1802.] 
of a great variety of ancient Egyptian _ 
{culptures, highly curious, but much de- 
faced from the ravages of time. 
M. DeEnon’s long expected Travels in 
Upper and Lower Egypt, in Company 
with General Defaix’s Divifion of the 
French Army, has now made its appear- 
ance, and it is the moft magnificent 
work which has appeared in modern times. 
A tranflation has been undertaken under 
the infpection of Mr. ARTHURAIKIN, and 
the plates are to be re-engraved by fome of 
the beft Englifh artifts. The original 
work fells in London for twenty-two 
pounds; but it is fuppofed, that the 
handfome quarto edition of this Tranf- 
lation will be afforded for about five 
guineas, and the octavo edition for about 
two guineas. Moft of the Egyptian an- 
tiquities which have arrived at the Mu. 
feum, are pourtrayed and defcribed in 
M. Denon’s work. 
A new Literary. Inftitution will, foon 
after the meeting of Parliament, be form- 
ed in London, which is expeéted to pro- 
mote the independence, the ufefulnefs, and 
the general perfection of literature, more 
than has been hitherto done by any of the 
mot boafted eftablifhments among foreign 
nations. The defign has two objects in 
view :—to provide for the honourable and 
uneleemofynary relief of men of letters, 
members of the inftitution, in ficknefs and 
extreme old age, and for their decent. bu- 
rial; and annually to diftribute, upon the 
decifions of a majority of the votes of the 
members given by ballot, prizes for the 
beit works in a definite number of the 
branches of literature, tafte, and philofo- 
phy, which fhal] have been publithed in 
' Great Britain or Ireland, not more than 
two years before the period of diftribution, 
and of each of which a copy fhall have 
been, not lefs than one year before, tranf- 
mitted to the fecretary to the fociety. 
Thefe purpofes are to be accomplifhed by 
the aflociation of a number of men of letters, 
more or lefs diftinguifhed by printed 
works, not unfriendly to focial order and 
good morals, and of a number of men of 
rank and fortune eminent for their attach- 
ment to letters, and their proficiency in 
elegant knowledge, and not notorious for 
any vices which might render their names 
and countenance a difhonour fo literature 
and its profeffors. An annual fub{crip- 
tion of two guineas for each member is 
to torm the fund for the expenditure. It 
is expected that the defign will be encou- 
raged by the higheft patronage in thefe 
-kingdoms, and that the focicty may be 
Apaily incorporated under a royal charter. 
MonrTuty Mag, No. 90. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. * 
65 
The Rev. Mr. HENLy is preparing for 
publication a new poetical verfion of theEle- 
gies of Tibullus. He will,in the fame work, 
explain a fcheme, which he has {kilfully 
conceived, for tracing the periods of time 
at which thofe elegies were refpectively 
written, and for illuftrating their refe- 
rences to the incidents of the author’g 
life. . 
Mr. LEstiz, the faithful and elecant 
tranflator of the Ornithology of Buffon 
and Montbeliard, has now in the prefs 
a work, in which he ably controverts thofe 
opinions concerning the fun’s heat, which 
have been lately advanced, in fome ingeni- 
ous and elaborate papers in the Philofo- 
phical Tranfaétions, by Dr. HERsCHELe 
Dr. Bisset, of Chelfea, has in the 
prefs a Hiftory of theReign of George 1II. 
and he has alfo made confiderable progrefs 
in the compofition of a novel, abounding 
in poignant literary fatire, and in vigorous 
ridicule of many of the follies and affecta= 
tions, which now mark the face of focial 
life in England. 
Mr. Wititiam Creecu, bookéeller, 
in Edinburgh, who has been long well- 
known among his friends to want no- 
thing but inclination, to make as great a 
figure in the republic of letters, as any of 
the authors whofe works he has publithedy 
is faid to have made great progrefs in the 
compofition of a Life of Alifon Craig, fo 
celebrated in the hiftory of the reformation 
of religion in Scotland, as the miftrefs.of 
the Earl of Arran, and, at the fame time, 
not unkind to fome others of Queen Ma= 
ry’s courtiers. In this.work, Mr. Creech 
throws the moft curioufly interefting 
lights, itis faid, on the familiar and con- 
vivial manners of the Scottifh court. It 
will be adorned with portraits of Dame 
Craig and other Scottifh beauties of that . 
day. 5 
The Rev. Mr. Faxtconer, of Bath, 
propofes to print, by fubfcription, the 
Geography of Strabo, in feventeen books, 
uluftrated by maps, coins, in{criptions, 
&c. accompanied with the Notes of THo- 
Mas FaLconer, Efq. of Chefter, the 
Oxford editor; of SIEBENKEES and Tzo- 
CHUCKE, of Germany ; and thofe of the 
tranflater. 
The proprietors of the late Rev. J. 
Mason’s Treatife of Self-knowledge have 
in the prefsa new edition of that ufeful 
work, accompanied with a Life of the 
Author. 
A new edition of Mr. SurR’s novel, 
intitled ** Splendid Mifery,’? will appear 
in the courfe of the prefent month. 
A Phyfiolegtical Society has been juft 
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