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VARIETIES, Lirzrary anp PaiILosopHIcalL. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domteftic and Foreign. 
* * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
EFORE Dr. PrigsTvey left England) 
he had publifhed two volumes of 4 
General Hiftory of the Chrijtian Church, from 
the Fall of the Weftern Empire to the pre- 
jent Time. He has fince employed himfelf 
in completing the work in four addixional 
volumes.. They are juft arrived from 
America, and will be delivered to the 
fubferibers in the courfe of this month, | 
A Hifiory of Animal Chemiftry, by 
W.B. JOHNSON, the friend of the late 
Dr. Darwin, in three volumes, oftavo, 
with a copious Index, is nearly ready for 
publication. 
Mrs..Sewarp’s Memoirs of the Life 
and Writings of the late Dr. Darwin, in 
one volume, ofgtavo, will be publifhed this 
month, 
The Rev. W. L. Bowtes, whofe ele- 
gant pen has already commanded fuch 
general applaufe, has finifhed and will 
{yeedily publifh a Poem, under the title 
of ‘* The Spirit of Difcovery by Sea.” 
A new periodical paper, under the 
title of The Man in the Mooz, will be 
commenced in November, and be conti- 
nued every Wednelday and Saturday. 
A Third Volume of the Life and Writ- 
ings of W. Cowper, Efq. confiling of 
Original Letters, edited by W,. Hayley, 
Ei{q. may be expected to appear about 
Chriftmas, and a new edition of the firft 
and fecond volumes will be ready in the 
courfe of this month. 
A new Edition of Mr. SkaiMSHIRE’s 
popular Chemical Effays will be publifhed 
hext month. 
Mr. Tuomas Mortimer (formerly 
Britifh Vice Conful at Oltend), whofe va- 
rious ufeful publications have been univer- 
fally efteemed in his own and foreign 
countries, upwards of forty years ‘patt,* 
is preparing for the prefs a curious and 
novel work, to be publifhed by fub{crip- 
tion, in One volume, royal quarto, em- 
bellifhed swith. numerous elegant plates, 
‘< Hiltorical and Biographical Memoirs 
of the Jews in Great Britain, from the 
Era of their firft Eftablifhment to the pre- 
fent Time.”’—In the courfe of the work, 
_ * The firft edition of his well-known 
book. ‘* Every Man bis own Broker,” was 
 publifhed fo long fince as 1761, and the thir- 
Keenth edition is now in circulation, 
Mr. Mortimer intends to introduce a re- 
view of the national advantages in re- 
fpeé to commerce, public credit, and 
financial refources, which refult’ from 
the protection and enccuragement the Jews 
enjoy under our excellent conftitution ; 
contrafted with the periecutioas, prohibi- 
tions, and reftrictions, to which they are 
fubjected in other .Chriftian countries, on 
the Continent of Europe. The names of 
perfons whe may be dilpo'ed to patronize 
Mr. Mortimer’s work will be received by 
Mr. Phillips, in St. Paui’s Church-yard, 
or Mr. Afperne, Cornhill. 
Mr. ArrHur Younc, whofe Annals 
of Agriculture have been the fortunate 
means of exciting the prelent fpirit of im- 
provement in that important fcience, has 
recently announced his intention to intro- 
duce into the fame periodical work an 
account of the proceedings of the various 
Agricultural Societies. His late circular 
letteron this fubjeét deferves the attention 
of our Agricultural Readers, and-we in- 
fert it beneath: hi 
To the Societies for the Encouragement of Agria 
culture in the Britifo Empire. 
‘* My Lords and Gentlemen, 
¢¢ The fuccefs that has locally attended 
your aflociated and patriotic labours, has been 
felt with intereft, and. commended with juf- 
tice, wherever your influence has extended: 
but it has oiten been a fubjedét of lamenta- 
tion, that the public at large have been ig- 
norant of proceedings, the knowledge of 
which would have tended materially to the 
amelioration of the’ national hufbandry.—’ 
This deficiency has refulted from your lauda- 
ble exertions having been detailed, in fome 
inftances, only in provincial publications, and 
‘loft with diurnal and fugitive pieces on much 
lefs important topics; in others they have 
not been publifhed 2t all.—The Editor of 
the Annals has, for fome years paft, received 
many applications for the Rules nd Orders 
of Societies, as the bafis of new. eftablith- 
ments; a proof that the information requi- 
fite in fuch cafes was not regularly detailed 
in any exifting work. This circumftance, 
combined with the ungueftioned utility of” 
making known the tranfactions of all thefe 
public bodies in fome regular publication, 
which might be eafily and with certainty 
confultedy has induced him, in the new 
form under which the Annals will, in fu- 
ture, be arranged, to affign. a confiderable 
portion of the work for the Regifter of the 
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