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VARIETIES, Lirerary AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
fncluding Notices of Works in Hund, Domestic and Foreign. 
** Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
R. MAVOR’s great work of Voy- 
ages and ‘fravels, in twenty-eight 
volumes, inciuding all works ef impor- 
tance, from Columbus to Lord Valentia, 
will be ready in a few days. 
Mr. Rrenarp CunBERLAND proposes 
to print by subscription, twelve of his 
hitherto unpublished Drainas, in a quarto 
volume, to be ready next spring. 
ci Wirrtram Linesy, brother in-law 
to Mr. Sheridan, has a novel in> the 
artes under the title of Ralph Reybridge. 
Mr. Hewterr’s magnificent Bible has 
advanced to the eighth Number. 
The Statistical and Agricultural Sur- 
vey of Surry, by Mr. Stevenson, 1s 
dar advanced at press, and will be pub- 
lished by the Board of Agriculture early 
in September. 
The account given in our last, of Mr. 
FosBRooKE’s Dictionary of Antiquities, 
does not, it seems, convey a full idea of 
its design and utility to every class of 
readers. It contains the whole of the 
curious) and valuable matter in the 
French Encyclopedia of Antiquities, and 
the famous Glossary of Ducange, besides 
€. Caylus, Winkeimann, Gough, Strutt, 
the Monkish Ghranfislers, 8c. hae? &e 
Hi illustrates the Classics by the Marbles, 
and other remains: suppiies the super- 
ficial accounts of Andrews, Henry, &c: 
by commencing with the classical eras, 
and earliest origins of manners, customs, 
&e. and the ‘symbols and legends of 
€oins, (omitted by Pinkerton ;) explains 
the costumes of Greece, Rome, and 
England, in details and plates, as well 
as liouses, temples, statues, arms, move- 
ables, utensils, &c. &c. includes the an- 
eientengravers’ marks, &c. and thus is not 
anly an elementary book to the lover of 
antiquities, but being combined with all 
the localantiguities, enables every Tourist 
and Dilettanti, to become, with correct- 
ness and ease, (the authorities being 
given) his own antiquary. The Local 
Antiquities contain regular abridgments 
af Gough’s Camden, Grose’s Antiquities, 
and Fanner’s Notitia, besides large se- 
lections from other writers and travellers. 
fi deseends to the minutest articles, and, 
itis hoped, there being no work.of the 
kind in’ England, and the French only 
extending to the classics, that it will be 
found of the ver y first utihty, and cheaply 
and very easily auzment the stock of 
t- 
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valuable and elegant knowledge. It has 
all the important comments of werks, 
not to be purchased under some hundred 
pounds, 
Mr. Prrr, author of an Essay en the 
Philosophy of Christianity, is preparing 
for the press his long-promised second ~ 
part of that work, Comprising ai appli- 
eation of the preceding positions on 
power, and human preference, to the 
scripture doctrines of divine preference 
and inclination; human sin; gospel: re- 
novation ; and a future state of our ex- 
Istence. 
A new, and for the first time, an en- 
tire translation of the Life of Apollonius 
of Tyanea, from the Greek of Philostratus, 
has just been completed for publication, 
by the Rev. Epwarnp Berwick. Of 
this curious and interesting work, no 
English transiation has been attempted 
since the year 1688, when Mr. Charles 
Blount presented the public with three 
of the eight books, of which the work is 
composed ; but he never completed his 
undertaking, 
Dr. Carey has in the press a sequel 
to his ‘f English Prosody and Versilica- 
tion,” viz, “ Poetic Reading made Easy,” 
containing a selection of Poetry for 
Schools, with directions for the proper 
utterance of each line. 
Mr. Fautxner, of Chelsea, will put » 
to press in November, an Histvrical, ‘To- 
pographical, and Statistical Description 
of Chelsea, and its Environs; under the 
patronage, and to be dedicated by per- 
mission, to the Efonourable and Right 
Reverend the Lord Bishop of Win- 
chester, to be published by subscription. 
This work will include every particular 
relative to the antiquities, topography, 
situation, boundaries, soil, air, agricul- 
ture, population, We. of Chelsea, with a 
full description of all the monumental 
inscriptions in tae church, accompanied 
by biographical notices of the noble and 
learned personages there interred, or 
recorded ; likewise an_ historical deserip- 
tion of the royal hospital, royal military 
asylum, Winchester palace, Ranelagh, 
physic gardens, and botanic gardens, 
and a catalogue of such paintings, works 
of art and sculpture, as are at present in 
Chelsea. Also anecdotes of eminent 
statesmen, literary characters, &c. wha 
have resided in Chelsea during the three 
. preceding “ 
