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been a composition of Varius, the friend 
of Virgil. | Of this Latin poem, as well 
as of an ingenious treatise on Death, by 
Philodemus, the fac-similes have been 
engraved. Unfortunately, his Sicilian 
majesty also left behind him at Naples, 
engraved fac similes of three books and 
a half of Epicurus de Natura, of which 
the discovery was an invaluable acqui- 
sition; but we have the pleasure to an- 
nounce that the fac-simile copies of those 
and other four books, are among the 
ninety-four now at Oxford. 
A Miscellaneous Collection of Critical 
Observations from the manuscripts of 
the late Professor Porson, purchased by 
Trinity college, Cambridge, will shortly 
be given to the public by Professor 
Monk, Mr. Dosrer, and Mr. Brom. 
FIELD; the three gentlemen to whom 
this task has been entrusted by the mas- 
ter and fellows of the society. 
Dr. Drake has in the press, under 
the title of the Gleaner, a selection of 
Essays from scarce or neglected perio- 
dical papers, with an introdaction and 
notes. lt will be speedily published in 
four volumes octavo, and will form an 
elegant and useful accampaniment to 
the various editions of our classical essays. 
Dr. Stocn’s Life of Dr. Beddoes is 
in the press. It will comprise an ana- 
Jytical account of the doctor’s numerous 
writings, both published and unpublished, 
Mr. Westart, R.A. exhibits his own 
pictures and drawings at lis house, No. 
54, Upper Charlotte-strect, Fitzroy 
square. 
On the jubilee day (25th October last), 
a couple of smail bells were made to 
ring by means of the electric column, 
jately invented by M. pve Luc, of 
Windsor. Itis conjectured, that asmall 
clapper may by this column be kept in 
mouon: for years together without stop- 
ping: if so, not only might the jubilee 
day have been celebrated by the ringing 
vf miniature bells, but the whole jubilee 
year. Should this contrivance be brought 
to that state of perfection which it is 
supposed it may be in time, many per- 
sons, there is little doubt, who do not 
consider the subject philosophically, will 
te led into an error, by imagining that 
the perpewal' motion 13 at last disco- 
vered. The principal obstacle to the 
coutinuance of the motion, through all 
the changes of the atmosphere, appears 
to be the want of a’very accurate insu- 
lation of-some parts of the apparatus. 
An English gentlemen, lately escaped 
fram France, has in the press, a Picture 
of Verdun; being an interesting state- 
rik 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[June 1, 
ment of every circumstance connected 
with the detention of our countrymen. 
This work contains: An accountof their — 
arrestation; detention at Fontaine and 
Valenciennes; confinement at Verdun; 
incarceration- at Bitche; amusements; 
sufferings; indulgences granted to some; 
acts of extortion and cruelty practised 
on others; characters of General and 
Madame Wirion ; list of those who have 
been permitted to leave, or who have 
escaped, out of France; occasional poetry 
by Mr. Concannon, Sir William Cowper, 
&c. and anecdotes cf the principal De- 
tenis. hy gow 
Dr. Pearson’s Lectures on Physic and 
Chemistry will re-commence in George- 
street, on the 4th of June. 
Dy. Rerp will commence his summer 
course of Lectures on the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine, on Friday the 15th 
of June, at nine o’clock in the morning, 
at his house, Grenviile-street, Bruns- 
wick-square. 
Dr. Stanctirre’s Lectures are con- 
tinued every evening at nine o’clock 
precisely, at the Lecture Room, 11, 
Took’s-court. A series of Lectures on 
Practical Agriculture, and the Drill Hus- 
bandry, by the Rev. James Cuox, M.A. » 
another series of select Lectures on Ar- 
chitecture, by M. W. SurppaRD; and a 
fourth, on the Elements of Commerce, 
by the Rev. M. Witson, M.A. will be 
speedily given at the same room. ~— ? 
A second edition of Dr. Worps- 
wonTn’s Reasons for declining to sub- 
scribe to the British and Foreign Bible 
Society will appear in a few days. It 
will be accompanied by an answer to a 
Letter to Dr. Wordsworth, in repiy to 
his Strictures on the British and Foreign 
Bible Society, by Lord Teignmouth, pre- 
sident of that society. 
The who e of the very rare and valu- 
able Ccliection of Foreign Plants, some 
of which have never been seen in this 
country before, Jate the property of the 
Hon. C.F. Greville, deceased, om Pad- 
dington Green, were purchased on Mon- 
day+the 2d of April, in one Jot, by Jen- 
Kins and GwyTHer, Nurserymen; and 
may now be seen, by-applying to them 
for tickets, at their Nursery in the New 
itoad. 
A third and last volume of the Tem- 
ple cf Truth is in the press, under the 
title of Additional Siadies; and may be 
expected in the course of next month. 
A work to be called the Mathematical 
Repository, containing, 1. Two hundred 
and forty questions both in pure and 
mixt mathematics; almost all of which 
are 
