lished.

A work will very soon be published by Mr W. F. Pocock, architect, calculated to supply the wants of many persons who, at this time, are seeking information and directions in furtherance of the intentions of the legislature, in building a number of new churches. It will consist of a series of designs for churches and chapels of various dimensions and styles, with plans, sections, &c.

Mr Picquot, author of "The Universal Geography," has in the press a Chronological Abridgment of the History of Modern Europe, compiled from the best English, French, and German authors.

A work, designed as a proper companion to the "Comforts of Old Age," is now in the press, and will be published in a few days, called the Enjoyments of Youth. The object of the author of this small work, the scenery of which is laid in genteel life, is to impress upon the minds of the young the pleasures of religion and morality, in contradistinction to the inanity of the customary pursuits (which are delineated) of the wellbred young of both sexes in modern days. The story is told, not in the way of dry and abstract axioms, but by scenes (in the Vicarof-Wakefield style) in which all or most may be supposed to participate in their progress through life.

Mr Parkinson is preparing for the press, a Familiar Introduction to the Study of Fossils.

Mr Chase, of Cambridge, has in the press a work on Antinomianism, in which he has endeavoured to convict the abettors of that heresy, of hostility to the doctrines of Grace.

A Grammar of the German Language, written with a view to facilitate its study, by C. T. Kersten, will be published in the course of the present month. The author has endeavoured to simplify the principles of that language, and to remove the difficulties attached to some parts of its acquisition.

The Rev. John Griffin has in the press, a third edition of his Memoirs of Captain James Wilson, considerably improved, and ornamented with a portrait of Captain Wil

son.

In January, a work will be published, in a small volume octavo, entitled Apeleutherus, or an Effort to attain Intellectual Freedom; in four parts-1. On religious and moral instruction: 2. On public and social worship; 3. On supernatural revelation; 4. On a future state. A small impression of this work, in a very imperfect state, was some years ago distributed amongst the author's friends, but never advertised for sale. It has since received many additions, alterations, and corrections; and he wishes those friends to consider the former impression as entirely superseded and cancelled by the present publication.

In December will be published, La Rentrée des Vacances, ou Present aux Jeunes Demoiselles, par Marie Antonette Le Noir, auteur des Conversations d'Ermstine, &c.

In the press and shortly will be published, Duravernum, or Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Canterbury, with other Poems; by A. Brooke, Esq.

Miss Spence, author of Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and Scenery, of Scotland, &c. &c. preparing for publication a a new work, entitled, a Traveller's Tale of the last Century.

In the press, Coral, a novel, in 3 vols. 12mo.

Shortly will appear, in one volume, 8vo. Practical Observations on the Construction and Principles of Instruments for the removal of Muscular Contraction of the Limbs, Distortion of the Spine, and every other Species of Personal Deformity; by John Felton (late of Hinckley), surgical mechanist to the General Institution for the relief of bodily deformities, Birmingham.

Abeillard and Heloisa, a new and original didactive poem, is now in the press, and will be published in a few days; called, a Nineteenth Century, and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, and Misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa, a matchless pair, who flourished in the twelfth century! by Robert Rabelais, the younger. The work is altogether historical, but the various elucidations may be deemed a material, matrimonial, comical, farcical, tragical, satirical, anecdotical, clerical, nautical, regimental, ethical, metaphysical, theological, philosophical, critical, political, and all the terminative faculty of als!

Mr S. Fleming has circulated proposals for publishing, by subscription, at two

guineas, the Life of Demosthenes; containing all that is recorded of that celebrated orator, both in his private and public conduct; with an account of the age of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great, embracing the most interesting and brilliant period of ancient Greece, in arts, literature, and eloquence. It will be handsomely printed on a fine paper, and make a large quarto volume, replete with curious and valuable

matter.

Mr Roscoe has in the press, a work on Penal Jurisprudence and the Reformation of Criminals; which will include an inquiry into the motives, ends, and limits of human punishments; and also, as to the effect of punishment by way of example; and on the prevention of crimes. The work will also contain the latest accounts respecting the state-prisons and penitentiaries in the United States. From so philosophical a pen, a treatise on these subjects cannot fail, at this time, to be peculiarly valuable.

Undina; a tale, from the German of Baron de le Motte Fougue; by the Hon. William Robert Spenser; with engravings, is nearly completed.

The Heraldic Cyclopædia, or Dictionary of Heraldry; by William Berry, Esq. late of the College of Arms.

A second volume of the Letters of Horace Walpole, royal quarto.

A Treatise on Midwifery, developing a new principle by which labour is shortened, and the sufferings of the patient alleviated.

A Treatise on Medical Logick, founded on practice, with facts and observations; by Sir Gilbert Blane.

In the press, Scripture Costume, exhibited in a series of engravings, accurately coloured in imitation of the drawings representing the principal personages mentioned in the Old and New Testament, drawn under the superintendence of B. West, Esq. P.R.A.; by R. Satchwell. Accompanied with biographical and historical sketches. Imperial 4to.

In the press, a work of considerable interest, entitled, The General Gazetteer, or Emigrant's Guide to the Western and Southwestern States and Territories of America; containing a geographical and statistical description of the states of Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, the territories of Alabama, Missouri, Illinois, and Michigan, and the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York; with a complete list of the road and river routes west of the Aleghany Mountains, and the connecting roads from New York, Philadelphia, Washington city, to New Orleans, St Louis, and Pittsburg. In this work, the Emigrant's Guide to the Western and South-western States, by William Darby, of the New York Historical Society, and the Western Gazetteer, or -Emigrant's Directory, by S. R. Brown, are united; the whole comprising a more comVOL. IV.

prehensive account of the soil, productions, climate, and present state of improvement, of the regions described, than any work hitherto published. Accompanied by a map of the United States, engraved expressly for this work from Mellish's large map, improved to January 1, 1818.

EDINBURGH.

Collected and

Tales of My Landlord. arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, schoolmaster and parish-clerk of Gandercleugh. The Third Series, in 4 vols. 12mo.

Marriage, a novel. The second edition, 3 vols. 12mo. will be published in January. Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica; edited by Macvey Napier, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin. vol. iii. part. 2d. 4to.

An improved edition, in 2 vols 8vo, of Schmidius' Concordance to the Greek New Testament, from the Glasgow University press, will appear in January.

We are happy in being the first to announce to the public, that Mr James Hogg, the celebrated Ettrick Shepherd, having been employed by the Highland Society of London to collect and arrange the Jacobite relics of his native country, has been silently prosecuting this task for some time past, and has already in the press the first portion of his interesting labours. The work, we understand, is to consist of all the Jacobite songs of merit, published as well as unpublished, with the original airs to which they were composed or sung; together with every anecdote that can be procured of clans, families, and individuals, which is calculated to illustrate the chivalrous history of the times, and the often romantic exploits of those who took an active part in the different rebellions, and were distinguished for their attachment to the exiled house of Stuart.

This, we think, will form a very curious and interesting national work, especially when we consider the ungleaned and extensive field that lies before the Editor, and the host of respectable individuals who have interested themselves in the success of his undertaking. Ever since the publication of the "Queen's Wake," Mr Hogg has occupied a distinguished place in the literary annals of our country, and there is perhaps no man living to whom such a task could be with more propriety confided, or to whom families possessed of the necessary documents will with greater willingness communicate them. Like his illustrious friend and brother Mr Walter Scott, and his immortal predecessor Robert Burns, Mr Hogg has evinced, in various parts of his writings, at least a poetical sympathy with the wayward fortunes of the Pretender and his followers, and perhaps one of the finest apologies that ЗА

was ever offered for Jacobitism is to be found in his song of "Donald M'Donald❞—a song which long boasted an unrivalled popularity, although among the earliest productions of his unlettered muse.

"What tho' we befriended young Charlie, To tell it, I dinna think shame, Poor lad, he came to us but barelie,

And reckoned our mountains his hame. It's true that our reason forbad us,

But tenderness carried the day,Had Geordie come friendless amang us, Wi' him we had a' gane away."

With these feelings and qualifications, we are certain that Mr Hogg, if at all seconded in his meritorious efforts, will produce a work in the highest degree interesting to the antiquarian as well as the general reader, and it is in the furtherance of an object so desirable that we copy the following extract from his introduction to the first volume.

"These songs give many animated pictures of the battles and times to which they allude. They actually form a delightful, though rude epitome, of the history of our country during a period highly eventful; when every internal movement was decisive toward the establishment of the rights and liberties which we have since enjoyed; and they likewise present us with a key to the annals of many ancient and noble families, who were either involved in ruin by the share they had in these commotions, or rose on that ruin in consequence of the support they afforded to the side that prevailed.

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They are, moreover, a species of composition entirely by themselves. They have no affinity with our ancient ballads of heroism and romance, and the greater part of them far less with the mellow strains of our pastoral and lyric muses. Their general character is that of a rude energetic humour, that bids defiance to all opposition in arms, sentiments, or rules of song-writing. They are the unmasked sentiments of a bold and primitive race, who hated and despised the overturning innovations in church and state, and held the abettors of such as dogs or something worse-drudges in the lowest and foulest paths of perdition-beings too base to be spoken of with any degree of patience or forbearance.

"Such is their prevailing feature; but there are among them specimens of sly and beautiful allegory, as well as pathetic and simple lamentation. These seem to have been sung openly and avowedly in mixed parties, as they are more generally popular, while the others had been confined to the select social meetings of confirmed Jacobites, or treasured up in the cabinets of old Catholic families as their most precious lore. Many of these beloved relics have been given up to me with the greatest liberality; yet I have reason to believe, that in some

distant counties, numbers yet remain : for a locality prevails in many of them, that gives them an interest only in certain families and districts.

"It is for this reason that I have published only a portion of the songs at this time, and confined myself to those that are apparently of the earliest date, concerning which, authentic legendary documents could not now be so easily procured. I have subjoined such of these as I could come at, in the notes to each song; and I take this opportunity of requesting the descendants of those families that rose in support of the Stuarts, to furnish me with such songs and anecdotes as still remain in their possession, and are not generally known to the public. The most grateful attention will be paid to all information of this nature, whether contained in original letters, or statements of traditionary facts, and the manuscripts carefully returned if desired. Now, when all party feelings on that score are for ever obliterated-when the only representative of our ancient and revered race of kings fills this chair, such reminiscences are honourable, and are so estimated with every one of the princes of the blood royal at this present day. Indeed, had it not been rendered necessary for our kings of the house of Brunswick to maintain the sovereignty, to which they were called by the prevailing voice of the nation, they seem never to have regarded those the law denounced as rebels, otherwise than with respect, which one or two instances will sufficiently serve to prove."

After a number of affecting anecdotes, favourable to the above theory, Mr Hogg adds, "But to put this matter beyond the chance of being disputed, I have only to add, that the first proposal for the rescuing of these relics from oblivion emanated from the royal family. It was made by the Highland Society of London, while one royal Duke was in the chair, and another present, to Col. Stewart of Garth; who, as well may be supposed, readily engaged in the promotion of a scheme so congenial with his feelings; and it was in consequence of his immediate application to Mr Geo. Thomson of Edinburgh, the friend of genius and of song, that the task of selection devolved on me. It is plain, therefore, that no obloquy can attach to any one on account of the part that his predecessors took in the fortunes of the house of Stuart; for the present administrator of royal authority has, by a generous, but not unnatural calculation, transferred the feelings of those heroes toward the prince to himself, nor has he been slack in acknowledging it either in word or deed. And it is not alone in the higher spheres of life that such sentiments prevail; for since the horrors of the Roman Catholic religion ceased to oppress the minds of men, there has been but one way of thinking on the rights of the Stuarts throughout the kingdom.

"I am willing to do all for this interesting subject that lies in my power, but in the correspondence of those with whom the secrets remain, my chief dependence must be placed, for without this, the labours of any individual must be of small avail. Mine is not a work calculated for lengthened narrative, but for amusing and curious anec

dote; for all instances of heroism and their opposite qualities-in short, an olio of song, music, and tale; and the shades of departed heroes, and of bards that once kindled at the injuries of princes, shall hallow the dwelling of him who generously lends his aid in rescuing their deeds and works from the twilight of endless oblivion."

Time's Telescope for 1819, or a Complete Guide to the Almanack; containing an explanation of saints' days and holidays, with illustrations of British history and antiquities, notices of obsolete rites and customs, sketches of comparative chronology, astronomical occurrences in every month, &c. 9s. - Evening Amusements; or, the Beauties of the Heavens Displayed: in which several striking Appearances, to be observed in various Evenings in the Heavens, during the year 1819, are described; by William Frend, Esq. M.A. 12mo. 3s.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Bent's Modern London Catalogue of Books; containing the books published in London, and those altered in size or price, since the year 1800 to October 1818. 8vo. 8s. A Catalogue of Old Books, in the ancient and modern languages, and various classes of literature, for the year 1818; in which are comprised several valuable libraries, recently purchased in this country and on the continent; particularly the celebrated one of J. M. M. Gasparoli, a noble graduated canon of the cathedral church of Notre Dame, at Antwerp. To be sold at the affixed prices, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row, 8vo. 7s.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist, compiled from his private diary and Letters, the journal of his confidential attendant, the communications of his family and sur

viving friends, and other authentic sources of information, most of it entirely original; by James Baldwin Brown, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, 4to. £2, 5s.

An Account of the Life, Ministry, and Writings of the late Rev. John Fawcett, D.D. who was Minister of the Gospel fiftyfour years, first at Wainsgate, and afterwards at Hebden-bridge, in the parish of Halifax; comprehending many particulars relative to the Revival and Progress of Religion in Yorkshire and Lancashire; and illustrated by copious Extracts from the Diary of the Deceased, from his extensive Correspondence, and other Documents; with a portrait; by Dr Fawcett, 8vo. 12s,

The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Drawn from the State Papers; with six subsidiary Memoirs: 1. Of the calumnies concerning the Scottish Queen-2. Memoirs of Francis II.-3. Of Lord Darnley-4. Of James, Earl Bothwell-5. Of the Earl of Murray-6. Of Secretary Maitland. By George Chalmers, F.R.S.S.A. Illustrated by ten plates of medals, portraits, and views, 2 vols. 4to. £3:13:6.

EDUCATION.

A New Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Language, with numerous instructive exercises; by C. Gros. 12mo. 5s.

Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography, for the use of schools; by Samuel Butler, D.D. head-master of the Free Grammar School, Shrewsbury. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and improved, 8vo. 9s.

A Companion to the Globes: comprising the various problems that may be performed by the globes, preceded by the subjects to which they refer, and accompanied by more than one thousand examples and recapitulary exercises, &c. To which is added, a concise Astronomical Introduction, and an Appendix, containing a Derivation of the Sun and Planets, with a brief History of the Constellations, for the use of schools and private families; by R. T. Linington, private teacher, 12mo. 4s. 6d.

Outline Maps of Ancient Geography, being a selection, by Dr Butler, from D'Anville's ancient Atlas, intended as practical

exercises for the pupil to fill up, and designed as an accompaniment to his sketch of modern and ancient geography. On drawing Columbier. 10s. 6d.

Exercises on the Etymology, Syntax, Idioms, and Synonyms of the Spanish Language; second edition, by L. G. A. Machenry. 4s.

Enchiridion Lyricum; or, a Guide to Lyric Verse; composed for the use of schools; being a sequel to " Steps to Sense Verses;" by the Rev. J. Hill, A.M. 12mo. 3s.

LAW.

A Practical Treatise on Life Annuities; including the annuity acts of the seventeenth and fifty-third Geo. III.; also, a synopsis of all the principal adjudged cases under the first act, together with select modern and useful precedents, &c.; by Frederick Blaney, 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Original Precedents in Conveyancing; with notes, critical and explanatory, and concise directions for drawing or settling conveyances: the whole being the result of actual practice; by J. H. Prince. 12s. 6d.

A Practical Treatise on Copyhold Tenure and Court Keeping: being a summary of the whole law of copyholds, from the earliest down to the present period; with an Appendix, comprising rules to be observed in holding a customary Court-Baron, particularly with reference to plaints in the nature of real actions, precedents of court-rolls, copyhold assurances, &c. and extracts from every material relative Act of Parliament; by John Scriven, of the Inner Temple, Esq. barrister-at-law, 8vo. £1.

A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Court of Chancery; by Henry Maddock, Esq. barrister-at-law, 2 vols royal octavo. £21, 6s.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer; by Alexander Anstruther, Esq. vols royal 8vo. £2, 5s.

The Law of Carriers, Innkeepers, Warehousemen, and other Depositaries of Goods for Hire; by Henry Jeremy, Esq. of the Middle Temple, 8vo. 7s.

MEDICINE.

On the Mimoses; or a Descriptive, Diagnostic, and Practical Essay, on the Affections usually denominated Dyspeptic, Hypochondriac, Bilious, Nervous, Hysteric, Spasmodic, &c.; by Marshall Hall, M.D. 8vo. 6s.

Minutes of Cases of Cancer successfully Treated by the New Mode of Pressure. Part the Second: with some observations on the nature of the Disease, as well as the method of practice; by Samuel Young. 9s. Stereoplea; or, the Defence of the Horse's Foot considered; by Bracy Clarke, 4to. 10s. 6d.

Thomson's London Dispensatory; containing, 1. pharmacy; 2. the botanical description, natural history, chemical analysis, and medicinal properties of the sub

stances of the materia medica; 3. the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians; second edition. 15s.

A Letter to the Governors of Bethlem Hospital; containing an account of their management of that institution for the last twenty years; by John Haslam, M.D. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Physiological and Medical Researches into the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Gravel; translated from the French of F. Magendie, M.D. Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, &c. &c. at Paris,12mo. 3s. 6d.

MISCELLANIES.

Vindicia Wykehamicæ, or a Vindication of Winchester College. In a letter to Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P. occasioned by his Inquiry into Abuses of Charity; by the Rev. W. L. Bowles. 2s. 6d.

A Letter to James Day, Esq. of the Isle of Wight, explanatory of various circumstances arising out of a late occurrence; by a Satirical Observer of Men and Manners. 1s. 6d.

An Account of the History and present State of Galvanism; by John Bostock, M.D.F.R.S. 8vo. 7s.

Mr Britton has published a Bust of Shakspeare, copied from the Monumental Bust at Stratford : another, as a Companion, of Camden, from the Monument in Westminster-Abbey : a third of Ben Jonson, from the same repository of the illustrious dead. These busts are intended as ornaments to libraries and cabinets; and are executed in the most careful, and indeed, skilful manner.

The Panorama of Paris, and its Environs, with thirty-one plates, descriptive of as many striking public edifices; second edition, 32mo. 4s.

A Second Memoir on Babylon: containing an Inquiry into the Correspondence between the Ancient Descriptions of Babylon, and the Remains still visible on the Site. Suggested by the " Remarks" of Major Rennel, published in the Archæologia; by Cladius James Rich, Esq. royal 8vo. 8s.

Historical Memoirs of the English Catholics; and Historical Minutes respecting the Irish and Scots Catholics since the Reformation; by Charles Butler, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. £1, 4s.

Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times; by Dr William King, principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, crown 8vo. 8s. 6d.

A Narrative of the Expedition which sailed from England in 1817, to join the South American Patriots: comprising every particular connected with its formation, history, and fate; with Observations and authentic Information, elucidating the real Character of the contest, mode of warfare, state of the armies, &c.; by James Hackett, First Lieutenant in the late Venezuela Artillery Brigade, 8vo. 5s. 6d.