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VARIETIES, Literary anp PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Iucluding Notices of Works in Hand, Domeflic and Foreign. 
*,* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
HE Rey. Mr. DuTENs, known to the 
public as editor of the Mathematical 
Works of Leibnitz, author of an Inquiry 
relative tothe Avcients and Moderns, and 
of other learned works, piopofes to pub. 
lith Memoirs of his long and active Life, 
embracing a period of upwards of half a 
century, and including anecdotes of near- 
ly. every Court in Europe. The watk 
will appear in London early in May, un- 
der the title of “* Memoirs of a Traveller, 
now in Retirement,’ and will extend to 
five volumes, fimilar in’ ze to Kotzebue’s 
Travels in Italy. 
Mr. J. Jounson, late Surgeon of the 
Caroline, is preparmg for the prefs a full 
Account of a Voyage lately performed 
in that Ship to Madras, Bengal, and China, 
inter{perfed with Topographical Sketches 
and Remarks, adapted to the ufe of per- 
fons making the voyage to India. 
The Sepiuagint begun by the late Dr. 
Holimes will be completed without further 
delay by the Univerfity of Oxford. 
Mr. THELWALL has opened a Semi- 
nary (No. 40, Bedtord-place, Kuflell- 
fquare,) tor the cultivation of the Science 
and Praétice of Elocution, and the Cure 
of Impediments cf Speech ; and is now 
delivering a Courfe of Lectures on the 
elementary principles of his art. The 
LeStures are illudrated by graphic and 
mechanical demonftrations of the eflential 
propolitions, and are occafionally relieved 
by popular readings and recitations, and 
by {pecimens of ipontaneous oratory. Mr. 
T. alfo propofes to receive into his houfe 
a limited number of pupiis who have im- 
pediments of utterance, of whatever de. 
{cription, the deaf alone excepted ; and to 
give leffons, at itated hours, to individu- 
als and to feleét claffes, to whom dometti- 
cation might not be convenient, and who 
may either labour under the like imper- 
feétions, or be defirous of improvement in 
the accompilifhments of reading and reci- 
tation, converfational fluency, public ora- 
tory, and the principles of criticifm and 
compofition, 
_ Mr. Buarre has a work in the prefs, de- 
figned for the ule of clergymen, heads of 
families, and other unproteffional readers, 
in which he attempts to anfwer the objec- 
tors againft the Cow- Pox, on quite a new 
pian; viz., by quoting their own words 
_ in refutation of themicives. 
The Seconp Parr of Dr. GrEGO- 
Ry’s New Dictionary of Arts and Scix 
ences, which is to be comp'eted within 
twelve months, will make its appearance 
in regular courfe on the firft day of April. 
A new Hiftory of England, ina Series 
of Letters to a Young Lady at School, 
will make its appearance ina few days, 
from -the pen of Mrs. CHARLOTTE 
SmiTH. ‘This work has been delayed fe- 
verel years in the prefs, owing to the il- 
health of the authorefs ; aad at length, in 
order to complete the work, fome late 
reigns have been neceflarily written by a 
female friend, under her juperintendance, 
The Epigrams and other Fugitive. 
Pieces from the Greek, which nave for a 
confiderable time conferred diftingion on 
the pages of the Monthly Magazine, are 
about to be given to the public ina fepa- 
rate elegant volume, . 
Mr. HENRY SipDONS, of Drury-lane 
Theatre, has nearly finifhed a volume un- 
der the title of the Maid, Wife, and Wi- 
dow. - 
The Third Volume of the Monthly 
Journal of New Voyages and Travels is 
nearly completed, and will contain Pogue. 
quille’s Travels in the Morea and Turkey, 
Mangourit’s Travels in Hanover, Fi- 
{cher’s Travels in the South of France, 
an original Tour in Spain, and a Tour in 
Treland, with analyfes of Cari*s Northern 
Summer and of Turnbull’s Voyage round 
the World, 
Tne Poems of Offian, in the original 
Gaelic, are in confiderable forwardaefs, 
and will fpeedily appear, accompanied by 
a Latin tranflation. 
Mr, Mann, a gentleman who has tras 
velled exprefsly for the purpofe of exa- 
mining and comparing the different me- 
thods of teaching the Deaf and Dumb 
adopted at the various inftitutions on the 
Continent, is returned to London, and 
offers his fervices to parents and guar- 
dians upon liberal terms. He has been 
already remarkably fuccefsful, and meana 
to extend his plan of eaucation to every 
branch of fcience and the arts in which 
the ineurably deaf are calculated to excel. 
Cards of addrefs may be obtained, and 
terms known, on application to Mr. 
Phillips, Bridge-ftreet, Blackfriars, or 
Meflrs. Dulau and Co., at the Foreign 
Library, Soho-fquare. ; 
State! ate Dr. 
