1809.] 
gined ; the passages lie well for the 
hand, and afford an improving exercise 
for the practioner on the instrument, for 
which the composition is designed. 
8§ To her I fowe, O waft that sigh ;” a fa- 
" wourite Canzsonet, sumg with the greatest 
applause, by Mr. Magrath, at the Bath 
Concerts... Composed and inscribed to Miss and 
Md4iss gn Heathcote, by F. M. Coombs. -1s, 
If we do not diseover any striking 
marks of genius or original conception in 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 597 
this ‘canzonet, yet the passages are 
smooth and connected, and the gene- 
ral effect bespeaks both taste and juds- 
nent, ; 
The Maid of Erin; a Ballad. Composed by 
FS. Thompsen. 1s. | 
The unaffected ease of this little bal 
lad, aided by the prano-forte accom- 
paniment, which 1s chiefly n the «rpeg- 
gio style, will not fail to give it currency 
wnong the admirers of vocal simplicity. 
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VARIETIES, Literary anp PHiLosopuicat. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
* * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. . 
—e Ee 
FE have great pleasure in present- 
/ ing our readers with a test of se- 
curity, in regard to persons who have un- - 
dergone the vaccination, and who may 
be made uneasy by the false and inter- 
ested alarms of malignant persons. Let 
@ patient be selected on whose arms the 
vaccine pustules have regularly advan- 
ced to the 7th, 8th, or 9th, day. From 
one of these pustules, let the subject in- 
tended to be put to the test of security, 
be re-vaccinated, and at the same time, 
and with a portion of the same vaccine 
fluid, let asother child, who never has 
fiad either the cow-pox or the small-pox, 
be also vaccinated. On the arms of the 
child put to this test, if it was previously 
secure, the virus will produce in a short 
Space of time, (two or three days per- 
haps), an inflanimation around the parts 
punctured, and sometimes small irregular 
vesicles, accompanied with itching, 
which conimonly dies away, tong before 
the regular pocks on the arms of ‘the 
child that had not been before secured, 
arrive atmaturity. ‘The reason why Dr. 
Jennér recominends the vaccination of a 
child notin a doubtful state, with the 
one whose situation may be supposed 
doubtful; is to prove to 2 certainty, that 
the vaccine fluid employed, is in a state 
of perfection, ‘The insertion of variolous 
matter by way of test, 1m the early pe- 
riods of the vaccine practice, was adopted 
aud recommended by Dr. Jenner; but 
although it did not produce the small- 
pox on those previously vaccinated, it 
‘sometimes occasioned very “extensive 
‘and troublesome inflammation en the 
arms, . ha ange 
~ Yn a short time will ‘be published, 
an Essay on Theatres, and on the Pro- 
priety of Vaulting them with Brick and 
Seige 
o 
Stone. {llustrated with a plan and-sen- 
tion for anew Theatre. The object «Ff 
this essay is to revive the knowledge ex- 
emplified by the Free and Accepted Ma- 
sons, in the construction of the vaults of 
the ancient cathedral; and to show 
that atheatre built upon similar princi- 
ples, would be of considerable benedt 
to the proprietor, both in reducing the 
expense of the erection, and the rate ef 
insurance; and at the same time secure 
the audience against the dreadful ha~ 
zards, to which they are liable, from the 
‘present mode in which these edifices are 
built. | 
In the course of this month, Mr. Jo- 
sEpH Crisp, of Holborn, will publish, for 
the use of female seminaries, Lessons in 
Geography, with'an Introduction to the 
use of the Globes, calculated solely for 
the exercise of the memory, and as an 
introduction to larger works, 
The second edition of a Treatise on 
Malting, by Mr. Reynoxpsox, late of 
Newark, now of Bromley, Middlesex, 
will appear ina few days. 
Mr. G, Dyer, who has been for soine 
years past occupied im making imguiries 
mto the state of the Pablic Libraries of 
this island, has, we understand, found it 
expedient te suspend his researches, 
though he has by nomeans ‘given thena 
up. But,as the work branches out into 
Various “parts, and is become far more 
extensive than was originally intended, 
itis not likely to make its appearance for 
some years. In the mean time, Mr, 
Dyer is employed in preparing for pub- 
lication,, a complete edition of his Poeti- 
cil Writings, in four volumes, duodecimoe 
it will be published by subscription. 
Mr, James Norris Beewes, will, is 
a few days, publish the first number of 
¢ . Déscriptious 
