1807.] 
Perhaps even Bronte’s awful shade, 
Well pleas’d, may listen to hy strain, 
And wave the visionary blade, 
And point fo glorieus deeds again. 
O tor a warning voice iike thing, 
Amid Bohemia’s hiils to-sound, 
Or down the long majestic Ri hine, 
To wake the nati ns slumperi ring round ! 
Or from oid Jura’s cloudy cone, 
On wings of thun er borne along, 
To shake the tyrant on his throne, 
And paralyze the bloody throng ! 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. (16s 
TO MY CLOCK, 
LITTLE monitor of Time, 
Too oft { hear thy warning bell ; 
Too often, with a silent tear, 
I hear each hour’s expiring knell. 
While pain’d I mark thy moving handww 
What deed of virtue can 1 boast? 
Thou sayest not what 1 have gain’d, 
ae only tellest what l’ve-dost. 
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\ JE have already received notice of 
the establishment of some Vil- 
lage Livraries on the plan detailed in our 
“Lasi Vagazine, and we shall take an early 
oppurtunity to communicate the particu- 
lars of such establishinents. We have 
the satisfaction to tind that the President 
of the Board of Agriculture honours them 
by his particular 
meudation. 
it is determined that the Account of 
the Travels of Lord Valentia, in Asia and 
Wfiica, shail appear-early in the ensuing 
winter, forming three elegant volumes in 
quarto, e erchillustrated with from ue 
five to thirty engravings. This work, i 
every point of view, claims a hieher pesiee 
of public interest than any original book of 
Travels that has appeared in England for 
many years past. 
The Queenand the five princésses late- 
ly ‘visited a school on Mr. Lancaster’s 
plan, established by the Hon. Mrs. Har- 
court, at Clewer, near Windsor. They 
staid near an hour and a halfin the school- 
room, greatly admiring the plan of educa- 
tion, and delighted with the order, the 
happiness, and. the improvement of the 
children, They left it with many expres- 
sions of the. ligh gratification they had 
met with in this little field of benevolence, 
and not without subscribing liberally to 
the mstitution. The school was opened 
and organized by two young men from Mr, 
Lancaster’s Free School in St. George’s 
helds. 
The Rev. T. F, Drspry, proposes to 
publish in five volumes quarto, anew edi- 
tion of Ames’s Typographical Antiquities, 
‘by Herbert. 
to reprint the whale of Terbert, and to 
msert\in_ their proper places his correc- 
gions and additions; copious wotes, biv- 
Sanction aud recoins - 
in this edition it is intended, 
graphical and bibliographical, will be 
given so as to form not only a history of 
printing in England, but a history of 
English literature; English bibles, chro- 
nicles, early poetry, plays and romances 
will be particularly described; accurate 
and well executed fac-simniles of the types. 
and devices of the early printers, and a 
number of curious wood-cuts from rare 
books will be added, with a view to af 
ford’ an illustration of the progress of en- 
graving in Great Britain and Ireland; 
account of the private presses in Bhalods 
alist of books printed at the university _ 
presses of Oxford and Cambridge; and of 
those printed by Ruddiman, Bowyer, and 
Baskerville. 
sixty sunlee of this work on imperial 
quarto, each of the volumes of which will 
have three extra plates. 
Miss Owenson has just finished @ 
work on the State of Rustic Society and 
Manners, in the remote province of 
Connaugiit, which will be published in a 
few days, ander the title of “ S/etches.” 
Mr. Vancouver’s recent Survey of 
Devonshire, is almost completed at press, 
and will be ‘published within the current 
month. The Survey of Cheshire, by Mr. 
Holland, and of Inverness-shire, by 
Dr. Robertson, will 
tober, completing twenty-five counties 
in England and Scotland, of which statis- 
tical accounts will have been published 
by the Board of Agriculture. 
A Translation of Mrittn’s Journey i in 
the South of France, will appear in the 
Journal of Contemporary Voyages and 
Travels, 
Dr. Beppors has a work ready for pub- 
lication, entitled Researches Anatuauical 
and Practical on Fever, as connected 
with Inflammation. 
Messrs.’ 
Tt is intended to strike of | 
appear in Oc-. 
