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end there can be little donbt, from the — 
editor’s experience, but that the plan will 
deterve the patronage of that fex, for 
whofe ule the work is defigned. 
The Life of Monfieur Florian, whofe 
works are jufily efteemed as the models of 
elegant writing, is tranflated from the 
French of his friend M. Rosny by Mr. 
Byer ey, and wil] make its appearance 
early in the prefent month, embellifhed 
-with feveral engravings, executed in a 
very fuperior fiyle—This Life bas al- 
ready appeared in the Monthly Maga- 
zine. 
A Clerical Kalendar; or, Annual Re- 
gifter of the Ecclefiattical Eftabi:fhment 
in England and Wales, will be publ fhed 
in the prefent year; comprizing correct 
and authentic lifs of, 1. The Bifhops and 
their refpective Appointments. 2. The 
Dignitaries in each Diocefe, and their fe- 
veral Benefices. 3. The Beneficed Cler- 
sy in the different Divcefes, with their 
Patrons, and Value of their Livings. 4. 
‘The Spiritual Officer of each Diocefe. 5. 
The Memoirs of the Lower Houles of 
Cenveestion. Ana, 6, Correct Notices 
of the Ecclefiaftical Appointments of the 
preceding Year. 
A Tranflation of Florian’s Paftoral 
R mance, by Mils HicHiey, is in the 
preis, and will be publifhed, with three 
elegant engravings, inthe courfe of the 
prefent month. 
Mr.H. WuITFIELD, Fellow of King’s 
College, Cambridge, and author of the 
Chrifimas Holidays, and Black Monday, 
a poem, has in the prefs a novel, in two 
volumes, entitled ** A Picture from Life ; 
or, the Hiftory of Emma Tankerville and 
Sir Henry Moreton,” which will be pub- 
lifhed ear'y in the prefent month. 
Mrs. Goocu has in the prefs a novel, 
entitled Sherwood Foreft. 
Profefior Ropison, of Edinburgh, has 
in the prefs a work on Mechanical Philo- 
fophy, containing the fubftance of his 
Jectures. , 
Mr: Makin is about to publifh an 
Account of a Tour through Wales. 
The fecond volume ot Mr. Barow’s 
Travels into the Interior of Southern 
Africa, will fhortly be publithed. 
The fame gentleman intends, at no 
diffant peried, to announce the Account 
of his Travels in China. 
Mr. RicuHarpson, of Glafgow, ts now 
printing a Collection of his Mifcellaneous 
Works. ; 
Dr. Hitu, of Edinburgh, has com- 
mitted to the prefs a copious Treatile on 
the Synonims of the Latin Language. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[March 1, 
Principal Puayzatr, of St. Andrew’s, 
author of a Syftem of Chronology in the 
year 1784, will foon publifh an extenfve 
work on Ancient and Modern Geog:aphy. 
Dr. Apam, Reétor of the High School, 
is now printing a Latin Di&ienary, on 
which he has. beftowed the labour of many 
years. It is intended for general ufe, 
and is expected to fuperiede every other 
of the fame defcription. 
A volume of Sermons, by the late Dr. 
Drummond, Archbifhop of York, to- 
gether with a Biographical Sketch, writ- 
ten by his fon, the Rev. Mr. Hay DroM- 
MOND, is in the prefs. 
An Hiftorical Memoir of the Revival 
of the D:ama in Italy, by Mr. WaLKER, 
cf Dublin ; and an edition of the Poems 
afcribed to Offian, accompanied with An- 
notations, by Mr. BEAUFORD, another 
Irih gentlman, will {peedily ifflue from 
the prefs of Mundell, of Edinburgh. 
Mr. Warsurton’s Ecciefialtical, Ci- 
vil, and Miliary, Hiftory, of Dubiin, 
will foon be fent to the prefs. 
Captain BroucHTon’s Account of 
his Voyage of Difcovery to the North 
Pacific Ocean, with Charts, will {peedily 
be publifhed. 
_ The office of Principal of the Univer- 
fity of Glafgow, has lately been filled by 
Dr. Taytor, fuccefflor to the late Dr. 
Archibaid Davidfon. 
Befides the ufual leGtures at the Royal 
Inftitution, five new courfes will be de- 
livered this year ;—on Belles Lettres, by 
the Rev. Mr. HewLer;—en Ancient 
and Modern ArchiteSture, by the Rev. 
Mr. Crowe, Public Orator of the Uni- 
verfity of Oxford;—on Botany, by Dr. 
SMITH, Prefident of the Linnean Socie- 
ty ;—and on Painting, by Mr. Opis. 
The public experiments on Chemiliry will 
commence on the 3d of March. 
On Tuefday, the 14th of February, 
the following gentlemen, after a very 
fharp conteft, were eleéted Vice Prefi- 
denis of the Society for the Promotion of 
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, viz. 
Richard Clarke, Efg. Chamberlain of the 
City, 204.—Sir Robert Peale, bart. M.P. 
202.—Nathaniel Conant, Efq. 181.— 
DoSor Richard Powell, 178.—Thomas 
Rowcroft, Efg. Alderman, 158. 
Dr. WoLLastToOn has difcovered a new 
and very improved methed of making 
{peétacle giafles, they, are convex on the 
exterior furface, and concave within. 
The feétion of thofe for long-fighted per- 
fons will aflume the form of a menifcus or 
crefcent, and thofe edapted for fhort- 
fight will have their principal curvature 
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