ducted as to take expressly into consideration the influence of the rings and the figure of the planet, as modified by the attraction of the rings on the motion of the satellites; to furnish formulæ adapted to the determination of the elements of their orbits, and the constant co-efficients of their periodical and secular equations from observation; likewise to point out the observations best adapted to lead to a knowledge of such determinations. The papers to be sent to the Society on or before February 1, 1823.

Each memoir is to bear a motto, and be accompanied by a sealed paper with the same motto and the author's name. The successful paper is to be left with the Society, and published as they may request.

Diving Machine-A new diving machine, called a Dolphin, has been invented by M. F. Farkas, an Hungarian. The continental papers have described some of the advantages of the instrument, but not its construction. An experiment was made with it at Vienna in the military swimming school at the Prater. Count Joseph Esterhazy de Galanthy, Count Fergas de Ghymes, the acting chamberlain, Nemes Slagod, and several Englishmen and persons of distinction, were present. The servant of the inventor plunged with the Dolphin in twenty-four feet water, and walked upon the bottom over the whole square of the swimming school. To prove that there could be no want of light, the inventor sent down a lantern, and when it was taken up again, the light was still burning. After

the man had remained one hour under water he returned to the surface without assistance; not because he wanted air, but because all who were present were satisfied with the success of the experiment, and directed that the man might ascend.

Oil Painting.-Chevalier Tambroni has just sent to the press the oldest treatise on Painting which Italy possesses. Its title is Instruzioni Pittoriche, by Cennino Cennini, the pupil of Giotto, and has hitherto remained quite unknown in the Vatican Library. This work is very interesting for connoisseurs; among other things it is mentioned that oil painting was known in Italy before the time of John of Bruges, to whom the ultramontane writers attribute the invention. This does not seem to be proved, at least not to the extent here asserted; the use of oil in painting was introduced gradually, but the Netherlanders were probably the first who painted wholly in oil.

German Mechanics.-M. Hellfarth, a printer at Erfurt, has invented a press which can print eight sheets at a time. This press, which may be made of any size, prints in 12 hours 7000 copies, which makes for the eight sheets 56,000 copies printed on both sides. One horse easily works the machine. Three men

suffice to place the paper on the frame and to take it off. The printed forms remove of themselves, and the others place themselves, without its being necessary to stop the machine, the construction of which being equally complete and solid, requires but little repair.--American Journal,

LONDON.

MEMOIRS of the last Nine Years of the Reign of George II. are announced, by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. They are printed from the original MSS., found in the chest left by his lordship's will, to be opened by the first Earl of Waldegrave who should attain the age of 21 after the year 1820, and will speedily appear in two volumes quarto, forming also vols. six and seven of Lord Orford's collected works.

Letters of Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey, with a memoir, and illustrative notes, are in the press.

Mr Brande's Manual of Chemistry, enlarged to 3 vols. 8vo; and Mr Macken. zie's Thousand Experiments in Chemistry and the Useful Arts, will appear in a few days.

The first volume (dedicated, by permission, to his Majesty) of a General History of Birds, by John Latham, M. D. F. R. S. author of The Synopsis of Birds, Index

Ornithologicus, &c. &c. to be completed in ten vols. demy 4to, with at least 180 coloured plates, is intended to be published by the end of June, and the succeeding ones at intervals of about three months.

The Principles and Doctrines of Assurances, Annuities on Lives, and of Contingent Reversions, stated and explained, by William Morgan, Esq. F. R. S. Actuary of the Equitable Life Insurance Office, will shortly be published.

A History of Parga, containing an account of the vicissitudes of that part of Greece, during the French Revolution; supported by authentic documents, translated from the Italian MS. of Ugo Foscolo, will soon be published.

Mr Mantell of Lewes announces, by subscription, in royal quarto, illustrated by numerous engravings, an account of the Fossils of the South Downs; or, Outlines of the Geology of the South-Eastern Division of Sussex. The work is intended to

illustrate the Geological relations of the whole County; but with a more immediate reference to the South-Eastern Division. The Minerals, and Organic Remains, discovered in the Strata, are very numerous, and possess a high degree of interest. Nearly 400 of the most illustrative specimens have been engraved; and the whole will be minutely described.

Speedily will be published in octavo, a Grammar of the Sanscrit Language, on a new plan; by the Rev. William Yates. This language is universally acknowledged, by those who have made the acquirement of it an object of pursuit, to stand unrivalled for harmony and cogency. It also contains all the principal Works of the Hindoos on Religion, Philosophy, History, Jurisprudence, &c.

Dr Wood, author of the Prize Essay on Irish History and Antiquities, published in the thirteenth volume of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, has in the press a work, entitled An Inquiry concerning the primitive Inhabitants of Ireland, which is expected to appear on the 1st of May, in one volume octavo, illustrated with a curious Map, containing the local situations of the tribes of Ireland in the second century-partly Ptolemy's, and partly the author's. There will also be a dissertation proving the authenticity of Ptolemy's Map.

The famous Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester, from the Original MSS. with historical and explanatory notes, a biographical memoir, and an original portrait, will soon appear.

Memoirs of James the Second, King of England, &c. will be published early in the present month, in two volumes, small octavo, with a portrait.

Speedily will be published, Views of America, in a series of letters from that country to a Friend in England, during 1818-19, and 20, by an English woman.

Capt. Cox will soon publish in octavo, with plates, a Journal of a Residence in the Burhman Empire, and particularly at the Court of Amarapoora.

The Faustus of Goethe; which has been the subject of periodical criticism more than any work of the day, is about to ap pear in an English dress. The translation is from the pen of Mr George Soane, and it is his intention to follow his author with verbal fidelity.

The History of the Plague, as it has lately appeared in the Islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, and Cephalonia, &c.; detailing important facts, illustrative of the specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adopted for its eradication, by J. D. Tully, Esq. Surgeon to the Forces, Member of the Ionian Academy, late Inspector of Quarantine, and President of the Board of Health of the Ionian Islands, will appear shortly.

VOL. VIII.

Dr Turton has at press a splendid work in quarto, illustrative of the Conchology of the British Islands. The classification will be upon principles entirely new and strictly systematical. The Bivalves will be ready for publication some time in the ensuing summer, containing much new and interesting matter. The plates, 19 in number, are in forwardness, drawn and engraved from the best specimens in the author's cabinet, by Mr Curtis. Two hundred copies only will be printed, all coloured from nature. The price to subscribers will be three pounds, to non-subscribers, four pounds for the present volume.

The Life of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan, by Thomas Moore, Esq. author of Lalla Rookh, has been delayed by various circumstances, but will soon be published.

A Poem on a very interesting subject of Woman in India, is announced, by John Lawson, Missionary at Calcutta, and author of Orient Harping.

Next month will be published, Lucidus Ordo, a complete course of studies on the several branches of Musical Science, with a reduction of all the present intricacies of thorough bass to one simple principle of figurative designation, with skeleton exercises, &c. by J. Relfe, Musician in Ordinary to his Majesty.

A Practical Essay will soon appear on the Ring-worm, of the Scalp, Scald Head, and the other Species of Porrigo, with a view to establish the treatment of these discases on sound and efficient principles, by Samuel Plumbe, Esq.

A Catalogue of the first part of the extensive library of his Excellency the Cardinal Fesch is about to be published, and will be found particularly rich in Abbatial and Local Ecclesiastical History; Royal and Noble Genealogies; Versions of the Scriptures; Sacred Philology; Conciles; Lives of the Fathers; Theology; Canon and Civil Laws; Ancient History; and Biography; together with several early printed books and chronicles. The whole will be sold by auction by Mr Sotheby.

His

A novel is in the press, entitled Feminine Worth, by Jos, an Indian Idol, who views European morals and politics with calmness, impartiality, and truth. work relates the private story of a family, and the details are, with very few exceptions, occurrences in real life, in the order in which they have taken place.

Dr Pritchard, Physician to the Bristol Infirmary, has in the press, a Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System, Vol. I. comprising convulsive and maniacal affections. The design of this work is to illustrate by numerous cases of Epilepsy, Mania, Chorea, and the different forms of Paralysis, the connection between affections of this class, and a variety of disorders of the natural functions.

Benjamin Babington, Esq. of the Ma30

dras Civil Service, has in the press, the Adventures of the Gooroo Noodle and his Five Foolish Disciples, a comic Hindoo tale, in the Tamul language, printed in the original character, and accompanied by a translation, vocabulary, and analysis, The design of the translator, in publishing this tale, which has been long celebrated in Southern India for its spirit, and the elegance of its style, is to supply a text book for the use of those who are engaged in the acquirement of the language of the southern portion of the Peninsula of India, a language which, being original and underived, may perhaps also be thought worthy the attention of the general philologist.

Robert Anderson, Esq. of the Madras Civil Society, has nearly ready for publication a Grammar of the Tamul Language, in which it is the object of the author to incorporate with the rules of the ordinary or spoken an introduction to the elegant dialect of this language, which, from the nervous conciseness and singular energy of its construction, is as curious to the philologist, as from its affording an access to the learning of Southern India, it may be deemed conducive to the general interests of literature.

Ismael, the Arab, Sketches of Scenery, foreign and domestic, with other poems, by David Carey, Esq. author of Lochiel; or, the Field of Culloden, a novel, &c. &c. is in the press.

In a few days will be published, The World in Miniature, containing Africa in 4 vols. It constitutes the second division of a work intended to embrace all the nations of the globe under the title of the World in Miniature.

The Young Infidel; a Fire-side Reverie, by a Friend to Truth, is nearly ready for publication. The profits will be devoted to the support of the Essex Life Boat.

Dr L. Whehler's Lectures on the History of the National Literature of the Germans, translated from the German, is printing in two octavo vols.

Mr J. Fitzadam, formerly an able seaman, and author of the Harp of the Desert, will soon publish Lays on Land, in foolscap octavo.

In a few days will be published, the First Part of a Poem descriptive of the Deluge.

The Rev. Mr Nolan is printing his German Grammar, and the Spanish only remains to be done, which will be finished in the present month. The Hebrew, Syriack, Chaldee, Greek, Latin, Italian, and French, are uniformly printed, and the whole forms a Polyglott Grammar, in which the genius of the principal ancient and modern languages is explained upon a uniform plan.

A small volume of notes on the Cape of

Good Hope, made during an excursion through the principal parts of that Colony in the year 1820, is announced.

A New Series of Curiosities of Literature, in 3 vols. 8vo, are in preparation; by J. -D'Israeli, Esq.

An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People in the Interior of South America, translated from Martin Dobrizhoffer, two-and-twenty years a Missionary in Paraguay, will speedily be published in 3 volumes.

The second volume of the Comedies of Aristophanes, translated from the Greek, with numerous illustrative Notes; by Thomas Mitchell, A. M. is in the press.

The Odes of Pindar, translated into English verse, with Notes; by Abraham Moore, Esq. will soon be published.

The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, translated, with a Preface and Notes; by the Honourable George Lamb, are announced.

Memoirs of the Carbonari and of the Secret Societies of the South of Italy, are announced, accompanied by Biographical Memoirs of several persons who have lately distinguished themselves in the Revolutions of that Kingdom. With an Appendix of original Documents; the work will also be illustrated with Portraits, and other interesting plates.

The second part is nearly ready of Hora Entomologica; or, Essays on the Annulose Animals; by W. S. MacLeay, Esq. A. M. F. L. S. Being an attempt to ascertain the rank and situation which the celebrated Egyptian Insect, Scarabæus Sacer, holds among organized beings. This part contains a summary view and connected plan of all the principal affinities which Naturalists have discovered in the Animal Kingdom.

EDINBURGH.

A Treatise on the History and Law of Entail; by Erskine Douglas Sandford, Esq.

The Life of Sir Thomas Craig of Ric carton, author of the celebrated treatise De Jure Feudali; containing Biographical Sketches of the most eminent Lawyers who were the predecessors or contemporaries of Craig; with incidental Notices of the Political State of Scotland, and of the History of the Court of Session, from the period of its Institution till the Union of the Crowns; by Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq. Advocate, F.R.S. and F.A.S.

Practical Observations on Cold and Warm Bathing; with an Account of the principal Watering Places in Scotland and England; by James Millar, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

HISTORY.

Memoirs by James Earl Waldegrave, K.G. one of his Majesty's, George II., Privy Council, and Governor of George III. being a short account of Political Contentions, Party Quarrels, and events of consequence, from 1754 to 1757; with a Portrait. 4to. L. 1, 5s.

Memoirs of the Revolution of Mexico, with a Narrative of Mina's Campaign; Anecdotes of his Life, and Observations on the Practicability of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean; by W. D. Robinson, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. L. 1, 4s. boards.

Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics; by Charles Butler, Esq. Vols. III. and IV. 8vo. 30s.

LAW.

New Table of Costs in Parliament, Chancery, and the Exchequer; by R. Lloyd. 8vo. 14s.

Treatise on the Law relative to Sales of Personal Property; by Long. 8vo. 13s. Treatise on the Law of Injunctions; by the Hon. R. H. Eden. 8vo. L. 1, 1s.

The Magistrate's Memoranda; or, Register for applications, relative to the Duties of a Justice of Peace. 4to. 4s.

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A Manual of the Diseases of the Human Eye, intended for Surgeons commencing Practice; by Dr Charles Hen. Weller of Berlin, translated from the German by G. C. Monteath, M.D. and illustrated by Cases and Observations; 2 vols. 8vo. with 4 highly coloured plates, representing 37 diseased Eyes. L. 1, 10s. boards.

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A view of the Structure, Functions, and Disorders of the Stomach, and Alimentary Organs of the Human Body; with Physiological Observations and Remarks upon the qualities and effects of Food and Fermented Liquors; by Thomas Hare. 8vo. 12s. boards.

A Treatise on the Epidemic Cholera of India; by James Boyle. 8vo. 5s.

A Treatise on the Medical Powers of the Nitro-Muriatic Acid Bath in various diseases; by Walter Dunlop, Surgeon. 8vo. 2s.

Practical Observations on those Disorders of the Liver, and other Organs of Digestion, which produce the several forms and varieties of the Bilious complaint; by Joseph Ayre, M.D. 8s. 6d.

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Observations on Syphilis; by John Ba

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A Description of a Surgical Operation, originally peculiar to the Japanese and Chinese, and by them denominated ZinKing; now introduced into European

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A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron, protesting against the Immolation of Gray, Cowper, and Campbell, at the Shrine of Pope. 8vo. 2s.

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Table Talk; or, Original Essays; by Wm. Hazlitt. 8vo. 14s.

A Dissertation, shewing the identity of the Rivers Niger and Nile, chiefly from the authority of the Ancients; by John Dudley, A.M.

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