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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND Purrosopuicat, 
[Sept. 1; 
Including Ron of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
*.* Authentic Communications for this Article “will always be thankfully received, , 
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ITERATURE languishes in com. 
mon with the. manufacturer’s cre- 
dit and external commerce of the coun- 
try. There never we:e so few works. in 
the press, and printers for a long time 
have not complained so much of want of 
employment. Still, owing to the increased 
nuinber of readers, and che eagerness in 
the mass of the people for information on 
all subjects, the trade in usefsl books. 
was never more steady than at this time, 
and large editions are demanded of ‘all 
improved books on education, The éx- 
travagant price of paper, owing to mo- 
nopelies of rags, stogether 
pect paid to the impertinencies of ano- 
Nymous criticism, are fatal to the interests 
of elegant Jiterature in England, and must 
render all extensive or bold booken making 
speculations ultimately rumous té those 
who engage in them. Hence it is that 
the English publisher is obliged to suc- 
cumb before the magnificence of the 
French press, which every month suc- 
cessfully produces, works, that in England 
would be destroyed by the pestilential 
breath of hired anonymous critics. In 
France too there is a spirit of patronage 
among the great, and at the head of 
every subscription list stands “* Napoleon 
le Grand,” followed by those of the tri- 
bntary kings, and newly-created princes 
and dukes; while. on the other hand in 
England, it must be confessed, that’the 
late Marquis of Lansdown was.the last 
of our noble patrons of letters, and that 
since the Earl of Bute, we have not had 
a minister, who, as a minister, has not 
been studious to express his uttér disre- 
gard of science and literature. 
Mr. Rupine’s great work on the Coin 
age of the Kingdom and of its Depen- 
dencies, is in considerable forwardness, 
and may be expected to appear in the 
next year. 
Anew edition is in preparation of 
Ducpare’ s Warwickshire, with the ad- 
ditions by Dr. Thomas, and a variety of 
new matter. . 
Mr. A. CHALMERS, £5: A. (late of 
Aberdeen), is preparing a History of the 
Public Buidings of Oxford. 
iMaweditiovs eae) in forwardness of 
Enversie’s Cambria Trumphans; and 
of Luovp’s History of Cambria. 
The fourth and last voluine of Srew- 
Art's Athens, will be published 1 in the 
ensuing winter. , 
‘An edition is nearly completed A tiie 
with the ress. 
works of Porteus, late Bishop of Lone 
don, in six volumes, octavo. 
Mr. Coxe is engaged on a History of 
the Life and nee of Stullingfleet. 
Mr. BeLog fas in the. press, a fifth 
volume of his interesting Anecdotes of 
Literature. 
A work on the Law of Venaes and 
Purchaser of Personal Property, consi- 
dered witha view to mercantile trans- 
actions, by GrorcE Ross, esq. of the: 
Inner Temple, is preparing for publi- 
cation. 
Mr. Camppetr, Comptroller of the 
Legacy Duty, has in the press, a respecte | 
able work on the Value of Annuities 
from 11. to 16001. per Annum on single 
Lives, from the Age of One to Ninety 
Years; with the number of years’ pure 
chase each annuity is worth, and the rate 
of interest the purchaser receives for his 
money. Le has snbjoiied, for the in- 
formation and convenience of the pro. 
fession, and of executors and adminis« 
trators, the amount of the several rates 
of Legacy Duty payable on the value of 
each annuity. 
A. religious poem, c called Joseph, in 
blank verse, historical, patriarchal, an 
typical, with notes, by the Rev. CHaRLes 
Lucas, A A.M. curate of Avebury,. W ilts, 
Is 1n the press. 
A new edition of the poetical works of 
DrybeEN, in an uniform size with Mr. 
Malone’s edition of the prose works, 
with the notes of the late Dr. Warton, 
Mr. John Warton, and others, 1 Is mn the 
press, and wili appear early in the winter. 
The Rev. James Rupeés, Lecturer of 
Limehouse, is preparing for the press 
pe wentyefive Discourses on the Creed, de- 
livered in the parish Church of St. Anne, 
Limehouse, at the afternoon lecture, 
Dr. Watkins is engaged ina History 
of the Bible, or a connected View of the 
Sacred Records; with copious disserta-— 
tions and notes, furming an entire com- 
mentary on the inspired voluuie; with 
an appendix, collaining, Memoirs of 
the Apostolic. Age, and Chronological 
Tables. of Sacred. and .Profane Hisiory. 
This work will, be comprised i in two 4to. 
volumes. ’ 
_ A work called Hints on Be ee in 
five essays, submitted to the Right Hon, 
Lord Viscount..Sidmouth and the Dis- 
senters, is in the BIeSSy, and will sheeeay 
be pubjishec. as 
A work is ‘in the f press Sy g ving’ aN ace 
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