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The corrupt and degraded ftate of Lite- 
vary Criticifm as it is now carried on in 
this metropolis, has determined feveral 
perfons of the firft literary diftin&tion in 
the univerfity of Oxford, to commence 
the publication of a periodical Literary 
Cenfor in that feat of {cience and Jearn- 
ing. The appearance of fuch a work 
cannot but be hailed with fatisfaction by 
evety member of the republic of letters ; 
which has of Jate years been fo much out- 
raged by the vandalic fpirit, and the bafe 
and finifter views which have governed the 
greater part of our critical journals. 
A CHEMICAL SOCIETY is about to. 
be eftablifhed in London. ‘The admiffion 
of fubfcribers is for the prefent limited to 
fixty, and the annual fub/cription is fixed 
atthree guineas. An unlimited number 
of gentlemen, refiding in the country, 
snay be ‘admitted as (ubicribers, on paying 
ene guinea annualiy, which fhall ‘entitle 
them to vifit the Society as m<«mbers, 
whenever they refide in the capital, pro- 
@ded their fay does not exceed three 
months. ‘The admiffion of members is 
for the prefent confiried to a Committee, 
who requeft, that fuch gentlemen as are 
defirous of becoming fub{cribers may fa- 
vour them with their names, for which 
purpofe a book is opened at their Labo- 
yatoty, No. 11, Old Compton-ttreet, 
Dr. Vincent has in the prefs a new 
edition of the Nearchus. 
The unweildy extent of the Poets at 
large has determined Mr. Pratt, a 
gentleman whofe tafe in elegant litera- 
ture has been acknowledged by the pub- 
lic during a period of thirty years, to 
make a feleStion of the beft pteces con- 
tained in the entire feries of our na- 
tional Poets, which he intends to print in 
fix or feven elegant {mall volumes. The 
pieces from each poet will be iniroduced 
by a fhort biographical notice, and gene- 
sally accompanied by a finely engraved 
portrait. The entire work will be pre- 
faced bya Critical and Hiftorical Effay on 
the Charafteriftics and Progrefs of Eng- 
4h Poetry, from Chaucer to Cowper. 
A Treat on Britifi Pafture and 
Meadow Graffes, is intendcd to be pub- 
Jithed, by fubfcription, in the autuma of 
the prefent year, by Mr. JoHN THORN- 
WiLL, ef Gatefhead, in the county of 
Durham. Above thirty kinds of graffes 
wil! be defcribed ; and to aid the defcrip- 
tiens, a fpecimen of each, having all the 
parts, root, leaves, fiem, and fpike or pa- 
nicle, will be given, together witha fmall 
picket of the feeds of each plant. The 
price te fubferibers will be fifteen fhilliogs. 
Literary and Philofsphical Intelligence, 
e 
[July 1, 
Mr, JoHNES propofes to publith a 
Supplementary Volume to his quarto edi- 
tion of Froiffart’s Chronicles ; containing 
Memoirs of the Life of the Author; the 
various readings produced for the pro- 
jected new Louvre edition ; an account of 
the celebrated manufcripts of the Chro- 
nicles at Breflaw, with its various readings. 
and additions, and an account of the 
death of Richard II, of England, ex- 
tracted from a manulcript in the National 
Library at Paris. 
For the promotion of one of the moft 
interefling objects of his new Inftitution, 
Mr. THELWALL purpofes to publifh, in 
a moderate-fized quarto volume, the fub- 
ject matter of his Phyfiological Courfe, - 
with fcientific Notes and praétical Illus 
trations. This volume is intended to con- 
tain the moft efleatial parts of what may 
be regarded as the original difcoveries of 
the Leéturer in the path of this unex- 
plored {cience, together with fo muchas 
Is neceflary to be popularly known of the 
anatomical ftruéture of the Elecutionary 
organs, and the laws of phyfical neceffity 
under which thefe organs aé&t. It will 
develope diftinétly the fyfiem of the Lec- 
turer as to the caufes of the refpective 
claffes of impediments, and the means by 
which they may be effeétually prevented ; 
and will explain the elements of that fyf- 
tem of nianagement by which, im a va- 
riety of infiances, he has bsen enabled to 
remove {uch impediments when actually 
contfaeked. oor) 
Mr. Mirrorp has in the prefs an en- 
larged editien of his Hiftory of Greece, 
te which will be now added a new volume, 
Mr. Myrray, lecturer in chemiftry, 
&c. at Edinburgh, has in the prefs a 
Syfem of Chemiftry, which will be pub- 
lithed early in next winter. — (ate 
A new ed tion of Dr. Mackay’s Trea- 
tife on the Sliding Rule, the Ship-carpen- 
ter’s Rule, Guagisg Rule, and Rod, &c, 
with confiderable additions and improve- 
mebts, ist he-prets. | eee eee 
Mr. Roperr HaMILTton, teacher of 
elocution in the colleges of Aberdeen, is. 
about to publifh Elements of Elocution, 
intesded for the improvement of youth in, 
the pronunciation and delivery of the 
Enzlif language. ~ 
The Rev. Joun Woort's Memoirs 
of the late Rev. Dr. Jofeph Warton, are. 
expected to appear by the end of the 
month, 
Dr. PINEL’s Treatife of Infanity, | 
tranflated, and accompanied with Notes, 
by Dr. Davis, is nearly ready for publi- 
Pr. 
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