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i R. Lancaster announces for pub- 
iV lication by fubfcription, at twelve 
copies for a pound, an abbreviated Ac- 
count of his newly invented Method of 
anfiruéting the Children ‘of the Poor. 
Perhaps one of the mott interefting {pec- 
tacles to be feen at prefent in or near 
London is the Free School of this bene- 
volent man, fituated about two hundred 
yards from the Obelifk, in St. George’s 
Fields. In this School nearly one thou- 
fand poor children are. rapidly taught 
reading, WINE and arithmetic, by one 
matter, on the plan of Mr. Lancafier, for 
a total expence not exceeding three hun- 
dred pounds per annum. ‘The leading 
principle of this well regulated and or- 
derly Eftablifhment is, that the fenior 
claffes teach the junior, and that emula- 
tion through every cla{s is exeited by re- 
wards and promotion. ‘The methods of 
teaclung are alfo much fimplified—for ex- 
ample, ‘the children learn to read and 
write the alphabet at the fame time, by 
forming the letters in fand with their 
fingers, as each letter is fucceffively call- 
ed by the monitor; they afterwards learn 
to read and write monofyllables in the 
fame manner, and the precifion and ra= 
pidity with which the fmalleft children 
perform thefe operations is very furpriz- 
ang, and highly interefting. Aided by 
this plan, the children of the poor nay, 
without exception, be initiated in the 
-firft rudiments of knowledge; and we 
congratulate the country on the profpect 
vf its fpeedy adoption by the Legifla- 
ture, on the introduction of Mr. Whit- 
read. 
Sir Joun Carr will publifh, early in 
May, the Account of his recent Excurfion 
into Holland, and along the Rhine; to 
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‘Peace of Amiens, 
Mentz and Darmftadt. The engravings 
which will accompany this volume are 
ftill more beautifulthan thofe which have 
accompanied his former works. 
The Rev. J. Ropinson, matter of the 
Free Grammar-School at Ravenftonedale, 
has juft completed a copious work en the 
Literature, Manners, Cultoms, Religion, 
Warfare, Laws, &c. &e. of the Greeks, 
intended for the ufe of {chools ; and in- 
cluding the refults of the var ious differta- 
tions which have been written on thofe 
fu eets fince the time of Potter. The’ 
work of Mr. R., which will be found an 
indifpenfable companion in reading the 
Greek Claflics, will be publithed under 
the title of Archeologia € Greca. 
Mr. Beis#amis about to publith a Coi- 
lection of State-Papers, Official Letters, 
and other Documents, illifirative of Eng< 
hth Hiftory, from the Revolution to the 
Thefe Papers extend 
to two volumes, and are {0 printed as 
either to be fold fepar ately, or in connec- 
tion with the various volumes of his Hif- 
tory, to which the Papers refpeétively 
appertain. This work, together with the 
Hittory of Mr. Hume, forms now a revu- 
lar and refpeétable feries of Enelifh hits 
tory from the carlieft records to our own 
times—a feiies which has hitherto been 
among the principal deftderata of Englilh 
Literature. ' 
Mr. Jounes, of Haford, to whom the 
public are under obligation for fo fplen= 
did an edition, of Froiffart, is now en- 
gaced in a Tranflation of the Chronicles 
of Monftrelet, which includes the period 
from 1400 to 1467, and defcribe the par- 
ticulars of the conquetts of Henry the 
Vth., and of the fubfequent expaihon of 
the Englith from France. 
