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TOPOGRAPHY. 
A Topographical Dictionary of the United 
Kingdom, compiled from Parliamentary, Go- 
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tiquarian, Commercial, Agricultural, and Sta- 
tistical Accounts of every County, Hundred, 
City, Borough, Market-Town, Parish, Town- 
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Bay Harbour, Ruin, Gentleman’s Seat, and 
other remarkable Objects,or Place in England, 
Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Islands de~ 
pendent on the British Empire, illustrated by 
separate Maps of every County in England, 
and by various Maps of Wales, Scotiand, and 
Ireland; by William Capper, esq. large oc- 
tavo, with 46 new Maps, 24s. boards. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 
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VENUE shutting of the ports of the Con- 
.tinent has had the effect of advan- 
cing the price of paper, owing to a defi- 
ciency of rags, which were imported 
chiefly from Germany and Italy, and also. 
owing to the high price of smalts, which 
were imported from Saxony. This evil 
might be removed, in some degree, by 
the adoption of a system of domestic 
economy in the article of rags, which it is 
to he regretted, are in England gene- 
rally wasted, notwithstanding the high 
price they are knownto bear. 
We have much pleasure in being able 
to announce the formation of a fourth 
public Literary Establishment in- this me- 
tropolis, in the vicinity of Russell square. 
The three others, it will be recollected, 
are the Royal Institution in Albemarte- 
street, the London Institution in the Old 
Jewry, the Central Institation at the 
late Leverian Museum, seven hundred 
proprietary shares of which, at thirty gui- 
neas, have been engaged in a few weeks. 
We shall be glad to receive notice of all 
such institutions, whenever they may be 
established, in any part of the empire; 
and we hope to hear also of the general 
establishment of Parish Libraries, on the 
plan lately detailed m this Magazine. 
A Cabinet of English Poetry, contain- 
ing all the entire pieces which are the 
most worthy of perusal in our language, 
will make its appearance, in Six ELE- 
GANT voLuMEss, withina few days. This 
choice collection will contain, among 
numerous other poems, Paradise Lost, 
the Seasons, the Night Thoughts, the 
Chace, the Pleasures of the Imagination, 
the Economy of Health, the Essay on 
Man, the Rape wf the Lock, the De- 
serted Village, the Traveller,the Minstrel, 
and, indeed, all the best pieces of our 
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‘the best instruments, and are correctl: 
best poets. Each volume will be em< 
bellished with an exquisitely finished por- 
trait by Caroline Watson. 
Dr. Grecory has completed a Course 
of Familiar Lectures on the various 
Branches of Natural and Experimental 
Philosophy, containing the present state 
of knowledge on those subjects, adapted 
to the use of schools, and of persons who 
attend courses of lectures. The pilates 
are very numerous, are newly drawn from 
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engraved by Porter. 
Mr. Caret Lorrv’s Collection of Eng- 
lish Sonnets, which has been long ex- 
pected, will also.be published in Fe- 
bruary. 
Mrs. Lorrr has just finished a volume 
of Shakesperian Aphorisms. 
The first namber of the National Cattle 
Plate Work, published by Messrs. Alder. 
man Boydelland Co. and inscribed, by pers - 
mission, to his Majesty, will appear in’ 
the course of next month. The whole 
under the immediate superintendanee of 
the Right Hon. Lord Somerville. The 
portraits from the life; painted by Mir. 
James Ward, and engraved by the first 
artists. he history and descriptions by 
Mr, Lawrence, the Veterinary and Agri- 
cultural writer, with occasional observa+ 
trons by. Lord Someryille. Vhe frst: 
number contains the Red Cattle of Des 
vonshire, in four plates of the Bull, Cow, 
labouring and fat Ox, with descriptions, 
and a portion of the history, which, in 
such manner, runs through the whole of 
the numbers. 
Mitiin’s late Travels in the South of 
France, published in Paris in four voe 
lumes, are now in course ef publication 
in the current volume of the Journal of 
Modern Voyages and Travels, 
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