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account of eminent persons hefore and 
since the Reformation,in two large volumes 
quarto, embellished with two hundred 
portraits, will Be published in the course 
of the ensuing year. 
Mr. J. Carrer is meking a series of 
Drawings of York Cathedral, for Sir M. 
Sykes, bart ; which, when finished, will 
form the largest and most elaborate un- 
éertaking of the kind yet gone into Im this 
kingdom. The drawings already finished 
{and done to the Society of Antiquaries’ 
Cathedral scale) are, IT. Plan? IT. Foun- 
dation ditto; Til. West Elevation; IV. 
Petail of ditto to a larger sealez V. 
South Side; Vi. Detail of ditto to a larger 
scale; Vii. Longitudinal section, from 
West-to East. Size of the drawings, 
S feet 3 inches by 2 feet. 
Mr, Smarr is preparing for the press, 
a Guide to Parsing; which, it is ex- 
pected, will furnish material assistance 
to the study of English grammar, and 
the above necessary exercise, particu~ 
larly in school classes, Mr. Murray’s 
arrangement will be followed. 
Mr. Jonnes, of Hafod, has engaged 
Mr. Stothard, the Royal Academician, to 
paint some splendid decorations at his 
seat, which are already begun. 
Mr. Gureu, of Bristol, has published 
a Catalugue of Books, including nume- 
yous rare and eurious articles, selected 
from the libraries of the late John Innys, 
esq., Rev. J. Whitaker, Richard Gough, 
esq., Mr. Woolmer, of Exeter, Robert 
Jones Allard, esq. &c. Such an exten- 
sive collection is highly creditable to the 
Bookseller, as well as to the citizens of 
Bristol, who have by their encourage- 
ment stimulated him in his endeavours. 
We are happy to see such establishments 
meet with success in mostof our principal 
provincial cities and towns. 
The Rev, J. Fawerrr hasin the press, 
the Devotional Family Bible, with co- 
pious notes and illustrations, partly ort. 
ginal and partly selected from the most 
approved expositors, ancient and modern, 
with a devotional exercise at the. end of 
every chapter. It will be comprised in 
two volumes quarto, 
-Mr. Cuarzes Ercanorn will shortly 
put to press, a translation of Gessner’s. 
pastoral novel, enntled Daphnis, intended 
for the use of German and English scho- 
lars, with an interlineary translation, 
and the English elegantly. rendered at the 
foot of each page. vy ge 
Dr. Hooper will,in afew days, publish 
the first fasciculus of his long-promised 
Anatomical Atlas. i 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
‘interior. 
(Dec. ij 
The engravings for a Chinese Dice 
tionary, of about seven thousand charac 
ters, are commenced under the superin- 
tendance of Dr. Monruccr, The work 
will. be translated inte Latin, French, 
and English, in compliance with the dea 
sire of the East India Company, and will 
it is hoped, be completed in five years, 
Sir Roperr Witsow has in the press, 
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in one volume quarto, Brief Remarks on 
the. Character and Composition of the 
Russian Army, and a sketch of the Cam= 
paign in Poland in 1806 and 7, fram obs 
servations inade-by him when he accome 
panied Lord Hutchinson to the heads 
quarters of the Emperor Alexander. ~ - 
In our last an intention was announced 
to indict certain persons for conspiring 
againsc the preperty of the Medical 
gournal, The crime, however, has cars 
ried its punishment so fully along with 
it, that an appeal to law would be though¢ 
vindictive and cruel. Of the New Me- 
dical and Physical Journal, as it is call- 
ed, we are assured that not a hundred. 
copies were sold, perhaps not fifty, or 
Hot enough to pay for the fine paper - 
used for the covers; whereas of the Me. 
dical and Physical Journal, not only the 
regular number of copies was sold last 
month, but alse nearly fifty copies in’ 
addition to the usual number! Such is 
the confidence of the faculty in the edi- 
tors, Dr. Fothergill and Mr. Royston, 
and such the sense of justige in an en= 
lightened public! Neg beh, 
Mr. Mawyiyc is now at Canton, in 
China, and has been there five years, 
learning the language, in the dress of the’ 
country, with a view to penetrate the 
Hie is an able man, and has so, 
adapted himself to the manners and 
feelings of the Chinese, that he is scarcely 
to be distinguished from thé natives, 
even by natives. © We understand that 
a native Chinese lady is new in London; 
but she lives in retirement. Fe 
From the very extraordinary produce 
of one potatee planted whole, it is evi- 
dent that the ‘cultivation of that usefal- 
root in this country, 1s merely in its ine: 
fancy. In the latter end of June last, 
a gentleman residing in Sloane-square, 
planted an his garden a new species of 
potatoe, which he brought last spring. 
fromthe Alleghany mountaing in North 
America ; and, by a peculiar mode oft 
cultivation, there grew from the originai 
parent upwards of one hundred stems, 
each measaring im length about six 
feet six inches. Lately these stems 
were dug, when the produce weighed 
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