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Elements of Discourse and Criterion of True and False Reasoning, as Preparation for Private Inquiries and Groundwork for Public Speaking; for the use (principally) of Candidates for the Pulpit, the Bar, and the Senate. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq.

Aids to Reflection, in a Series of Prudential, Moral, and Spiritual Aphorisms, extracted from the Works of Archbishop Leighton, with Notes and interpolated Remarks. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq.

The Wanderings of Cain. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq.

The Posthumous Works of the late Percy Bysshe Shelley, Esq. are announced for publication in one volume,

The Deformed Transformed. A Drama: By the Right Honourable Lord Byron.

Scripture Topography: an Alphabetical Arrangement of all the Names of Places mentioned in the Old and New Testament; accompanied with Historical and Descriptive Information derived from Ancient Writers and Modern Travellers.

Part I. of 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 the late James Tyson, Esq., is now in the press.

No. I. of Original Views of the most interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain. From drawings by J. P. Neale. The Engravings by J. Le Keux. With Historical Notices and Architectural Descriptions. The work will be published in Monthly Parts, each containing four highly finished Views, 4s. royal 8vo. A few copies will be printed, with proof impressions of the Plates, on India paper, royal 4to, 8s. Twelve Parts will form a Volume, and the whole will be completed in Six Volumes.

In a few days will be published, Vol'taire's Philosophical Dictionary, Vol. I..

A Manual for the Treatment of Strictures in the Urethra; chiefly addressed to Students and Junior Practioners. By George Macilwain.

Memoirs of a Lady of Quality; containing Original Anecdotes of all the Courts of Europe, and of the most distinguished Individuals as connected with the History of the last Forty Years.

Mr Buckingham, author of "Travels in Palestine," has a volume of Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine, in the press.

Narrative of a Tour through Parts of the Netherlands, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and France, in the years 1821-22, including a Description of the Rhine Voyage in the middle of Autumn, and the Stupendous Scenery of the Alps in the depth of Winter. By Charles Tennant, Esq.

Letters to an Attorney's Clerk, containing Directions for his Studies and general Conduct. Designed and commenced by the late A. C. Buckland, author of Letters on Early Rising; and completed by W. H. Buckland.

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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan, Mother of the late Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan, and Author of "Sidney Biddulph," Nourjahad," and "The Discovery;" with Remarks upon a late Life of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan; Criticism and Selections from the Works of Mrs Sheridan, and Biographical Anecdotes of her Family and Contemporaries. By her Grand-daughter, Alicia Lefanu.

The History of the Roman Empire, from the accession of Augustus to the death of the younger Antoninus; by William Haygarth, Esq. A.M. is now in the press.

In the press, The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures Asserted, and Infidel Objections shewn to be unfounded, by New and Conclusive Evidence. In Six Lectures, by the Rev. S. Noble.

One Hundred Original Songs. By Allan Cunningham.

The Rev. T. Boys is about to publish Sacred Tactics; an Attempt to Develope and to Exhibit to the Eye, by Tabular Arrangements, a General Rule of Composition prevailing in the Holy Scriptures.

Conversations on the Evidences of Christianity, intended as an Introduction to the Systematical Study of the Principal Authors who have written on the Subject.

A work entitled, A History of the Conquest of England by the Normans, its Causes and Consequences, is now in the press.

An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology; for the use of Medical Students and Men of Letters. By Thomas Sandwith, Esq., Surgeon. With Plates.

Memoirs of Rossini; containing Anecdotes of his Life and of his Musical Career to the present Period. By the Author of "The Lives of Haydn and Mozart."

Shortly will appear, An Essay descriptive of a New System of Navigation, by newly invented Charts and Instruments, by which the Longitude is found, kept, and always known. By W. S. Stevens, Author of Homographia, &c.

A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, and on some of the Affections usually denominated Bilious; comprising an impartial Estimate of the Merits of the Nitro-Muriatic Acid Bath; by George Darling, M.D., is in course of publication.

In the press, Prose Pictures: a Series of Descriptive Letters and Essays. By Edward Herbert, Esq. With Etchings, by George Cruikshank.

The several Treatises of the late James Baverstock, Esq. on the Brewery, collected into one volume, with Notés; together with an Introduction, containing a Biographical Sketch of the Author; a Paper on Specific Gravities, and on the various Hydrostatical Instruments which have been used in the Brewery. By his Son, J. H. Baverstock, F.S.A.

Six Etchings from Pen Drawings of Interesting Scenes in Italy and Switzerland. Drawn and Etched by William Cowen.

Christian Sentiments, selected from the Writings of Jeremy Taylor.

A Novel is in the press, entitled, Marston Moor, or the Queen's Page.

Dr Cox has in the press, Remarks on Acute Rheumatism, and the Importance of Blood-letting.

Mr Chatfield is about to publish, A Compendious View of the History of the Darker Ages.

The Twelfth Part of Views on the Southern Coast of England, from Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, and engraved by W. and G. Cooke, will soon appear.

A Romance, entitled, The Pirate of the Adriatic, has been announced.

Mr Blaquiere has in the press, A History of the Origin and Progress of the Greek Revolution.

A second volume of The Lady of the Manor, by Mrs Sherwood.

Mr Britton announces a Grammar of Antiquities.

A work is announced on the Antiquity of the Doctrine of the Quakers respecting Inspiration, with a Brief Review of that Society, and a Comparison between the Life and Opinions of the Friends and those of Early Christians.

Specimens of the Early French Poets, with Translations and Biographical and Critical Notices, are announced.

A Third Course of Practical Sermons, by the Rev. Harvey Marriott, Rector of Calverton, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, is now in the press.

Mrs M. A. Rundell has a Sequel to her Grammar of Sacred History in the press.

The Odes of Anacreon of Teos, as translated into English Verse by W. Richardson, Esq, are now in the press.

Aureus, or the Adventures of a Sovereign. Written by Himself. 2 vols. 12mo.

In the press, and speedily will be published, a second edition of a Treatise on Scrofula, explanatory of a Method for its complete Eradication; with Remarks on the frequent Failure of this Mode of Treatment in the hands of other Practitioners, and other important Additions. By William Farr, Surgeon, Author of a Treatise on Cancer.

We feel much pleasure in stating, that a History of Waterford, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, is preparing for the press, and may be expected early in the spring. We are the more anxious to see a work of this kind, as no history or survey of Waterford has been published since the time of Smith, upwards of seventy years since.

Count Pecchio has in the press a Diary of Political Events in Spain during the last year. This work, like his Letters on the Spanish and Portuguese Revolutions, is interspersed with Anecdotes of Public Men, and on the Manners and Customs of the Peninsula.

In the press, and shortly will be published, Plantarum Scientia, or Botanist's Companion. A Catalogue of hardy Exotic and Indigenous Plants, arranged differently from any hitherto published. The work comprises an alphabetical arrangement, according to the monthly order of flowering. Following the generic names, are the classes and orders; and after each specific name are enumerated the native country, the height of growth, and the

colour of the flower;-particulars, it is presumed, not unworthy the notice of the Horticulturist.

Mr Wight, Bow-Street Reporter to the Morning Herald, has in the press, a Selection of One Hundred of the most Humorous and Entertaining of the Reports which have appeared in the Morning Herald in the last three years. Illustra ted by George Cruikshank.

On the 1st of February, 1824, will be published, the First Part (to be continued Quarterly, in Parts) of The Animal Kingdom, as arranged conformably with its Organization, by the Baron Cuvier; with additional Descriptions of all the Species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. 6 The whole of the Regne Animal' of the above celebrated Zoologist will be translated in this undertaking; but the Additions will be so considerable, as to give it the character of an original

work.

Preparing for publication, in a small volume duodecimo, Paptism not Baptism, and Washing not Burial, in reply to Mr Ewing's Essay on Baptism; containing also an Address to the numerous Members of Podobaptist Churches, who hold Antipodobaptist Sentiments. By F. A. Cox, A.M. of Hackney.

A Present for a Sunday School, or a Plain Address on the Fear of the Lord, adapted for the capacities of little children. By a Minister of the Established Church.

A second edition of Sabbaths at Home, by the Rev. Henry March, is in the press. Sketches of Sermons, furnished by their respective Authors, vol. iv. 12mo.

Sermons by the late Rev. T. N. Toller; with a Memoir of the Author, by Robert Hall. 8vo. 10s.

In the press, in one large volume 8vo. an improved edition of Milburn's Oriental Commerce, or the East-India Trader's Complete Guide; containing a Geographical and Nautical Description of the Maritime Parts of India, China, and Neighbouring Countries, including the Eastern Islands, and an Account of their Trade, Productions, Coins, Weights and Measures; together with their Port Regulations, Charges, &c. Originally compiled by the late William Milburn, Esq. of the Hon. East-India Company's Service. Abridged, improved, and brought down to the present time, by Thomas Thornton.

The East-India Vade-Mecum, being a Complete Guide to Gentlemen proceeding to the East-Indies, in either the Civil, Military, or Naval Service, or on other Pursuits. Much improved from

the work of the late Captain Williamson, being a condensed compilation of his and various other publications, and the result of personal observation. By Dr J. B. Gilchrist.

The Economy of the Eyes. Precepts for the Improvement and Preservation of the Sight. Plain Rules which will enable all to judge exactly when, and what Spectacles are best calculated for their Eyes; and an Essay on Opera-Glasses, &c.. By William Kitchiner, M.D.

The Economy of the Eyes. Part II. Of the Illuminating and Magnifying Powers of Newtonian, Gregorian, and Cassegrainian Reflectors, and Achromatic Telescopes, from three inches to seven feet focus. By William Kitchiner, M.D.

Original Letters, chiefly illustrative of English History; including numerous Royal Letters. Published from Autographs in the British Museum, and one or two other Collections. By Henry Ellis, F.R.S. Sec. S. A., are in the press.

A complete System of Plants. By William Jackson Hooker, F.R. A. and L.S. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, Member of the Wern. Soc. of Edinb., of the Imp. Acad. Naturæ Curiosorum, of the Royal Botanical Soc. of Ratisbon, of the Helvetic Soc. of Nat. Hist., &c.

This Work will contain descriptive characters of every species known to be cultivated or in existence throughout the globe; together with some General Remarks, Notices of their Uses, &c. arranged according to the Natural Orders, but accompanied with a Linnæan Index of references, and illustrated with numerous coloured figures from drawings made by the author.

Miss Benger is engaged on another Biographical Work, of which Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, forms the Subject.

The Account of Mr Bullock's Travels and Discoveries, in Mexico, will appear in a few months, under the title of "Six Months in Mexico."

Observations on the Religious Peculiarities of the Society of Friends. By Joseph John Gurney.

A Philosophical Treatise on Malting and Brewing. By George Adolphus Wig

ney.

The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack; Illustrating the Events of every Day in the Year, as connected with History, Chronology, Botany, Natural History, Astronomy, Popular Customs, and Antiquities; with Useful Rules of Health, Observations on the Weather, an Explanation of the Fasts and Festivals of the Church, and other

Miscellaneous Useful Information By Thomas Foster, F.L.S. M. B. &c. &c.

The Life of Thomas, Lord Erskine, with Observations on the Character of his Eloquence at the Bar and in Parliament, and Critical Notices of his Speeches and Writings, interspersed with private Anecdotes. By Henry Cooper, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols. 8vo.

Eugenia; a Poem, by Mrs Wolferstan, is about to appear.

Warreniana, a volume of the class of "The Rejected Addresses," is preparing for the press.

Drs Von Spix and Von Martin's Travels in Brazil, during the years 1817-18 19-20, are now being translated from the German, for publication, in 8vo.

Mr Williams, Editor of the last edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, is about to publish a new edition of Milton's Poetical Works, with Notes, &c. &c.

No. 1. of the Cambridge Quarterly Review and Academical Register.

Memoirs of the Life of Riego and his Family, including a History of Spain from the Restoration of Ferdinand to the present time. Illustrated by several por

traits.

Mr Felix Bodin, Author of the "Presumé de l'Histoire de France," is about to publish, as a companion, a Resumé de l'Histoire d'Angleterre.

A Dissertation on the Gowrie Conspiracy, with an Examination of Logan of Restalrig's alleged participation; and embracing Biographical Memoirs of the an

clent Families of Ruthven and Logan, by James Logan, will soon appear.

Duncombe's Trials Per Pais, or the Law of England concerning Juries, with a Preface on the Origin of Trial by Jury, the original Authorities cited, and the Passages from the Anglo-Saxon writers translated. By Daniel Alban Durtnall, Esq. Barrister at Law.

A Work entitled, "Letters to Young Ladies on their first entrance into the World," by Mrs Lanfear, is announced.

The Hermit in Italy; or, Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Italians at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the French of M. Jouy.

The three first Lays of a series of Patriotic Poems, tending to illustrate the Customs and Institutions of our Ancestors and their Invaders, during the reign of the (Roman) Emperor Claudius.

The Passover, a Sermon on the Paschal Types, and on the Analogy of the Paschal Feast of the Lord's Supper, with an Appendix. By the Rev. J. E. N. Molesworth, A.M.

A History of Waterford, from the earliest period to the present time, is preparing for the press.

The Author of "Highways and Byeways" has another work nearly ready for publication.

A Practical German Grammar, being a new and easy method of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the German language. By John Howbotham.

EDINBURGH.

The Inheritance. By the Author of "Marriage." 3 vols. post 8vo. The Devil's Elixir, 2 vols. 12mo. A Sketch of the System of Education at New Lanark, by Robert Dale Owen, is in the press, and will appear in a few days.

Critical Researches in Philology and Geography, in one volume 8vo. Among other articles in this work, there will be found a Review of Dr Lee's edition of

Jones' Persian Grammar, and an examination of the various opinions that in modern times have been held respecting the source of the Ganges, and the correctness of Mr Lana's map of Thibet.

Preparing for publication, a Volume of Sermons, selected from the Manuscripts of the late Robert Boog, D.D. first Minister of the Abbey Parish of Paisley. Edited by Professor Mylne.

MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

AGRICULTURE.

LONDON.

The New Farmer's Calendar, or Monthly Remembrancer of all kinds of Country Business. Fifth Edition; with large Additions. By John Lawrence. 8vo. 12s.

A Guide to Practical Farriery, containing hints on the Diseases of Horses and Neat-Cattle. By J. Pursglone. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Essay on the Origin and Progress of Gothic Architecture. From the German of Molter. Crown 8vo. 6s.

Ornaments, Grecian and Roman Architecture, &c. Selected from Stewart's Athens, &c. for the use of Architects, Workmen, &c. 24 plates. Imp. folio. L.1, 5s.

ANTIQUITIES.

Sabæan Researches in a Series of Essays, addressed to distinguised Antiquaries, and including the Substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. By John Landseer, F, A. S. 4to. L.2, 12s. 6d.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

A Catalogue of a very comprehensive Collection of Second-hand Books, consisting of nearly 120,000 volumes, embracing the more useful and desirable Class of Works in General Literature, and offered at unusually low prices. By J. Dowding.

A Catalogue of an extensive nnd valuable Collection of the best Works on Natural History, arranged in classes according to the Linnean system, with an enumeration of the pages and plates each volume contains. Now selling at the prices afficed to each. By W. Wood. 4s.

A Catalogue of Books, chiefly in the Italian, French, and English Languages, on sale at the prices affixed. By Kichard Beckley.

BIOGRAPHY,

Memoirs of the Wesley Family, collected principally from Original Documents. By Adam Clarke, LL. D., F. A. S. 8vo, 12s.

The Life of Lady Jane Grey and of Lord Guildford, her Husband. By Edward Baldwin, Esq. 4s. 6d. and 2s. 6d.

A tribute of Parental Affection to the Memory of a beloved and only Daughter; containing some account of the character and Death of Hannah Jerram, who died May 9, 1823, aged 23. Drawn up by her Father, Charles Jerram, Vicar of Chobham, Surrey.

Memoirs of J. Decastro, Comedian, with Anecdotes of various eminently distinguished Characters with whom he has been acquainted during the last 50 years, never before in print; accompanied by an Analysis of the Life of the late Philip Astley, Esq. 5s.

Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Great. 2 volumes 8vo. L. 1, 4s.

Memoirs of the Life of Salvator Rosa. By Lady Morgan.

Memoirs of Thurtell, &c. interspersed with numerous Anecdotes, an Account of the Editor's Second Interview with him, (never yet published,) and every particular relative to the Execution, and his demeanour after Sentence was passed. By Pierce Egan.

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A Portrait of the Countess of Lieven, from a drawing by Sir Tho. Lawrence. P. R. A. Engraved by Wm. Bromley, Esq. A. R. A. Prints, price 15s. Proofs, I. 11s. 6d.

Beauties of the Dulwich Picture Gallery. By an Amateur, 3s.

A Portrait of His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth, executed in imitative Cameo, from a Model by Barnett. Also, a portrait of Lord Byron. Price 6s. each, plain; 8s. shaded.

Part XIV. of a Series of Engravings in outline, by Henry Moses, of the works of Canova.

Portraits of the Worthies of Westminster Hall, with their autographs; being

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