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[June 1, 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Tacluding Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
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®.* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
i | R. Roscoe’s long-promifed Life of 
Pore Leo the TentTu will make 
its appearance on the Firft of June, in four 
large volumes quarto. 
-Mr. Betsuam. has at length com- 
pleted his Hiftory of England, from the 
Revolution to the Peace of Amiens, in 
twelve uniform volumes o¢tavo. In con- 
nection with the Hiftory of Mr. Hume, 
it forms an authentic feries of Englith 
Hiftory, from the earlieft records to the 
Brera time. Six of the volumes have juft 
een reprinted, with fuch confiderable cor- 
rections founded on new information, as to 
conttitute almoft a new work, and the 
eleventh and twelfth volumes appeared but 
a few weeks ago. 
_ Mr. Joun Lee Lewes, fon of the late 
CHARLES Lee Lewes, will publifn the 
Memoirs of his Father’s Life, written by 
himfelf, early in June. ¥ 
The Rev. Puitip SmyTu, of New 
College, Oxford, is printing a new and 
enlarged edition of his Selections from the 
Frency Anas. The former edition con- 
fitted of two volumes ; the new one will 
be extended to three volumes, and between 
each Ana will appear a biographical no- 
tice of the author. 
Mr. CUMBERLAND is about to add to 
the number of interefting felf-biographies 
by the Memeirs of his own Life and 
Times. 
The Eaft India Company have lately 
-eftablifhed in Hertfordfhire a place of 
public infru€ion for fuch young men 
who may be deftined to be employed in 
various civil capacities in the fervice of 
the Company. The Rev. Mr. HENLEY 
is appointed prefident of the College. The 
education is to be both commercial and 
claffical, and to comprize, among other 
branches of inftru&tion, the mathematics, 
geography, modern languages and Orien- 
tal literature. | 
Dr. Joun REID, principal phyfician at 
the Finfbury Difpenfary, intends to com- 
mence a fummer Courfe of Lectures on the 
Theory and Practice of Medicine, on the 
2sth of June. 
The Hiftory of the Houfe of Auftria, 
by the Rev. W. Coxe is in great for-, 
wardnefs, and may be expected in the 
courfe of the fummer. 
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Sir WiLLIAM Forges will fpeedily 
publifh an account of the Life of Dr. 
Beattie. ‘ 
The Meflrs. Lysons announce for 
early publication the firft volume of their 
grand work, A New General Survey of 
Great Britain. This volume will contain 
Bedfordfhire, Berkthire, and Buckingham. 
fhire, and will be illuftrated with Maps, 
Plans, and Views of Architeéture; and a 
Series of pitturefque Engravings, by Mr. 
Byrne, will appear at the fame time, 
which may be purchafed feparately. 
Mr. Cooke, well known as the friend 
of the late Samuet. Foote, of facetious 
memory, has written a Life of that cele- 
brated character ; to which he has annex- 
ed anecdotes of many of Foote’s contem- 
poraries, and a Colleétion of his belt Jo. 
mots, chiefly original. hte 
Mr. THomas Dix, author of a Trea- 
tife on Land Surveying, has in the prefs, 
a Treatife on the Conftruétion and Copy- 
ing of all kinds of Geographical Maps. * 
Mr. WILLiAM FowLer of Winter- 
ton, in the county of Lincoln, formerly a 
working carpenter of that place, has un- 
dertaken to draw, engrave, and colour all 
the principal Mofatc Pavements which 
have been difcovered in Great Britain. 
He has already publifhed feveral, in which 
he has evinced a fidelity of reprefentation 
which has rarely been equalled, and which 
can never be exceeded. Encouraged by 
his fuccefs in copying Mofaic Pavements, 
he has extended his labours to ftained 
glafs ; and he propofes to copy the prin. 
cipal fubjeéts in the Cathedrals of York, 
Lincoln, &c. &e. : 
A work intended to illuftrate the Nature 
and Properties of Wool, with Remarks 
upon the Britifh Fleece, is now in the prefs, 
and will be publifhed about the beginning 
of next month. Sy 
The Editors of Dr. Doddridge’s 
Works, the Rev. Dr. WittiamMs, of 
Rotherham, and the Rev. Epwarp Par- 
sons, of Leeds, have announced their 
intention of publifhing periodically, by 
fubfcription, an uniform edition of the 
whole Works of the late Prefdent Ed- 
wards, of New England, executed in the 
fame elegant ftyle as their edition of Dod- 
dridge. 
; Mr. ¥ 
