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an excellent earnest of the ability and judgment with which the whole will be conducted, will be voluminous and expentive; but will, we doubt not, highly gratify the lovers of Handel's music, and well reward the liberal and enterprizing fpirit of the publishers.

Three Duets for Two Violoncellos. Compofed and dedicated to Frederic Perkins, Ejq. by Thorias Porwell. 8s.

Mr. Powell has written thefe duets with tafle and fcience; the ideas are melodious, and the combinations judicious,

while the several movements are contrafted with a propriety that greatly heightens the effect of each. The rondos with which the pieces conclude are novel and pleating in their fubjects, and evince a lively and fertile fancy.

"Britons, to Arms," a Glee for four Voices.

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Compofed by J. P. Solomon. 2s. 6d. Mr. Solomon has thrown into the mufic of this glee no fmall portion of that animation and fire fo requisite to the just expreffion of the words he has chofen. uniforin fpirit and boldness pervade the style of the compofition, while the dispofition of the parts claims the commendation of every found harmonist.

The much-admired Overture to Adrian and Orrila, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Cowent Garden. Compofed and dedicated to Thomas Atwood, Esq. by W. Ruffell. 25. This overture does credit to Mr. Ruffell's tafte and ingenuity. The paffages, though not remarkably original, are pleas ingly conceived, and well connected; and the effect of the whole is both drainatic and striking.

"Try me, O God," an Anthem for four Voices. Compofed and refpe&fully dedicated to C. F. Baumgarten, Ejq. by bis Pupil 7. H. Leffer. 1s. 6d.

This anthem, the words of which are taken from the 139th pfalin, is comprized in one movement, and is accompanied with a piano-forte part. After looking minutely into the score, we find ourselves authorized to fay that the general confruction is good, and that the bafs, in fome places fufceptible of improvement, is yet for the most part, chofen with judgment,

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This fonnet is comprized in three moveof the words, and by no means destitute ments judiciously varying with the fenfe companiment is bufy and ingenious, and either of melody or expreffion. The acthe bafs in general well chofen. "Let Sorrow feek her native Night," a favo vorite Duet for trvo Voices. The Words by Peter Pindar, Efq. Compofed and dedicated to bis Friend, Mr. Edmund Phelps, by Sir J. A. Stevenson, Muf. Doc. 1s. 6d.

The tafte and graceful eafe of this duet pleafe us exceedingly. The melody is felicitously imagined, and the parts play into each other with an effect that much delight every cultivated ear. Dr. Wolcott has been so happy in his poetry as to make it difficult for us to fay which of the two mufes has been moft indebted to the other.

Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs. Compofed and dedicated to Mafter Horatio Goodbebere, by Thomas Forbes Walmefley. 6s.

The cafe and fimplicity of thefe little melodies are well adapted to the ftyle of tural and attractive, and fome of them the poetry. Moft of the paffages are nanot without a degree of fweetnefs. An accompaniment for the piano-forte is added to the work, which, though it conlifts of little more than a repetition of the notes of the airs, will be found very use ful to the juvenile practitioner. Six Sonatinos for the Piano-forte. Compofed and dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Louija Atherley, by D. Bruquier. 5s. 6d.

With the eafy and unaffected ftyle of thefe little pieces we are much pleature An agreeable flowing caft of inelody, every where well difpofed for the juve nile hand, and calculated for its improvement, forms one of the chief characteriftics of the work, and will ftrongly recommend it to the attention of piano-forte practitioners.

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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL,
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign.
Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received.

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STEREOTYPE PRINTINGk fellers of London, because it does not appear that more than twenty or thirty works would warrant the expence of being caft in folid pages; confequently the colt of the preliminary arrangements would greatly exceed the advantages to be attained. On a calculation, it has appeared to be lefs expensive to keep certain works ftanding in moveable types, in which fucceffive editions can be improved to any degree, than to provide the means for catting the fame works in folid pages, which afterwards admits of little or no revifion. the extra expence of stereotyping is in all works equal to the expence of paper for 750 copies, it is obvious that this art is not applicable to new books, the fale of which cannot be afcertained. Although thefe confiderations have induced the publishers of London not to prefer this art in their refpective bufineffes, yet it has been adopted by the Univerfities of Cambridge and Oxford; and from the former fome very beautiful editions of Common Prayer Books have iffued to the public; probably the art of ftereotyping applies with greater advantage to ftaple works of fuch great and conftant fale, as prayer-books and bibles, than to any other.

The improvements introduced by LORD STANHOPE, in the conftruction of Printing-preffes, have been applied to the greater part of the working preffes of the metropolis. Other improvements have lately been developed in the art of printing, the introduction of which into practice we thall gladly announce; one of them relates to a more fimple method of working preffes, by which the number of preffmen would be confiderably dimiaifhed, and the other to a fuperior method of cafting types.

Certain of the bookfellers of London, have undertaken to publifh a fplendid and coftly edition of the Chronicles of HoLLINSHEAD, which they intend to follow by fimilar editions of others of the early chroniclers. It will be remembered that an octavo edition of Hollinfhead has lately appeared at Perth, where we understand it is intended to print octavo and cheap editions of all the intereft

ing chronicles. Every lover of literature

will with fuccefs to deliges of this kind; but, at a time when the high price of books is a ferious evil, it would appear to be fuperfluous to print quarto editions of works which are only valuable as books of record. Should the octavo Perth edition not proceed, we underftand it to be the intention of other London bookfellers to print an uniform octavo edition in periodical volumes of all the early hiftorians and chroniclers, under the fuperintendance of an eminent antiquary.

The public at large are acquainted with the atrocious capture, fortunate efcape, and extraordinary flight, of Mrs. Spencer Smith, from Brefcia, in Italy, to Riga, in Pruffia. A narrative of all the particulars will be published in a few days by the MARQUIS DE SALVO, a Sicilian nobleman, to whofe magna, nimity Mrs. Smith was indebted for her efcape, and to whofe heroic spirit may be attributed the fuccefs of her flight, The marquis accompanied her to England, and he has been induced to favour the world with this publication, at the particular request of several great perfonages.

The REV. JAMES CORDINER, chaplain to the Hon. F. North during his government of Ceylon, is about to publith a Tour round that Ifland, a Journey to Ramifferam, and a Narrative of the late War with the King of Candy. It will confift of two quarto volumes, embellished with twenty-four engrayings.

The Proprietors of Johnfon's Poets are printing a new edition of that work in twelve volumes, royal octavo, with additions.

MR. JOSEPH NIGHTINGALE is preparing for publication an Impartial View of the Origin, Progrefs, Doctrines, Difciphne, and fingular Cultoms, of the Wesleyan Methodists, in a series of Letters addreffed to a Lady. It is in tended that this work fhall contain fe veral interesting particulars relative to the divifions which have taken place among the methodifts, fince the death of Mr. Wetley.

MESSES. CLEMENTI propose to publifh by fubfcription, the Canzonets and Madrigals

Madrigals of Thomas Morley, Mus. Bac, Oxon, 1588. The work to contain in one volume twenty canzonets, for three voices, and twenty madrigals for four voices, carefully arranged from feveral manufcript copies of established authority. A concite account of Morley's life will be prefixed to the work.

MAJOR GENERAL GRANT, Vifcount De Vaux, has announced the Difcovery of the Longitude, founded on the laws of gravitation, on mathematics, and atronomy. His means are a new mathematical inftrument, which will fhew the fhip's rate of failing exactly and continually, infead of half a minute, as by the prefent precarious log. Other inftruments and means, connected with the firit, which will fhew and keep a conftant account-1ft. of the rate of the thip: 2dly, of her latitude: 3dly, of every degree, minute, and fecond of longitude, in direct or oblique failing.

MR. THELWALL intends to commence a Course of popular Lectures, on Monday, the 6th of April, at his Inftitution for the Cultivation of English Elocution, No. 40, Bedford-place, Ruffell-square, Bloomsbury, on the dramatic genius and principal characters of Shakespeare, and on the merits and defects of the refpective performers, who, during the laft thirty years have attempted to fupport thofe characters. The courfe will embrace an ample difquifition of the laws and principles of the dramatic art, both as relating to poetical compofition and theatrical reprefentation; and will be illustrated by recitations of the moft celebrated fpeeches and foliloquies, and particular criticifims on Garrick, Reddifh, Henderfon, Smith, Cooke, Kemble, Munden, Ellifton, Malter Betty, Mrs. Yates,Mrs. Siddons, Mifs Smith, Mrs. Jordan, &c.

DR. REID will commence his Summer Courfe of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, on Wednesday, the 6th of May.

The fummer courfe of DR. BADHAM's Lectures on the Practice of Phyfic, Che mitry, and Materia Medica, will be commenced on Monday, the 4th of May. MR. D. WALKER invites the friends of agriculture, &c. to infpect a new Thrething-Machine, which he has juft erected at Steventon's Manufactory, Wardour-ftreet, Soho, which is both cheap and effectual.

DR. CHARLES FOTHERGILL is now engaged in preparing a work for the prefs, which can fcarcely fail to excite very general intereft. With a view of

clearing up fome doubtful points in the Zoology of Great Britain, he laft fpring made a voyage to all the northern illes, comprehending the Orcades, Shetland, Fair Ifle, and Fulda, and remained amongst them during the greatest part of the year employed in the investigation of their natural hiftory, antiquities, ftate of their agriculture and fifleries, political importance, manners, cuftoms, condition, paft and prefent flate, &c. &c.;-a general and particular account of which, will fhortly be given to the public, accompanied by inaps and numerous engrav ings; containing the fulleft and completeft defcription that has yet been published of thofe remote and hitherto neglected regions.

SIR GEORGE STAUNTON, fon of the fecretary who accompanied Lord Macartney to China, refides alternately at Canton and Macao. He has tranflated into the Chinefe language a work on Vaccination.

It is propofed to publish by fubfcription a print from a beautiful cabinetpicture of the Procetion of Chaucer's Pilgrims to Canterbury, painted by Mr. STOTHARD, and to be engraved in line manner by Mr. WILLIAM BROMLEY.

We have much fatisfaction in being able to fiate that, that able artift, MR. BEWICK, of Newcaffle-upon-1 vne, who has fo highly gratified the public by his Graphic Delineations of the animated World, is at this time engaged on a feries of engravings of British Vegetables ufeful in diet, medicine, and the arts. The letter prefs of the work to be written by that induftrious and zealous botanist Dr. R. J. THORNTON. Two editions will ap pear in royal and demy octavo, correfponding with the Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fithes, of Mr. Bewick; and the typography will be executed in the best ftyle, by one of the new Stanhope preffes.

MR. BURNET, who has gratified the public with the Account of the Prefent State of Poland, which has enriched feveral late numbers of the Monthly Magazine, has nearly completed a series of fpecimens of English Profe Writers from the earliest times, to the clofe of the feventeenth century, interfperfed with fketches biographical, literary, and cri tical.

The publisher of DR. GREGORY'S new Cyclopædia, and of MARSHALL'S Life of Washington, announces an advance of price in the parts and volumes of thofe works after the 1ft of May; warranted

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by their extenfion beyond the quantity originally propofed. The completion of Dr. Gregory's Cyclopædia within the period of a year, deserves to be recorded as a phoenomenou in literature. Other works, not fuperior in ufeful bulk, have been as many years as this was months in progrefs, and will probably not be completed in the life time of those who have been their purchafers!

The ninth edition of MR. SURR's Winter in London, and the fourth of. Mifs OWENSON's Wild Irith Girl, are in the prefs.

A very interefting work, by a member of the University of Oxford, will speedily appear in three volumes, under the title of Oxoniana," conlifting of anecdotes and facis relative to the colleges, libraries, and establifluncuts, of Oxford; with extracts from, and accounts of, the curious unpublished manufcripts with which that university abounds; accounts of celebrated members, profeffors, &c. fo as to comprise a history of the rife and progrefs of that ancient feat of learning,

MR. STOWER has in the prefs, and will fpeedily publish, a new edition of the Printers' Grainmar, which will contain the improvements of the laft fifty years in the theory and practice of printing; alfo many ufeful tables and fcales of prices never before published.

A Sketch of the Black Empire of Hayti, from communications with the feat of its prefent government, will foon appear in an octavo volume.

The trustees of the Linen Manufacture, have voted the fum of one hundred guineas to MR. JOSEPH HARDY, of Belfaft, for his invention of a machine, for the better and more cafy measurement of linen cloth.

The Biographical Index to the prefent House of Commons, will be publifhed in the courfe of a few days. It contains: -1. A differtation on the antiquity, diguity, and utility of parliaments. 2. An account of the lives, characters, aud purfuits, of all the members of the Houfe of Commons, arranged in alphabetical order; And 3. An appendix, including lifts of the divifions that have taken place fince the meeting of the new parliament, of the conftitutions of all the counties, cities, and boroughs, in the kingdom. The whole exhibits at one view, the hiftorý both of parties and individuals, and includes a defcription of the virtues, the talents, and the eloquence, of a large portion of the empire.

An excellent tanning principle has been difcovered by DR. Howison, in

the Mangrove Bark.-Forty pound of bark is infufed in one hundred gallons of rain-water, which, after standing about forty hours, is exposed to the fun until the liquid is concentrated by evaporation to the coufiftence of treacle, and then reduced by boiling to eight gallons, when it has the appearance of pitch.

MR. BUNTING, of Belfast, has announced, that fhortly will be published, the fecond part of the Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland.

Au algebraical proof of Sir Ifaac New ton's Binomial Theorem, which has been hitherto a defideratum in mathematics, has been lately difcovered by FRANCIS BURKE, A. B. a Student in the Univerfity of Dublin. The difcovery has been honoured with a diftinguished premium from the board of Trinity College.

MR. P. BROWNE is engaged in an Account and Defcription of the Cathe dral Church of the Holy Trinity, and its Precincts, Norwich.

About the middle of April will appear, in two volumes, fmall octavo, a legendary tale, entitled "Reading Abbey," by MR. T. GLEED.

MR. BICHENO has in the prefs, a fecond edition of his Restoration of the Jews, to which he has prefixed a brief Hiftory of that fingular People. He is alfo about to publifh a Supplement to his Signs of the Tunes, with an Answer to Mr. Faber's Objections in the fecond edition of his "Differtations on the Prophecies."

MR. BOHNEN, of Greenwich, has put to prefs a work of incredible labour, which embraces, in alphabetical order, the most general idiomatical expreflions of fix languages, viz. English, German, Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian; exhibiting, at one view in their refpective columns, the fynonymous phrafes, or fentences, in cach.

MR. CUSTANCE, of Kiddermiafter, is preparing for the prefs a Concife, View of the Conftitution and Laws of England.

Propofals have been published, for publishing by fubfcription, an Archi tectural and Scientific Inveftigation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London; illuftrated by plans, elevations, fections, and parts at large, from actual measurements; with an effay on the life, writings, and defigns, of Sir Chriftopher Wren, by MP. JAMES ELMES, architect.

MR. GIFFORD's edition of Ben Jonfon is ready for the prefs; he has been affift ed greatly by fome manufcripts of the late Mr. Whalley.

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The REV. THOMAS KIDD, of Trinity College, Cambridge, propofes to publish a new edition of the Iliad and Odyfley; of which, in the Iliad, the Townleian Codex, aided by the Marcian MSS, and a faithful collation of the Harleian copies, will form the ground-work. It is intended, at prefent, to infert the Digamma in the text, on the authority of the great Bentley, whofe unpublished papers upon the Iliad and Odyffey will, through the kind permiffion of Trinity College, Cambridge, contribute to enhance the value of this edition. The body of variations from the Vienna, Bretlaw, and Mofchow, MSS. as publish, ed by Profeffors Alter and Heyne, as well as thofe gleaned by a re-examination of the MSS. confulted by Barnes, will be claffed according to their refpective merits under the text, and incorporated with an accurate collation of the firft, fecond Aldine, first Stratzburgh, and Roman editions; the peculiarities alfo of the venerable document difperfed through H. Steph. Thefaurus Ling. Gr. will be fpecified in their proper places, The text of the Iliad, with the variations, will be given in two volumes, octavo. A fupplement to the Villoifonian Scholia, from the Townleian and Harleian tranferipts, with fhort notes, fhall form the third volume; and a fourth volume will contain the text to the Odyffey, with various lections, to be introduced by fac-fimiles of the characters and defcriptions of the refpective MSS. engaged in the fervice of the text; to which will fucceed a finall volume of Scholia, chiefly frota MSS with fhort notes, a differtation upon the genuineness of Od. 2, a collation of the pp. of Ed. Rom. and Bas of Euftathius, with the omiflions of the latter: and application of the Digamma to the remains of Heliod,

A Latin poem on the Battle of Trafalgar, with an English profe tranflation, will be published early in this month.

The Works of Salluft, tranflated by the late ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ. are about to be re-publifhed.

Thofe who have heard at a distance of the gas lights produced from the car bonization of coals, and who have not been able to fee the experiments of MR. WINSOR and others, may amufe themfelves with the following experiment on a small fcale. Take an or dinary tobacco pipe and nearly fill the bowl with finall coals, and flop the mouth of the bowl with any fuitable Laging as pipe-clay, or a mixture of

fand and common clay, and place the bowl in a fire between the bars of a grate, fo that the pipe may stand nearly perpendicular. In a few minutes, if the luting is good, the gas will begin to efcape from the orifice of the pipe, when, if a piece of lighted paper or a candle be applied, it will take fire and burn for feveral minutes with an intenfe light. When the light goes out, a refiduum of uteful products will be found in the bowl. How far this principle may be extended in producing light and heat for general purpofes, we do not take upon us to determine. The fplendid expectations of Mr. Winfor may be candidly conceded to the enthufiafin of an original inventor.

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Various tells have been used to afcer tain the exiftence of litharge in wine. A new and improved test for this impor tant purpofe may be made as follows:Take a patte of fulphur and iron firings, put it into a phial, and pour on it a finall quantity of fulphuric acid. gas which will arife through a bent tube, into a bottle of water, which thus im pregnated, will form the defired teft. When poured into wine which contains litharge, it will render it black and flakey, and occation a confiderable precipitation.

Several years fince, we announced a pleating invention, by means of which impreffion might be taken on paper, from dengus made on tone. As the practice of this art is at once amusing and useful, we fhall defcribe it to our readers. The ftone thould be clofe-grained, and the drawing or writing fhould be made with of lac in leys of pure foda, to which a pen dipped in ink formed of a folution fhould be added fome foap and lampblack for colouring. Leave it to harden for a few days; then take impreflions in the following manner: dip the furface in water, then dab it with printers' ink and printers' balls; the ink sticks to the defign and not to the ftone, and the impreffion may be taken with wet paper, the ordinary manner. Several hundred by means of a rolling or fcrew prefs, in copies may be taken from the fame defign, in this fimple manner.

DR. Howrson has alfo communicated a difcovery for printing cotton cloth of a black colour. Take Malacca nuts, which are fold in Bengal at two thillings per cwt boil them in water in clofe earthen veffels with the leaves of the tree; during the boiling a whitith fnbitance, formed from the mucilage and oil of the nuts.

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