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fAug. 1 3 
VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PHILOSOPHICAL: 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*,* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
NEW monthly Journal is announ- rally interesting at a crisis like the pre= 
4 & ced, under the titie of Tue AnTI- 
QUARIES’ MaGazine, which is toserve asa 
focus tor the communications of Antiqua- 
ries; and which, besides our own inte- 
resting National An iguities, wil! treat of 
those of all other parts of the world, and 
be illustrated with splendid engravings. 
Dr, Prayrarr, Principal of St. An- 
drew’s, has recently put to press an ex- 
tensive Work on Ancieut and Modern 
Geography. It is calcuiated that the work 
will extend to six volumes in quarto, 
which are to appear in succession. The 
first volume will contain a histery of 
geography, an account of the physical 
conformation of the earth, with other 
matters introductory to the subject; 
a general description of Euroje, ftol- 
Jowed by succmet and copious descrip- 
tions of ancient and modern Spain and 
Portugal, aicient and modern Trance, 
and the Netherlands and United Provin- 
ces. The whole will be illustrated by a 
copious series of well engraved maps, 
wid will rorm one of the compietest Sys- 
tems of Geography extant in any modern 
language. 
Mr. Lanpseer has engraven, and is 
now printing, Views of the Castles of In- 
wverary and Dunstafinage, znd the Pass 
of Glencoe; from pictures by William 
Scrope, Esq. of Castle-Comb. ‘These, 
with their histories and descriptions, will 
form the first number of a folio werk on 
the Landscape Scenery of Scotland. 
Dr. Greeory’s Bible, accompanied 
by the illustrative notes of various com- 
mentators, and with plates trom the de- 
signs of the great masters m alli the 
schools of painting, will be put in course 
of publication at the beginning of the 
next year. It will be so printed as to 
form two large volumes quarto, embel- 
lished with about .one hundred engra- 
vings by all our best artists. 
~ Mr. Witirams, a merchant of Lon- 
don, who was detained with other Eng- 
lish in France at the -commencement of 
the present war, and who lately obtained 
his liberty by the intervention of Dr. 
Jenner, is preparing an Account ef his 
Detention, and of the Present State of 
the Interior of France. Such a work, by 
a gentleman on whose testimony the pub- 
lic may depend, caunot fail to be gene- 
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sent. 
Captain Asue, an officer in the Bri- 
tish service, has lately returned to Eng- 
land from America, where he visited all 
the settled countries on the banks of the 
Ohio, Missouri, and Muflifippi, and of 
which he has prepared the materials for 
an interesting publication. 
A work, from the pen of the late ABRa- 
Haw Parsons, Fsq. formerly British Con- 
sul and Marine Factor at Scanderoon, is 
in preparation ; comprising a Description 
of Scanderoon and the adjacent Country, 
including Aleppo, Antioch, and several 
other parts of Syna; an Account of a 
Journey from Scanderoon to Bagdad, 
bussora, Bushier, and a Voyage ‘thence 
down the Persian Culph to Bombay, and 
back again by the Red Sea to Egypt; 
with a Narrative of a Journey from Suez 
to Alexandria. The whule is enriched 
with mteresting accounts of the countries 
and towns through which Mr. Parsons 
trevelled, and which he had favour- 
able opportunities of examining and de- 
scribing. The work will be accompanied 
with some prints, which will illustrate the 
narrative. ' 
Mr. Berssan’s History of Great Bri- 
tain, from the Revolution of 1688 to the 
Ratification of the Peace of Amiens, is 
about to be given to the public in month- 
ly volumes, embellished with a portrait 
to each volume, engraved from onymal 
paintings, by Heath and Fittler. This 
work will then correspond, in ail re- 
spects, with the best editions of Flume, 
of whose History this revised and en~ 
larged edition fo Belsham is worthy of 
being received as a Continuation. 
Miss Prumptre is preparing for the 
press, a Translgtion, in five volumes _ 
quarto, of the History of Germany, by 
the late Michael Ignatius Schmidt, keeper 
of the Imperial archives at Vienna. 
A fine edition of the Comus of Milton, 
translated literally, and line by line, into 
French and Italian prose, was printed at 
Paris, in 1806, in quarto, at the press of 
Monsieur Charles Crapelet, Rue de la 
Harpe, by the Honourable Frawncrs 
Henry Ecerton; with a Preface, an 
“ Ad Lectorem,” and Criticisius upon 
the Mask. 
Joun Stewaxnt, Esq. author of the 
Pleasures 
