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in the same mairner, been rescued from 
oblivion; and also some valuable obser- 
vations on Scottish songs and music. 
Mr. 
upon-Tyne, has announced the publica- 
tionof an Encyclopedia of Manufactures, 
in which it is intended to trace every 
raw material from its growth, till it be 
delivered into the hands of the workman. 
‘The various modes of fabrication ; the im- 
provements which each art has received; 
and the history and progress of these im- 
prcvements will be fully detailed, ac- 
companied by hints for their farther ex- 
tention and simplification. 
A splendid edition of Dr. DopprrpsE’s 
Family Expositor (to be comprised in 
four volumes, 4to.) is in the press, and the 
first Part will appear on the ist of Janu- 
ary. 
The publication of Dr. Grecory’s 
splendid Bible has been deferred till May 
or June next. — 
Mr. Wirxtram Nicuotson has just 
completed a New Chemical Dictionary, 
which also includes Mineralogy, and 
the application of Chemistry to the use- 
ful Arts. It is rather a new work, 
containing the present state of our 
knowledge on these subjects. than a new 
edition of his former Dictionary. The 
size too is more convenient, and the ex- 
pence much less, at the same time that 
it will contam more matter than any 
other chemical Dictionary in the Jan- 
guage. It will make its appearance with 
the new year, and in regard to typogra- 
phy, be a match book to Watkins’s Bio- 
graphical Dictionary. 
An institution particularly adapted to 
persons in the middle class of Society, 
has just been established, called the 
Eclectic Library; to be composed of 
sterling works, on all subjects connected 
with Religion, History, and Science. It 
consists of proprietors and subscribers, 
and its concerns are conducted by a 
committee of nine proprieters. A select 
number of proprietors will also be formed 
into a distinct society, for the purpose of 
weekly lectures on various useful subjects, 
Proprietors are to pay one guinea on ad- 
mission, and twelve shillings anpually. 
Persons wishing to become proprietors 
or subscribers, may apply to Br. Allan, 
No. 1, Frederick’s-place, Old Jewry; 1 Mr. 
Marriott. pi. No. 77, Old Brodd-street ; 
or Mr, Thomas Collinson, No. 34, Lom- 
bard-street. 
A frend to the Union has in the press, 
Thoughts un a General and Explieit 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. — 
Joun Sapier, of Newcastle 
[Dec. I, 
Union of the Congregational Churches, 
occasioned by an Address from the Lon- 
don Committee to Miunisters and 
Churches of the Congregational Order. 
A volume of Sermons ts in the press, 
by the Rev. W. AcuTrer, chaplain and 
secretary of the Asylum for Female Or- 
phans; several of them were preached 
before the University. of Oxford. 
Mr. Joun Sanrere, will speedily pub- 
lish’ a work entitled, The Practical 
Mathematician, containing logarithms, 
geometry, trigonometry, mensuration, 
algebra, navigation, spherics, and na- 
tural philosophy ; illustrated bya number 
of engravings. 
A translation of Meiners’ History of 
the Female Sex, by Mr. Sxopenrt, will 
shortly make its appearance in four vo- 
lumes, small octavo. 
_ Mr. Wisuart, fellow of -the Royal 
College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, has in the 
press a Translation of Professor Scarpa’s 
splendid work on Aneurism, with Notes. 
Dr. R. Rosertsoy, intends to publish 
in two volumes octavo, A View. of the 
Natural History of the Atmosphere, and 
of its Influence in the Sciences of Me~- 
dicine and Agriculture, including ap 
Essay on Contagion. 
Mr. James Garritan hasin the press, 
a work entitled, The Commercial Mir- 
ror, comprising a great number of highly 
interesting and uscful subjects, 
Mr. F. E. Rrrouse, wil! shortly pub- 
lish in one volume octavo, AnAccount of 
the Life and Writings of Edward Gib- 
bon, Esq. 
The same gentleman is preparing for 
the press, in two volumes octavo, An Ac- 
count of the Life and Writings of Hucu 
Buarr, D. D. in which will be inserted 
Biographical Notices of all the Scottish 
Literati, who were members of select ° 
and royal societies, and who died previ- 
ously to the year 1804. 
Wir. Hervey Morres, has in a state 
of great forwardness for the press, Ay 
Historical and Topographical Dictionary 
of Ireland, which will make two large 
volumes in quarto, and will be illustrated 
by Maps and, Plates. ~ This work will 
contain the history*‘of cities, towns, 
manors, castles, and monasteries; of 
sieges and battles, biographical sketches; 
and an account of the natural and are 
tificia! curiosities of Iveland. 
Dr. dames Sanpers of Edinburgh, 
has in the press, A Treatise on Pulmo-~ 
nary Consumption; with an reg cone. fe 
cerning the Foxglove. ; Ef 
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