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VARIETIES, Literary anv PutiLosopnHicat. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
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R. Wirt1am Mutter, Lieutenant 
yr of the Royal German Engineers, 
and late First Public Teacher of the 
Military Sciences at the University of 
Gottingen, and author of several works 
on Military and Mathematical Sciences, 
published in Germany and France, has 
in the press a work entitled, the 
Elements of the Art of War; containing 
the established and approved modern 
principles of the theory and practice of 
the military sciences, relating to the ar- 
rangement, organization, maintenance, 
and expences of an army; theoretical 
and practical field, and permanent for- 
tifications, and theoretical and practical . 
tactics; together with logistics and cas- 
trametation, the strategie, or the dialec- 
tics of war, and the conduct and manage- 
ment of armies, and military politics: il- 
hustrated by notices of the most famous 
battles, the most remarkable sieges, 
and other celebrated and memorable ope- 
rations ; and about One Hundred Maps 
and Plans. In three volumes. Dedicated 
by special permission to his Majesty. 
This work will be particularly distin- 
guished, by being a complete Cyclopedia 
of the Art of War, and all sciences reiating 
to it; as wellas by numerous abstracts 
from foreign and English works on 
these sciences, by the Plans of about 
Seventy of the most famous Battles fought 
since the year 1672, and by short but 
correct notices and criticisms on those 
battles, and all other celebrated opera- 
tions since that year. 
Previous to the appearance of this 
large work, there wiil be published a 
Grammar of the Art of War, on the same 
plan as the Grammars of Geography, 
Commerce, History, Law, Geometry, and 
Philosophy, which have already met with 
so favourable a reception. 
On the 24th of February, at an auc- 
tion in the capital, there was sold a 
Greek manuscript, collected by one of 
his majestv’s foreign ministers, at the 
istand of Patmos, in the ‘Archipe! ago. 
It is a folio volume, in appropriate clas- 
sical. binding, vellum, with rich gold 
Tonic border, and gilt edges, and contains 
upwards of seven hundred and eighty 
pages, on cotton paper ; with, generally, 
twenty-nine lines of text, in a two-inch 
margin. on cach page; illustrated by 
about sixty illuminated figures. The 
principal title is, A@HNAIOY TEP! 
MHXANHMATOQON, which is followed 
by several treatises on similar snbjects, 
by other writers. Concerning the first 
author, Lempriere, in his Classical Dic- 
tionary says, “ Athenzeus was a Roman 
general, in the age of Gallienus, who is 
supposed to have written a book on 
military engines.” . In Fabricii Bibli- 
otheca Greca, vol. v. the title of this 
book stands No. 143 in the catalogue of 
Greek manuscripts belonging to the 
royal Neapolitan library. This manu- 
script 1s written in three different hands, 
but all fair, and thus dated at the end: 
“Finished on 7 May, 1545.” But the 
characters, at the beginning evidently 
denote an antiquity of at least a century 
anterior to that date; and it will doubt- 
‘less occur to the recollection of the 
learned, that the late Porson pronounced 
Greek manuscripts of that age to be 
equal to Latin works of the ninth cen- 
tury. On the first page is written, in 
more modern Greek, “This present 
book belongs to the God-trodden moun- 
tain Sinai.” The sum for which it was 
sold was sixty-one guineas. 
The Rev. Wiittiam BowpweEn pro- 
poses publishing by subscription, in ten 
volumes quarto, a literal translation of 
the whole of Domesday Book, with the 
modern names of. places adapted as far 
as possible to those in the record. An 
index will be given to each county, and 
a glossary with the last volume. Any 
one volume may be subscribed for se- 
parately. 
Mr. Jesse Foor is preparing for pubs 
lication, the Lives of the late ANDREW 
Rozinson Bowes, esq. and his wife the 
countess of STRATHMORE. 
A new edition of Dr. Russext’s Hise 
tory of Modern Europe, continued to the 
Treaty of Amiens, by Dr. Cuore, will 
be published in a few days. 
Mr. B. Srocxer, apothecary to Guy’s 
Hospital, has in the press, the New Lon- 
don Pharmeacopeeia, enlarged from the 
last Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmaco- 
poeis, and reduced to one common no- 
menciature, with an appendix of the 
genera and species of the different artie 
cles of their materia medica. 
Dr. Maczean will shortly, pubiish an_ 
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