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selected. The work will be published monthly; to commence on the 1st of January.

Mr. J. SHAW, lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery in the Hunterian School in Great Windmill-street, announces a work on the Nature and Treatment of the various Distortions to which the Spine and Bones of the Chest are Subject.

The indefatigable W. KITCHINER, M.D. is preparing a work on the Eco. nomy of the Eyes, consisting of precepts for the improvement and preser. vation of the Sight.

Mr. FRANKS's Hulsean Lectures for 1823, on the Apostolical Preaching, and Vindication of Christianity to the Jews, Samaritans, and Devout Gentiles, in continuation of his former Lectures "on the Evidences of Christianity as stated in our Lord's Discourses," is in the press, and will speedily be published.

An Egyptian tale is printing, called Rameses.

A Treatise is preparing for publication on Organic Chemistry, containing the analyses of animal and vegetable substances, founded on the work of Professor Gmelin on the same subject, by Mr. DUNGLISON, member of several learned societies, foreign and domestic, and one of the editors of the "Medical Repository."

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, esq. the distinguished Secretary to the Admiralty during the reigns of Charles II. and James II. will soon appear.

A Tour through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan, comprising a period between the years 1804 and 1814, with remarks and authentic anecdotes; to which is added, a Guide up the River Ganges, from Calcutta to Cawnpore, Futteh Ghur, Meeratt, &c. and a vocabulary, is nearly ready for publication.

The Life of J. Decastro, comedian, including anecdotes of Garrick, Dr. Johnson, Sheridan, &c. is in preparation.

Part X. is printing of Dr. WATT's Bibliotheca Britannica, or a General Index to the Literature of Great Britain and Ireland, ancient and modern, with such foreign works as have been translated into English..

On the 1st of January will be published a new and most interesting Map of most of the Principal Mountains in the World, embracing, on a large scale, a clear and distinct view of the

various elevations of the earth. This Map has been arranged with immense trouble and expense, and contains the names of above 300 mountains, with a view of the Falls of Niagara and the Pyramids of Egypt; and the whole arranged in alphabetical order.

According to some late enumerations, made officially, in the Library of the British Museum are 125,000 volumes, and in the Royal Library 65,000.

Typographia, or an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing, illustrated by numerous wood-engravings and portraits, will soon be published, in two parts.

The Deformed Transformed, a drama, is announced from the pen of Lord BYRON; as well as Don Juan, Cantos 12, 13, and 14.

A series of original sketches of men and manners, under the title of Life's Progress, which are to be illustrated by engravings after Cruikshank, are preparing, and will be published periodically.

The Historical Life of Johanna of Sicily, Queen of Naples, is announced. Early in December will be published, Procrastination, or the Vicar's Daughter, a tale.

An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of the Ancients and Moderns in the Use of Inebriating Liquors, will soon be published, by S. MOREWOOD, surveyor of Excise.

Mr. A. BERNARDO is preparing for publication, a work under the title of the Italian Interpreter, consisting of copious and familiar conversations, on subjects of general interest and utility, together with a complete vocabulary in English and Italian; to which are added, in a separate column. Rules for the Pronunciation of each Word.

The concluding Portion of the Naval History of Great Britain, from the declaration of war by France in 1793, to the accession of George IV. Vols. IV. and V. is at press.

The Rev. T. SMITH, editor of the accented edition of the Eton Grammar, with notes, is preparing a new edition of Phædrus, with the scanning from the text of Sterling.

A full Account of the Murder of the late William Weare, of Lyon's Inn, London, including the circumstances which first led to the discovery of the murder, the depositions taken before the magistrates, the Coroner's inquest, and the trial of the prisoners, &c. with engravings,

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engravings, is preparing by G. H. JONES, clerk to the magistrates.

The Rev. G. C. GORHAM is about to put to press, a Copious Abstract in English of the 860 Deeds contained in the two ancient Cartularies of St. Neot's Priory, with outline engravings of nine seals of that monastery or of its priors. It will form either a Supplement to the "History of St. Neot's" already published, or a separate voJume.

Charlton, or Scenes in the North of Ireland, a tale, by J. GAMBLE, esq. will soon appear.

Mr. S. T. COLERIDGE announces Aids to Reflection, in a series of aphorisms, chiefly from the works of Archibald Leighton, with notes, &c. by the Editor.

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, by ALICIA LEFANU, are announced.

FRANCE.

Two editions of the Scottish Novels, called the works of Sir Walter Scott, are announced in Paris, in thirty-five

volumes octavo, and seventy-five volumes duodecimo!

A new periodical work is announced, under the title of “Le Philanthrope Chrétien, ou Revue Périodique des Travaux et Progrès des Sociétés Philanthropiques et Religieuses dans les deux mondes, et spécialement en Angleterre, pouvant servir d'encouragement et de guide à l'établissement d'institutions semblables."-As canting is the order of the day, both in France and England, we have no doubt that this work will obtain considerable success.

UNITED STATES.

A letter received in London from New York says, “This city is healthy, and the province is tecming with plenty. Canals are constructing, and new ones projecting, through various sections of the country; and soon our ships will no longer fetch return-cargoes of coal from Newcastle and Liverpool, having our supply from the inexhaustible. coal-mines, which the canals will place within our reach, at half the price of the Liverpool coal."

NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER:
WITH AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL PROËMIUM.

Authors or Publishers, desirous of seeing an early notice of their Works, are
requested to transmit copies before the 18th of the Month.

AN

Nably-written volume has appeared under the title of London and Paris, or comparative sketches of both, in a supposed correspondence between the Marquis de Vermont and Sir Charles Darnley. The manners, foibles, and opinions, of the two cities, are displayed with acumen and discrimination; and the knowledge conveyed is heightened, in effect, by the contrasts exhibited in the alternate letters. Of course, there is some caricature and exaggeration in a work which generalizes from particular instances,and even indulges in some display of imagination in the invention of those instances; nevertheless, we have not seen a more interesting work on its subject, nor one better calculated to afford more information.

DR. MITCHELL proceeds with his Series of beautiful and useful portable Dictionaries. The third of them is de voted to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and is at once a cheap and necessary companion to every student and proficient in those sciences. Here, at a small expence, is the substance of Hutton's, Barlow's, and other similar dictionaries, and in sufficient detail for every purpose for which such works are usually con

sulted. The editor has likewise introduced many articles from the modern French mathematicians, which cannot fail to render the volume acceptable to a higher class than mere students. The dictionaries previously published of this series are on History and on Chemistry, and we hope the author will be duly encouraged to continue them, as at first proposed. He announces GEOGRAPHY as the subject of his next volume.

The plan of Naval Records, or Chronicles of Line-of-Battle Ships, given in alphabetical order, is as excellent as the sub. stance is amusing and instructive. The History of the Name is followed by that of the Ship, its atchievements, adventures, &c.

The first portion is too long, and often digressive and impertinent; but the details of the ship's history are highly gratifying, and carry the reader through scenes, with which is combined as much honour and glory as ever can appertain to war and professional murder.

A volume, which cannot be too generally circulated, has appeared under the title of a Monitor to Families, by HENRY BELFRAGE. It consists of a series of wellwritten discourses on the practical mora.

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lity of persons in various social conditions; and its tone and principles are not only unexceptionable, but often of very supeior and original character. It is, in a word, the whole duty of man in a modern form, without its prosing and commonplace, and we heartily recommend it to all serious and pious family circles.

The elegant Annual History of the Seasons, called Time's Telescope, has made its appearance for 1824. It is not merely an erudite and intelligent companion to the Almanac of the year, but it brings before its readers many important novel ties in science, while the present volume is enriched by an able view of Physical Geography, and particularly by some curious facts resulting from the new Voyage of Discovery in the Arctic Regions. The discontinuance of Mr. Friend's instructive volume, which we lament, leaves Time's Telescope without a rival in this line, and it is an admirable antidote to the superstitions which continue to disgrace our authorized Almanacs.

A new novel, under the title of the Banker's Daughters of Bristol, claims the respect of the public, for all the best features of works of fiction, interest of story, vivacity of incident, elegance of language, and valuable opinions and sentiments. The authoress is known to the public for some former works; and in the present, greatly to her credit, she has trod in the steps of the amiable MISS CULLEN, by exposing the cruel practices of men to animals unprotected by law, and therefore subject to their unfeeling discretion. We cannot be expected to analyze the story, but must refer our readers to the circulating libraries, where we are persuaded these Banker's Daughters will be in high

Vogue.

Two Dialogues between an Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of the Common Sense Philosophy, have been published, with a view to elucidate the latter in a familiar way, and to draw to it the attention of the universities of the three kingdoms. The last public service of the late lamented Lord Erskine was to carry to Edinburgh a copy of the Twelve Essays, and enforce due notice of their doctrines by his admirable eloquence. He had read them, and the prejudices of his education yielded to their evidence; but, still mistrusting, his own judgment, he took the opinion, before his fatal voyage, of an eminent mathematical scholar in London, and then pledged his usual influence in what he considered the interests of truth. These Dialogues cannot fail to add to the number of converts; and they are adapted in their style and mode of illustration to novices in these enquiries, while they exhibit the leading features of the theory of matter in motion as the true and necessary causes of all material phenomena.

In the author of Clara Chester, we have a soldier turned poet, one who has exchanged the sword for the goose-quill; and who, in both employments, seems deterinined to acquire laurels. He is a man of sentiment, not devoid of taste, and a ready rhymster, for he has here presented us with 2440 lines, in which good sense, strong feeling, and rhyme, are dexterously combined. We wish that he had introduced fewer of the prejudices of his cast, that the crimes of cabinets were not so often glossed over, and that he had justly examined the pretences for the rupture of the treaty of Amiens before he had villified the just defence of Napoleon. Soldiers may not be permitted to reason in the field, but they must not be tolerated in substituting their passive obedience for reasoning when they turn authors. Clara Chester, the heroine, is the author's only child by a beloved wife, whose qualities? he depicts in glowing strains, and whose last illness he describes in the following lines, which may be received as a fair specimen of his style.

Oh! transitory world-Oh! fleeting hour
Of beauty's prime, that like the virgin flower
Peeps from the wintry bosom of the vale,
Oft in the glittering ball, where nimble feet
Born but to smile, and perish in the gale!
Flew like a feathery shower of mountain sleet,
And circling groups appear'd, in fancy's dream,
A wreath of roses floating on the stream;
In pensive mood I mark'd the current dy,
Health on the cheek, and rapture in the eye;
And shed amidst that festive scene atear,

To think perhaps within one little year

O'er some sweet form the dismal grass shall wave,
And careless childhood dance upon her grave.
The charms of youth and sparkling beauty pass
Like leaves thai glitter on the frosted glass.
How sweetly pure on cool December's morn
The swallow's bosom, glancing to the light,
Those tender webs the flowery pane adorn!
Ne'er shew'd a plume more delicate and bright;
Not Flora's light and rosy hand can trace
Such careless elegance! Such matchless grace!
More lovely forms-but mark the glowing sun
Beam on the film by fairy fingers spun;
The spell dissolves, the charming dream is o'er,
And winter's pictur'd garden blooms no more.
Snatch'd prematurely from this mortal scene,
As the scythe lays the blossom on the green,
The solemn truth more deeply in my breast.
One victim of remorseless death impress'd
Each Sabbath morn, when bells with mellow sound
Invite the Christian to that holy ground,
Where the broad branches of the lime-tree bend
O'er the lost parent, sister, child, or friend,
I pause in sorrow at one silent tomb,
She, who beneath that mound of chilly clay
That shrouds the wreck of beauty's faded bloom.
Now sleeps, was once the gayest of the gay:
Her sylph-like form, as light as zephyr's wing
Bounded to joy with life's elastic spring.
Whene'er she came, the tear of sadness flew
Chased by her smile, like sunshine on the dea:
She loved the merry dance, and sparkled there
Unrivall'd 'midst the graceful and the fair:
She wedded-but the peal had scarcely rung
Joy to the old, and promise to the young,
When pale disease insidious stole unseen
Like the cold mildew on the waving green,
And the sweet spendour of the nuptial rose
Was shortly doom'd in wintry death to close.
Now moans the wind amidst the rustling weeds,
And at each gust the wand'ring fancy leads
From pleasure's halls, where once she shose sa
To that low cell beneath, where, quench'd in night,
bright,
And free from mortal hopes and earthly pain,
Repose the last remains of sprightly Jane
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-The author details his foreign voyages,
and the incidents of his campaigns, in a
pleasing manner, and introduces many pas-
sages descriptive of other climes and peo-
ple, at once picturesque and charac-
teristic.

Thoughts on the Greek Revolution, by C.
B. SHERIDAN, Esq. reached a second
edition before they came under our notice.
Mr. S. appeals eloquently to the people
of England in the Greek cause, and de-
precates the inconsiderate proposition of
Mr. Hughes about driving the Greeks out
of Europe.

. He should reflect, (savs Mr. S.) that it is no such
easy task to root up an enormous population, and
re-plant it in another quarter of the world; and that
his colussus of clay could scarcely be lified up by
Minerva, and quietly set down in Anadi. And if
it cannot be done quietly, how will he effect it?
Would he have the horrors of Navarin, Tripolizza,
and Yanina a thousand-fold multiplied? For the
warfare of two armed populations is far more
dreadful than the regulated destruction of stipen-
diary armies; and the soldier, who is paid to kill
his fellow-creatures, at twelve kreutzers, or at thir
teen pence, a day, is the least terrible of belligerent
animals.

1 object to a sentence of outlawry against the
Turks, on account of the destruction of Joannina,
as much as I should to one against the Greeks for
the scenes of Tripolizza and Navarin. I am more
anxious to soften the minds of my countrymen
towards the Greeks, than to inflame them against
the Turks. This wild scheme, of at once driving
the Turks from Europe, had been before inculcated
with equal vehemence by the author of "War in
Greece," a work of whose technical merits I am not
qualified to speak, but whose spirited and vigorous
language is no less calculated to mislead, than Mr.
Hughes's beautiful and finished periods.

No where (says Mr. S.) has an enslaved press treated the Grecian cause with more injustice and contempt than at Vienna. Austria, wearied perhaps by the monotony of paralyzing states once industrious and powerful, palled with unresisted destruction, recently indulged the whim of creating prospe rity, and chose the city of Trieste in Istria for the scene of so un-Austrian an experiment; where, if this be an unavoidable evil to which she reluctantly submits in the more congenial pursuit of ruining Venice, she has at least the consolation of knowing that her policy is debased by the least possible alloy of good, since the decay of Venice proceeds far more rapidly than the growth of Trieste. Now, in this favoured spot, the Greeks, these barbarous and revited Greeks, are by far the most conspicuous merchants, and more than divide the merit of creating Trieste, though they cannot dispute with Austria that of destroying Venice.

I am far from making a pandemonium of the Divan; I do not even believe the Turks in general to be actively cruel, but their strict fatalism renders them singularly careless of human life; and, if they rate low the existence of a Mussulman, they rate still lower that of a Rayah. It would be endless to explain the mutual relations of the Turks and Greeks, but some idea may be formed from the fact that a Turk was never capitally punished for the murder of a Greek; and that the Turks, who always go armed, d d not suffer this impunity to be a brutum fulmen, but frequently shot Greeks on very slight provocation.

If I compare Turkey in Asia, the early possession of the Turks, to England; conquered Turkey in Europe, to conquered Ireland; and Egypt, to Scotland; Greece will about answer Wales, subdued, like her, owing to the civil wars of the native princes, detached and equally mountainous, but more

The great misconception in England concerning the Greek revolution is this: we imagine the question to be, whether the Greeks shall throw off the Turkish yoke, or shall endure it patiently as before: the real alternative is, whether Greece shall enjoy a permanent and guaranteed, though tributary and merely municipal,independence, a medium between the recent situation of Hydra and the previous one of Ragusa, or whether one of the two nations shall be exterminated.

We have no right to expect that the Emperor Alexander should be interested in the Greek insurrection, except as it affects Russia; for it is

preposterous to ask any government to do what is

contrary to its interest, and the emancipation of

Greece will not only do no good to Russia, but it will do her harm. She will lose her importance in the Levant, as the protector of the Greeks, and the power of terrifying the Divan by threatening to excite its Rayahs. If the Emperor Alexander assists the Greeks, he will do it, like Trapbois "for a consideration:" and an island in the Levant, which he would probably suggest as his consulting fee on the occasion, is a mode of payment highly objectionable to this country.

The waste of public money in Turkey is as endless as the titles of the Sultan; political profligancy ap. pears commensurate with the plains and mountains of the East, and our military colleges and martello towers, our ordnance and barrack departments, shew like Highgate or Hampstead by the side of

Caucasus.

After the Greeks are freed, and the principalities ceded, one of two things must in the course of the present century occur. The mouldering corruption of Turkey will proceed, till political sores, that fester instead of healing, have produced final mortification, and the European empire of Othman expires like a candle which has been suffered to burn down into the socket; and the object of all our wishes will thus be attained without either misery or effort.

Those who fancy that a Greek is an amphibious monster, half European and half Asiatic, will be surprised at hearing, that there are in London, at this moment, the following respectable Greek merchants; Eustratius Rallis, Mavrogordatus, Alexander Contostavlos, Phrankiadis, and Negropontis; and either in London or Cambridge they may satisfy themselves, that Messrs. Schinas, Maniakis, and Pappinicotas, are men arrayed like ourselves, in coats, breeches, and waistcoats, and whose manners and information would not disgrace the first European society.

There are between three and four hundred Greek students in Germany, and between five and six hundred in Italy. A still greater number is expected to resort to a university, about to be founded in Ithaca by the Ionian Government, which had already appointed, as chancellor, the Earl of Guilford, whose unostentatious and almost subterraneous ef forts to enrich the Greek character with “knowledge which is power" have for many years made him the link of benevolence between Greece and England. The following are some of the Greek Literati of the day:

Eugenius Vulgaris, Nicephorus Theotokis, Con. stantinus Karaioannis, Balanus of Joannina, Athanasius of Paros, Joseph the Masodacian, Neophytus the Kapsokaiivitis, Georgeius Sakellariu, Daniel Philippidis, Athanasius Psallidis, Demetrius Darvazis, Athanasius Christopulus, Constantinus Kokkinakis, Constantinus Kumas, Lamprus Photiadis, Anastasius Georgiadis, Adamantinus Korays, Neophytus Ducas, Anthimus Gazi, Kaora, and Koletti, Secretary to the Congress.

-We have on this interesting subject taken the above passages from Mr. Sheridan's pamphlet. The apathy in England of which he complains arises from the distance of Greece, from the want of correct information, or even any informa

and inaccessible. There is no more truth in the ideation, from the proximity of Spain andSpan

that the Greeks insist upon exiling the Turks from
Europe, than that the Welch ever determined to
drive the English out of Ireland. The Greeks are
struggling to force the invaders, who are quartered
rather than established over their country, back
into Rumelta, as the Welsh five centuries since
endeavoured to repel their English tyrants on
Shropshire.

MONTHLY MAG. No. 589.

ish interests, and from the subscribing part of the people being worn out by subscriptions.

A valuable addition has recently been made to the comparatively inaccessible sources of authentic information relative SN

to

to the historical antiquities of our island, by the limited publication of The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory, &c. by the Rev. J. Ingram. The work has been long expected; for, to the best of our recollection, it must be eight or nine years since the names of subscribers, to whom the edition was to be confined, were first solicited. Whoever shall cast a careful and discriminating eye, however, over the pages of the work now produced, and observe the minute and diligent collation of numerous manuscripts and authorities to which the editor and translator has appealed, will be perfectly satisfied that the labour of the undertaking is an ample excuse for the delay in the execution; as, also, for the otherwise heavy price of three guineas and a half, at which the volume is delivered. It is a work of inestimable value to those who would be accurately acquainted with the history of this country, and with the real bases of the English Constitution; not that it treats of such subjects in any popular way, or is calculated for the amusement of the superficial reader, who lounges over a book at the breakfast-table, or in the dressingroom; but, as it presents the authentic materials for rectifying the innumerable errors of our common-place historians with respect to the Saxon and early Norman eras; and to those who think as they read, it may demonstrate certain points of essential importance relative to our constitutional antiquities, which it has suited the purposes of the factions of legitimacy and feudal aristocracy most grossly to misre present. The greater part of the contents, especially with reference to the first four or five centuries of the Saxon era, will be found to consist of brief chronolo. gical notices, the applicable value of which will only be appreciated by the attentive and reflecting student, who will ponder on and compare them with other statements and documents in his study; but, even if there were not, as there are, innumerable passages interspersed of a more amusive description, the value of these would be sufficiently apparent in the demonstration, how grossly and how ignorantly they have been misled in facts of no small importance, by those modern oracles who hi therto have been implicitly trusted; but who, instead of appealing to the original and authentic sources of information, have continued to transcribe each other's errors from generation to generation, and to repeat and multiply, under a variety of anthorial denominations, delusion for fact, and romance for history. Nor is this the only point of view in which the value of this publication will be regarded by the antiquarian student. "The Saxon Chronicle," says the editor very truly in his preface," contains the original and au

thentic testimony of contemporary writers to the most important transactions of our forefathers, both by sea and land, from their first arrival in this country to the year 1151. Were we to descend to particulars, it would require a volume to discuss the great variety of subjects which it embraces. Every reader will here find many interesting facts relative to our architecture, our agriculture, our coinage, our commerce, our naval and military glory, our laws, our liberty, and our religion. In this edition also will be found numerous specimens of Saxon poetry, never before printed, which might form the ground-work of an introductory volume to Wharton's elaborate annals of English Poetry. Philosophically considered, this ancient record is the second great phenomenon in the history of mankind. For, if we except the sacred anna's of the Jews, contained in the several books of the Old Testament, there is no other work extant, ancient or modern, which exhibits at one view a regular and chronological panorama of a people, described in rapid succession by different writers, through so many ages, in their own vernacular language. Hence it may safely be considered, not only as the pri meval source from which all subsequent historians of English affairs [ought to] have derived their materials, and consequently [as] the criterion by which they are to be judged, but also the faithful depository of our national idiom; affording, at the same time, to the scientific investigator of the human mind a very interesting and extra. ordinary example of the changes incident to a language, as well as to a nation, in its progress from rudeness to refinement.” Speaking of the revival of the long sus pended," but "good old custom" of writing our own history in our own language [instead of the barbarous Latin of the monks], the editor observes that "the importance of the whole body of English history has attracted and employed the imagination of Milton, the philosophy" (we should have said the fraud, the indolence, and the sophistry) "of Hume, the simplicity of Goldsmith, the industry of Henry, the research of Turner, and the patience of Lingard. The pages of these writers, however accurate and luminous as they generally are," [this, by the way, is a praise which, to some of them, and of those also which follow, we should be dis posed to deny,] "as well as those of Brady, Tyrrell, Carte, Rapine, and others, still require correction from the Saxon Chronicle; without which no persón, however learned, can possess any thing be yond a superficial acquaintance" (we should be disposed to say any thing but a delusive misacquaintance) "with the elements of English History, and of the British Constitution." We ought to notice

that

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