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press, and will publish next month, two 
volumes of Original Tales. He is ‘Tikes 
wise preparing for publication a work 
with sixty plates, on the Principles of 
the Compositicn of the Ancients. 
Lhe amateurs of the fine arts 
will be pleased to Jearn that it is in- 
tended to publish by subscription, a fac- 
simile of Wilson’s Sketch Book, being 
Studies and Designs by that great artist, 
made in Italy and Rome, in the year 
4752, It will consist of fifty Plates, the 
size of the Originals, to be engraved by 
Mr. J. WHESSELL, and will form a ae 
quarto volume. 
Mr. Davtas is preparing for the press 
x new edition of the novels of Percival 
Aubrey, and the Morlands, to be printed 
in a uniform manner; making together 
six volumes instead of twelve. To these 
he proposes to add a seventh volume, 
' containing poems, dramas, and moral 
essays. 
‘The Royal Free School » Borough Road, 
Southwark, which is the establishment 
of Mr.\Josepa Laneastrer, has in it 
above one thousand scholars, the expense 
of whose education last year did not cost 
four shillings per annum each child. 
‘The seminary for training ‘schoolmis- 
tresses, 1s under the care of his sister, 
Miss Mary Lancaster ‘The governess 
ef the school, i conjunction ‘with her 
sister, has reduced to practice a recent 
discovery in the art of teaching needle- 
work, which wil! soon be published, but 
at present is not understood by any pere 
son except the above, who are anxious 
t) establish its selioendent perfecuon on 
the most clear basis, before the details 
are submitted to the public.- By means 
“of this, any girl may teach others to 
work with the same facility, as they may 
be taught to read after Mr. L.’s original 
method. Any school of girls, however 
Jarge, may be supplied with materials at 
the most trifling expense ; and one mis- 
tress) may superintend eke needlework 
with as much ease to herself, as one 
faster on the British system can teach 
eight hundred or a thousand boys read- 
ing, W ipa , and arithmetic. This plan 
is just a t pre sent kept from public view, 
bet in a few -weeks is intended to ee 
published. - 
A new volume of essays, by the Lon- 
don Architectural Society, will be ready 
for the public in a few days. 
An historical and scientific disquisition 
on the Doric Order of Architecture, by 
Mr, E. AIKIN, in folio, with seven plates, 
Pu 
[May ?, 
in which the examples from antiquity are 
drawn to one scales will also appear at 
the same time, under the auspices of the 
same socicly. 
Miss Lucy Arkin kas in the press,’ 
Epistles on the Character and Conditior 
of Women, in various Ages and Nations, 
with other poems. 
Mr. Watrer Scott has in the press 
a poem, in six cantos, entitled, the Lady 
of the Lake. 
His Royal Highness the Prince of 
Wales has addressed a letter tO gerd 
Grenville, chancellor of the university of 
Oxford, requesting him to present to the 
university; in the name of his royal Inghs 
ness, four of the papyri, or rolls from 
Portici, together with fac-simile copies, 
plates, and engravings, from other rolls. 
A life of the late Mr. Horcnorr is 
just gone'to the press. ‘The earlier pare 
was dictated by himself during his last 
illness; and it was his intention, had his 
life been prolonged, to have completed 
his own biography. The portion which 
he was unable to finish has been drawn 
up by a gentleman with whom he was 
for a considerable time in habits of 
Intimacy. fs 
Translations of the Medea and Octa- 
via of Seneca, with other poems, orig 
nally translated Ny a member of Trinity 
college, Cambridge, 1ciay soon be ex- 
pected to appear. 
A collegiate seminary is establishing 
by subscription at Llanddew|brefi, under 
the‘ patronage of the learned and bene- 
volent bishop of St. David’s, It is in- 
tended to be on a large scale, for the 
admission of youths designed for the 
church; who will have all the advantages 
ofan univers’ ty education, free ofe eXPENses 
The medical student and practitioner 
will soon receive from the pen of Dr. 
G.H. fo: ‘win, of Wolverhampton, a 
work under the title of, Elements of the 
Practtce.of Medicine, in which that un- 
portatit sabject will, for the first time, 
assume all the interest of a practical 
science. 
_ Miss Mary Hovcuton has a work in 
the press, in three volumes, entitled, 
Mysteries of the Forest, which bids fig 
to-rival the best productions of the ad- 
mired RabcLirFe. 
The Rev. F, A. Cox proposes to pubs 
lish by subscription, the Dissertations, 
Historical, Critical, Theological, and 
Moral, on the most memorable events 
of the Old and New Testaments, of 
Saurin, Roques, and Beausobre. - 
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