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WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.

LONDON.

Mr Gideon Mantell, F. L. S. Member of the Geological Society, and author of the "Fossils of the South Downs," is preparing for publication a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of Tilgate Forest; with Observations on the Beds of Limestone and Clay which alternate in the Ironsand of Sussex. This work will be embellished with numerous Engravings of the extraordinary fossils discovered by the anthor in those remarkable strata; and will contain an Account of the Geological Relations of the Limestone of Winchelsea, Hastings, Battel, Horsham, &c. It is intended as an Appendix to the "Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex."

A Prospectus of a Work upon Ancient Armour has been put forth by Dr Meyreck.

Mr P. W. Watson, of Hull, has been engaged, in the vicinity of London, since the Spring of 1820, in collecting materials for a "Dendralogia Brittanica," (Trees and Shrubs that will live in the open air of Britain during the whole year.) To be illustrated by original descriptions, and coloured plates from living plants.

Prælectiones Academicæ, or Academic Lectures, are preparing for the press, on subjects connected with the History of Modern Europe; viz. Christianity, Mahomedanism, the Crusades, Literature and the Arts, Navigation, the Jesuits, the Reformation, Civil Wars in England, Slave Trade, Commerce, French Revolution, Civil Liberty, and Religious Toleration. By the Rev. H. C. O'Donnoghue, A.M. This Work will be published in four quarterly parts; making, when completed, one handsome volume octavo, of 600 pages.

Public Men of our own Times is the title of a Work which will appear in July, in 3 vols., of the size of Debrett's Peerage. It will include nearly three thousand biographies of living characters in all civilized nations, and in all walks of public life; and be ornamented with 150 copperplate portraits.

The History and Antiquities of Lewes are announced for publication, in one volume quarto, with numerous Lithographic Plates. By the Rev. T. Horsfield and J. W. Woolgar, M.A.S. The Natural History of the District by G. Mantell, F. L. and G.S., Member of the College of Surgeons, &c.

Captain Manby, author of the Means of Saving Persons from Shipwreck, has near

Sixteen Practical Sermons will shortly be published, on the most important subjects of religion, delivered on various occasions, by the late Rev. Richard Postlethwaite, Rector of Roche, Cornwall.

Mr Pontey's Practical Treatise on Rural Ornament, which deduces the science from well-known fixed principles, will appear in the course of the present month.

Shortly will be published, with numerous plates, a Tour through Sweden, Norway, and the Coast of Norwegian Lapland to the Northern Cape, in the year 1820. By A. De Capell Brooke.

At the same time will appear, in imperial quarto, the Costumes of the different Provinces in Sweden, coloured.

Mr Nelson is preparing an octavo edition of his History of Islington, which will contain much additional letter-press, and twenty Engravings and Lithographic Prints.

The Hundred of Mere. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. ; being the First Portion of a History of Modern Wilts.

The First Part of Mr Baxter's History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, containing the Hundreds of Spelho, Newbottle Grove, and part of Fawsley.

Travels into the Arkansa Territory in America, with Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings. By Thomas Nuttal, F.L.S.

An Analytical Investigation of the Scriptural Claims of the Devil, and a similar Inquiry into the meaning of the terms Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna, as used by the Scripture Writers. By the Rev. Russell Scott, of Portsmouth.

Mr Worsdale, sen. of Lincoln, has ready for the press, a Work, entitled, Celestial Philosophy, or Genethliacal Astronomy. This manuscript is entirely original, and contains, we are informed, the whole art of calculating nativities, with a great number of genitures. The examples are given in figures, which may be proved by the use of the celestial globe, or spherical trigonometry. It is intended to publish it in twentyfive numbers, making 600 pages, 8vo.

A Chart of the Rise and Progress of Christianity, exhibiting at one view the number of Christians, viz. Greeks, Roman Catholics, and Protestants, at any particular period, from the commencement of Christianity, to the present time; with a map of the world, shewing the parts inha

ly ready for the press a Journal of a Voy-bited by Christians, Mahomedans, and Pa

age to Greenland in the year 1821. With Graphic Illustrations. I vol. 4to.

VOL. XII.

gans. Containing also a Succinct Account of the Doctrines and Tenets of the various

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Christian Sects; including the Greeks, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Church of England, Church of Scotland, Socinians, Arminians, Baptists, Independents, Unitarians, Moravians, Quakers, Methodists, &c. &c. ; with the number of each Sect in Great Britain, and the population of each country in Europe, divided into Greeks, Catholics, and Protestants; forming a concise yet complete View of Christianity.

Second Edition of a Course of Elementary Fortification; including Rules, deduced from experiment, for determining the Strength of Revetments: treated on a principle of peculiar perspicuity, and illustrated by five plates and 630 diagrams. Originally published as part of a Course of Military Instruction. By C. W. Pasley, Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. F.R.S., and Director of the Establishment for Field Instruction, Royal Engineer Department.

A Treatise on the Use of Moxa, as a Therapeutical Agent. By Baron Larrey. Translated from the French; with Notes and an Introduction, containing a History of the Substance, by Robley Dunglison, will appear in the course of the present month.

Mr Hopkins, of Manchester, has in the press a Work on Principles of Political Economy which regulate Wages, Profits, Rent, and the Value of Money.

The Rev. Dr Rudge has in the press, in two octavo volumes, Sermons on the Leading Characters and most important Events recorded in the Book of Genesis.

A Second Edition of Mr Hamper's Tract on Hoar-Stones.

Memoirs of the Queens of England, with a Sketch of the Kings. By Catherine Hutton, author of the Tour of Africa, &c.

The Rev. George Holden is printing, in an octavo volume, an Attempt to Illustrate the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Mr Townsend is preparing for publication the New Testament, in Chronological and Historical Order, on a plan similar to his Arrangement of the Old Testament, lately published.

Shortly will appear, the Claims of Sir Philip Francis Refuted.

A Second Edition of Sir Astley Cooper's Work on Hernia. By C. Aston Key. With Additions by the Author, and Notes by the Editor, on the Works of Scarpa, and others who have written since the publication of the former edition.

The Rev. William Jay has in the press a new edition of his Short Discourses for Families.

Essays on Subjects of Inquiry in Metaphysics, Morals, and Religion. By the late Isaac Hawkins Brown, Esq. 8vo.

The Princess Olive of Cumberland announces her intention of publishing by subscription her Poems, in 2 vols.

Mr William Cooke has in the press an Abridgment, with Copious Notes, of Professor Morgagni's Work on Diseases.

A new edition is preparing of Blair's Grammar of Natural Philosophy.

Miss Mary Ann Hedge is about to publish a Novel, called "Man," or Anecdotes National and Individual.

A new edition of the Gûlistân, or Rose Garden. By Musle-Hudden Shaik Cady, of Sheraz. Translated from the original Persian, by Francis Gladwin, Esq. is stated to be in the press.

A Complete Translation into French of Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets, is now, for the first time, printing in Paris.

An edition is also announced of Dramatic Pieces which have been prohibited by the Censors.

Tales of a Tourist, containing the Outlaw and Fashionable Connexions. By Miss Lefanu, author of Strathallan, &c. 4 vols.

What shall be, shall be. A Novel. By Mrs Meeke. 4 vols.

Alice, or Infidelity; a Tale of the World. By Grace Stuart Hume. 5 vols.

Macrimmon; a Highland Tale. By the Author of Redmond the Rebel, &c. 4 vols.

The Uncles, or Selfishness and Liberality. By Zara Wentworth, author of the Hermit's Cave, &c. 4 vols.

Curiosity; a Novel. 3 vols.

Who is the Bridegroom? or, Nuptial Discoveries. By Mrs Green, author of Romance Readers, &c. 3 vols.

EDINBURGH.

Peveril of the Peak. By the Author of Waverley, &c. is in the Press.

The Author of Annals of the Parish, &c. is preparing for publication, The Entail, or, the Lairds of Grippy.

In the Press, and speedily will be pub

lished by subscription, in 1 vol. 12mo. price 58. Leuran Castle; or, the Wild Boar of Curridoo, with other Tales, illustrative of the Superstitions, the Manners, and the Customs of Galloway. By Robert Trotter, Student of Medicine.

MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ANTIQUITIES.

LONDON.

An Epitome of Roman Antiquities; or, an Account of the Civil Government, Judicial Proceedings, Religion, Games, Military and Naval Affairs, Dress, Entertainments, Marriages, Funerals, Money, Weights, Measures, &c. &c. of the Romans. To which is prefixed, an Abridgment of Roman History. By C. Irving, L.L.D. and F.SA. 12mo. 5s. bound. ARCHITECTURE.

Sciography; or, Examples of Shadows, and Rules for their Projection. Intended for the use of the Architectural Draughtsman. By Joseph Gevelt, Architect. 8vo.

98.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Whittaker's Complete Catalogue of School Books. 1s. sewed.

Hayes's Catalogue of Greek and Latin Classics. Part II. 1s. 6d.

T. Thorpe's Catalogue. Part II. for 1822; containing numerous articles of extreme rarity in early English Poetry and Music, Classics, &c. 3s.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of George Heriot, Jeweller to King James I.; with an Historical Account of the Hospital founded by him at Edinburgh. Foolscap 8vo. With Engravings.

The seventh edition of Jones's Biographical Dictionary; with Numerous Additions. 18mo. 6s. 6d.

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Samuel Denmore Hayward, denominated the Modern Macheath. 12mo. By Pierce Egan. 6s.

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle, &c. With original Anecdotes of many of his Contemporaries, and a Summary Review of Public Affairs. Written by his Widow Lucy. Now first published from the original manuscript, by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson. To which is prefixed, the Life of Mrs Hutchinson, written by herself; a Fragment. A new edition. 2 vols. 8vo. £1, 1s. boards.

Memoirs of the Life of Artemi of Wagarschapat, near Mount Arrarat, in Armenia; from the original Armenian. Written by himself. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Written by himself. Edited, with Notes, by F. Roscoe, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo.

Napoleon in Exile; consisting of his own Remarks, Conversations, Anecdotes, &c. Collected during three years' intercourse. With a Narrative of the Public and Private Events of his Life, Character of his Generals. By B. O'Meara. 2 vols. 8vo.

£1, 1s.

BOTANY.

The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom Displayed. In a Series of Letters. By the author of Select Female Biography. With a plate and wood-cuts. 12mo. 7s.

CHEMISTRY.

An Epitome of Chemistry; wherein the Principles of that Science are illustrated in One Hundred Instructive Experiments. By the Rev. J. Topham, M.A. 12mo. 3s. 6d.

CLASSICS.

Supplementary Annotations on Livy. Designed as an Appendix to the Editions of Drakenborch, and Crevier. By John Walker, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 8vo. 12s. boards.

A Full and Plain Account of the Horatian Metres. By John Walker. Fifth Edition, with Additions. 8vo. 1s. sewed.

Euripidis Electra, ad Optimarum Editionum fidem emendavit, et notis in usum juventutis instruxit Hastings Robinson, A.M. Collegii Div. Joann. Cant. Socius. 5s. 6d.

The Theory and Practice of Latin Inflection; being Examples in the form of Copy Books for declining Nouns and Verbs. In Two Parts. By Thomas Haigh, A.M. 4to.

12s.

Quintilianus de Institutione Oratoriâ ; ex Editione J. M. Gesneri. 2 vols. Museum Criticum ; or, Cambridge Classical Researches. No. VII. 8vo. 5s. EDUCATION.

A Second Edition of Rabenhorst's Pocket Dictionary of the German and English Languages. In Two Parts. By G. H. Nochden, L.L.D.

A Greek Grammar for the use of Schools, abridged from the Greek Grammar of Augustus Mathiæ. By C. J. Blomfield, D.D. 12mo. 3s. 6d.

Aristarchus; or, the Principles of Composition, with Rules for attaining to Purity and Elegance of Expression. By Philip Withers. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Collectanea Latina ; or, Select Extracts from such Latin Authors as are usually read in Schools before Virgil and Horace. With notes, and a Vocabulary. By T. Quin.

Essays on Intellectual and Moral Improvement. Principally designed for Youth. 12mo. 3s. 6d.

The Third Edition of a key to Chambaud's French Exercises. By E. J. Oiseau.

FINE ARTS.

Practical Hints on Composition in Painting. Illustrated from the Examples of the Great Masters of the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools. By John Burnet. 4to. 12s.

Original Houses of the Poets and Philosophers of Great Britain. No. I. 3s.

Portraits of the British Poets. Part XV. Containing Six Portraits; four of which have never before been Engraved. On royal 8vo. Fourteen Proofs on India Paper. 4to. £1, 8s.

The Rudiments of Practical Perspective. By Peter Nicholson. Thirty-eight plates. 8vo. 14s.

Sicily, from Drawings by Derwint. No. IX. 8vo. 12s. 4to. 18s.

Paris, from Drawings by Captain Batty. Complete in 12 Numbers. 8vo. £7, 4s. 4to. £10, 16s.

The Flemish, Dutch, and German Schools of Painting. By the Rev. J. T. James. 8vo. 12s.

Part III. of Peak Scenery; or, Excursions in Derbyshire. By E. Rhodes. Illustrated with Engravings, by Mr G. Cooke, from Drawings made by Francis Chantrey, Esq. R.A. F.R.S. Demy 4to, £1, 4s. Royal 4to, £1, 14s. Imperial, £3.

GEOGRAPHY, STATISTICS, &c.

The Twenty-eighth Edition of Du Fresnoy's Geography for Children. 12mo. 2s. 6d.

Pestalozzi's Practical Geography, Sacred, Ancient, and Modern; with Rules for the Construction of Maps, &c. By P. H. Pullen. 8vo. 6s.

Remarks touching Geography. By Mela Britannicus. 10s. 6d.

The Eighth Edition of Practical Geography. By J. Ouiseau. 5s. bound.

Switzerland; or, a Journal of a Tour and residence in that country. Followed by a General View of its History, brought down to the Present Time, and principally directed to the Manner and Mode of Life of the People in Ancient and Modern Times. By S. Simond, author of the Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain. 2 vols. 8vo. £1, 4s.

The University and City of Oxford Displayed; shewing all the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. 8vo. £2, 5s.

A New Guide to Cheltenham; with an Account of the Virtues and Qualities of its Mineral Waters, and a Map of the Environs, and numerous plates of the Spas, Public Buildings, &c. 3s. 6d.

The Child's Atlas; consisting of Maps of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, the Four Quarters of the World, and the British Islands; with their corresponding Outlines, neatly engraved by W. R. Gardner. Designed as an Easy and Correct Mode of teaching Geography to little Children. Half-bound, 9s.

A succinct Account of the Lime-Rocks of Plymouth; with Ten Lithographic Plates of some of the most remarkable of the Animal Remains found in them. By the Rev. Richard Hurnah.

A Picturesque Promenade round Dorking in Surrey. By John Timbs. 12mo. 7s. 6d.

HISTORY.

The Chronicles of Eri; being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber, or Irish People. Translated from the Original Manuscripts in the Phrenician Dialect of the Scythian Language, by O'Connor. 2 vols. demy 8vo. £1. 7s. Royal, £1, 158.

Rivington's Annual Register for the year 1820. In one large volume, 8vo. price 18s. in boards. The volume for 1821 will be published in the course of the present year.

Dodley's Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature of the year 1820.

MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Remarks on Morbus Oryzeus; or, the Disease occasioned by Eating Noxious Rice; with a concise Narrative of Facts and Cases. By Robert Tytler, M. D. M.A.S. 8s. 6d.

A Slight Sketch of a New Nosological System, for the Classification of Diseases. 1s. The same in Latin. 1s.

A Treatise on the Morbid Respiration of Domestic Animals, illustrative of the Diseases of the Organs of Respiration in Horses, Cows, Sheep, and Dogs, with the most approved Methods of Treatment; including a Variety of Cases and Dissections. By Edward Causer. 9s.

The Thirteenth Edition of Reece's Medical Guide, for the Use of Families.

MISCELLANIES.

Sketches and Fragments. By the Author of the Magic Lantern. 8vo. 7s.

Letters to Lord Byron, on a Question of Poetical Criticism. Third edition, with Corrections. To which are now first added, the Letter of Mr Campbell, and the Answer to the Writer in the "Quarterly Review," as far as they regard Poetical Criticism; together with an Answer to some Objections, and further Illustrations. By the Rev. W. L. Bowles. 8vo. 78. 6d. Letters from Spain. By Don Leucadia Doblado. 8vo. 15s.

The Author of Junius Discovered in the Person of the Celebrated Earl of Chesterfield. 8vo. 5s.

Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales. By the Rev. H. D. Cinybeare; with Map. Part I. 16s. On fine paper. 20s.

No. XXXI. of the Percy Anecdotes ; containing Anecdotes of Woman. 18mo. 2s. 6d.

A Speech delivered in the House of Lords, on Friday, June 7, 1822. By Herbert, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, on the Presentation of a Petition against his Examination Questions. With Explanatory Notes, a Supplement, and a Copy of the Questions.

Observations on Weights and Measures, containing a plan for Uniformity, founded on a Philosophical Standard. By R. Wallace, A.M. In 8vo. 3s. sewed.

Farewell Letters to a few Friends in England and America, on returning to Bengal. By W. M. Ward, of Serampore.

No. II. of the Album, a Quarterly Publication. Price 5s.

No. II. of the Council of Ten, a Monthly Publication. Price 2s. 6d.

No. I. of the Literary Register of the Fine Arts, a Weekly Publication. Price 4d. unstamped.

The letters of Julius: also Expedience, a Satire. By Julius. Book I. 2 vols. 8vo. 15s.

Solar Tables; being the Logarithms of Half-elapsed Time, Middle Time, and Rising, for every Second, to six places of Figures useful in determining the Latitude by Double Altitudes, &c., and working the Longitude by Chronometer. By Captain Thomas Lynn.

Star Tables for 1823 (No. II.) for more readily ascertaining the Latitude and Longitude at sea in the Twilight and during the Night; with Perpetual and other useful Tables, which, with those of 1822, will be serviceable for many years. By Captain Thomas Lynn.

A Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast-Iron. By Thomas Tredgold. 8vo. Plates. 12s.

Essays. By Father Fitz-Eustace, a Mendicant Friar. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind. Part I. By the Rev. Frederick Bensley, D.D. 8vo. 14s.

An Account of a Plan for conducting a Penny Savings' Bank for Children; with the addition of a working Fund for Families; including Directions and Patterns for Cutting out every sort of Wearing Apparel. 5s.

Elements of the Game of Chess; or a New Method of Instruction in that celebrated Game, founded on Scientific Principles; containing numerous Rules, Remarks and Examples. By W. Lewis, teacher of Chess. 12mo. 78.

An Historcial and Descriptive Account of the Steam-Engine; with an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers connected with the Subject. By Charles Frederick Partington. 8vo. 18s.

Excursions of Pleasure, and Sports on the Thames, illustrated with Engravings.

1s.

The Death-bed Confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

Edes Althorpianæ, or an Account of the Mouse Library, Pictures, &c., at Althorpe,in Northamptonshire the Residence of George John Earl Spencer, &c. By the Rev. T. F. Dibden, F.R.S.S.A. 2 vols. 8vo. £6, 69.

Thoughts, chiefly on Serious Subjects; with Remarks on Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words." By W. Danby, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 12s.

NOVELS.

Roche Blanche, or the Hunters of the Pyrenees, a Romance. By Miss A. M. Porter. In 3 vols. 12mo. £1, 4s. boards.

Elizabeth Woodville, or the Wars of the Houses of York and Lancaster. Embellished with 24 Plates. 4s. plain, or 6s. coloured.

Elvington. By Mrs Nathan. 3 vols. 16s. 6d.

The Wizard Priest and the Witch, a Romance. By Quintin Poynet, Esq. 3 vols. 16s. 6d.

The Blue Mountains, a West Indian Tale. By the Author of My Old Cousin, &c. 3 vols. 16s. 6d.

Life, or Fashion and Feeling. By Mary Anne Hedge. 3 vols. 16s. 6d. Singularity. By Jane Harvey. 3 vols. 18s.

Principle and Passion. 2 vols. 12s. Eccentricity, a Novel. By Mrs M'Nally. 3 vols. 12mo. 18s. boards.

Frederick Dornton, or the Brothers. By R. A. Kelly, Author of De Renzy, &c. 4 vols. £1, 2s.

The Three Perils of Man; or War, Women, and Witchcraft. A Border Romance. By James Hogg, Esq. 3 vols. 12mo, £1, 4s.

Tales of the Drama, founded on the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Massinger, Shirley, Rowe, Murphy, Lillo, and Moore; and on the Comedies of Steele, Farquhar, Cumberland, Bickerstaff, Goldsmith, and Mrs Cowley. By Miss Macauley. 12mo. 10s.

Body and Soul; consisting of a Series of lively and pathetic Stories, calculated to excite the attention and interest of the Religious World. In post 8vo. 12s.

Influence, a Moral Tale for Young People. By a Lady. 2 vols. 12mo. 12s. The School Fellows. By Miss Sandhum. Foolscap 8vo. 4s. 6d.

Metropolis. By the Author of Little Hydrogen, or the Devil in London. 3 vols. 16s. 6d.

St Irvyne, or the Rosicrusian. 4s. Traits and Trials. 2 vols. 12s. The Refugees, an Irish Tale. By the Author of Correction. 3 vols. 12mo. £1, 1s.

The Guahiba, a Tale. By the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. 8vo.

The third edition of the Old ManorHouse. By Charlotte Smith. 4 vols. £1, 2s.

Wieland. By Charles Brockden Brown. 3 vols. 18s. A new edition.

Ormond. By Charles Brockden Brown. 3 vols. 18s. A new edition.

Arthur Mervyn. By Charles Brockden Brown. 3 vols. 18s.

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