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Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
be ina Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
T is with pleafure we inform our read- 
ers, that the univerfity of Oxford is at 
prefent employed in improving the condi- 
tion of its publiclibrary. The Bodleian, 
which has, heretofore, had only two, will 
now have three librarians, befide two al- 
fiftants. The refriétion from’ marriage, 
we underitand, is to be taken off; and 
the falaries attaching to the diffrent off- 
ces will be, in fome « degree, proportioned 
to their duties. 
Mr. TurNBULL, juft returned from 
Port Jackfon, in the Glatton, is pre- 
paring to publifh an Account of. his 
Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, and of his 
Relidence in the Iflands of Owhyhee and 
Otaheite in the Years 1803 and 1804. 
His work will contain the lateft accounts 
of thofe gintcrefiing iflands, and many 
particulars relative to the prefent ftate of 
the fettlement of Botany Bay, which 
‘have not yet been given to the public. 
Mr. Turnbull brought from Otaheite a 
youth, who Jived with him as‘a fervant, 
-and who is now in London. 
Mr. LiLLy Wicc, A. L. S. has been 
for fome time engaged’ in collecting ma- 
terials fora ‘Flora Ejculenta, contain- 
ing the hiftory, as far as it is known, of 
all plants employed for the feod of man, 
in different parts of the world. It is 
hoped that this work, which has long 
been a defideratum, may be ready for 
publication early in the next year. 
_ Dr. Joun ReEiD is precaring for the 
_prefs a work on the Nature, Py ogrels, and 
Cure of Confump'i ion, which will be pub- 
lifhed im the courle of the autumn. 
The Traveller's Guide, or Englith In- 
nerary,, comprifing a fener To pogra- 
phy of England and Wales, by Ww. 
OULTON, Eig. 3 tastovy ready for ttl a 
tion. This work, which is the moft com- 
prehenfive of the kind, and at the fame 
time the moft concife, confidering the vatt 
body of information it contains, in nec rly 
two thoufand pages, is enmeliifhed with 
. ixty-fix pi€ture! que views,andawholefheet 
map of. England and Wales ; and it mutt, 
An every point of view, bea defirable ae- 
_quifition for the man of bufinefs as well 
as the inquifitive traveller. 
__Awork entitled Hints towards forming 
the Character of a Young Princefs, with 
Reference to the Education of the Prin- 
cefs Charlotte, will be fhortly publiflied. 
° 
Mr. Marra is proceeding with 
fome additional volumes of Italian Poetry. 
Sir JamMES MackinTos#, in all his 
letters from Bombay to his friends, ex 
prefles his readinels {o give every afliltance 
in his power to the‘ ftudents of oriental 
manners and literature, in their enquiries 
concerning Inaia. 
Mr. Donovan, the author of feveral 
‘valuable publications on Britifh natural 
hiftory, will fhortiy bring forward his 
Defcriptive Tour through South Wales 
and Monmouthfhire. A number of ele- 
gant plates will accompany this work. 
Mr. M‘Artuur, author of Financial 
and Political Fa&ts of the Fuge ‘teenth and 
prefent Century, has nearly ready for 
publication a work, in two vclumes ofa~ 
vo, eotitled Principles and’ Praétice of 
Naval and Military Courts-Martial, with 
an Appendix, containing the Beane oF 
counfel’ and judge-advocate-general, om 
remarkable cafes in both fervices, for the 
‘laft fifty years; to which will be added, 
a chronological lift of trials by naval 
courts-martial, fince the year 17503 ex~ 
hibiting a fcale of military crimes. and 
punifhments, extracted from the Admi- 
ralty Records. 
Mr. WatLker’s promifed Hiftorical 
Effay on the Revival of the Drama im 
Ttaly, will be publifhe od immediately. As 
-it ends where the Hufterical Memoir on 
Italian Tragedy begins, it wall ferve to 
complete the only hiltory of the Italian 
ftage yet attempted in the Englith lan- 
guage, The author, we underitand, de- 
votes a fection to each ipecies of drama 
that appeeres in Italy during the twelfth, 
thirteenth, Jo urteenth, and fifteenth.cen- 
turies. Among tt the dramas of which 
Ba gives analy fess are the Latin dramas 
of Mufate, fo honourably noticed in 
Warton’s Effay on Pope. He gives, like. © 
wife, a full analyfis of the Orfeo of Poli- 
‘tiano, with a tranflation of the famous 
Latin Ode. He analyzes alfo ‘the very 
rare comedy of Timone by Bojardo, and 
the Imber Aureus of Vileho. The work 
is interfperfed with bi graphical notices 
of dramatic writers, and celebrated aftors. 
“As Mr. Walker has treated a fubject_un- 
touched before, and. as he wrote in a 
country lately torn by civil diffentions, it 
is prefamed his Effay will be read with in- 
dulgence. 
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