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[April 1, 
VARIETIES, Lirerary anp PHILosoOPHICAL. 
Including Notices of Worksin Hand, Domefiie and Foreign. 
* * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully recewed. 
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NE of the effects of the present 
total prohibition of intercourse 
with the Continent has been the non- 
arrival ofall the foreign literary Journals 
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for several months past, and a conse- 
quent scarcity of Continental scientific 
imtelligence. #xcepting the brief no- 
tices which we are able to collect from 
the political Journals, which occasionally 
reach the news-paper offices; we have 
now no means left of gratifying our rea- 
ders to the extent we used to do, with ac- 
counts of Discoveries in the Arts and 
Sciences which are constantly made in 
every country in Europe, and of which 
the Monthly Magazine was the original, 
and for many years the peculiar, channel 
of communication. 
* Paper has risen an additional six per 
cent. since our last, msomuch that the pa- 
per on which we printed the first volume 
ofthe Monthly Magazine twelve yearsago, 
which then cost twenty shillings per ream, 
now costsus thirty-five shillings. As thead- 
vance is justified on the ground of the 
scarcity of rags, owing to the interruption 
of commerce with Holland and Germauy, 
we again urge every one to diminish his 
consumption of paper by every means in 
his power, and we call upon all persons 
to discontinue the use of ceremoniousen- 
velopes of letters, and upon all public bo- 
dies to avoid the use of paper in printing 
and in circular letters in every way that 
is practicable. 
The publishers of London have, in con- 
sequence of this great advance in the 
price of paper, considered it expedient to 
put to press as few new books as possible ; 
we are therefore to calculate on a sear- 
city of domestic as well as of foreign li- 
terary intelligence. The same forbear- 
ance is recommended to booksellers in 
every part of the British islands, as the 
only means of defeating that spirit of spe- 
culation and monopoly which always at- 
tends a real or expected scarcity of any 
commodity. oe ; 
Tt will, under such circumstances, be 
to be regretted if the commissioners of 
the Tax and other public Offices, and 
the committees of Parliament, do not im- 
mediately adopt measures to diminish 
the enormous consumption and the luxu- 
rious quality of their paper. It is not 
enough that the public money ought net 
to be wantonly lavished in a superfluous 
consumption of that expensive article ; 
but those who have the power to cen- 
troul it ought to bear in mind the injury 
which will result to thousands of artizans, 
if the war continues, and if paper: be- 
comes unattainable for the purpose of 
printing bocks. 
The first number of Mr, Pyrrcuzs’s 
New Dictionary of the English Language, 
is now in course of publication. 
By the premature death of Dr. Grorct 
GrecGory, the literary world have suf- 
fered an irreparable loss. He had in 
the previous week put a finishing hand 
to two volumes of elegant Letters to his 
Son on Literature and Composition, part 
of which had been printed, and will of 
course be given to the worid without loss 
of time. iIn the week of his decease, 
there had appeared, from his pen, two 
useful volumes of Lectures to Young 
Persons on Experimental and Natural 
Philosophy. The publication of the Bi- 
ble, with notes, in the manner of the va- 
riorum classics, and with engravings from 
. the designs of the great masters, will ne- 
cessarily be suspended for a short time; 
and of course it is intended to place the 
materials for completion, m hands, capa- 
ble, in the literary sense, and equally 
sound and unexceptionable in matters of 
opinion. A full account of this excellent 
man will be found in another part of our 
Magazine. 
An elegant and very useful book, which 
has been several years in the press, and 
the object of which is to separate the 
grain from the chaff, will appear ina few 
days, under the title of The Cabinet of 
Poetry. In six elegant volumes, at the 
price of three guineas, accompanied with 
some beautiful portraits, by Caroline 
Watson, will be given all the best entire 
pieces of the British poets, from Milton 
to Beattie. 
Mr. Curwrn, M.P. has in the press, 
and willspeedily publish, with engravings, 
Hints on the Economy of Feeding Stock, 
and Bettering the Ccndition of the Poor. 
Mr. Wrwsor’s beautiful and econo- 
mical Gas Lights have now been extend- 
ed along’ the whele of the south side of 
Pall Mall, and we hope soon tosee them 
adopted in all parts of the metropolis, 
instead of the lamps now in usé, twenty 
of which, in point of briliiancy, are not 
eqiial to one of the Gas Lights. 
. Mr. 
