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ALBEMARLE-STREET, LONDON,
JANUARY, 1819.

MR. MURRAY

HAS THE FOLLOWING WORKS

IN THE PRESS.

HUMAN LIFE; a Poem. BY SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ., Author

of the Pleasures of Memory. Neatly printed in small 4to.

TALES of the HALL. By GEORGE CRABBE, L.L. B. 8vo.
The LIFE of the Right Hon. R, B. SHERIDAN, from a va-
riety of interesting Documents, and original Communications.
BY THOMAS MOORE, Esq. Author of Lalla Rookh. 4to.

SPECIMENS of the BRITISH POETS, with Biographical and
Critical Notices. To which is prefixed, an Introduction to the Study
of English Poetry. By THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq., Author of the
Pleasures of Hope. 7 vols. post 8vo. 31. 13s. 6d.

LETTERS from the NORTH of ITALY, relating principally to the Government, Statistics, Manners, Language, and Literature of that Country. Addressed to Henry Hallam, Esq., by WILLIAM STEWART ROSE. 2 vols. 8vo.

A VOYAGE of DISCOVERY to the ARCTIC REGIONS, in Search of a North-West Passage, in His Majesty's Ships, Isabella and Alexander. By CAPTAIN JOHN ROSS, R. N., Commander of the Expedition. With Maps and numerous Engravings, in one volume 4to.

NARRATIVE of an ATTEMPT to DISCOVER a PASSAGE

over the NORTH POLE to BEHRING's STRAITS. BY CAPTAIN DAVID BUCHAN, Commander of His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent. With Plates, in one volume 4to.

JOURNEY OVER LAND from the Head Quarters of the MARQUESS OF HASTINGS, in INDIA, through EGYPT, to England, in the Years 1817-18, with an Account of the Occurrences of the late War, and of the Character and Customs of the Pindaries. To which are added, a Description of the SCULPTURED MOUNTAINS of ELLORA, and of the recent INTERESTING DISCOVERIES within the TOMBS of the PYRAMIDS of Egypt. By MAJOR FITZCLARENCE, with Maps, Plans, and Views, 4to.

HISTORY of the late WAR in SPAIN and PORTUGAL. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq., 3 vols. 4to.

The WORKS of the Right Hon. R. B. SHERIDAN, now first collected, comprising many hitherto unpublished Writings, and printed from authentic and original Copies. The whole arranged and edited, with an Essay on the Life and Genius of the Author, by THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 6 vols. 8vo.

The PRINCIPLES of POLITICAL ECONOMY CONSI DERED, with a View to their Practical Application. By T. R. MALTHUS, A. M. 8vo.

The WORKS of the Right Hon. LORD BYRON.

A New

and uniform Edition, very handsomely printed in 3 vols. 8vo. The PLAYS and POEMS of JAMES SHIRLEY, now first collected and chronologically arranged, and the Text carefully collated and restored. With occasional Notes and a Biographical and Critical Essay. By WILLIAM GIFFORD, Esq., uniformly with MASSINGER and BEN JONSON. 6 vols. 8vo.

THE LIFE of ANDREW MELVILLE; containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland, during the latter part of the Sixteenth and beginning of the Seventeenth Century. With an Appendix, consisting of Original Papers. By THOMAS M'CRIE, D. D., Minister of the Gospel, Edinburgh., Author of the Life of Knox. 2 vols. 8vo.

This Work may be viewed as a Continuation of the History of the Scottish Church, given in the Life of John Knox by the same Author; but as Melville, besides taking an active part in the Public Transactions of his Time, was successively at the Head of two of the Universities of Scotland, it will enter much more fully into the State of Education, and the Progress of Literature, than the Author found himself warranted to do in the Life of the Reformer.

A MANUAL OF CHEMISTRY; containing the principal Facts of the Science, arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the Lectures at the Royal Institution. With a Prefatory History of the Science. By W. T. BRANDE, F.R.S., Secretary to the Royal Society of London. With upwards of 100 Wood-cuts. In one volume, 8vo.

A SYSTEM of MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY. By the late JOHN ROBISON, LL.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University, and Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh With Notes and Illustrations, comprising the most recent Discoveries in the Physical Sciences. By DAVID BREWSTER, LL.D. F.R.S.E. With numerous Plates, in 4 vols. 8vo.

WORKS in the PRESS.

SERMONS, Doctrinal, Practical, and Critical. By THOMAS DUNHAM WHITAKER, LL.D. F.S. A., Vicar of Whalley, and Rector of Heysham, in Lancashire. 8vo.

JOURNAL of an EXPEDITION over Part of the (hitherto)
TERRA INCOGNITA of AUSTRALASIA, performed by Com-
mand of the British Government of the Territory of New South
Wales, in the Year 1817. By JOHN OXLEY, Esq., Surveyor-Ge-
neral of the Territory, and Lieutenant of the Royal Navy. With an
entirely new Map, and other Plates, 4to.

A TREATISE on the KALEIDOSCOPE, containing an
Account of the Principles and Construction of the Instrument, and
of its application in various forms to the useful Arts. By DAVID
BREWSTER, LL.D. F. R. S. E. 12mo.

An ACCOUNT of the MISSION from CAPE COAST
CASTLE to the KINGDOM of ASHANTEE, in AFRICA: com-
prising its History, Laws, Superstitions, Customs, Architecture,
Trade, &c. To which is added, a Translation, from the Arabic,
of an Account of Mr. Park's Death, &c. By THOMAS EDWARD
BOWDICH, Esq., Conductor and Chief of the Embassy. With a
Map, and several Plates of Architecture, Costumes, Processions,
&c. In one 4to. volume.

TRAVELS in NUBIA and in the INTERIOR of NORTH
EASTERN AFRICA. Performed in the Months of February and
March, 1813. By J. L. BURCKHARDT. To which are prefixed, a Life
of the Author, and a Portrait. Published by the AFRICAN ASSOCIATION.
4to.

JOURNEY from MOSCOW to CONSTANTINOPLE, in the
Years 1817, 1818. By WILLIAM MACMICHAEL, M.D. F.R.S., one of
Dr. Radcliffe's Travelling Fellows, from the University of Oxford.
With plates, 4to.

ANASTASIUS, or MEMOIRS of a GREEK, written by
Himself. 3 vols. cr. 8vo.

SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.-OBSERVATIONS, ANECDOTES, and
CHARACTERS of Books and MEN. By the Rev. JOSEPH SPENCE. 8vo.
On the TOPOGRAPHY and ANTIQUITIES of ATHENS.
By Lieut.-Colonel W. M. LEAKE. 8vo.

A CHURCHMAN'S SECOND EPISTLE, with Notes and
Illustrations, By the Author of RELIGIO CLERICI, 8vo.

At the same time will be published, a THIRD EDITION of RELIGIO
CLERICI, Part I., with the addition of Notes and Illustrations, 8vo.

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A COPIOUS GREEK GRAMMAR.

By AUGUSTUS MATTHIE, Doctor in Philosophy, Director of the Gymnasium, and Librarian of the Ducal Library at Altenburg; Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences at Erfurt, of the Latin Society at Jena, and of the Society of Sciences and Arts at Mentz. Translated into English from the German, by the late Rev. E. V. BLOMFIELD, M.A., Fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge. The Work is printing at the Cambridge University Press, and will form 2 volumes in 8vo.

The superiority of this Grammar of the Greek Language to all that had preceded it is universally acknowledged by Continental Scholars, who conspire in giving it the highest character. The Author is well known to the literary world as one of the ablest and most judicious philologists of the present day. In composing this work he has availed himself of all the improvements which have been made in the science of Grammar by the scholars of Holland, Germany, and England; and he has been particularly careful to supply the deficiency for which preceding Grammars were remarkable, by giving a copious and accurate account of the laws of Syntax.

The present translation was nearly finished and ready for the press, when the hand of Providence arrested its author in his career of promise, and left to his friends the me. lancholy satisfaction of doing honour to his memory by carrying his purpose into effect.

The COMEDIES of ARISTOPHANES.

Translated from the

Greek, with numerous illustrative Notes. By THOMAS MITCHELL, A.M., late Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, Camb. 2 vols. 8vo. Of eleven Comedies, the valuable remains of fifty-four, written by this celebrated Author of antiquity, two only have yet appeared in such an English dress as to attract the attention of the public. The present publication attempts to supply a deficiency, long felt in our Literature, by offering a Version of the remaining pieces; and the Translator thus hopes to furnish the general reader with the means of ascertaining the nature and merits of that peculiar branch of the Drama, known by the name of the OLD COMEDY. The basis of translation has been a Blank Verse, modelled on the phraseology of our old Dramatic Writers, with an occasional use of such metres as seemed best adapted to suit the varieties of an Author abounding in rapid transitions, and indulging in every combination of numbers. Of some of the Plays it has not been thought advisable to give entire translations; in these a prose narrative has been adopted, to connect the scenes and carry on the story; and the translated parts will be to the untranslated, at least in the proportion of three to one. By this expedient, points of local humour can be set in a stronger light by the force of contrast ; and scenes may be entirely omitted or narrated in a manner more consistent with delicacy and reserve than the early Comedy of all nations has been found to observe. Ample notes will be added; and such as, it is hoped, will leave the reader no difficulty in understanding, and relishing the text of an author, professedly engaged in the history and politics of his own times. Without presuming to offer a work conducted on these principles to the notice of the learned, it is thought that such a publication may not be unacceptable to the curiosity of the English reader; that it may offer ma terials for tracing the progress of Comedy as a branch of art, and may serve to give a nearer and more accurate view of the manners and political relations of a country, the language, customs and mythology of which, we have woven very deeply into our national system of education.

MEMOIRS of the First Thirty-two Years of the LIFE of

JAMES HARDY VAUX, now transported for the Second Time, and for Life, to New South Wales. Written by Himself. 2 vols. 12mo. The COURT of ENGLAND in 1626. Being a Translation of Marshal Bassompiere's Account of his Embassy to London, with Notes and Commentaries. 8vo.

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