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SCOTT, late oriental professor at the Royal East-India College, has in the press, an edition of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, to be embellished with engravings from designs by Smirke. The last edition in four vols. duodecimo, of the translation from Galland's French version, received considerable additions from the pen of Mr. Gough, of Enfield. This edition Dr. Scorr adopts as his basis, carefully revising and occasionally correcting it from the Arabic original. To this he has added a new volume, comprising thirty-five Tales, now first translated from an Arabic copy of the One Thousand and One Nights, brought into Europe by Edward Wortley Montagu, and deposited in the Bodleian Library; and also an Introduction and Notes illustrative of the Religion, Manners, Customs, and domestic Habits, &c. of the Mahuminedans. A new and enlarged edition is in the press, of Mr. CUMMINGS's Observations on the Properties of Cylindrical and Conical Wheels, accompanied by a Supplement clucidatory of the national advantages to be expected from the investigations of the select Committees of the House of Commons, Mrs. WEST's new novel, entitled the Refusal, will be published in a few days. Mr. CooKE, of Brentford, has in the press, a practical treatise on Tinea Capitis Contagiosa; together with enqui. ries into the nature and cure of Fungus, Hæmatodes, and Nævi Materni. Mr. JACKSON's Lectures on Philoso phical and Experimental Chemistry will Commence on Friday evening, February 9th, at eight o'clock, in the King's Alms Ifall, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, and will continue at the same hour on each Friday and Saturday evening. An interesting volume is in the press by the Rev. Dr. WHITAKER, formed principally from Letters of Sir George Radcliffe. Mr. HUTTON, of Birmingham, is printing an account of his Trip to Coatham, a watering-place on the Yorkshire coast, The Rev. Mr. PHELPS has nearly completed his Botanical Calendar. A new edition is printing of Mr. CUMBERLAND'S Poem on the Death of Christ. The dried specimens which accompany Mr. AMOS's Treatise on Grasses, may now be had without difficulty. Mr. THOMAS HAYNES, an experienced propagator of trees, shrubs, and plants, is about to publish early in the spring, New and interesting Discoveries in Horticul ture, as an improved system of propaga ting fruit-trees, hardy American and other evergreens, and deciduous ornamental trees and shrubs. The Spring Course of Lectures at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, commence the beginning of February; viz. At St. Thomas's, Anatomy and the Operations of Surgery, by Mr. CLINE and Mr. COOPER.-Principles and Practice of Surgery, by Mr. COOPER. At Guy's Hospital, Practice of Medicine, by Dr. BABINGTON and Dr. CurRY.-Chemistry, by Dr. BABINGTON, Dr. MARCET, and Mr. ALLEN.-Experimental Philosophy, by Mr. ALLEN.— Theory of Medicine, and Materia Medica, by Dr. CURRY and Dr. CHOLMELEY, Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children, by Dr. HAIGHTON.-Physiology, or Laws of the Animal Economy, by Dr, HAIGHTON.-Structure and and Diseases of the Teeth, by Mr. Fox. Early in the month of February, will be ready for publication, a new edition, being the thirty-third, of the Pantheon, by the Rev. Andrew Tooke. For this impression, a series of beautiful and highly-finished plates in outline, are engraving from original drawings, from autique statues, &c. A Letter to Sir JOHN NICHOLL, on his late decision against a clergyman for refusing to bury the child of a dissenter; with a preface addressed to the Archbishops and Bishops of the church of England, by a Clergyman, is in the press. The Rev. THOMAS COMBER is compiling from unpublished manuscripts, and other authentic sources, the History of the Parisian Massacre of St. Bartholomew, wherein all the minute circumstances of that sanguinary event are faithfully pourtrayed. ROBERT STEELE, Esq. of the Royal Marines, is preparing for the press, a Tour through the Atlantic, or Recollections from Madeira, the Azores, and Newfoundland, including the period of discovery, produce, manners, and customs of each, with Memorandums from the convents visited in 1809, in his Majesty's ship Vestal. The Rev. D. DAVIES, of Milford, Derbyshire, is engaged in writing a new Historical and Descriptive View of the Town and County of Derby, in one large volume, octavo: he invites communications respecting the antiquities, natural history, or recent improvements. Mr. MUDFORD has completed his Translation of Bausset's Life of Fenelon, MISS RUNDELL, of Percy House, Bath, has just completed a Grammar of Sacred History, including the Old and New Testament, with Maps, &c. Mr. JENNINGS's amusing Poems, consisting of Retrospective Wanderings, the Mysteries of Mendip, the Magic Ball, Sonpets, and other Pieces, are in the press. In the ensuing month will be published, a History of the Mahrattas, prefaced by an historical sketch of the Decan; containing a short account of the rise and fall of the Moslim sovereignties, prior to the era of Mahratta independence, by EDWARD SCOTT WARING, Esq. Lieut. Colonel MARK WILKs will publish early next month, in quarto, with maps, the first volume of his Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to trace the History of Mysour, from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of that State, to the Extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799. Mr. WILLIAM WILKINS, author of the Antiquities of Magna Græcia, proposes to publish in the ensuing spring in an imperial quarto volume, a Translation of the Civil Architecture of Vitruvius, illustrated by numerous engravings exe cuted by LowRY. Dr. AIKIN has in the press, in two octavo volumes, Memoirs of the Life of Peter Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches, translated from the original, by Huet himself, with the addition of copious notes, critical and biographical. Major SAMUEL DALES has nearly ready for publication, an Essay on the Study of the History of England, in one octavo volume. The Rev. Mr. HODGSON is preparing a collective edition of the works of his venerable relation the late Bishop of London; to which will be prefixed a Life of the author, founded on authentic materials. Dr. LAWRENCE is preparing for the press, from the papers of his late brother, a volume of Critical Observations on the New Testament, particularly on the Prophecies of the Revelations. Sir RICHARD COLT HOARE has in the press, the History of Ancient Wiltshire; and the first part, illustrated by several plates, will appear early in the spring. The first volume of the Transactions of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, will speedily make its appearance. Dr. CHARLES ANDERSON, of Leith, the translator of Werner's classical work on Veins, has in the press a Translation of the celebrated Von Buch's Mineralogical Description of the county of Landen, in Silesia. DAUBUISSON, a distinguished pupil of Werner, some time ago published an excellent Description of the Floetz-trap formation in Bohemia. A translation of this work by a member of the Wernerian Society, will appear early this spring. The Map of Devonshire, by Colonel MUDGE, is completed, and in another month, will be given to the public. Ex. pectation has been much raised by this work, from the high character of the author, whose affections have gone with his labours, in anxiety to exhibit his native county in the most perfect style; and we are induced to think, from the representation of those who have seen it in its progress, that the most enthusiastic admirer of this interesting county will not be disappointed. Mr. PRATT is in great forwardness with his Poem called the Lower World, occasioned by the Speech of Lord Erskine in the House of Peers on the reading of the Bill for preventing wanton and malicious Crucity to Animals. The same gentleman announces his intention also of giving the public the Jong-promised specimen of the Poetry of JOSEPH BLACKET, a self-educated genius of great power and richness; with a portrait, that offers a very striking resemblance of that extraordinary young man. HENRY HINDE PELLY, Esq. of Upton, Essex, a gentleman advanced in years, and who used to be laid up annually for three or four months with a violent fit of the gout, having read in some old book that a loadstone worn next the skin was a sure preservative against that excruciating disease, and knowing that some of the finest and most powerful magnets are found in Golconda, employed an agent in India to procure him one from that province. This stone chipped into a convenient shape, he constantly wears sewed in a little flannel case, suspended from a black ribbon round his neck next his skin. It is about two inches long, an inch and a half broad, and two-tenths of an inch thick, and its magnetie virtue is very great. It much resembles a piece of slate, such as school-boys learn to cypher on. Mr. Pelly says that he now and then has some slight twitches, which only serve to remind him of the terrible paroxysms to which he once was subject. He happened one day to omit hanging this amulet about his neck; another and another day passed, and as several years had elapsed without a fit, he began to think that the magnet had altered his system, and rendered him intangible by goat. One night however he awoke in torment; he called for his safeguard and threw it about his neck; he escaped with a slight attack, and has never since been without his piece of loadstone, which he wears night and day, and enjoys perfect freedom from all the pains inflicted by his old enemy. The first meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, this season, was held on the 4th of November in the College Museum at Edinburgh. On this occasion were read, a learned botanical paper, by Mr. R. Brown, of London, proposing a subdivision of the apocine of Jussieu, to be called asclepiadeæ; the first part of an essay on meteoric stones, by Mr. G. J. Hamilton; and the concluding part of an account of fishes found in the Frith of Forth, by Mr. Neill, At the next meeting of the society on the 9th of December, Professor Jameson read an account of a considerable number of animals of the class vermes, which he had observed on the shores of the Frith of Forth, and the coasts of the Orkney and Shetland Islands; and also a series of observations on the different precious stones found in Scotland, par ticularly the topaz, of which he exhibited a series of interesting specimens from Aberdeenshire; and among these was a crystal weighing nearly eight ounces, which is probably the largest crystallized specimen hitherto discovered in any country. The secretary laid before the meeting, a communication from the Rev. Mr. Fleming, of Bressay, describing several rare vermes lately discovered by him in Shetland, and a catalogue of rare plants, to be found within a day's excursion from Edinburgh, by Mr. Robert Maughan, sen. RUSSIA. The skeleton of the Mammoth found in the ice, at the mouth of the river Lena, in Siberia, which has been for some time publicly exhibited at Moscow, is said to be intended for the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, at Petersburg. Professor Tilesius has made forty drawings of the skeleton, and its various parts, which he means to publish in folio, with observations. On some points he differs from Cuvier. The greatest cold of last winter ob served at Moscow, was in the night of the 11th of January. Mercury exposed to the open air, in a cup, by Dr. Rchinaun, was frozen so hard, that it might be cut with sheers, and even filed. Count Boutourlin found the mercury in three ther mometers withdrawn entirely into the ball and frozen; but in another it was seen by himself and four other persons, from six o'clock till half after, at 35° R. (163 F.) Mr. Rogers, of Troitsk, is said to have seen it at 34° (444 F.) before it froze and withdrew into the ball. ing the fair, as contributing new publications on this occasion: of these the total number was 777. Seven hundred and fifteen were German productions, and sixty-two were written in the other European languages. Of the German works 115 were new editions, seventynine were almanacks, and other periodical works. The rest chiefly consisted of -compilations and elementary works, for the use of schools. Indeed, books of this Jast description, were more numerous than at any former fair. Of the works which were chiefly called for, we have to notice the History of the French Revolation, by M. Backzo, of Königsberg; a History of Poetry and Eloquence, by M. Bouterwerk; a Journey from Holstein into Franconia and Bavaria, by M. Eggers; M. Eichhorn of Göttingen's History of Literature; Fernow's Life of Ariosto; Lectures on Natoral Philosophy by M. Lichtenberg; Travels by M. Neminich, of Hamburg; Private Letters from Vienna, by M. Reichard, the author of Private Letters from Paris; Sermons by M. Reinhard, of Dresden; M. Schreiber on the Belles Lettres; Travels in Upper Austria, by M. Schultz; Vater on the Population of America; Weinbrenner an Theatrical Architecture: to which may be added several excellent works on philology, bearing the well-known names of Schutz, Ilager, Zimmermann, Schæfer, Lenness, Heindorf, &c. Fifty-seven novels or romances have been produced during the year. The most popular of these, Die Wahl-verzoundschaften, is from the fertile and pathe tic pen of M. Goethe. The names of Lafontaine, Wagner, and Voss, also appear in the Leipsic catalogue as the authors of several works of this description; and M. Kotzebue has favoured his admirers with a new volume of Tales. Under the >head of Novels and Romances, we find a volume with the title of Schillianu;-the adventures of the unfortunate Schill and his followers, form the subject of these ana. Twenty-two new dramatic pieces have been introduced to the notice of the German public during the preceding year, but they are not from the pens of any writers of eminence. FRANCE. The use of copper-vessels in cookery, is justly dreaded, and various articles are, nevertheless, dressed in such vessels, without acquiring any injurious qualities. M. Proust determined to discover, if 1 possible, the cause of these contradictory effects. He boiled for above an hour, in a copper vessel, a quantity of strong vinegar, which completely filled the vessel. The most active re-agents, such as sulphurated hydrogen, did not discover the smallest effect produced on the liquor by the copper. He found, however, that the copper becomes oxided, or rusted, only when the vessel is not full; in which case, a portion of its surface is exposed to the action of the atmosphere, the oxygen of which combines with it. This theory he verified by many experiments. The heat produced during the time of boiling, by greatly dilating the air which comes into contact with the copper, prevents this combination. The accidents then which sometimes follow the use of copper vessels, are occasioned by suffering liquids to cool in them, during which time the air has access to the surface of the copper. This theory certainly explains by what means it may happen, that one person shall use with safety, and consider as not unwholesome, the same vessel which another person finds extremely deleterious. Hence also our housewives will perceive the reason, why cleanliness is their security, when their culinary vessels become partly untinned by continued use A chemist at Paris has lately made several curious experiments on tobacco, which, if found to be correct, will occa sion a great innovation in the trade and manufacture of that vegetable. His results were, that the acrid principle of tobacco dufers from that of all other vegetables whose properties are known; that it can by an easy process be scparated from the plant, either green or. dried, and in a liquid state; and that the juice thus extracted, may be combined with the dried leaves of any tree, and thus form tobacco. The remains of the plant, after the acrid principle, is thus separated, have neither smell nor taste. M. Vauquelin has analysed a meteoric stone, which fell on the 22d of May, 1808, at Stamnern, in Moravia, and found in one hundred parts of it the fol Jowing substances; Silex Lime Alumine Oxide of iron Oxide of Manganese 50 12 9 28 100 |