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NATURAL HISTORY.

Toxidermy, or a Complete Treatise on the Art of preserving every Object of Natural History for Museums, with Lists of those that are rarest or most wanted in European Collections. In a small 8vo. volume.

A Work on the Marine Polypi found in great abundance in the Calcareous formation of Lower Normandy, including a Plate and Description of the Fossile Crocodile discovered near Caen. By M. Lamourouse, Professor of Natural History in the Royal Academy of Caen.

An Account of the Fishes found in the River Ganges and its Branches, with Engravings executed in the best manner from original Drawings. By Francis Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. L. & E. In 4to.

A Mineralogical Dictionary, to be illustrated by numerous Plates, many of them relating to the Theory of Crystallography; being entirely Original, The whole to be engraved by Mr. and Miss Loury.

PHILANTHROPY.

Sunday School Sketches; a Memoir descriptive of the benign Operation of those Institutions.

A Third Volume of the Rev. John Owen's History of the Bible Society, which will bring down its Transactions to the close of its Fifteenth Year. A Volume of Anecdotes, illustrative of the Importance and Utility of Tract Societies. By Rev. R. Meek, of South Molton.

PHILOLOGY.

A Prospectus has been issued at Paris, of an entirely new Philological Publication, to appear periodically, under the title of "Herme Classique." Its objects are to define Greek, Latin, and French Words, to discuss doubtful Phrases, and to interpret difficult Passages in Ancient Authors.

A New English Dictionary, under the title of an Analytical Dictionary of the English Language. By Mr. David Booth, Author of the "Introduction to an Analytical Dictionary," and other Works. It is proposed to be published by Subscription, in 4 Parts, forming 2 Volumes 4to. A Part to be published every 3 Months. Price 1 guinea in boards.

Proposals have been issued for publishing, by Subscription, a New Syriac Lexicon, containing all the words in the Syriac Version of the New Testament, and principally designed for the use of Beginners in that Language. This Work was originally projected by Dr. Buchanan, and intended to accompany his Edition of the New Testament. The first three Sheets were printed during his Lifetime; and it is the wish of the present Editors, Professor Lee, of Cambridge, and the Rev. Joseph Jowatt, Rector of Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire, as well as of the Executors of Dr. Buchanan, that the Work should be completed on the Principles adopted by him, and that the Profits ultimately arising from the Sale of it should be appropriated to the use of his Children. It is intended to embody in this Dictionary the most valuable matter to be found in former Lexicons, particularly in that of Schaaf, printed at Leyden in 1709 and 1717; with such Additions and Improvements as the experience of the Editors may enable them to make. It is expected that the whole will not exceed 500 pages in 8vo. Forcellini Lexicon totius Latinitatis, cura Facciolati. 8vo.

POETRY.

Religion, a Poem; a Satire on the ill-use and abuse of Religion.

A New and Improved Edition of the Poetical Works of William Drummond, of Hawthornden; to which will be prefixed an Account of his Life and Writings, with a Critical Essay on Contemporary English Poetry.

Specimens of the Living British Poets, with Biographical Notices and Critical Remarks. By the Rev. George Croly.

Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods, from the Italian of Tasso; with a brief Notice of the Author, and an Essay on the Pastoral Poetry of Italy. By Leigh Hunt.

A New and Improved Edition of Burns's Works, edited by his Brother, Mr. Gilbert Burns; to which will be now first added, some further Parti

culars of the Author's Life, some new Notes, illustrative of his Poems and Letters, and many other improvements.

The Fudge Family in Italy. By the Author of "The Fudge Family in Paris."

Elgiva, an Historical Poem, in 6 Cantos; with other Poems. By John Gordon, Surgeon in Keith, who was drowned while bathing in the River Isla, in the Summer of 1819. To be published, by Subscription, in 1 vol. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

An Expostulatory Epistle to Lord Byron. By Mr. Cottle.

The River Duddon, a Series of Sonnets; with other Poems. By William Wordsworth.

Lord Byron has finished two more Cantos of Don Juan. Sincerely, however, do we hope, that if their morality is like the last, he will not find a Publisher for them, though there is little doubt but he will, and we hear a most respectable one.

Poems, by Bernard Barton, some of which have been before published anonymously under the title of "Poems, by an Amateur."

A Monody on the Death of his late Majesty, with Emblematical Vignettes. By James Bisset, Esq. Author of the Patriotic Clarion, &c.

An Historical Poem, with copious Notes, occasioned by Cardinal Fontana's Letter, and Dr. Oliver Kelly's Address to the Roman Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Tuam.

Heath Flowers, or Mountain Melodies, consisting of Poems and Lyrical Pieces. By George Scott. To be published, by Subscription, in 1 vol. 12mo. 3s. 6d.

Le Guesta d'Enrico IV, in Italian Verse. By M. Guazzaroni, Author of the Italian Grammar.

Julia Alpinula, and other Poems. By Jeremiah Holmes Weffen, Author of "Aonian Hours."

The Castle and the Tomb of the Monarch of Britain; or, a Visit to Windsor on Occasion of the Funeral of George the Third: a Poetical Narrative.

A Translation into English Verse of Grillparger's famous Tragedy of Sappho.

The Fall of Jerusalem; a Dramatic Poem. By H. H. Milman, M. A. Author of Fazio.

Porson's Euripides complete, with an Index, in one 8vo. volume.

The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie, Author of the Cherrie and the Sloe. To be correctly printed from a MS. presented by Drummond, of Hawthornden, to the Library of the University of Edinburgh.

POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

A History of the Six Acts, consisting of a Review of the Transactions of the first Five Weeks of a Session of Parliament, commencing Nov. 22, 1819. By Mr. Thelwall.

Elements of the History of Civil Government; being a View of the Rise and Progress of the various Political Institutions that have subsisted throughout the World, and an Account of the Present State and Distinguishing Features of the Governments now in existence. By James Tyson, Esq.

The Principles of Political Economy, considered with a View to their Practical Application. By T. R. Malthus. 8vo.

The Conspiracy traced to its Source; or a full and free Development of those Springs which in their Combination have marked the Commencement of the Reign of George the Fourth by an Event unparalleled in the English History. By John Watkins, LL. D.

THEOLOGY.

The Institutes of Natural Theology, the Christian Religion, and Moral Philosophy. By the Rev. Cornelius Griffin.

Burnham's Pious Memorials. A New Edition, with Additions. By the Rev. G. Burder.

A Catechism of the Evidences of Christianity, to be used as a Sequel to the Catechism of the Church of England. By Richard Yates, D.D.

Remarks on the Church and the Clergy; exhibiting the Obligations of Society, Literature, and the Arts, to the Ecclesiastical Orders. By Mr. G. E. Shuttleworth.

To be published, by Subscription, The Christian Family Assistant, in four Parts, containing, 1st. A Discourse on Prayer, with Anecdotes and Observations from various Authors. 2d. Suitable Forms of Prayer for Domestic Worship, original, and selected from the Works of the most eminent Divines. 3d. A Hundred Hymns peculiarly adapted to Family Devotion. 4th. An arranged List of suitable Portious of Scripture, for Morning and Evening Worship of every Day in the Year. With an Appendix, containing a Series of Essays on Domestic Duties, &c. By H. L. Popplewell. To which will be prefixed, an Historical Essay on Prayer. By Ingram Cobbin, A. M.

The Third and Fourth Volumes of Scripture Portraits. By the Rev. Robert Stevenson, of Castle Hedingham.

A Series of Connected Lectures on the Holy Bible, illustrative and confirmatory of its Character as an Economy of Religion instituted and revealed by God for Man. By the Rev. J. Gilbart, of Dublin.

The Theological Lectures of the late Principal Hill, of St. Andrew's.

A Summary of Christian Faith and Practice, confirmed by references to the Text of the Holy Scriptures, compared with the Liturgy of the Church of England, and illustrated by Extracts from those Works which have received the sanction of public authority from the time of the Reformation to the final Revision of the Established Formularies. By the Rev. E. J. Burrow, D.D. F.R. and L.S. 2 vols. 12mo.

Critical Observations on Select Passages of the Old and New Testament, the Style and Structure of which are examined and illustrated according to the Principles of Poetical and Sententious Parallelism established in the Prelections of Bishop Louth. By the Rev. John Jebb.

Sermons on Infidelity. By the Rev. Andrew Thomson, Minister of St. George's Church, Edinburgh.

A Serious and Admonitory Letter to a Young Man, on his renouncing the Christian Religion, and becoming a Deist. By the Rev. J. Platts.

Two Volumes of Sermons, Plain and Practical, explanatory of the Gospel, for every Sunday in the Year, preached in the Parish Church of Walthamstow, Essex. By the Rev. George Hughes.

The Eighth and last Volume of the Works of the Rev. John Howe.

A Refutation of the Objections to the New Translation of the Bible. By J. Bellamy.

A Fifth Part of Bishop Marsh's Divinity Lectures.

A Second Volume of Sermons. By the Rev. J. Bradley, of High Wycombe. Thoughts on the Essential Requisites for Church Communion, in which the Sentiments of the Rev. S. Greathead, F.A.S. will be considered. With an Appendix of Miscellaneous Essays, chiefly Theological. By the Rev. W. Moorhouse, of West Milton, near Rotherham.

Discourses delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John A. Coombs over the Independent Church at Salford, by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, A.M., the Rev. Robert Winter, D.D., and the Rev. Thomas Raffles, A.M.

A Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Parsons, preached in her Husband's Chapel at Leeds. By the Rev. Thomas Raffles, A.M.

A New Edition of the Works of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, in Fourteen 8vo. Volumes; with a Life, by the Rev. Reginald Heber, A.M.

Sermons by Ministers of the General Associate (Mitchingher) Synod. In 2 vols. 12mo.

Scasonable Advice to Youth on the Study of the Scriptures. By the Rev. F. A. Cox, A.M.

A Christian Library, consisting of Extracts from and Abridgments of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity which have been published in the English Tongue. By the late Rev. John Wesley, A.M. First published by him about the year 1751, in Fifty Volumes 12mo.; now reprinting from a Copy in Mr. Wesley's own Library, containing numerous Corrections in his hand-writing, evidently intended to be used whenever a new edition might be called for. The Edition now printing is in 8vo. and is intended to be comprised in 30 volumes, or less. Price, in boards, 3s. each.

A History of the Modes of Belief usually termed the Superstitions of the Middle Ages; with some curious Plates.

A New Periodical Work, called, The Christian Champion.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

The Canadian Settler; being a Series of Letters from Lower and Upper Canada, in the Summer of 1819. By Mr. T. Carr.

The Voyage of the Younger Kotzebue round the World, in the Years 1816, 17, and 18. 1 vol. 4to.

A Third Volume of the Rev. T. Clarke's Abridgment of Popular Voyages and Travels, forming the Tour of Africa and America.

The Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through a large part of England in 1669; trauslated from the original Manuscript in Florence. In 1 volume 4to. embellished with numerous Engravings.

Travels in various Countries bordering on the Mediterranean, particularly in Albania; with an Account of the Life and Wars of Ali Pacha.

The concluding Volume of Dr. Clarke's Travels through Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Norway, and Russia; with a Description of the City of St. Petersburgh during the Tyranny of the Emperor Paul.

The Second Volume of Travels in various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia. By Sir William Ouseley, LL.D. Private Secretary to Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart.

A Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Source of the River Jamnia and Ganges; with Notes on the Hills at the foot of the Himala Range between the Rivers Suttey and Alackmunda, in the course and towards the close of the Gourka War in 1815 with a Map of those Regions. By James Baillie Frazer, Esq.

At the same time will also be published, Twenty Views in the Himala Mountains. In elephant folio, uniform with Daniels's Oriental Scenery, and Salt's Views in Abyssinia. Engraved from the Original Drawings made on the spot by Mr. Frazer.

Journal of a Tour in Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, with Excursions to the River Jordan, and along the Banks of the Red Sea to Mount Sinai. By William Turner, Foreign Office. 3 vols. 8vo.

Travels in various Countries of the East; being a Continuation of Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey. By Mr. Robert Walpole. In 1 volume, 4to. with Engravings.

A Picturesque Tour from Geneva over Mount Semplon to Milan. In 1 vol. imperial 8vo. illustrated by 36 coloured Engravings of the most interesting Scenery in that romantic Tract, and especially the most striking Points of View in the new Road over the Semplon.

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa. By El Hage Abed Salam Shabeenie, a Native of Morocco, who resided as a Merchant in those Countries. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory. To which will be added, Letters descriptive of various Journeys through West and South Barbary, and across the Mountains of Atlas. By James Grey Jackson, Esq. Professor of Arabic, &c. A Visit to the Province of Upper Canada in 1819. By James Strachan, Bookseller, of Aberdeen. This Work will contain every kind of Information which an Emigrant can desire to obtain, derived from the most authentic Sources.

A Journal of Two successive Tours upon the Continent, performed in the years 1816, 17, and 18; containing an Account of the Principal Places in the South of France, of the great Road over the Alps, and of the chief

Cities and most interesting Parts of Italy, accompanied with occasional Remarks, Historical and Critical. By Mr. James Wilson.

Letters from North Wales. To which are added, Memoranda of a Visit to Merionethshire in 1819; together with several Anecdotes and Sketches illustrative of Welsh History and Manners.

Voyages dans la Grande Bretagne, entrepris relativement aux Services Publics de la Guerre, de la Marine, et des Ponts et Chaussées, en 1816, 1817, 1818, et 1819. Par Charles Dupin, Membre de l'Institut de France, &c. 6 tom. 4to. avec 3 atlas.

A Tour through Normandy, to be illustrated by numerous Etchings of Antiquities, and other interesting Subjects. By Dawson Turner, Esq. of Yarmouth.

Travels in Sicily, Greece, and Albania. Fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge. numerous Engravings.

By the Rev. T. S. Hughes, In two 4to. volumes, with

Travels in 1816 and 1817 through Nubia, Palestine, and Syria, in a Series of Familiar Letters to his Relatives; written on the Spot. By Captain Mangles, R.N.

Journals of Two Expeditions behind the Blue Mountains, and into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by Order of the British Government, in the years 1817-1818. By John Oxley, Esq. Surveyor General. With Maps and Views of the newly discovered Country.

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c.

Births.-Jan. At Paris, the Duchess of Orleans; a prince.-At Quebec, the lady of James Kerr, Esq. Judge of the Court of King's Bench; a son.-2. At her mother's house, in New Cavendish Street, the lady of the Rev. C. G. Chamber; a daughter.-3. At St. Michael, department de la Meuse, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Gordon; a daughter.-In George Street, Hanover Square, the lady of the Solicitor-General; a daughter.-25. At Paris, the lady of Urbanus Sartoris, Esq.; a son.-In Mausfield Street, the Hon. Mrs. Hope; a son.-27. In Berkley Square, the Hon. Mrs. Wharton; a daughter.-In Great Cumberland Street, the lady of the Rev. J. Jones; a son.-The Marchioness of Sligo; a son and heir.-31. Viscountess Duncan; a son.-Feb. In Baker Street, Portman Square, the lady of Sir Gregory O. Page Turner; a daughter.-In Hill Street, the Hon. Mrs. Lawrence Sullivan; a daughter.-In Hertford Street, the lady of the Hon. George Powlett; a daughter.-1. At Buckinghani House, Pall Mall, Countess Temple; a daughter.-2. In Portman Square, the lady of General Collins; a son.--7. In Wimpole Street, the lady of the Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville; a daughter. -8. In George Street, Hanover Square, the Countess Cowper; a daughter.-9. In Hill Street, Berkley Square, the lady of the Hon. T. Knox, M. P.; a daughter.-12. The lady of H. A. Merrywether, Esq. barrister at law; a son.-14. At Blemell House, Brompton, the lady of R. B. Pollard, A. B.; a son.-16. At Boulogne sur Mer, the lady of Sir Thomas Strange, late Chief Justice of Madras; a daughter.-19. The wife of George.Cook, a journeyman out of employment, residing at 40, Clerkenwell Close, of three female children, who, together with the mother, are likely to do well. This addition makes up a family of seven children under ten years of age.-21. In Euston Square, the lady of Edward Dubois, Esq. barrister at law; a son.-27. In York Place, Baker Street, the lady of Colonel Colville; à son.-March. In St. James's Park, Lady Gardner; a son.-In Marchmont Street, the lady of H. W. Woolrych, Esq. of Crosby House, Hants; a daughter.-3. In Bedford Row, the lady of Frederic Pollock, Esq. barrister at law; a daughter.-4. In Dover Street, Lady Shone; a daughter.-5. In Gloucester Place, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Morland; a daughter.-7. The Hon. Mrs. Leigh; a daughter.-10. A poor woman, the wife of a journeyman baker of the name of Baxter, residing at No. 6, Monkwell Street, of three children, (a girl and two boys) who, with the mother, are all likely to do well. The parents are extremely poor, and have two children besides. In Montague Place, the Hon. Mr. Pell, the lady of Mr. Serjeant Pell; a son.-14. In Great George Street, Hanover Square, the lady of David D. Davis, M.D.; a son.-16. In Lower Grosvenor Street, Lady Catharine Whyte Melville; a daughter.-In Upper Grosvenor Street, the lady of the Hon. Capt. Knox, R.N.; a son.-17. The Countess of Buckinghamshire, a daughter still-born.-18. The Hon. Mrs. Johnston; a daughter.-19. In Hyde Park, the lady of Wilkins Terry, Esq. 1st Life Guards; twin sons.

Marriages.-Robert Espinasse, Esq. of the Inner Temple, to Miss Emily Espinasse.—The Rev. C. A. Sage, to Miss Caroline Quilter, of Iladley.-At St. Pancras Church, Count

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