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The {portfman and amateur of the fine 
arts in general will be highly gratified to 
learn, that a fplendid and hitherto unri- 
valled work, entitled the Sport{man’s Ca- 
binet, is jut completed, in two volumes, 
fuperroyal quarto. It confits of twenty- 
eight fuperb engravings, by the celebrat- 
ed artit Mr. JoHn ScoTt, from origi- 
nal painting's trom lite by P. REINAGLE, 
Efq. They exhibit correét and animated 
delineations of the various {pecies of the 
canine race, which are accompanied with 
copious defcriptions, comprehending a 
complete hiftory of Britifn field-{ports. 
Mr. Daniet EcciesTon, of Lan- 
cafter,; has in hand.a fuperb medallion of 
General Wafhington. Obwerfe.—An ele- 
gant and very ftriking likenels of General 
Wafhington, from an original painting. 
Reverfe.—An American Indian, with his 
bow and arrow, and an appropriate le- 
gend. This medallion is ona large {cale, 
in high relief, and the dies engraved by 
one of the firft artifls in the kingdom. 
They will be ftruck off in copper, and 
richly gilt, fo as to form a medallion of 
the firitciafs in the cabinets of the vir- 
tuofi. 
* Some improvements have been lately 
announced in the conitruétion of the air- 
pump, which fimplify its mechanifm, and 
increale its power of exhaufting. Glafs 
cylinders are ufed inftead of brafs ones, 
and the piftons are of tin, fo well fitted as 
to be air tight, without the intervention 
of leather; by this means the frigtion and 
Jabour in working are confiderably dimi- 
nifhed: the valves, which open by the 
mechanical power of the pilton, inftead 
of the expanfion of the air, are placed at 
the top of the cylinders; and the tube, 
which in ordinary air-pumps leads trom 
the cylinders to the receiver, is, 10 confe- 
quence, rendered unneceffary. 
Dy. Hacer, diftinguifbed in the lite- 
rary world as the author of various works 
of profound and extenfive erudition, and 
who hasthe honoor to be now employed 
by the French Government, to publiih a 
Dittionary of the Chincie Language, has, 
at length, arranged the 17,000 types 
which were calf by M. Fourmon:, and is 
now ready to begin the printing of the 
Dittionary, Dr. Hager’s Keys to the 
Chincie Language were publiined in Lon- 
doa. 
M. Wouter has recently publifhed, 
at Mofcow, fixteen views of that cl'y in 
folio. The execution of thele engravings 
“places them on an equality with any un- 
“deitaking of a fimilar nature. The lud- 
fcription is 1900 roubles. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
373 
A work has recently been publithed at 
Gotha, entitled Felloplaftik, or the Art of 
reprefenting architectural Subjeétsin Cork, 
with three’plates. The inventor of this 
art, though only of thirty years ftanding, 
is unknown. The work is anonymous, 
but the author informs us that M. May, 
who, about fixteen years fince, made the 
tour of Italy, conceived a violent paflion 
for this art, which he brought to a high 
degree of pertection. This gentleman 
has execuied thirty nine models of this 
kind, among which are feveral monuments 
of Gotkic antiquity; particularly the 
ruins of an abbey at Paulenzell, near 
Schwarzburg. 
M. Brorere, profeffor of botany at 
the univerfity of Coimbra, and member 
of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lif- 
bon, has publifhed a Flora Lufilanica, in 
two volumes oftavo. This work is the 
fruit of his travels and collections, for 
feventeen years, in- every part of that 
kingdom. 
Flaxman’s engravings of fubje&ts from 
Homer are well known. A young artift, 
named KaRsTENS, who lately died at 
Rome, had prepared, in a fmilar manner, 
a feries of drawings reprefenting the 
whole Expedition of the Argonauts, 
which, fince his death, have been engraved 
by M. Kocu, a native of Tyrol. The, 
latter has likewife entered upon the new 
career opened by his predeceflors, and has 
completed a collection of prints to the ce- 
Jebrated poem of Dante. He has, with 
great indultry, colleéted all the portraits 
that are ftill extant of hilterical charac- 
ters mentioned by Dante, and has examin- 
ed all ihe ancient commentaries, to eluci- 
date the moi obfcure paffages of that 
povt. Furnithed with all thefe aids, he 
has given his perfoymance fuch a degree 
of perfection, that the {oeétator aCtually 
imagines himielt traverang, with Dante 
and Virgil, the three regions of the future 
world. 
A feries of fixty engravings, from Of- 
fian, from defigns by che Piranesi, is 
Now in preparation at Rome. 
Profellor Gorrtin, of Upfal, has an- 
nounced his invention of publifhing a de- 
{cription of the coins contained in the ca- 
binet of medals of that univerfity, and 
which wijl torm the fuojet of a feries of 
academical differta‘ions. 
The American Company of - Peterf- 
burg has madea collection of upwards of 
1009 Volumes in the French and. Roffian 
Janguages, as the commencement of a 
Isbrary intended to be formed in the ifland 
of Kadjak, on the north-welt coalt of 
America, 
