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of Romance, with other Poems, in a small volume.

The Rev. J. Williams, curate of Stroud, will shortly publish a small vo-` lume of poems, illustrative of subjects moral and divine, with an Ode on Vac cination addressed to Dr. Jenner.

The Rev. David Savile, of Edinburgh, author of Dissertations on the Existence and Attributes of God, is printing a Series of Discourses on the peculiar Doctrines of Revelation, in an octavo volume.

Dr. Wm. Muller has in the press, the Elements of the Art of War; containing the established and approved modern principles of the theory and practice of the military sciences ; in three volumes, with numerous maps and plans.

Art. XXVII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

ANTIQUITIES.

Specimens of Ancient Sculpture; Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman, Selected from different Collections in Great Britain by the Society of Dilettanti. Volume the First, printed in the most elegant Manner by Bensley, imp. folio, 181. 18s. bds.

The History and Antiquities of the County of Surry; compiled from the best and most authentic Historians, valuable Records and Manuscripts, in the Public Offices and Libraries, and in private Hands. By the late Rev. Owen Manning, S. T. B. Continued to the present Time, by William Bray, Esquire. Volume the Second, illustrated by Engravings, folio, 41. 4s. sewed.

The Subscribers who have paid their first and second Subscriptions, are intitled to receive this Second Volume, either on large or small Paper, upon Payment of their third Subscription of

Two Guineas.

BIOGRAPHY.

A Biographical Peerage of the Empire of Great Britain: in which are memoirs of the most celebrated persons of each Family. Volume 3, containing the Peerage of Scotland. With the arms neatly engraven on wood. 12mo. 8s.

Memoirs of the Life of Peter Huet, Bishop of Avranches: written by himself, and translated from the Original Latin, with copious notes Biographical and Critical, by John Aikin, M. D. 2 Vols. 8vo. 11.

BOTANY.

An Introduction to the Study of Cryptogamous Plants, in Letters. By Kurt Sprengel, D. M. Professor of Botany at Halle, &c. Translated from the German. Illustrated by Ten Quarto Plates. 8vo. 9s. bds. with the Plates coloured, 18s. bds.

Prodromus Flora Novæ Hollandiæ et Insulæ Van Diemen, exhibens Characteres Plantarum quas Annis 1802-1805 per oras utriusque insulæ collegit et descripsit, Robertus Brown. Insertis passim aliis speciebus Auctori hucusque cognitis, seu evulgatis, seu ineditis, præsertim Banksianis, in primo itinere navarchi Cook detectis. Vol. 1.8vo. 18s.

COMMERCE.

The Merchant's Calculator; or, New Complete and Extended Ready Reckoner, adapted to the use of Merchants and Dealers in every Branch of Trades shewing at one view; the amount or value of any number or quantity of Goods or Merchandize from one to ten thousand, at all the various prices from one farthing to thirty shillings in eight hundred and forty different tables; also at the foot of each table throughout the work, are shewn the fractional parts of a yard or pound; the whole containing upwards of seventy two thousand additional calculations entirely new. By C. P. Walker, Author of the per centage tables, shewing the exact profit upon all descriptions of goods

from 2 1-half to 30 per cent upon the first cost. 8vo. 11. 10s.

EDUCATION.

The Modern Preceptor; or, a Gene ral Course of Polite Education: containing Introductory Treatises on Lauguage, Arithmetic, Book-keeping, Alge bra, Geometry, Geography, Astronomy, Chronology, Navigation, Drawing, Painting, &c. Agriculture, Geology, Moral Philosophy. For the Use of Schools. By John Dougall. Illustrated by 27 Plates and Maps. 2 Vols. 8vo. 11. 4s. bds.

FINE ARTS.

Views of Reading Abbey, including the remainder of the churches depending on and originally connected with it in Berkshire and other countries, descriptive of the monumental antiquities still preserved in them, with observations on their original and present state and other remarkable occurrences connected with the several Parishes. Vol. 2. royal 4to. 21. 2s.

The work may be had complete in 2 Vol. Illustrated by upwards of fifty views, price 41. 4s.

Sketches from Nature, taken on the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Killarney; the wild Scenery of North Wales and Scotland; and Compositions of Landscape, for the Advantage of Students and Amateurs in Landscape Painting. Designed, etched, and published by Richard Sass, Number 1, to be completed in Six Numbers, each Number containing Six Plates of Etchings, in Imitation of Chalk, 12s.

A few Proofs on India Paper 11. 1s, and in Colours 21. 2s.

HISTORY.

History of Brazil. Part the first. By Robert Southey. 4to. 21. 2s.

Volume 1, Illustrated by Maps, Historical sketches of the South of India in an attempt to trace the History of Mysoor, from the origin of the Hindoo Go. vernment of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799; founded chiefly on Indian Authorities collected by the Author while officiating for several years as political resident at the court of Mysore. By

Lieut. Colonel Mark Wilks, 4to. 21. 2s.

MATHEMATICS.

An Introduction to Arithmetic; or, a

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MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY.

Tabular views of the Anatomy of the Human Body. By Henry H. Aysleford, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London; and assistant Surgeon in the Royal Artillery, 4to. 10s. 6d.

A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians; being a Practical Compendium of Materia Medica and Pharmacy. By Anthony Todd dical Society of London; the Royal Thomson, Surgeon, Fellow of the MePhysical and Speculative Societies of Edinburgh. 18mo. 5s.

Hints for the Treatment of the principal diseases of Infancy and Childhood, adapted to the use of Parents, By James Hamilton, M. D. Professor of Midwifery in the University and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 8vo. 6s.

Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Camp and in Garrison. By Sir John Pringle, Bt. M. D. F. R. S. &c. Physician General to the Forces, one large Volume 8vo. Price 12s.

The History of the Inquisitions, inclu. horrific Tribunals to the present time, ding the secret transactions of those one large volume 4to. with 12 fine plates price 21. 12s. 6d. or Royal Paper and hot pressed with proof Impressions, 41. 4s.

MILITARY SCIENCE.

Practical Instructions to Young Officers, relative to the Interior Discipline of a Regiment of Foot. By Major T. Chamberlin, of the 24th or 2d Warwickshire Regiment, crown 8vo. 5s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Public Charities of London, being an Account of their Origin, Design, and

Present State, classed alphabetically under the Denominations of Hospitals, Dispensaries, Colleges, Almshouses, Schools,

and Miscellaneous Charities. By Ant. Highmore, Esq. Author of the Law of Mortmain and Charitable Uses, &c. 8vo.

11. 1s.

An Authentic Narrative of four years Residence at Tongataboo, one of the Friendly Islands, in the South Sea; by a gentleman who went thither in the Duff, under Captain Wilson in 1796. With an Appendix by an eminent writer, 8vo. Ss. The Stranger in Reading. In a series of Letters from a Traveller to his Friend in London, embellished with a plan of the Town, and three portraits of well

known eccentric Characters, 8vo. 7s.

Epistola Amicitiæ, or, the Friendly Call; containing brief, serious, moral, and religious Hints, adapted to the present eventful Time, and State of the Public both in the civil and religious horizon. By J. Rickman, M. D. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Classical Library, published in March 1809, by W. H. Lunn, 30, Soho-square; Importer of Books in the learned Languages, cóntaining some choice Articles recently purchased in France and Holland, with a select Portion of the Library of the late lamented Richard Porson, M. A. Professor of the Greek Language in the University of Cambridge. 1s..

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PHILOLOGY.

Hindoostanee Philology; Volume 1. comprising a Dictionary, English and Hindoostanee, with a Grammatical In troduction. To which is prefixed a copper-plate, exhibiting a comprehensive View of the Roman and Oriental Characters used in the Hindoostanee Linguage. By John Borthwick Gilchrist, LL. D. late of the Bengal Medical Es tablishment and Hindoostanee Professor in the College of Fort William. many additions and improvements from the Calcutta Edition. By Thomas Roebuck, Esq. of the Madras Infantry, printed on a new type, cast with discriminating marks for this work. 4to,

41. 14s. 6d.

With

Elements of the Spanish Grammar; or, a clear, short, and easy Method, by which the Study of the Spanish Language is rendered perfectly familiar to the English Scholar. To which are added, Dialogues, with a collection of Proverbs, now used in both Nations. By John Vigier, Teacher of the Spanish, French, and Italian Languages. 12mo. 4s. bound.

POETRY.

The Borough; a Poem, in twenty four Letters. By the Rev. G. Crabbe. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Patriot's Vision, a Poem. To which is added, a Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox. 4to. 2s. 6d.

Muse Cantabrigienses; seu Carmina quædam numismate aureo Cantabrigiæ ornata, et Procancellarii permissu edita. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, with an Introduction and Remarks. By the late Henry Headley, A. B. With a Memoir of Mr. Headley, by the Rev. Henry Kett, B. D. Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. 2 Vol. crown 8vo. 14s. The Associate Minstrels. 8vo. 7s.

POLITICS.

Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England 1696. By Gregory King, Esq. Lancaster Herald. With a Life of the author by George Chalmers Esq. ' F. R. S. A.

A Chronological Account of the Commerce of England from the Restoration

to 1810, distinguishing the years of war. By George Chalmers, Esq. F. R. S, S. A. on a board to hang up, or in a case for the pocket, 3s. 6d.

THEOLOGY.

The Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes: A Sermon, preached at Harvey Lane, Leicester, for the Benefit of a Sunday School. By Robert Hall, A.M. 8vo. 1s.

Reasons for declining to become a Subscriber to the British and Foreign Bible Society. By the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D. D. 8vo. 1s.

A Letter to the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D. D. in reply to his strictures on the British and Foreign Bible Society. By Lord Teignmouth, President of the British and Foreign Bible Society. 8vo. 1s.

Obedience the Path to religious knowledge: A Sermon preached before the Universisy of Oxford, at St Mary's on Sunday January, 28, 1810. By Daniel Wilson, M. A. Vice Principal of St. Edmund-Hall Oxford, and minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, London. Second Edition. 1s. 6d.

An Easy Grammar of Sacred History; being a Plain and Practical Introduction, for the Use of Schools and Young Persons, to a Knowledge of the Events and Doctrines of the Old and New Testament. By Mary Ann Rundall, of Percy-house, Bath. Illustrated by nu

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A Sermon, on the Siu and Folly of Cruelty to Brute Animals. By Thomas Moore. 12mo. 9d.

The Consequences of unjust War: A Discourse delivered at Newbury, February 28, 1810, being the Day appointed by Proclamation for a General Fast. To which Authorities are appended, in Confirmation of the Facts asserted. ~By J. Bicheno, M. A. 2s.

Personal and National Humiliation : A Sermon delivered on the 28th of February, 1810. By P. Houghton, Minister of Princes street Chapel, Westminster. 8vo. 1s.

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ECLECTIC REVIEW,

For JUNE, 1810.

Art. 1. Memoirs of the Life of Peter Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches: written by himself; and translated from the original Latin, with co pious Notes, biographical and critical, by John Aikin, M. D. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. 880. price 11. Longman and Co. Cadell and Davies.

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HUET is the well-known name of an enormous magazine

of learning, that existed in France during the greater part of the seventeenth, and the early part of the eighteenth centuries; a magazine to which it should appear, from these memoirs, that the greatest scholars of Europe were proud to be able to make any addition; and to which none of them, great or small, thought it humiliating to have recourse for supplies. How it was possible for such a mass of literature to be stored within the capacity of one human being, by what method of study and distribution of time so much could be taken in, and by what contrivance for preventing or stopping the leaks of memory and the thefts of age it could be retained there, is not satisfactorily explained in these nemoirs. It would have been very gratifying to be admitted completely into the sanctuary of his library; to be told whether he made it a retreat inviolable during particular portions of time to all intrusion and interruption; whether he adopted any peculiar methods of study; whether it was necessary for him to read books several times in order to have their contents at command; whether he tried the various artificial aids to memory, and which of them he preferred, or whether he invented any new one; what sort of common-place books, or indexes, he found most serviceable; what were his principal difficulties in composition, and how they were overcome: to be inform ed, in short, of whatever was auxiliary to extraordinary aptitude and industry, in making and employing such prodigious acquisitions. The mere fact, however, that these acquisitions were made and put to use, in an assigned order of time, VOL, VI.

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