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ings, in continuation of the late Dr. Willan's Treatise on Cutaneous Diseases, are in course of publication.

In the course of January will be published, Letters from the North Highlands; addressed to Miss Jane Porter, by E. Spence, Author of the Caledonian Sketches, &c.

Nearly ready for publication, in 2 vols. 8vo. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnean Method, with particular attention to the Synonymy; to which is subjoined a copious Index of the Synonyms used by previous Conchological Authors. L. W. Dillwyn, F. R. S. F. L. S. Honorary Member of the Geological Society of London, the Linnean Society of Philadelphia, &c.

Barron Field, esq. of the Inner Temple, is printing, in two octavo volumes, a Practical Treatise on the Commercial Law of England.

Mr. Maclachlan, of Old Aberdeen, will soon publish a volume of Medical Effusions.

The plates from Mr. Flaxman's de signs from Hesiod's Theogony, Works and Days, and the Days; being compositions in outline, are nearly all engraved, and may be expected to be published about Christmas.

Considerable progress is made in the reprint of Morte d'Arthur, from the Caxton edition, in the possession of Earl Spencer, with an Introduction and Notes, tending to elucidate the History and Bibliography of the work; as well as the Fictions of the Round Table Chivalry in general. By Mr. Southey.

A new edition of the Saxou Chronicle, with an English Translation and Notes. By the Rev. J. Ingram, late Saxon Professor in the University of Oxford. To which will be added, a new and copious Chronolog cal, Topographical, and Glossarial Index, with a short Grammar of the Saxon Language, and an accurate and enlarged map of England during the Heptarchy, is in a state of forwardness.

The second volume of Mr. Southey's History of Brazil, may be expected to appear in the month of January.

The seventh part of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, edited by the Rev. J. H.. Todd, will be published about Christ

mas.

In the course of the month may be expected, an octavo volume, comprising A Tour through Belgium, along the Rhine, and through the North of France; in which an account is given

of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and of the System of Education; with remarks on the Fine Arts, Commerce, and Manufactures. By James Mitchell, M. A.

Mr. William Daniell, is commencing the third volume of his Picturesque Voyage round Great Britain, which is published in monthly parts, each of which in future will contain three coloured plates with descriptive letterpress. The present volume will embrace the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland, a district highly interesting in many points of view, and particularly rich in subjects for Graphic Illus tration.

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A new and enlarged edition may be expected in a few days, of the Letters and other works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in 5 vols. post 8vo. which are added, Authentic Memoirs of her Life. By the Rev. James Dallaway, M. B. With Letters hitherto uupublished, from Pope, Young, Fielding, and other distinguished characters,

In the press, Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, during the Campaign of 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. By an English Woman, Author of Circumstantial Details of the Battle of Waterloo, by a Near Observer. 8vo.

In the press, The Plays and Poems of James Shirley, now first collected and chronologically arranged, and the text carefully collated. With occasional Notes and a Biographical and Critical Essay. By William Gifford, Esq. with a portrait. Handsomely printed by Bulmer, in 6 vols. 8vo. uniformly with Massinger and Ben Jonson.

As only One Hundred Copies of Shirley are printed in royal octavo, those Gentlemen who have copies of Ben Jonson and Massinger in this size, are requested to secure copies to complete their sets on the large paper of these Dramatic Writers, by an early applica tion to their booksellers.

In the month of January, may be expected, in octavo, the first volume of The Annual Obituary, containing, 1. Memoirs of those celebrated Men, who have died within the present year, (1816).-2. Neglected Biography, with Biographical Notices and Anecdotes, and Original Letters.-3. Analyses of recent Biographical Works. —4. An Alphabetical List of all the Persons who have died within the British Dominions,

so as to form a Work for Reference, both now and hereafter. To be continued Annually.

During the present month may be expected, from the pen of Mrs. West, Author of "Letters to a Young Man," &c. Scriptural Essays, adapted to the Holydays of the Church of England: containing a Commentary on the Services, and Reflections adapted to the present Times.

In the course of the ensuing month will appear, Practical Observations in Surgery, and Morbid Anatomy. Illustrated by Cases with Dissections and Engravings. By John Howship, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, &c. in one vol. 8vo.

Early in December will appear, Part the 2d in 8vo. of Surgical Observations; being a Quarterly Report of Cases in Surgery; treated in the Middlesex Hospital, in the Cancer Establishment, and in Private Practice. Embracing an

Account of the Anatomical and Pathological Researches in the School of Windmill-street. By Charles Bell.

Mr. Utterson's Selection of early Popular Poetry, will be published in the course of the month, in two volumes of the same size as Ritson's "Ancient Popular Poetry," and we understand the impression is limited to two hundred and fifty copies.

In January will be published, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Dr. Lettsom, with a Selection from his Correspondence with the principal Literati of this and foreign Countries. By T. J. Pettigrew, F. L. S. Surgeon Extraordinary to the Dukes of Kent and Sussex, &c.

This Work will be comprised in three volumes. The first two will consist of a Memoir of Dr. Lettsom, and a Selection of general Correspondence with Linnæus, Lord Lansdown, Sir M. Martin, Bart. Rev. Drs. Madison, Lathrop, &c. Drs. Ash, Bisset, Cuming, Currie, Darwin, Falconer, Fothergill, Benj. Franklin, Percival, Rush, Waterhouse, Zimmermann, &c. and a Memoir of the late Dr. Nield, written by himself.The third volume (which may be had

separate) will be composed of Original Medical Papers, Cases, and Correspondence with Baron Hailer, Drs. Callen, Struve, &c.-The price of the first two volumes, to subscribers, Il. 1s. the third volume, 12s.

A view of the History of Scotland, from the earliest Records to the Rebellion in 1745, in a series of Letters, to form three octavo volumes, is preparing for the press.

Biblical Criticism on the Books of the Old Testament. And Translations of Sacred Songs, with Notes Critical and Explanatory. By Samuel Horsley, LL. D. F.R.S. F.A.S. Late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, is in considerable forward

ness.

A Translation in one Volume quarte of the celebrated Abbe Dubois' Description of the People of India; with particular Reference to their Separation into Casts; the influence of their Civil Policy and Domestic Superintendance; their Idolatry and Religious Ceremonies; and the various Singularities of Customs, Habits, and Observances, which distinguish them from all other Nations taken from a diligent Observation and Study of the People, during a Residence of many Years amongst their various Tribes, in unrestrained Intercourse and Conformity with their Habits and Manner of Life, is nearly ready for publication.

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The Round Table, a Collection of Essays, on Literature, Men, and ManBy Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. In Two Volumes, Duodecimo, will shortly be published.

Mr. Geo. Cumberland has prepared for the press, a work on the Commencement and Progress of the Art of Engraving, as far as relates to the advantages Art has derived from the productions of the Italian School.

The Rev. W. N. Darnell is printing a volume of Sermons on Practical Sub jects.

The Rev. J. Nightingale has in the press, in a quarto volume, English Topography, or a Description of the several Counties of England and Wales, with a map of each county.

Art. XV. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

ANTIQUITIES.

The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, by E. W. Brayley; with

Architectural aud Graphical Illustratrations by I. P. Neale. Part L with five Engravings, Folio, to correspond with Dugdale's Monasticon; in royal and imperial 4to.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memorial Sketches of the Rev. David Brown: with a Selection of his Sermons preached at Calcutta. 8vo. 12s.

EDUCATION.

An Atlas for the Use of Schools. Containing Maps of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of the World, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal, Italy, and Germany.

By Miss Wilkinson. Part I. contains the Maps at large, and Part II. the Blank Duplicates. Svo. 7s. 6d. boards.

HISTORY.

A History of the Jesuits; to which is prefixed, a Reply to Mr. Dallas's Defence of that Order. In 2 Vols. 8vo. 11. 4s.

The Inquisition Unmasked; being a Historical and Philosophical Account of that tremendous Tribunal; founded on authentic Documents, and exhibiting the Necessity of its Suppression, as a Means of Reform and Regeneration. Written and published at a Time when the National Congress of Spain was about to deliberate on this important measure. By D. Antonio Puigblanch. Translated from the Author's enlarged Copy, by William Walton, Esq. In 2 Vols. 8vo. illustrated by twelve Historical Engravings. 11. 4s.

A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies. By John Hoyland, Author of an Epitome of the History of the World, &c. 8vo. 7s. boards.

The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1814. In 8vo. 11, 1s. boards.

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Edinburgh, and Physician to the Ge neral Dispensary at Lancaster. 8vo. 2s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Spanish Tales: translated from Le Sage, and selected from other Authors, wherein are contained a Description of Madrid, Grenada, Saragoza, Seville, Milan, Parma, Palermo, &c. &c. By Mrs. Frederick Layton. 3 Vols. 12mo. 11. 1s. boards.

The Identity of Junius with a distinguished Living character established, by a variety of Facts, and by the Speeches of Lord Chatham in 1770. 8vo. with a fine portrait. 12s.

The Blind Man and his Son, a Tale; the Four Friends, a Fable; and a word" for the Gipsies, foolscap 8vo. with frontispiece. 4s. 6d.

POETRY.

The Prisoner of Chillon, a Fablethe Dream-Darkness-the Incanta tion, &c. By the Right Hon, Lord Byron. Svo. 5s. 6d.

A Third Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. By the Right Hon. Lord Byron. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

Copies of Verses to the Memory of the late Richard Reynolds, of Bristol, the benevolent Quaker, whose Charities, during his Life, were perhaps unex ampled, and to whose Memory the Inhabitants of Bristol are raising the most honorable Monument that ever recorded and perpetuated the Virtues of the Dead-a Charitable Institution to reach the Objects of his Bounty while living. By J. Montgomery, Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland, &c. 2s.

The Poetic Mirror; or, the living Bards of Britain. 12mo. 7s. 6d. boards. Poems. By Hannah More, with an engraved Title and Vignette, royal 12mo. 8s.

The Worth of a Bible; illustrated by Tales in Verse, founded upon fact: designed as a Reward book for Sunday Schools.

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POLITICAL ECONOMY.

An Inquiry into the Principle of Po pulation, including an Exposition of the Causes and the Advantages of a Tendency to Exuberance of Numbers in Society. A Defence of the Poor Laws, and a Critical and Historical View of the Doctrines and Projects of the most celebrated Legislators and Writers, relative to Population, the Poor, and

Charitable Establishments. By James Grahame, Esq. 8vo.

England may be extricated from her Difficulties, consistently with the strietest Principles of Policy, Honour, and Justice. By a Country Gentleman. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Letters on the Constrained Celibacy of the Clergy of the Church of Rome. 8vo. 10s. boards.

Remedies proposed as certain, speedy, and effectual, for the Relief of our pre sent Embarrassments. By an Independent Gentlemen. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

THEOLOGY.

Sermons on the Union of Truth, Reason, and Revelation, in the Doctrine of the Established Church of England and Ireland. Preached in the Years 1814, 1815, 1816. By the Hon. and Rev. Edward John Turnour, A. M. Formerly of Saint Mary Hall, Oxford; late Curate of Heston, Middlesex; and Chaplain to the Dowager Countess Winterton. 8vo. 12s. boards.

The Season and Time; or, an Exposition of the Prophecies which relate to the Two Periods of Daniel subsequent to the 1260 Years now recently expired; being the Time of the Seventh Trumpet and prophetically assigned to the Extirpation of Apostacy, and Accomplishment of the Reconciliation of the Jews, and Introduction of the Millennium. Together with Remarks upon the Revolutionary Antichrist, proposed by Bp. Horsley and the Rev. G. S. Faber. By W. Ettrick, A. M. Author of the Second Exodus, or Reflections on the Prophecies of the last Times. 8vo. 12s. boards.

Sermons on the Parables. By the Rev. W. M. Trinder. 8vo. 12s. boards.

A new Edition of, Some Important Points of Primitive Christianity Maintained and Defended; in several Sermons and other Discourses. By George Bull, D. D. Bishop of St. David. To which is prefixed, the History of his Life, and of those Controversies in which he was engaged. By Robert Nelson, Esq. 3 Vols. 8vo. 11. 4s. boards.

(To be completed in 14 Monthly Parts, comprising 3 Volumes,) Stackhouse's History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World to the Es tablishment of Christianity, corrected and improved. By the Right Rev.

George Gleig, LL. D. F.R.S. E. F.S.S.A. Primate of the Scotch Episcopal Church. Part I. On demy 4to 7s. and on royal 4to. 9s. sewed.

Unitarianism a Scriptural Creed; occasioned by the Pauphlets of Mr. Law and Mr. Baxter in Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity. By T. C. Holland, Minister of the Unitarian Congregation in Preston. 1s. 6d.

A Defence of the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour, in Answer to some Letters by Mr. T. C. Holland, in which that Doctrine was attacked; with Remarks on the Personality of the Holy Ghost. By Edward Law, A. M. Minister of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Preston, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester. 4s.

Plain Discourses, delivered to a Country Congregation. Vol. III. By the Rev, William Butcher, M. A. 12mo. 3s. 6d. boards.-The Three Volumes may be had, 15s.

The Abode of Wisdom. By the Author of the Shepherd and his Flock. 12mo. 3s. 6d.

The Power of Faith: exemplified in the life and writings of the late Mrs. Isabella Graham, of New York. 8vo. 75.

Christian Essays. By the Rev. S. C. Wilks, 2 Vols. royal 12mo.

Sermons by Samuel Chartres, D. D. Minister of Wilton. A new edition, 2 Vols. 8vo. 11. 1s.

The Biblical Cyclopedia, or Dietionary of the Holy Scripture. By William Jones, Author of the History of the Waldenses, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 16s.

Lectures Explanatory and Practical on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. By the Rev. John Fry, A. B. Rector of Desford, &c. 8vo. 12s.

Religious Liberty stated and enforced on the principles of Scripture and Common Sense. In six Essays, with Notes and an Appendix. By Thomas Williams, Svo. 6s.

TOPOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.

A Diary of a Journey into North Wales. By the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Printed from the original MS. in his own Handwriting; together with a Fac-simile of a Part of the Manuscript. Edited, with illustrative Notes, by R. Duppa, LL. B. crown 8vo. 9s, boards.

GENERAL INDE X.

VOL. VI. NEW SERIES.

ACCUM'S practical treatise on gas
lights, 61, et seq.

Ackermann's, Mr. statement of the differ-
ence of his expense between burning gas
and oil, c. 64, et seq.

Act of uniformity and its consequences,
129

Adams on epidemic diseases, and on
hereditary peculiarities of the human
race, 456, et seq.; fatal effects of qua-
rantines, 457; nature of endemics, &c.
ib.; of epidemics, ib.; mode of com-
munication considered, ib.; opinions
of the contagionists and the anti-con-
tagionists considered, ib. et seq.; fatal
experiments of some students

at

Edinburgh, 460; state of the con-
troversy, 461; Dr. Rollo's testimony
of fever originating from confined ef-
fluvia, 462; inefficiency of quaran-
tine laws, 463; fever-virus, inquiry
into its mode of acting on the human
system, 464; origin of epidemics,
465; preventive measures, 467; on
hereditary complaints, 468; provision
of nature against its increase, ib.;
causes of the permanent cretinism of the
Alps, 469; Dr. A. on the perpetuity of
disease from isolation, 469; opposite
opinion of Dr. Reid, (note) 470; Dr.
A's general deductions in regard to here-
ditary diseases, 471

Adams's, Robert, narrative of his resi-
dence at Tombuctoo, &c. 251, et seq.;
Adams accidentally discovered in
London, and interrogated in regard
to the interior of Africa, 254; ac-
count of his shipwreck on the coast
of Africa, and march up the country,
255, et seq.; Tombuctoo, manners of
the inhabitants, &c. 257, et seq.; La
Mar Zarab, 258; humane character
of the negroes, 259; Adams's denial
of the existence of any public reli-
gion at Tombuctoo, 260; the laws

lenient, ib.; mode of procuring slaves,
&c. ib.; removal from Tombuctoo,
261; his various hardships and ran-
som, 261, 2
Admonitions to the clergy, on preaching,
by Bishop Ryder, 397

Adult baptism, compilers of the office for,
anti-Calvinistic in their principtes, 177
Erius, opinions propagated by him, 46;
condemned as a heretic by Epipha-
nius, ib.; inconsistency of, Dr. Mosheim
and his translator, charge against him,
47
Esculapius's oracular communications
to medical students, 605, et seq.; plan
of study for two years, 606
Agamemnon, tomb of, 296

Age, arrangement of its inconveniemes,

611

Alastor, or the spirit of solitude, a
poem, 391, et seq.

Albigenses, their origin, 49
Ambrose's Looking unto Jesus, 192, 3;
extract, ib.

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American officer, fatal consequences of a
haughty spirit in one, 89
Ancient Marbles, description of the
collection of, in the British Museum,
54, et seq.

Ancients possessed finer models of the

human countenance than exist at
present, 57

Animal enjoyment, on the diminution of,
from age, 613
Antinomian secession from the Established

Church, Bishop Ryder's notice of, 395
Apostolic succession of the Church of
England attempted to be derived from
Paul, 431

Ascension of Christ, 249, et seq.
Athanasius, his principles intolerant, 45
Athens, its funereal character, 41
Authorized version of the Holy Scrip-
tures, Boothroyd's reflections on the,
590, et seq.

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