Ready for Publication.

The Theological Works of the famous Dr. JAMES ARMINIUS, now first translated into English from the Latin original, with an Account of his Life by Brandt.

Religious Education; containing Extracts from the Four Gospels.

Tea-table Chat; or, Religious Allegories told at the Tea-table in a Seminary for Ladies. By RoB. BURNSIDE, M. A. Author of "The Religion of Mankind."

Sepulchral Mottos, consisting of original Verses, composed for public adoption, as Epitaphs on Tombs and Gravestones. Also a Collection of appropriate Texts of Scripture for the same purpose. To which are added, Five Scripture Versions, intended to illustrate the poetic style of the prophetic writers.

The Legend of St. Loy, with other Poems. By JOHN ABRAHAM HERAUD.

Traits and Trials, a Novel, 2 vols. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alfieri.

The Boys' School; or, Traits of Character in early Life. By Miss SANDHAM.

Preparing for Publication.

Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment, by the Countess of Derby, at Harefield Place, Middlesex, in 1602. From a MS. preserv. ed in the Library of the late Sir Roger Newdigate, Bart. With an Introduction and Notes, by Mr. NICHOLS; and an Appendix, consisting of interesting particulars relative to the Queen's two latest Progresses, her Sickness, Death, and Funeral.

A new Edition of the most interesting Portions of the Elizabethan Progresses;" the original Work, in three volumes, 4to, being one of the Libri rarissimi. By Mr. NICHOLS.

The second and concluding Part of Antient Wiltshire. By Sir R. COLT HOARE, Bart. It will be confined entirely to the Roman period, and contain an exact Survey of all the Roman Roads and Stations, as well as the Villas, and tessellated Pavements, which have been discovered within the County. The Author of the above Work is also promoting the modern History of Wiltshire, and several gentlemen have taken upon themselves the description and history of different Hundreds in the County.

Vindicia Hebraica-A Defence of the Hebrew Scriptures as a Vehicle of revealed Religion; occasioned by the re

cent Strictures and Innovations of Mr. J. Bellamy; and in Confutation of his Attacks on all preceding Translations, and on the established Version in particular. By HYMAN HURWITZ.

The Automatical Camera Obscura; intended to convey to the Juvenile Mind, the knowledge of Scripture History. By the Author of "The Village in an Uproar."

A Christian Biographical Dictionary: containing an Account of the Lives and. Writings of many of the most eminent Christians in every Nation, from the commencement of the Christian æra to the present period. By JOHN WILKS, jun.

The Geography of the New Testament, in the simplest Language.

A Journey round the Library of a Bibliomaniac, or Century of Notes and Remembrances concerning rare and valuable Books. By WM. DAVIS, Bookseller, and Author of the "Olio of Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda."

Anecdotes and Characters of the House of Brunswick, illustrative of the Courts of Hanover and London, from the Act of Settlement to the youth of George the Third ; including an original Memoir of the Electress Sophia; and a Journal, supposed to have been written by the unhappy Consort of George the First, the Princess Sophia Dorothea, during her captivity. By JOHN BROWN, Author of "Northern Courts," &c.

Memoirs of celebrated Queens of all Ages, alphabetically arranged. By MARY HAYS, Author of "Historical Dialogues."

Historical Sketches of the Highlands of Scotland, with Military Annals of the Highland Regiments. By Colonel DAVID STEWART.

A Collectanea Minora, containing the following Extracts: 1. The History of Joseph and his Brethren, and the Decalogue, from the Septuagint. 2. The Lord's Prayer, and other extracts from the New Testament. 3. Extracts from the Cyro-, pædia of Xenophon, from the Dialogues of Lucian, the Odes of Anacreon and Tyrtæus. 4. The whole of the first Book of the Iliad. 5. Copious Annotations, explanatory of Phrases, Idioms, &c. 6. A Lexicon of all the Vocables that occur in the Extra ts. By Professor DUNBAR.

Description of the Manners, Customs, &c. of the People of Dalmatia, Illyria, and the adjacent Countries. This Work will form the commencement of a Series intended to embrace all the nations of the globe, and to be denominated "The World in Miniature."

The Young Navigator's Guide to the Sidereal and Planetary Parts of Nautical Astronomy, being the practice of finding

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the Latitude, the Longitude, and the variation of the Compass, by the Fixed Stars and Planets. By Mr. KERRIGAN, of the Royal Navy.

A detailed and embellished Prospectus of a new Work on Portraits, entitled "Physiognomical Portraits," containing specimens of the Plates and Letter-press, and exhibiting the finest proofs of British talent.

A Practical Treatise on the Nature, Management, and Improvement, of such rural Objects and Scenes as tend to beautify and embellish the Country Residences of the higher ranks. By Mr. PONTEY.

A Volume of Poems. By Joнn Clare, the Northamptonshire Poet. Also a fourth Edition of his former Volume. Mr. Scriven is engraving his portrait from a beautiful picture by Mr. Hilton.

Auston Park, a Tale,

The prolific Author of "Waverley" has announced another Romance, entitled "Kennilworth."

The title of Lord Byron's forthcoming Tragedy is "The Doge of Venice." It is to be published, not acted.

We have heard with much pleasure that the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart. has been solicited by several of the most distinguished characters in the empire, to publish the whole of his popular Works in two volumes, distinguishing the religious from the political subjects. The interest created by this gentleman's numerous writings throughout Great Bri tain, as well as Ireland, has been, we believe, unprecedented; sound in his principles as a supporter of the Established Church, a vindicator of the dignity of the Crown, and bold in his avowal of those principles, he has astonished and confounded the adversaries of both. Proceeding as Sir Harcourt Lees steadily is in this truly useful and honourable career, we anticipate the happiest effects from his great literary talents, at a time when the Press-that powerful instrument of good or evil-is brought into such alarming operation against religion and loyalty, in an empire which we once fondly hoped had been destined by the Providence of God for the propagation of civilization and Christianity throughout the globe.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE, For the Encouragement of Indigent Merit, and the Promotion of General Literature. To consist of Honorary Members, Subscribing Members, and Associates.

The Class of Honorary Members is intended to comprise some of the most eminent literary men in the three Kingdoms, and the most distinguished female writers of the present day.

An Annual Subscription of Two Gui

neas will constitute a Subscribing Member. Subscribers of Ten Guineas, and upwards, will be entitled to privileges hereafter mentioned, according to the date of their Subscription.

The Class of Associates is to consist of Twenty Men of distinguished learning, Authors of some creditable Work of Literature, and men of good moral character; Ten under the Patronage of the King, and Ten under the Patronage of the Society.

His Majesty has been pleased to express, in the most favourable terms, his approbation of the proposed Society, and to honour it with his munificent patronage, by assigning an annual sum of one hundred guineas each, to ten of the Associates, payable out of the Privy Purse; and also an annual premium of one hundred guineas for the best Dissertation on some interesting subject, to be chosen by a Council belonging to the Society.

Ten Associates will be placed under the Patronage of the Society, as soon as the Subscriptions (a large portion of which will be annually funded for the purpose) shall be sufficient, and in proportion as they become so. Au Annual Subscriber of Ten Guineas, continued for five years, or a Life Subscription of One Hundred Guineas, will entitle such Subscribers to nominate an Associate under the Society's Patronage, according to the date of their subscription.

The Associates under the patronage of the King, will be elected by respected and competent judges. The Associates nominated by Subscribers must have the same qualifications of learning, moral character, and public principle, as those who are elected, and must be approved by the same judges.

Every Associate, at his admission, will choose some subject, or subjects, of Literature, for discussion, and will engage to devote such discussions to the Society's Memoirs of Literature, of which a Volume will be published by the Society, from time to time; in which Memoirs will likewise be inserted the successive Prize Dissertations.

From the months of February to July, it is purposed that a Weekly Meeting of the Society shall be held; and a Monthly Meeting during the other six months of the year.

BIRTH-DAY OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. On the 29th of November some distinguished friends of taste and literature in Ireland, held a Meeting at Ballymahou, to celebrate the anniversary of the celebrated Poet, Oliver Goldsmith; and also for the purpose of devising the most prac ticable means of erecting a pillar to his memory, on that fascinating spot, in Lissoy, which presented to his eye the most agreeable

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agreeable horizon in nature *. Swift, Congreve, and other ingrates, who either denied their country, or left no traces in their writings by which it could be ascertained, Goldsmith identified himself and his divine poetry with the localities of his natal spot-his inimitable delineations of which have elicited such universal feelings of admiration and delight. His memory, therefore, is well entitled to some public testimonial of regard from a country which derives so much honour from his birth; and we feel no doubt of the success of this laudable and spirited undertaking. We have been given to understand that it will not be necessary for any individual to subscribe more than a small sum, payable, in separate portions, on the two succeeding birthdays of the Poet; for it is reasonably-expected that the subscription will be as general in Ireland as the feeling which has suggested it, in a country so remarkably distinguished for the literary taste and capabilities of its people. The Scotch have set us an example, very lately, by erecting a splendid pillar, near Dumfries, to the memory of Burus. The Bard of Avon has long been the idol of taste in England, where, in every village that can boast of having produced an eminent literary character, the spot of his nativity is pointed out with conscious exultation; but in Ireland, the only memorial of her GoLDSMITH-buried in a foreign land-of him whose heart, untravelled, still fondly turned to her-is his own old hawthorn tree in Lissoy, now nearly cut away by literary pilgrims, whose devotion to Goldsmith. and his "Deserted Village," shame the apathy of a country which has left both without a mark of public honour for almost half a century.

ORIENTAL LITERATURE.

Mr. Demanne and Mr. Gaultier, Secretary Adjunct in the School of Oriental Languages, at a late sitting of the Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres, presented the result of a process, by means of which they have succeeded in imitating Oriental manuscripts, so as to deceive the most experienced eye. They have obtained certificates, signed by several Professors and learned Orientalists, which can testify the importance of their inventions to the study of languages, and to the progress of knowledge in the Levant. They have just published a prospectus, in which they announce the select works of Saadi, the most ingenious of the Persian Poets.

GEORGIAN VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES. By the correspondence of the Rev. Dr. Pinkerton, attached to the Sixteenth Re

See a poetical Address written for the occasion, by the Rev. J. Graham, p. 448.

port of the British and Foreign Bible Society, it appears that the manuscript translation of the Scriptures into the Georgian language, made by St. Euphemius, in the eighth century, is still preserved in the Iberian or Georgian Monastery, at Mount Athos, with many other Scriptural and Theological works in the same language. It is proposed to send some persons acquainted with the language to transcribe these important works. PRIZE QUESTION IN NATURAL HISTORY. The Academy of Sciences propose the following: "To follow the developement of the Triton or Aquatic Salamander, in its different degrees from the egg to the perfect animal, and to describe the change which it undergoes interiorly, principally in respect to its osteology, and the distri bution of its vessels." The prize of the value of 300 francs. Memoirs to be transmitted before January 1, 1822.

MEDICAL PRIZE QUESTION.

A satisfactory answer not having been given to the question-" Can the existence of Idiopathic fever be doubted?" proposed last year by the Société de Médecine of Paris, it is re-proposed, the greatest latitude being given to candidates in the choice and developement of their opinions. The prize will be a gold medal of 300 francs value; but as a further stimulus, the Society will, if there be opportunity, award gold medals, of 100 francs value, to the Memoirs which may most nearly obtain the prize, and silver medals of emulation. The concourse will close on the 30th of September, 1821. The Memoirs written in French or Latin, to be sent, carriage free, before then, to the Secrétaire Générale de la Société de Médecine, Rue St. Avoie, No. 39.

SPANISH LITErature.

Before the late Revolution in Spain, there was at Madrid but one Gazette, with another Journal or two, occupied in annunciations of ecclesiastical holidays, processions, &c. or the price current. At present, the list is little short of formidable. It comprises, 1. "The Gazette of Madrid." 2. "The Antient Journal of Madrid." 3. "La Miscellanea," published every fortnight: it opposes religious intolerance and political prejudices. 4. "Le Constitutionnel," in the same spirit. 5. "The Law" in support of legal authority. 6. "The Publicist," supports the Constitution, and opposes despotism. 7. "The Courier, political and literary:' its contents are more miscellaneous than those of the other journals; which, however, do not wholly lose sight of Literature. 8. "The Bee-hive, or Colmena," exerts itself in favour of the unhappy and oppressed, in firm and determined lan

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guage. 9. "The Spanish Minerva." 10. "The National Minerva." 11. "The Palladium, or Patriotic Journal of the Societies of St. Sebastian, and of the Inn of Malta." This paper takes its tone from the Societies it represents: it is now less furiously patriotic than it was formerly. 12. "The Zealous Citizen." 13. "The Aurora:" this Journal records the proceedings of patriotic societies: it has been extremely personal; but is now less violent. 14. "The Conservator," constitutional and loyal. 15. The Vigilant." 16. "The Sun" records accurately decrees and edicts. 17. "The Chronicle of the Arts." 18. "The Universal Observer" is distinguished by impartiality and moderation. 19. "The Messenger." 20. "The Economic Library," or Annals of Arts, Agriculture, and Commerce. Publications of this description have been for some time past popular in Spain: the present has been well received. 21. "Correspondence between two Friends of Liberty:" this paper discusses subjects too elevated for the popular mind. 22. “ Letters by a poor little Pretender," was a

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work intended to tell truth ironically: the attempt supposes the author to possess much taste, much knowledge of life, and of popular errors and vulgar prejudices. The author has lately directed his attention to the support of other works. "The Pretender's Companion." 24. "The Periodico-Mania" undertakes to castigate the other journals, and wonders at the liberty of the press, which tolerates them all. 25. "The Contra PeriodicoMania" vindicates the Journals, and their number.

Independently of all these periodical publications, the press teems with answers, apologies, and explanations relative to attacks, allusions, personalities, or errors, contained in the journals; and in competition with all these, crowds of sermons, discourses, and commentaries on the Constitution, press on the notice of the public. There is, indeed, a Censor of the Press appointed; but, at present, the office is extremely indulgent. The principal country towns also have their journals Barcelona, Valentia, Saragossa, Cadiz, and Coruuna.

ANTIENT TOMBS.

In removing the Library and clearing away the floor and book-cases that have so long encumbered the Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral, a discovery has been made of two antient tombs. The sculpture of both is early. They are placed in Gothic niches of much later date, and appear to be the lids only of sarcophagi, and to have been removed from some other station to that which they now occupy. The material is the Purbec marble. The most antient of them is the figure of a Prelate with a depressed mitre, a beard and mustachios; the two first fingers of the right hand pointing upwards, in the act of benediction; in the left hand a crosier. In spandrils, above the head, on each side, are cherubs. The feet of the figure and the crosier rest on two birds, which terminate in the centre with a single head, the face of which is buman. The sides and ends are. wrought into wide flutes, without fillets, like the fluting of the Doric column; the front is placed parallel with the niche, and the upper corner of the lid at the back inserted four or five inches into the wall. This tomb is on the North side of the Chapel. The other tomb is placed in a niche on the South side of the Chapel, immediately opposite that first described. This is likewise the figure of a prelate, and is carved in good style, and in much higher relief than the former. The arms and

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