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NEW edition is in the press, and 
A will speedily be published, of the 
Works of the Poets, from Chaucer to 
Cowper; including the best Translations 
of the Classics. 1t will form twenty-two 
volumes, royal octavo, printed in two co- 
lumns, and will, in every respect, con- 
stitute one of the handsomest library. 
books that has appeared for several 
years, 
Mr. Brwicx, of Newcastle, so de- 
servedly celebrated for his skulin engrav- 
ing in wood, has for a considerable time, 
been engaged on a System of Economi- 
cal or Usetul Botany, which will include 
about 450 ‘plants, the most useful in the 
Materia Medica, in Dict and Manufac- 
tures. The text has been prepared by 
Dr. Trornton, and will contain a body of 
valuable information relative to the His- 
tory and Uses of the several Plants. 
There will be two editions, one on royal 
paper, of which only a small number has 
been printed; and the other on demy, 
neither of them inferior in beauty to Mr. 
Bewick’s former productions. 
Mr. Roser has announced some Obser- 
vations on the Historical Fragment of 
of Mr. Fox, and an Original Narrative 
of the Duke of Argyle’s Insurrection in 
1685. 
Mr. ALExAnpER Wa ker, of Edin- 
burgh, has in the press a compendious, 
but very complete, System of Anatomy ; 
of which report speaks highly. 
Mr. Martin, who has been diligently 
employed im the study of extraneous fos- 
sils for some years back, is about to pub- 
lish under the patronage of Sir Joseph 
Banks, a 4to Voiume of Plates and De- 
scriptions of the Petrifactions of Derby- 
shire. A work, by the same author, has 
just been printed off, containing an Ele- 
mentary Introduction to the Knowledge 
of Extraneous Fossils; an attempt to 
establish the study of these bodies on 
scientine principles. It forms an 8vo. 
volume, and will be given to the public in 
the course of the succeeding month. 
A-work will be published in March, 
under the title of the Ecclesiastical. and 
Universal Annual Register; the object 
of which is to furnish an opportunity for 
the preservation of documents which 
may obtain permanent interest with the 
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body, for whose use it appears to be so 
immediately designed. _ 
Mr. Parg’s edition of Warton’s His- 
tory of English Poetry, is in a state of 
great forwardness. The editor’s plan is 
not only to revise both text and notes, 
and free the extracts from the charge of 
iaccuracy to which they have hitherto 
been subjected, but also to supply a Con- 
tinuation in furtherance of Mr. Warton’s 
plan. 
The very copious Annotations on War 
ton’s History by the late learned anti- 
quary, the Rev. GEoRGE Asuy, together 
with various Manuscript Observations left 
by that acute critic Mr Ritson, are in the 
hands of the present editor; and so far 
as the purposes of correction and illustrae 
tion can be served will be appended to 
the notes of Mr. Warton. 
Ajnew edition, corrected and enlarged, 
of Dr. Milner’s History of Winchester 
will be published iu the course of the ene 
suing month. 
The Revereud Mr. Drsprn’s new 
edition of Ames’s Typographical Anti- 
quities, by Herbert, is gone to press, 
The first volume will be devoted to the 
books printed by Caxton; with copious 
notes including the mention of almost all 
contemporaneous foreign publications 
which have any connection with Caxton’s 
pieces. New and curious extracts from 
some of the rarer Caxtonian books will 
be introduced to the reader’s notice, 
The whole of Lewis’s Life of Caxton, a 
scarce work, will be incorporated in this 
first volume; asyweil as the Lives of 
Ames and Herbert; with a preliminary 
Disquisition on the Introduction of the 
Arts of Printing and Engraving into 
this country; adorned with fac-simile 
cuts. 
A Society of Physicians in London has 
been engaged, for some time past, in 
collecting materials for a new work, to 
be entitled the Amual Medical Re- 
gister. They propose to comprise, in 
one volume, a complete account of 
the medical literature of the preceding 
year, together with an-historicai sketch 
of the discoveries and improvements in 
medicine and the collateral sciences; a 
report of the general state of health and 
disease in the metropolis; and a brief 
detail 
