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ment, and ample recourse will be had 
to the manuscript notes of the late Dr. 
Farmer, writtcn in. the folio edition of 
that author, of which the editor is in 
possession. Winist elaborate editions of 
Massinger, Jonson,, and even Shirley, 
are announcing, the public will surely 
attend ta any attempt to retrieve from 
the triling. comments of - Theobald, 
Sympson, and Seward, or the more care- 
less ones of Colman, authors, who, in 
the. opinion of some critics, deserve to . 
rank next to Shakespeare. 
Mr. Wrist, of Kentish Town, whom 
the nobility and gentry of Scotland have 
been pleased to honour with favourable 
notice, purposes to commence a Course 
of Lectures, in March, on English Elo- 
cution, in which he will endeavour to 
advance a theory, shewing, that, even 
prosaic oratory is more nearly allied to 
music than has been hitherto observed. 
He will delineate the different passions 
of the soul, and display each, with ap- 
propriate specimens from the poets. 
These lectures have peculiar reference 
to the drama. The education and qua- 
lifications, the natural and artificial re- 
quisites, unecessary to form the ac- 
complished comedian will be enume- 
rated, together with .a slender investiga- 
tion of character as applied to the drama; 
this, and the Oratory of the Senate, the 
Bar, and the Pulpit, will be elucidated 
with readings and specimens uniform 
to each subject. The whole is to be 
comprised in eight lectures, including the 
introductory one. 
Mr. Hrir, of Hinckley, is preparing 
a work on those Diseases of the Bones 
which produce Distortions of the Spine 
and Limbs; in which, the medical, sur- 
gical, and mechanical, modes of treat- 
ment will be considered, and the latter 
mode illustrated by plates. ; 
The Rev. Mr. Cecit, minister of St, 
John’s Chapel, Bedford Row, 1s pre- 
paring an Account of the Life of tiie late 
Rev. John Newton, rector of St. Mary, 
Woolnoth. 
Dr. Carpenter, of Exeter, will, im a 
few days, publish a small work, entitled, 
The: Plan, Rules, and Catalogue, of a 
Library for Young Persons, with Obser- 
vations on some of the principal Branches 
‘of Science and Literature, and occa- 
sional Remarks on the Books selected ; 
intended to assist in the formation of 
literary institutions, and to aid young 
persons in the choice of objects of mental 
pursuit... 
Professor Jameson, of Edinburgh, has 
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Luierary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
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nearly finished his werk on Geognosy, 
which will form the third volume of bis 
Mineralogy. ; : 
Mrs. Murray, the author of Men- 
toria, has in the press, Mentorial Lec- 
tures; comprising Remarks on the higher 
Branches of Female Education. 
A new translation of the Georgics of 
Virgil, in blank verse, is in the press, 
and mey shortly be expected to be pub- 
lished. 
The popular dramas of Mr. Cotman, 
the Iron Chest, the Surrender of Calais, 
the Battle of Hexham, and the Lleir at 
Law, are now in the press. ‘The first of 
these is the only one that has yet been’ 
published in an authentic form. 
A third Book of the Minstrel, in con- 
tinuation of Dr. Bearreez’s Poem, will 
shortly be ready for publication. 
Two additional volumes of Esprrer- 
La’s Interesting and Popular Letters from 
England, will appear in a few weeks. 
A new edition of the former volumes has 
already been called for. 
A little work on Mythology, by Mr. 
Hort, is nearly ready for publication. 
This gentleman will also shortly publish, 
a Compendium of Universal History, 
and some other elementary works for 
the use of his own school. 
Mr. Octavius GILeuRisB is printing 
a few copies, for gratuitous distribution, 
of the ancient metrical romance of the 
Sowdan of Babylone, from the orginal 
manuscript which came into his posses- 
sion at the dispersion of the collection of 
the late George Steevens. 
Mr. G. Gorrrzis is preparing for the 
press, an Account of his Travels in North 
America, in the Years 1806 and 1807. 
This werk will be illustrated with a con- 
siderable number of engravings on wood. 
A Translation of the Thirteenth Book 
of the /Eneid of Virgil, from the Text of 
Mafeus, by 2 Lady, with some other 
poems, will be shortly published in one 
voluine octavo. 2 . . 
Mr. Watrer Scotr will publish in 
the course of the present month, a com- 
plete edition of the Works of John Dry- 
den, with a Life of the Auther, and notes 
critical and explanatory. This edition 
will be comprised in eighteen volumes, 
demy and royal octavo, and is the first 
attempt, after the lapse of more than one 
hundred years since the death of Dry- 
den, of furnishing a complete edition of 
_ his works. 
Dr. Jarzorn, author of Dissertations 
in Answer to Mr. Malthvus’s Essay on. 
the Principle of Popelanon, wilym 4a, 
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