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[Feb. 1, 
VARIETIES, Literary AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
lucluding Notices of Works in’ Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
©." Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
\ /[R. Wititam: BELSHAM has com- 
{ pleted his Hitory of Great Bri- 
tain, from the Revolution, 1688, to the 
Cencluéion of the Treaty of Amiens, 
1802; and the ELEVENTH and TWELFTH, 
or concluding, volumes, will make their 
appearance ina few days. This valuable 
publication wiil then conftitute the only 
Hiftory of Great Britain, during the fame 
Hoporiant period, which has been the 
wo:k of a Gogle writer. 
Sik JOHN SINCLarIR, whofe unwearied 
indufiry on every fubjeét to which he 
turns his attention muit command the gra- 
titude and admiration of the public, is, 
at prefent, engaged in the compofiticn of 
a work, founded on experience and a (yf- 
tem of extenfive enquiry, to be entitled, 
“© The Cede of Health and Longevity.” 
The patriotic author propofes to divide 
his werk into the three following parts : 
a. The ciscumftances which necefiarily 
tend to promote health end longevity, in- 
dependent of individual attention. 2. 
The rules which, if obferved by an indi- 
vicual, havea tendency to preferve heaith 
and exifience,even where thefe indepen- 
cent circemitances are wanting. And, 
3. The regulations by which the general 
health and fa‘ety cf a great community 
ave protected from the various igjuries to 
which they are likely to be exyofed. 
Mr. W. HE. IrkLanb, whole fabrica- 
ticn of the Shak{fpeare MSS; excited fo 
much attention a fhcrt time fince, has 
wrilten an amufing book, containing his 
co: feflion of ail the circumfances which 
attended thaf literary forgery, relating 
not only to the papers, but to the various 
perfonages who dikinguifhed themfeives 
while the eontrover{y continued. 
Mr. Josep Ganby wiil {peedily pub- 
lifh a work of deGgns for Coitages, Cot- 
tage-farms, and rural Buildings. 
Meifirs. A. and C.K. A1xin have, 
fer 2 confiderable time, been preparing for 
publication a Di@ionary ef Cremiftry 
and Mineralogy, with their application to 
Arts and ManufaStures. This wo:k has 
been fome time in the prefs; it will be 
comprifed in two guarte volumes, and be 
publiihed with expedition. 
Mis. WesT is employed on a new work, 
tobe entitled, ** Letters toa Young Lady, 
on the Character and Duties of Women.” 
The Rev.. James Hatt, M. A. has 
in the prefs dome important Experiments 
and Diicoveries cn Ice, Heat, and Cold; 
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the refult of which will probably prove of 
great advantage to the navy, and tend to 
ilJuitrate fome important points in natu- 
ral philofophy. 
De. CLurrersuck is fhortly about 
to publifh an Inquiry into the Seat and 
Nature of Fever, as deducible from the 
Phenomena of the Difeafe, and the Prin- 
ciples of the animal Econcmy in which 
he hopes to determine, more fatisfacterily 
than has been hitherto done, fome difputed 
points of this long-contefted fubject. 
Mrs. BAYFIELD is preparing to pub- 
lith a volume of Fugitive Poems. 
Mrs. Capps, of York, has in the 
prefs, and purpofes to publith in a very 
fhort time, a Series of Remarks on Fe- 
male Charity Schools, Friendly Societies, 
and other fubjects connected witn them. 
The criginal work on the Prefent State 
of Peru, announced in a late Number, 
‘will appear early in February. 
The Britith and Foreign Bible Society, 
of which Lord TEIGNMOUTH is Prefi- 
dent, has been prefented with a valuable 
co'le&tion of copies of the Holy Scrip- 
tures, in foreign languages, the acquifition 
of which has engaged the donor’s attention 
for many years. As many other gentle- 
men are in poffeflicn of copies in the an- 
cient and modern tongués, who may be 
difpofed to follow fo laudable an ex:mple, 
fuch donations will confiderably forward 
the objects of that infiitution, and may 
be fent to the Seciety’s Depofitory, No. 
19, Little Moorfields. 
An important work will appear in the 
current month, under the title of Ele- 
ments and Praétice of Naval Architecture, 
developing the Principles of the Art of 
Ship Building, and illuftvated with au- 
merous engravings. 
The Rev. Josian PRaTT, in confe- 
quence of a very confiderable rife io the 
price of paper which has juft taken place, 
will clofe bis prefent lik of fubferibers te 
Rifiop Hall's Works, in ten volumes, 
oétavo, at Lady day. All who fend in. 
their names before that time will Lave the 
work at 7s. 6d. per volume; but after 
that day the price will be raifed to 9s. 
Mr. WILLIAM COLLINS propofes to 
publith, by fubfcription, the Memeirs of 
a Pidture ; containing the life and finguler 
adventures of the Chevalier Vanderwig- 
tic, and other celebrated charatters ; in- 
cluding a biographical fketch of the late 
Mr. George Morland. 
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