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VARIETIES, Lirerary AnD PHILosopHICcAL. 
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Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
“% % Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
R. Hotcrort’s Travels in France, 
.\ Holland, and Germany, in the years 
u3or and 1802, will appear towards the 
latter end of the current month. It will 
be the moft fplendid book in the whole 
compa{s of Englifh literature. To meet 
the. views of various purchafers, there will 
be copies at two prices—one at e7ght gut- 
meas, in which the magnificent Plates will 
be bound in an Atlas by themfelves, and 
another at five guineas, in which, after a 
neceflary reduétion of the breadth of the 
fkies, the plates will be folded into the 
volumes. ‘The letter-prefs will be in two 
handfome volumes quarto, containing 
nearly fifty beautifully engraved head and 
tail-pieces. 
Mr. Pratt is preparing for the prefs 
an Inquiry into National Inventions, and. 
Improvements, the Moral and Social State 
_of the Artifans in Manufacturing Towns, 
the Public Prifons, Charities, and other 
Benevolent Societies; with general and par- 
‘ticular Views of Public Virtue and Spirit, 
including an Inveftigation of Public Evils 
and appropriate Remedies. It is the Au- 
thor’s excellent plan to bring Faéts which 
have ufually been rendered too didastic 
and abftract, home to the heart of the 
reader in that engaging and interefting 
fiyle for which he has long been remark- 
‘able. . 
Among the captures lately made by 
Lord NELsoOn in the Mediterranean, was 
a veffel containing no lefs than feven-and- 
twenty cafes filled with choice fpecimens 
of Ancient Sculpture, chiefly brought 
from Athens. Should they on infpeétion 
prove what they are defcribed to be, they 
will, we hope,, be depofited with the re- 
liques of Egyptian grandeur inthe Britith 
Muleum, They had been colleéted from 
time to time during the lat twenty years, 
by the French refident FauveL. — 
Mr. A. W. Devis, who was wrecked 
with Captain Wilion on the Peiew Iflands, 
and at that time employed by the Honour- 
able Eaft India Company, in the capacity 
of draughrf{man, having returned from In- 
dia fince the publication of Mr. Keare’s 
Account of thofe Iflands, has brougit to 
England the original drawings made from 
Nature, of the Landfcape, Scenery, and 
Natives of Pelew ; and, in confequence, a 
new edition of Mr. Keate’s Account will 
immediately be publifhed, accompanied by 
the foregoing Embellifhments. 
A new Edition of the Works of Addi- 
fon, as colle€ted by Mr. TickKEL, with 
fome additions, is in the prefs, in fix vo- 
Jumes o€tavo, printed uniformly with the 
Works of Bacon, Locke, &c. 
Mr. Carey Lorrr has lately finifhed 
a work under the title of Emma, a domef- 
tic tragedy, founded on a recent faét. 
Mr. J. W. WiLtIaMs, one of the 
conduétors of the Law-Journal, is prepar= 
ing a fupplementary or fixth volume to 
his Juftice of the Peace. It is expected 
that this work will be ready for publica= 
tion in the courfe of next Hilary Term, 
and it will comprife all the adjudged Cafes 
and Statutes from the 38th of George 
IIT. inclufive to the prefent period. 
Mr. T. F. Dizoin has jut publithed a 
Specimen of the fecond Edition of an In- 
troduction to the Greek and Roman Claf- 
fics, which exhibits the firft fixteen pages 
of the work relating to the Claffics, and 
comprehends the editions of Agiian, ZE 
chylus, and A&fop. It is preceded iby 
fome introductory matter expreflive of the 
general nature and fcope of the publica- — 
tion. This Specimen may be {een at the 
_ principal bookfellers in London, | 
Meffrs. BINGLEY and MALKIN an- 
nounce Additions to the number of Tours 
in North and in South Wales refpettively.. 
Dr. BisseT has ju finifhed a novel 
under the title of Modern Literature. _ 
On Monday O&tober 3, an feven 
o’clock in the evening, Mr. Joun Pear- 
son will commence his Autumnal Courfe 
of Leétures on the Principles and Practice 
of Surgery. Gentlemen who attend thefe 
LeStures may have the advantage of exem= 
plitying the general doctrines they hall. 
hear delivered, by attending the Lock 
Hofpital, and the chirurgical practice at 
the Public Difpenfary, on moderate terms. 
Dogtor BapHam, one of the Phyficians 
to the Wettminiter Difpenfary, Gerrard- 
ftreet, propofes to deliver during the win- 
tertwo Courfes of Leétures on Chemiftry. 
The firit is deftined to explain at conii- 
derable length the principles of the tci- 
: miftry 
