& Thou rob'st my Days of Business and Delight," a Song, composed (with an Accompaniment for the Piano-Forte,) by IV. Gutteridge.

Mr. Gutteridge, who is a member of the king's private band, has produced, in the present little production, a pleas ing, if not a first-rate specimen of his talent for vocal composition. If the style of his passages is a little quaint and antique, that of the words he has selected are not very modern, for they are from Cowley. The principal merits of his melody are, that it suits the poetry, and is so consistent with itself as to form a regular and agreeable aggregate.

THE DRAMA.

DRURY-LANE.-The proprietor of Drury-Lane continues those unparalleled exertions which have raised this theatre to the acmé of popularity. Towards the end of last month he produced, under the name of "the Cataract of the Ganges," the most splendid and perfect spectacle ever seen in an English theatre. It combines the gorgeous magnificence of Eastern courts with a story which, throughout, keeps alive the attention of the audience. The processions are assisted in effect by numerous equestrians, and by every art which is calculated to heighten the pleasure of beholding them. Of course, the house is constantly crowded in every part; and, great as may have been the

cost, this showy exhibition must prove highly productive. Another attraction is a new tragedy, from classic story, Gracchus," in which Mr. Macready disand, in classic language, called "Caius plays his astonishing powers with transcendent effect, while other parts are filled by performers of the first order of merit. In truth, the talents of the dramatic corps of this theatre, assembled at vast expense, and by happy discrimination, combined with the judicious casting of the parts, render all the performances night after night a continued series of gratification to all discriminating lovers of the drama.

At COVENT-GARDEN, the new and ward under the title of "Cortez, or the splendid musical pageant, brought forConquest of Mexico," aided by the successful representation of " Macbeth," so favourable to the display of Young's which Kemble's Orlando must ever tragic talents; "As you like it," in please; "The Gamester," the principal character in which is again so well calculated for Young; and "The Cabinet," than the Prince Orlando in which nothing could offer a better scope for the exercise of Mr. Sinclair's vocal powers; relieved by these, the new piece, so well received at its first repre sentation, has continued to draw tolerably full houses, and to gratify the taste of the town.

ROFESSOR BUCKLAND is printing a

Den of Hyenas,discovered at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in 1821, and containing the remains of the hyena, tiger, bear, elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and sixteen other animals, all formerly natives in this country; with a comparative view of many similar caverns and dens in England and Germany.

SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS will in a few days publish a small cheap tract, under the title of Illustrations of the Interrogative System of Education. Its object is to disseminate a knowledge of the principles and practice of that system to the most distant parts of the empire, so as to procure its introduction into country schools, to which it is as well adapted as to the finishing academies near London, wherein the system is so generally used. Besides MONTHLY MAG. No. 389.

the facility which this system affords in every

much simplifies the acquisition of popular branches of knowledge as to make it easy to render them objects of universal education; and, with this view, a popular account for general distribution has been prepared.

A new edition of Mr. B. P. CAPPER'S Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom being in the press, the author invites corrections and communications. It will of course include the new population returns. The three kingdoms will be in separate alphabets, and not confused in one alphabet, as in the former edition.

An Institution, for teaching mechanics the scientific principles of their several trades, has been established in London, under the fostering guidance of the public-spirited Dr. BIRKBECK, 3 M founder

founder of the first institution of the kind at Glasgow. Its importance, in a moral as well as useful point of view, must be obvious; and it affords us sincere pleasure to learn, that its success and organization are certain. Already similar plans are afloat at . Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, and Birmingham; and they follow the Lancasterian Schools and the Interrogative System, like a body and its shadow. The following resolutions illustrate the plan:

That the establishment of institutions for the instruction of mechanics, at a cheap rate, in the principles of the arts they practise, as well as in all other branches of useful knowledge, is a measure calculated to improve extensively their habits and condition, to advance the arts and sciences, and to add largely to the power, resources, and prosperity, of the

country.

That such institutions are likely to be most stable and useful when entirely or chiefly supported and managed by mechanics themselves.

That the meeting acknowledge with gratitude the example which the mechanics of Glasgow have set their brethren at large, in being the first to establish, on this principle of self-support and exertion, an institution for their own support and

instruction in the arts and sciences.

That there shall be established in this metropolis an institution, called the London Mechanics' Institute.

That among the objects which the London Mechanics' Institute shall have especially in view, shall be the establishment, for the benefit of the members, of lectureships on the different arts and sciences, a library of reference and circulation, a reading-room, a museum of models, a school of design, and an experimental workshop and laboratory.

That the annual subscription, to admit a mechanic to all the benefits of the Institute, shall not exceed one guinea, which shall be payable at once, or by such instalments as the laws shall direct.

That the friends of knowledge and im provement be invited to contribute to wards the accomplishment of all the aforesaid purposes, by donations of money, books, specimens, and apparatus.

Capt. BATTY announces a Narrative of the Operations of the Left Wing of the Allied Army, in the Pyrenees and South of France, in the years 1813-14; illustrated by numerous plates of mountain and river scenery, views of Fontarabia, Irun, St. Jean de Luz, and Bayonne, with plans, &c.

Sir F. HENNIKER, bart. is printing his Notes during a Visit to Egypt,

Nubia, the Oasis of Egypt, Moust Sinai, and Jerusalem.

Mr. Pierce Egan is employed upon a new work, entitled the "Life of an Actor," to be published in eight monthly numbers, embellished with Twenty-four coloured plates, and also euriched with numerous woodcuts.

Vol. III. of Travels by the late J. L. BURCKHARDT in the Hedjaz, with plates, will soon appear.

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The Committee of Scottish authors, under the equivocal title of "Author of Waverley," are pursuing their prosperous commercial career, and announce more last words," under the name of St. Ronan's Well. It would be amusing to see the interior of this nondescript manufactory, and to trace the economy by which labour is divided among the workmen. Perhaps there is the plot-man, the rough scribes, the polishers of parts, and the general finisher. Be it as it may, however, the articles turned out are sought for with avidity; they are the best in the market; and division of labour may, for aught we see to the contrary, be turned to as good account in this species of manufactory as in any other. For our parts, we give the proprietors of the concern unequivocal credit for their ingenuity and perseverance.

A new quarterly review, to be called the. Westminster Review, is an nounced for the first day of the new year.

A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, Description of the Empire of China, and its Dependancies, by Asiatic Societies of London and Paris, JULIUS KLAPROTH, member of the of the Royal Society of Gottingen, of the Imperial Society of Naturalists in Moscow, &c. is preparing for publication: it will be handsomely printed in two quarto volumes, and illustrated with a map. Mr. Klaproth, whose acquaintance with the language and literature of China is very extensive, having made the study of them his principal occupation for the last twenty-three years, accompanied the Russian embassy destined for Pekin. in 1805 and 1806. At that time he collected a mass of interesting materials relative to China, including a considerable collection of Chinese books, among which was the general tions, published by order of the predescription of the empire, in 230 secdecessor of the reigning emperor, of

the

the Manchoo dynasty; and, besides this work, which consists of 108 volumes, he is in possession of several other treatises, relative to the geography, statistics, and general administration, of the empire.

In December will be published, printed uniformly with the former volume, with maps and numerous plates, Journal of the Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, in his Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Capt. W. E. PARRY, R.N.

Early in December will be published, the Graces, or Literary Souvenir for 1824; being a collection of tales and poetry, by distinguished living authors, with literary, scientific, and useful, memoranda.

Speedily will be published, a Key to Guy's Tutor's Assistant, for the use and convenience of tutors.

The lovers of entomology will be gratified to hear, that it is the intention of Mr. J. F. STEPHENS, F.L.S. &c. to publish in the course of the spring the first part of a General Synonymical Catalogue of all the British Insects hitherto discovered, amounting to nearly ten thousand in number, exclusive of the Crustacea, Arachnoida, Acari, &c. of modern systematists. In addition to the above, he also proposes to publish, periodically, an clucidatory work, entitled Illustrations of British Entomology; in which will be detailed, in systematic order, the character of the genera and species, with observations on the economy, locality, &c. of each species, illustrated by figures of those newly discovered, or but little known.

The second and concluding volume of that splendid work, BURCHELL'S Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, with numerous coloured en gravings, vignettes, &c. from the author's original drawings, will be ready in a few days.

The Night before the Bridal, a Spanish tale, Sappho, a dramatic sketch, and other Poems, are announced by C. G. GARNETT, daughter of the late much-esteemed Dr. Garnett, of the Royal Institution.

The Painter and his Wife is preparing, by Mrs. OPIE.

A work, called the Book of the Church, is announced by ROBERT

SOUTHEY, poet-laureat, and author of "Wat Tyler."

Messrs.J.P. NEALE and J.LE KEUX'S Original Views of the Collegiate and Parochial Churches of England, with historical descriptions, will commence publication on the 1st of February next.

Mr. GIFFORD's edition of the Plays and Poems of Shirley, now first collected and chronologically arranged, and the text carefully collated and restored, with occasional notes, and a biographical and critical essay, will soon appear.

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A fifth volume is in preparation of Original Letters, written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and V. Richard III. and Henry VII. by various persons of rank or quence, containing many curious anecdotes relative to that turbulent, bloody, but hitherto dark, period of our history; and elucidating, not only public matters of state, but likewise the private manners of the age, with notes, historical and explanatory, facsimiles, &c. by the late Sir J. FENN.

Speedily will be published, Odes of Pindar, translated, with notes, critical and explanatory, by A. MOORE, esq.

The Suffolk Papers, being Letters to and from Henrietta Countess of Suffolk and her second husband, the Hon. George Berkely, are in the press. They comprise letters from Pope, Swift, Gay, and Young; the Duchess of Marlborough, Buckingham, and Queensberry; Ladies Hervey, Lansdowne, Vere, and Hester Pitt; Lords Bolingbroke, Peterborough, Chesterfield, and Bathurst; Mr. Law (the financier), Mr. Pelham, Mr. Hampden, Mr. Earle, Horace Walpole (senior and junior); and several other persons of eminence in the fashionable, political, and literary, circles of the reigns of Queen Anne, George I. George II. and George III.

The following address of the New Society of Artists lately formed merits a place in our pages. A large exhibition room is now building, the entrance of which is in Suffolk-street, Charing Cross; and it will be the largest and most commodious in London. Four adjoining rooms will be devoted to the various departments of the fine arts, viz. painting, statuary, architecture, and engraving.

The Royal Academy has been for some years, on account of the contracted limits

of

of its Exhibition Rooms, under the avowed necessity of rejecting many meritorious works, and of crowding or misplacing others. The rooms of the British Institution are more happily disposed; but the Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, and the School of Painting which succeeds it, occasion the Gallery of Modern Art to be closed at the very moment when the wealthy and intelligent inhabitants of the empire (the influence of whose riches and refined taste extends to her remotest provinces,) become resident in the metropolis. The avowed patrons of art, therefore, feel their ability to elicit talent, or reward its possessor, inevitably curtailed; and the means either of improvement or of support must consequently be denied.

A numerous body of artists, under these impressions, and desirous of bringing their works fairly before the public, have been induced to form themselves into a Society, for the purpose of erecting an extensive suite of rooms for the exhibition and sale of their works in painting, sculpture, architecture, and engraving: the exhibition to open immediately after the close of the British Institution in April, and to continue during the three succeeding months."

It concerns us to state that the Steam Carriage of Mr. GRIFFITHS is suspended in its progress at Messrs. Bramah's by the want of capital. Such is the fate of too many ingenious inventions; but it is said that the same purpose will soon be effected by a Birmingham manufacturer.

Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, the meritorious author of separate Geological Maps of the English Counties, has completed his very elaborate and minute Survey of the Northern Counties, and another number of this truly-important work will shortly appear.

An account of Mr. "Scurry's Captivity under Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib" is printing. It contains a simple unadorned statement of the horrid cruelties and insults exercised on himself and his companions in misfortune by those two eastern despots.

Duke Christian of Luneburg, or Traditions from the Hartz, by Miss JANE PORTER, will speedily appear.

No. I. of Views in Wales, engraved in the best line-manner by FINDEN, from drawings by Capt, BATTY, F.R.S. to be completed in twelve numbers, will be published on the 1st of January. Mr. LANDOR'S Imaginary Conversations of eminent Literary Men and Statesmen will be completed early in December.

The Journal of Llewellyn Penrose, a seaman, a work possessing all the interest of Robinson Crusoe, with the additional recommendation of its being a true narrative, will soon be published in one volume, with engravings after Bird and Pocock.

On the 1st of March will appear, No. XIII. being the first of the second volume, of WOOLNOTH'S Engravings of Ancient Castles.

The Rev. H. F. CARY, author of the "Translation of Dante," has just completed a Translation of the Birds of Aristophanes, which will appear in the course of this month.

Prose Pictures, a series of descriptive letters, and essays, by E. HERBERT, esq. illustrated by etchings by George Cruikshank, will be published in a few weeks.

Mr. B. COHEN is preparing for publication, Memoirs of the late Pope, including the whole of his private correspondence with Napoleon Bonaparte, taken from the Archives of the Vatican, with many other hithertounpublished particulars.

Several scientific and literary persons are employed in preparing a new ephemeris, to be entitled Perennial Calendar, with the history, natural history, astronomy, &c. of every day in the year.

In a few days will be published, embellished with a portrait of Addison, the Spirit of the British Essayists, comprising the best papers on life, manners, and literature, contained in the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, &c. The whole alphabetically arranged according to the subjects.

We are glad to observe that the variety of penny, two-penny, and three-penny, publications of the week, continue on the increase, and are as prosperous as their merit and utility deserve. They form a new era in literature, and call on the countrybooksellers to send weekly as well as monthly orders. Every subject of enquiry and knowledge has now its weekly journal, and in some there are various rivals. With a view to direct the preferences of our readers, who are distant from the scene of action, we propose, in an early Number, to give a complete list of these candidates for public favour, and subjoin a brief estimate of their respective pretensions.

The Rev. D. P. DAVIES, author of the "History of Derbyshire," and also

of

of several County Histories in the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica," and in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia," proposes to publish by subscription, the History and Antiquities of the Town of Carmarthen and Parish of St. Peter. The antient and populous town of Carmarthen presents to the historian and antiquary many subjects of interesting enquiry, and several objects of curious research and examination. The Druidical remains, within its parish; the Roman camp, in its immediate vicinity; the majestic remains of its Castle; the venerable ruins of its religious houses; its church and monuments; its discontinued hospital; its former state, and its present improved and flourishing condition; together with the numerous historical, civil, and domestic, events, connected with the capital of South Wales; are all calculated to excite curiosity, and stimulate research.

A volume of Sermons, by the Rev. J. COATES, A.M. late vicar of Huddersfield, and formerly fellow of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, is proposed to be published as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained.

The late A. C. BUCKLAND, esq. author of "Letters on Early Rising," commenced a Series of Letters to an Attorney's Clerk, containing directions for his studies and general conduct, but was prevented, by an early death, from perfecting his plan; but his brother, Mr. W. H. BUCKLAND, having completed the Series, they will be published in a few days.

Letters from the Caucasus and Georgia, with a map and views, are in the press.

A volume of poems by Mr. CONDER, under the title of the Star in the East, and other Poems, will appear in a few days.

Among other literary conveniences of the metropolis, the Westminster Subscription Reading Room and Library, in the Colonnade, Charlesstreet, St. James's-square, merits special notice. The establishment consists of a reading-room and conversationroom, open from nine in the morning till ten in the evening; furnished with morning and evening newspapers, and with reviews, magazines, and new books, which latter remain on the table for perusal one month, and are afterwards circulated amongst the subscribers. It is the germ for a

Public Library, worthy of that opulent part of the metropolis; a prospectus. of which will be published early in the spring.

The Connexion of Christianity with Human Happiness, by the Rev. W. HARNESS, A.M. is in the press.

In a few days will be published, illustrated with a portrait by E.. Scriven, and an interesting plate by J. Scott, "Nouveaux Morceaux Choisis de Buffon," with interesting anecdotes descriptive of the character of each animal, and the Life of the Author, written expressly for this work; being the Fourth Part of the series of French Classics, edited by M. VENtouillac.

A Latin Grammar, by I. J. G. SCHELLER, has been translated from the German, with an appendix and notes, by G. WALKER, M.A. and will soon be published.

A small volume of poems is in the press, by E. SWEEDLAND, containing the Gamester's Grave, &c.

The Rev. H. MARRIOTT is about to publish a Third Course of Practical Sermons, adapted to be read in families.

T. W. C. EDWARDS, M.A. has in the press an Epitome of Greek Prosody, being a brief exposition of the quantity, accentuation, and versification, of the Greek Language.

A Father's Reasons for not Baptizing his Children, are preparing for, publication, by a Lay Member of the Church of England.

Dr. CAREY has issued proposals for publishing, by subscription, Lexicon Analogico-Latinum, on the plan of Hoogeveen's Greek Lexicon, with an Index Etymologicus, nearly like that of Gesner.

A Praxis on the Latin Prepositions, being an attempt to illustrate their origin, power, and signification, in the way of exercise, will soon be published, by S. BUTLER, D.D. F.R.S. &c.

Mr. J. CURTIS has in the press, the First Number of his Illustrations of English Insects. It is the intention of the author to publish highly-finished figures of such species of insects (with the plants upon which they are found) as constitute the British genera, with accurate representations of the parts on which the characters are founded; and descriptive letter-press to each plate, giving, as far as possible, the habits and economy of the subjects selected.