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[April 1, 
VARIETIES, Lirerary AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
** Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
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\TEREOTYPE PRINTING has not 
been adopted by the booklellers of 
Takes: becaufe it does not appear that 
more than twenty or thirty w rks would 
warrant the expence of being catt im folid 
pages; confequently the coli of the pre- 
liminary arrangements would oreatly ex- 
ceed the advantages to be attamed. On 
a calculation, it has appeared to be lefs 
expentive to keep certain works ftanding 
in moveable types, in which fuccetlive 
editions can be improved to any degree, 
than to provide the means for catting the 
fame works in folid pages, which after- 
wards admits of little or no revifion. As 
the extra expence of fiereotyping is in 
all works equal to the expence of paper 
for 750 copies, it is obvious that this 
art is not applicable to new books, the 
fale of which canuot be afcertained. 
Although thefe contiderations have in- 
duced the publifhers of London not to 
prefer this art in their refpective buf- 
nefles, yet it has been adopted by the 
Univerfities of Cambridge and Oxford ; 
and from the former fome very beautiful 
editions of Common Prayer Books have 
iffued to the public; probably the art of 
ttereotyping applies with greater advan- 
tage to ftaple works of fuch great and 
conttant fale, as prayer-books and bibles, 
than to any other. 
The improvements introduced by 
Lorp StTanHopE, in the conftruction of 
Printing-prefies, ‘have been applied to 
the greater part of the working prefles of 
the metropolis, Other improvements 
have lately been developed in the art of 
printing, the introduction of which into 
practice we thall gladly anncunce; one 
of them relates to a more fimple method 
of working prefies, by which the number 
of preffmen would be confiderably dimi- 
aifhed, and the other to a fuperior 
method of cafting types. 
Certain of the bookfellers of London, 
have undertaken to publifh a fplendid 
and cofily edition of theChronicles of Hor- 
LINSHEAD, which they intend to follow 
by fimilar editions of ethers of the early 
chroniclers. It will be remembered that 
an octavo edition of Hollinfhead has 
lately appeared at Perth, where we un- 
derfiand it 4s intended to print o¢tavo 
ead cheap editions of all the intercft- 
ing chronicles. Every lover of literature 
wail with fuccefs to defigns of this kind ; 
but, at a time when the high price of 
- books 3 is a ferious evil, it would appe 
to be fuperfluous to print quarto winced 
of works which are only valuable as 
books of record. Should the octave 
Perth edition not proceed, we under- 
fiand it to be .the intention of other 
London bookfellers to print an uniform 
octavo edition in periodical volumes of 
all the early hiftorians and chroniclers 
under the {uperintendance of an emifient 
antiquary. 
The public at large are acquainted 
with the atrocious capture, fortanate 
eicape, and extraordinary flight, of Mrs, 
Spencer Smith, from Brefcia, in Italy, 
to Riva, in Prafiia. A narrative of all 
the particulars will be publifhed in a 
few days by the Mareurs Dr Sarvo, 
a Sicilian nobleman, to whofe magna 
nmnity Mrs. Smith was indebted for her 
efcape, and to whofe heroic fpirit may 
be attributed the fuccefs of her flight, 
The marquis accompanied her Pe Ei cng- 
land, and he has been induced to favour 
the world with this publication, at the 
particular requeit of feveral great per- 
fonages. 
The Rev. James Corprner, chaplain 
to the Hon. F. North during his govern= 
ment of Ceylon, is about to publith a 
Tour round that ‘Tiand, a Journey to Ra- 
mifferam, and a Nar rativ e of the late War 
with the hing of Candy. It will confit 
of two quar to yolumes, embellithed with 
twenty-four engravings. 
The Proprietors of Johnfon’s Poets are 
printing a new edition of that work in 
twelve volumes, royal octavo, with addi- 
tions, 
Mr. Josep NIGHTINGALE 1s pre- 
paring for publication an {mpartial View 
of the Origin, Progrefs, Doctrines, Dif- 
cipline, and fineular Cuftoms, of the 
Weilleyan Methoditts, ma feries of 
Letters addrefled to a Lady. It is ine 
tended that this work fhall contain fe- 
veral interefting particulars relative to 
the divifions which have taken place 
among the methodifts, fince the death of 
Mr. W efley. 
Messrs. CremMENTI propofe to pubz 
lifh by fubfexiption, the Canzonets ang : 
Madvigals 
