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    Entitled , " Nummi veterum Populorum et Urbium , qui in Musseo G . Hunter , M . D . asservanturV * The Rev . J . JLawson , Author of Lectures on the Book of Esther , designs to publish some JLectures on the History of Joseph . A Volume of Sermons , by the Rev , A . Fuller , is preparing for the press .

    Mr . Bogue , of Gosport , and Mr . Bennett , of Romsey , are preparing a History of the Dissenters , from the Re- ^ volution to the present Time : to be published by subscription . Mr . Grattan is said to have collected an immense quantity of materials for the

    History of Ireland . Pope ' s Works , vrith many additional articles never published . , and a . Life of Pope , by the Rev . W . jL . Bowles , will appear early in the winter .

    Mr . Brewster , Author of the Meditations of a Recluse / is printing two volumes of JLectures on the Acts of the Apostles , read to his Parishioners at Stockton . A new edition , being the fifth , of the New Farmer ' s Calendar , is now in the press , and nearly ready for publication .

    Mr . JLawrence , the author , has been engaged , during several seasons , in the investigation of those maladies to which Corn and other vegetables are liable from changes of the weather ; and has , By daily inspection , from the first appearance of the blade , ascertained , beyond farther question , the cause of the

    smut in wheat , and of that defect in which the kernels are denominated pepper-corn wheat , hitherto erroneously supposed to arise from a promiscuous generation of seeds . His observations made in the course of this investigation 'will appear in this edition of the Calendar .

    All the Manuscript Works and Drawings of the late Mr . Barry are about to be published by the Earl of Buchan , for the benefit of some indigent Relations of the departed Artist . Subscriptions arc receiving for Mr . Maurice ' s descriptive Poem of Richmond Hill , with Illustrative Engravings : copies , One Guinea each .

    The Rev . R . Yates ^ author of the Monastic History of Bury St . Edmunds , is engaged on a comprehensive and connected Historical Memoir of the various Public Charities in . London . A New Testament is preparing for

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    publication , on the flan of Mr . Evan * son ' s < € Dissonance . ' All the books and passages which that acute writer suspected to be spurious will be omitted . The whole will make , we need not say , one small volume .

    A ^ new edition , carefully corrected from the Liverpool edition , of the Life and Works of Burns , the Scotch poet , is now in the press , at Mr . M * Creery * s office , and will be shortly ready for publication . Mr . Landseer's JLectures arc

    also in a considerable state of forwardness , at the same press . ft is somewhat singular that a new Periodical Work has * been lately announced at Paris , under the same title as the new Magazine projected in this country * viz . the < Athenaeum . * ' The French

    * ' Athenaeum" is to be conducted on the following plan . The Editors intend to give , in fourteen series or classes , engravings and descriptions of several monuments , ancient and modern , found in France , of the most celebrated private buiidings , of the most interesting

    productions of sculpture and painting , picturesque views of celebrated places , a series of medals struck in France , extracts , accompanied with engravings , from works on natural history , antiquities , travels , and subjects taken from the best of the French poems , romances ,

    &c-portraits and lives , memoirs of eminent Frenchmen ; also designs of ancient and modern furniture , dresses , &c . It would not be altogether contrary to the French manner , if this classical , high-sounding title were to be given hereafter to a draper ' s book of patterns .

    A Literary Society has been formed at Manilla , under the auspices of the Government . They call themselves the " Friends of Luconia , " and intend publishing a Journal on the Natural History , Agriculture , Manufactures , and Political Economy of the Philippine Isles ,

    Literature in Greece—A . Translation has been lately made of Goldsmith ' s History of Greece into modern Greekg by Demeter Alexandrides , a physician at Ternawa , in Thessaly * . An 1 ccicsia **

    tic , also , of the Greek church , resident at Vienna , has published in that city a Map of G / eece , containing the Ancient and Modern Names of Places , in twclv # small sheets , and another representing that part of Thessaly which lies round Mount PelioD / in one shtct * Two

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    Literary Intelligence * 499

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 499, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/51/