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latter month. This Catalogde will be 
digested in alphabetical order, according 
to the names of the authors, and the sub- 
jects treated of in their works respec- 
tively, It will also contain a reference to 
the different papers comprised in the 
transactions of Learned Societies, pub- 
lished in the period above-mentioned. 
{t is proposed to continue this Catalogue 
annually. 
Mr. James Savace, editor of the pub- 
lication; called “* the Librarian,” pro- 
poses publishing in the ensuing month, an 
Essay on the Varieties observable in the 
Structure of Parish Churches, from their 
Erection in the First Ages of Christianity 
in this Island, to the End of the Fif- 
teenth Century; by which a common 
ebserver will be able: to distinguish the 
age of nearly every ecclesiastical building 
of the above description now standing, 
Mr, Savace will publish, in the course 
of the present month, a Circumstantial 
account of the last IlIness and Death of 
the late Professor Porson. This little 
work is embellished with two engravings, 
in fac-simile of the Professor’s writing, in 
English and in Greek. 
Mr. Jouw PENwarne has obtained his 
Mayjesty’s lesters patent, for his valuable 
invention of the Terra Marmorosa, by 
which plaster-casts are made to resem 
ble, both in hardness and colour, the most 
beautiful statuary marble; a discovery 
highly interesting to the lovers of the fine 
arts. 
Some experiments have been tried in 
the course of the present month, in the pre- 
seuce of a considerable number of Lon- 
don Surveyors, on a new Fire and Water 
Proof Terras, for roofs and ceilings, 
and it has been found to answer the 
most sanguine expectations. 
The Rev. Mr. Currot, one of his Ma- 
jesty’s Chaplains at the French Chapel 
Royal, St. James’s, lias just completed a 
work on a question of the highest impor- 
tance, which has never before been dis- 
cussed: Whether a boarding-school, or 
domestic education, is best calculated fur 
females. This work, at-once didactic, 
philosophical, moral, and religious, will 
appear in the course of December, in one 
handsome octavo volume. 
Dr. Forazs, of Edinburgh, has issued 
Proposals for publishing by subscription, 
the first volume of his Translation of 
Piiny’s Natural History, with Notes 
and Illustrations, by the translator, 
This volume, in large quarto, will con~ 
tain a Life of the Author; a Preliminary 
Dissertation on the Rise and Progress of 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
Sit 
Natural History, from its Iifaney to its 
present State of Comparative Maturity ; 
a Transiation of the First Four Books of 
Puiny’s History, and a large Appendix + 
comprehending Biographical Notices of 
all the Authors, both Greek and Roman, 
quoted by Pliny, in his First Book, and 
to whose works he professes himself in= 
debted for all the materials for his His- 
tory; with which he was not supplied by 
his owa personal observation and ex= 
perience. These notices are arranged 
in alphabetical order, The First Book 
of the Natural History, includes the 
Prefatory Address to the elder Vespa- 
sian, and a very curious and compre. 
hensive Table, drawn up by the author 
himself, of the contents of his whole 
work, arranged in books and chapters, 
with references to those writers from 
whose works he extracted his informa- 
tion, and of whom an account is given 
in the Appendix: The Second Book 
contains the History of the Heavens, 
and of the Terraqueous Globe; and may 
be regarded as a compend of all the 
knowledge, whether real or imaginary, 
possessed by the ancients, of the sciences 
of Physical Astronomy, Meteorology, 
Physiology, and Geology. The Third 
and Fourth Books, comprehend the 
Geography of the Ancient Continent of 
Europe, and of the Islands connected 
with it. Lhe mass of curious and in- 
teresting infermation, contained in thas 
portion of Pliny’s extraerdinary work, 
which is here offered to the public, wild 
be found highly deserving of the atten- 
tion of every reader ; and more especially 
of those, who cannot have recourse to it 
in the original, In the critical and sci. 
entific notes which accompany the 
volume, the translator has endeavoured 
to correct those erroneous theories and 
reasonings of the author, which neces- 
sarily resulted from the imperfect state 
of physics among the ancients; and to 
illustrate the subject treated of, by aif 
the light derived from the most receng¢ 
discoveries; insomuch that these com- 
meatarics and illustrations, may be res 
garded as an epitome of all the know- 
ledge, which we at present possess, con- 
cerning the multifarious subjects of our 
author’s enquiries. ‘his first volume 
will go to press, as soon as a competent 
number of subseribers shall have been 
obtained; and. the translator, if encoue 
raged, will persevere in his task, and 
exert such diligence aud dispatch in the 
execution of it, as the extent and diffi- 
culty ofthe undertaking may enable him 
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