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VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PuiLosopHIcaAty, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
% * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully recewed. 
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FE have singular satisfaction in be- 
\ ing able to. announce the pro- 
spect of the immediate establishment of 
@ third Public Library, or grand literary 
depot, it the metropolis. Its site will 
be the vicinity of Blackfriar’s-bridge, 
and it will be especially calculated to 
accommodate the centre of the metro- 
polis, as it 1s considered that the Royal 
and the London Institutions adaptthem- 
selves more particularly to the west and 
east ends of the town. [It is intended to 
include a valuable and extensive library,an 
arrangement for lectures on the different 
branches of philosophy and science, and 
commodious rooms for reading the foreign 
and domestic Journals, and other Peri- 
odical works. The number of propri- 
etors is to be twelve hundred; and their 
subscription, twenty guineas. ‘The num- 
ber of life-subscribers to be six hundred ; 
their subscription, ten guineas; and that 
of annual subscribers, two guineas. 
When the late Mr. Grtpert WaKkeE- 
FIELD, published his Proposals for a 
Greek and English Lexicon, a gentleman 
who had for a eonsiderable time been 
employed on a similar work, desisted 
from his labour,on the supposition thatMr. 
Wakefield’s work was ready for the press. 
But as it appears from Mr. Wakeheld’s 
Memoirs, that he had not proceeded 
much further in the collection of materi- 
als than his interleaved Hedericus, which 
has been destroyed by fire, that gentle- 
man has now resumed his own work, 
and will m a short time present the pub- 
Ke with a copious and accurate Greek 
and English Lexicon. 
Me. Brare, of the Lock Hospital, is 
yeprinting with improvements his Essay 
en the Effects of Nitrous Acid, and other 
analogous Remedics, which have heen 
lately proposed as substitutes for mer- 
eury, mm the cure of the venereal dis- 
ease. 
Mr. Carpenter, author of Obser- 
vations addressed to Grand Juries, has 
nearly ready for publication, Retlec- 
tions, that have suggested themselves 
from the Journal of Messrs. Whitbread, 
Malthus, Rose, Weyland,and Colquhoun’s 
Plans aud Opinions on the Subject 
ef the Poor Laws, with Outlines of a 
gew Plan for betiering the Condition of 
tae Poor, Ke, 
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Dr. Carzy has in the press, a new 
edition of his Latin Prosody made Easy. 
with considerable additions and improve 
ments, particularly in the part which 
treats of the different species of verse. 
An Abridgment, for the use of Schools, 
will be published at the same time with 
the larger work. 
Scanning Exereises for young Proso- 
dians, another productionot Dr. Carsr’s 
pen, is also in the press; a work calcu+ 
lated to save trouble to the teacher, and 
aid the pupil to acquire correct ideas of 
scanning. 
It is intended to publish in the ensuing’ 
month, the Newcastle Freeman's Pocket 
Companion, or a concise Abvidgment 
of all the Charters granted to the 
Town and County of the Town of New- 
castle upon Tyne; together with a par- 
ticular account of all the customs and 
privileges peculiar to the free burgesses 
of that town. 
Mr. Meprorp has announced a pub= 
lication under the title of, Qil withoug 
Vinegar, and. Dignity without Pride; 
or British, American, and West India _ 
Interests considered. 
Mr. Samuert Youne, of the London 
college of surgeons, has i the press, a 
Course of Lectures, addressed to the 
Students in Surgery, comprising a sys+ 
tematic reform of the modern practice 
ef adhesion, particularly in relation to 
the abuses of the thread suture, in the 
surgery of wounds. 
Mr. Capprn’s Topographical Dictis 
onary of the United Kingdom, (first an- 
nounced in this Magazine for December 
1805,) is now nearly completed, and will 
be ready for publication in a few days. 
It will be the completest work of the 
kind which has appeared. 
The world has been gratified during 
the current month with the appearance 
of a comet, which has been distinetly 
visible to the naked eye, after sun-set. 
Perhaps we cannot do. better than. pre- 
sent our readers with an extract of a 
letter which the editor has received 
frora that indefatixadble observer, Mr. 
Cape. Lorrr, of Troston, near Bury : 
*¢ I hope you have seen the beantiful and, 
glofious comet 5 we saw it on Tuesday even- 
ing, the 6th instant. Its light was so ins 
tense, that it bore excgedingly well a reflec- 
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