverpool, is at prefent engaged in 
writing the Life of Poccio Braccio- 
LINI, one of the moft eminent revivers of 
literature, who flourifhed at the end of the 
fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth 
centuries. As Poggio maintained an ex- 
tenfive epiftolary correfpondence with his 
learned contemporaries, and ashe held the 
office of fcribe and fecretary during the 
pontificate of feven fucceffive Popes, the 
hiftory of his life will neceffarily include a 
confiderable portion of the literary and 
ecclefiaftical hiltory of the times in which 
he lived, 
Dr. Buspy’s Mufical Didtionary, pre- 
faced by a plain and familiar introdu@tion 
to the fcience of harmony, will make its 
appearance about the roth of May. 
Mr. Fossrooxe’s Britifh Monachifin ; 
‘er, Manners and Cuftoms of the Monks 
and Nuns of England (two-thirds of 
which work is compiled from manufcripts, 
prior to the diffolution), is now-in the 
prefs, and vol. i, will be ready for delivery: 
in the prefent year. 
The Rev. S. Burper, of St. Albans, 
has juft iffued propofals for printing in an 
ofiavo volumeja work defgned to illuftrate 
the facred Scriptures, by an explanatory 
Application of the Cuftoms and Manners of 
Monrary Mage, No, 72. 
Literary and Philofophical Latelligence. 
337 
_the Eaftern Nations, and efpecially of the 
Jews. It will be compiled from the beft 
writers on thefe fubjeéts, and will be ac- 
companied with fuch engravings as will 
beft explain their refpective fubjects. 
In the Clarendon prefs the following 
works are now printing : 
Strabonis Geograph. *. 
Polybii, Hift. 
Pocock, Hift. Arab. 
Homer. ; 
E {chines et Demofthenes. 
Sigonii Fafti. 
Sophoclis, vol. iii. Scholia. 
Ariftotelis Rhetorica. 
Philoxenian Verfion. 4. et ultim. Vol. 
Septuaginta. 
Herodotus. 
Mr. Grecory, of Cambridge, has juft 
completed a {cientific work on Aftronomy, 
in which the elements of the {cience are 
deduced in'a natunal order from the appear-_, 
ances of the heavens to an obferver on 
the earth, demonftrated on mathematical 
principles, and explained by an application 
tothe various phenomena. Thechief ob- | 
jet of this work is to prefent the reader 
with a view of the great truths of aftrono- 
my, in fuch order and manner as they 
might be obtained from aétual obferva- 
tion, without demanding an affent to fyf{- 
tems before they are underftood, or to 
principles before they are demonfirated. 
On the plan here adopted, in which, as far 
as may be, every ftep is eftablifhed before 
the fucceeding one is entered upon, the 
ftudent will probably acquire a more recu- 
lar, clear, and lafting knowledge of. the 
fubje&, than by the methods ulually em- 
ployed. 
A Tranflation is in the, prefs of M. 
BauDELOQU:E’s Refearches and Reflec- 
tions on the Cefarean Operation, to which 
will be added a Preface, Notes, and an 
Appendix, with fix Engravings, by Dr. 
Joun HU.L, of Manchetter. 
The Conduors of the Lonpon Me- 
DICAL REViEW, having determined. to 
confine the plan of their work, in future, 
folely to the critical analyfis of new books, 
have recommended their correfpondents to 
addrefs their future favours to the Mepr : 
Cal andPHyYsicaLJouxNaAL. The latter 
work will confequently, without varying 
its prefent approved ian, be enriched by 
the communications of a number of corre- 
fpondents, and the London Medical Re- 
_view will more ftrongly recommend itfelf 
to the medical world, by the copioulnefs of 
its extracts, and the fullacfs of its criti- 
cifms and illuftrations. P 
A Hiftory of the Town of Stamferd, 
comprehending the ‘antient and modern 
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