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into three books; in the firft, after a ge- 
neral view of the Orkney Iflands, a fhort 
geographical defcription of each is given; 
the fecond comprifes an hiftory of the 
Iflands, intermixed with.a defcription of 
the manners, cuftoms, and inftitutions, of 
the earlieft inhabitants; the laft includes 
an account of the natural hiftory of the 
Iflands, of the manners and cuftoms of 
the prefent inhabitan's, and of their agri- 
culture, manufaGiures, commeice, and 
friheries. 
Mr. Bray, of Shire, has continued 
down to the prefent time, the ‘* Hi/tory 
and Antiquities of the County of Surrey 3” 
commenced by tne learned and laborious 
Mr. Owen MANNING. 
The fir volume, in folio, only is now 
publihed, under the care of Mr. Bray, 
for the benefit of the widow and family of 
Mr. Manning. ; 
Mr. RupGE has, in two 8vo. volumes, 
brough! down the ‘* Hiffery of the County 
of Gloucefter’ to the year 1903. He mo- 
deft'y tyles his work a mere compilaticn, 
piofefing only to comprets the matter of 
Sir Robert Atkin’s Hiltory into a nar- 
yower compafs, fupply its defeéts, cor- 
re& its errors by the aid of fubfequent 
hiforians, and to fill up the interval be- 
twee the publication of that and his own 
work. 
A fifth volume is publifhed of 
* Beauties of England ad Wales.” 
“© A Crileion of Gloucefterfbire Autt- 
guities;” by SaMUEL Lysons, F.R.S. 
&zc. 
/This work might, without impro- 
priety, have been cleffed under the head 
of Fine Arts: it comprehends a collection 
of 110 prints, drawn and engraved by 
the author, reprefenting a variety of an- 
cient buildings, and other curious fub- 
7.&s. It is much. to bg regretted, that 
Mr. Lyfons, who is fo well acquainted 
wit) the antiquities he has undertaken to 
illu@rate, fhould have fatisfied himfelf 
with fuch brief and infufficient defcrip- 
tions of the fubjeét which employed his 
pencil. : 
cs Afsdern London,” beixg the Hiftory 
and preient State of the Britith Metro- 
polis. Tlluftrated with numercus Copper- 
plats. 
Inio this book, which contains a great 
dea} of ufetul information, fome inaccu- 
racies have erept which the editor would 
do well.to notice and correct in a lupple- 
menial fheet. 5 
We tranferibe the title-page of the fol- 
lowing work: ‘The Cambridge Guide; 
or, 2 Defcription of the Univerfity, Town, 
the 
Reirofped? of Domefiic Literature.—Biography. . 
and County, of Cambridge,” containing» 
5 
correct and comprehenfive Defcriptions o 
the Public Buildings, &c. &c. Alfo a 
cancife Account of the different Orders, 
Degrees, Ceremonies, and Offices of the 
Univerfity, &c. &c. It is an intereiting 
publication. ’ 
«< Antiquities of the Inns of Court and 
Chancery,” 8c. &c. ON . 
The editor, Mr. HerBerT, acknow- 
ledges himfelf to have extracted the greater 
part of his materials from Sir Wilham 
Duoudale’s * Origines Juridiciales.” This - 
volume contains fevecal copper-plates, of 
various merit. 
Vol. 14, of the © Archeologia”’ is pub= 
lithed ; containing, as ulual, many cu- 
rious papers, and others unworthy of ad- 
miffion into the tran{aétions of fo learned 
a Society. : p 
‘“ Scotia Depia; or, the Antiquities, 
Cafiles, Gc. Ge. of Scotland ;** illuftrated 
in a Series of finifhed Etchings. 
This volume contains fifty prints, and 
the fame number of pages of letter-prefs 
the drawings are by Mr. NaTres, and 
the engravings by Mr. FiTTLeR. The 
defcriptions are coneife, but the etchings 
have not that accuracy or {pirit which can 
entitle them to high commendation. 
i BIOGRABMT. 7: 
- & Public Charaders of 1805." This 
work is conduéted in the fame fpirit by 
which it was at fir diftinguithed: it is 
too encomiallic. Ty aS a 
Mr. CaLey has publithed “ The Life 
of Six Walier Raleigh.” | . 
The biographer has colleéted a vaft 
mafs of materials, but they are given ta 
the world without any arrangement—- 
informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum! 
«<The Lives of the Scottifh Poets ;* 
with Preliminary Diflertations on the Li.” 
terary Hifory ot Scotland, and the early 
Scottith Draina, by Davin IRVINE; 
A. M. Tae: te 
Thef biographical fketches are highly 
interefting, and the differtation difplays 
much hiftorical tefearch. Mr. Irvine 
would cenfer an additional favour on the | 
public if he colleéted the wotks of the 
poeis whole lives he has written, and pre- 
{ented them in an uniform and coreét edi- 
tion. 
Mr. LacxincTron, who fome time 
ago publithed ‘ Memoirs of the Firft 
berty-five Years of bts Life, fill continues 
to think himfelf of fufficient importance to 
intereft the public, and. has therefore 
written a methodical volume.of ‘* Confe/- 
fisas” my 
M, Mavcin has trarflated fiom the 
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