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_ VARIETIES, Literary AND Partosoputcar. 
Including 
Jotices of Works in Hand, Domestic and For elon. 
** Authentic Communications for this Article will alma ays be egy received. 
‘ eee 
NEW, much-improved, and en- 
largéd edition, in twenty-eight vo- 
lumes, royal octo- decimo, i isin the press, 
of Dr..-Mavyor’s Collection of Voyages 
and Travels, and will speedily be pub- 
lished. The plates, instead of being de- 
signs by artists in the closet, will consist 
of copies from the prints published in the 
original works, and the maps will be nu- 
merous and on a large scale. 
of the.principal works, the Voyages of 
Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Cook, 
and Macartney, will be printed verbatim” 
vithout vari-.- 
from the onginal editions, 
ation or abridgment, and many valuable 
works will be Ninetaded which have ap- 
peared within the present century. 
The splendid work ef Mr. Ropert 
Ker Porter, representing the manners. 
and costume of Russia and Sweden, and 
comprehending a Journal of his Travels 
in Russia, will make its appearance in a 
few days. 
Jn the course of the ensuing month 
it is. expected that a volume, by Mr. 
ees will be ready for publication, 
entitled, Memoirs of British Quadrapeds. - 
This, ahaen claims the merit of being an 
original work, und not merely a compi- 
lation from the writings of other natu- 
ralists, will be illustrated with seventy 
engravings from original drawings, chiefly 
by Howitt, and in his best manner. All 
the species will be figured except three, 
of which it was found impossible to pro- 
cure authentic drawings; and there will 
be representations of every sek of 
dog, and of considerably more than half 
the varieties of English eattle, sheep, and - 
The anecdotes of the habits of 
horses. 
life, instinct,.and sagacity, are in this 
work rendered entirely distinct from the 
descriptions. The latter are thrown into 
the form of a synopsis, on a plan some- 
what similar to that of Dr. Withering’s 
botanical arrangement, and inserted, 
with the sy nonyms, at the end of the vo- 
lume. It -is intended that two volumes 
of Memoirs of British Whales and Fishes, 
illustrated also by a great number of 
figures, shall shortly follow ; 
wards others of the birds, amphibious i ie 
sects, &c. till an entire system of British 
Zoology, occupying about seven yolumes, 
iscompleted. In this work, which has 
been PAE years in preparation, every 
-The text” 
‘that line. 
and after-~ 
class will be rendered perfectly distinct 
from the rest. 
The Rev. 0. Bexrour, the gentleman 
to whom we are indebted {or the admired 
papers under the head of the Lyceum of 
Ancient Literature, has collected these 
papers as far as they have yet proceeded 
into a volume, forming the first of three, 
the extent of his desion on this subject. 
Mr. Lucas is preparing to publish the 
Travels of Humanius in search of the 
Temple of Happiness’; an Allegory. 
Mr. Hitpircn has issued proposals for 
publishing by subscription, the oy 
and Antiquities of Tamworth, 
Mr. Epcewortn’s work. on Profese 
sional Education, which s will form aquarto 
volume, is far advanced at the press, and 
may soon be expected. 
Mr. Suir, of Dublin, has nearly 
finished his History of the Germanic Em- 
pire, which will be speedily pubhshed in 
two volumes, 8vo. 
Mr. Jerninenam will shortly publish 
a work, called The Alexandrian School; 
being a narrative of the character and 
writings of the first Christian professors 
i that city, with observations on the in- | 
fluence they still maintain over the estan 
blished church. 
Mr. P. Tompson, of Boston, will 
publish in the ensuing spring a small vO- 
lume, embellished with engravings, to 
be entitled, The Stranger’s Guide through 
Boston and its Envirous. 
- Ina few weeks will be published, the 
first part of a Treatise of Arches, Bridges, 
Domes, Abutment and Embankment 
Walls, by Mr. 8. Ware, architect, The 
author professes to show a simple mode 
of describing seometrically the CAPO, 
and to deduce his theory principal ly trom 
Sections of Trinity Church, 
Ely; King’s College Chapel, Cambridge ; 
Salisbury Cathedral, and Westminster 
Abbey, will-be given, in corroboration of 
the Aiea advaticed i in the work. ; 
Dr. Dennison and Dr. Byam Den- 
Nisown will commence theirsecond Course 
of “Lectures on the Theory and Prac- 
tice of Midwifery, and the Diseases of 
Women and Children, at the. London 
sabe on Monday, Februar y the 6th. 
Several cor respondents have addressed 
us on the subject of the important mili- 
tary invention described in our Varieties 
. for 
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