1804. } 
WHIZ. S:-30-ven, or Works of the Mil- 
fionaries, called by the Chinefe, Occi- 
dental Literature. This clafs contains 
fome works of Father Ricci, Aloi/ius, 
&c. and a learned Treatife on Attro- 
nomy in ro vols. with MSS. Plates. 
Volumes 38 
Total 1182 
De. Montwecr obligingly fhews in 
this collection a number of int:refting vo- 
lumes, of the remoteft antiquity, and the 
only copies in Europe ;—~at leaft they are 
not to be found in the printed Catalogues 
of the Chinefe Collections, in the library 
of the National Inftitute, nor in the hbrary 
of the Imperial Academy at St. Peterf- 
burg.—The following works are parti- 
cularly curious : 
1. Lo*-xu-chim-go, or the Ancient Claf- 
fical Chara&ters rendered. into their per- 
fe&t Chim form (fee above, clafs I. n. 2.) 
This work is in five large quarto volumes, 
twelve inches by feven, on fuperfine paper 3, 
every ancient character is exhibited upon 
a large feale, and then reduced into its 
modern fhape. 
2. Poei-ven iun-fu, or Combinations of 
Compofition and harmonic Similarities of 
Sound, being a Di&tionary of Rhymes, 
wherein every Character is {hewn in all its 
pofable Combinations with Others, for 
which Authorities are always quoted. 
3. Po-ku-tu, or Plates on Learned An- 
‘tiquitics; a work in 20 vols. Containing 
a numerous Series of Vafes, Mufical Ine 
ftruments, Metallic Mirrors, &c. &c. 
with ancient Inicriptions exhibited after- 
wards in modern Charatters. The whole 
is arranged in the order of time, com- 
mencing with the moft ancient Dy- 
naity down to the Haz, about 200 years 
before Chrift. 
4. Cheu ye-ciuen-xu, or The moft per- 
fect Writings on the aphid by Cheu 
Kum,a celebrated law- -giver who flourifh- 
ed about 1122 before Chritt. 
5. Lo-kim.tu, or Piates on the Six Kim 
of the Firlt Clafs, (fee above, clafs II. 
n. a.) confifting of fix immenfe folios, fix- 
tren inches by ten, wherein all fubjects 
mentioned in thofe Kivz are exhibired in a 
fplendid (ries of Engravings on Wood. 
6. Tao'te-kim, or the Rule of : Virtue, 
a celebrated Kim by Lao cu, contemporary 
to Confucius. A mana{cript Latin Ver- 
fion of this very curious work may be 
feen in the library of the Royal Society. 
7- Yt-yo-le, or Detcription of a Fo- 
De En eee ee 
* ‘Lhe collections of ‘claflical charatters 
are ftiled. Lo-xu or Six coritings, with an al- 
lyufion to the fix rules of confiruéting charac- 
térs, according to the method of the firft in- 
ventors. See the Mem. des Miffonaires. 
MONTHLY Mac. No. 111, 
= e@ bow ew @ oe ew le ee we 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
63 
reign Region. An elegant volume, con- 
taining an account of the Chinefe Embaf. 
fy, in the latter years of the reignof Kam- 
Hi, to PErerR rHE GREAT, at Mofcow. 
8. Sin-chi-y-fiam-tu, or New Engrav- 
ings, containing Plates of the mof im. 
portant Figures, being a Series of Prints 
on all Branches of Natural Philofophy. 
Dr. FoTHERGILL, of the Weftern 
Dilpenfary, has in the Prefs a ‘Trea. 
tife upon a very fingular and painful af- 
feétion of the nerves of the face, called 
by certain French writers and fome others, 
Tic Douloureux. 
. Mr. Dawson TURNER has now in 
the Prefs, and wiil publifh in about a 
month, a {mall work on Botany, written 
in Latin, and accompanied wita coloured 
engravings: it will be entitled Species 
Mufcorum Frondoforum Hibernia, and is 
intended as an Enchyridion of the Mofies. 
The publication of the works of the 
late ARCHDEACON BLACKBURNE, the 
author of the Confeffonal, in {even volumes, 
may be expected to appear in the courle of 
a month or two, with the Archdeacon’s 
Memoirs of his own Life and Writings ; 
and feveral original letiers and papers, 
by way of notes or appendix to the Me- 
moirs; in which much curious and inte- 
tefting matter will be brought to light, 
The editor, (F. B. Richmond, York/bire,) 
will be much- obliged to any perfon, who 
can fpeedily communicate to him the 
Archdeacon’s an{wer to the Propofal made 
to him from the Congregation at the Old 
Jewry, in November 1766, on the vacancy 
occafioned by the death of Dr. Chandler. 
A work of fingular importance to the 
practical Agriculturift will make its ap- 
pearance in a few days. Mar. ARTHUR 
Younce propofes to favour the world 
witha fifth edition, corrected to the prefent 
time, of his well-known Farmer’s Calen- 
dar. ‘Tnis work has been out of print 
for feveral years; and copies have been 
bought at a very enormous price whenever 
they could be met with: Mr. Young, 
has, He taes been induced to prepare a 
new and enlarged edition, which includes 
every modern improvement and difcovery 
in the practice of agriculture. 
The Truftees ot the Britifh Mufeum 
have juft purchafed Dr. ComgBe’s inva- 
luable Colleétion of early Englith Bibles, 
the only complete one in the kingdom. 
A friend of the late Rev. Hucu Far- 
MER is preparing for the prefs, Memoirs 
of that learned Author; , to which will 
‘be added'a curious piece of his, never be~ 
fore printed, being the only ene of his 
manu(cripts which was preferved from the 
flames 
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