quial and literary powers of the amiable author, and we have no hesitation to declare, that her multifarious reading, sound judgment, correct, perspicuous, and fluent style claim for any book that she may compose, a candid and attentive perusal.-Port Folio.

instructive and entertaining work, entitled "Letters from England, by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. Translated from the Spanish by an English Gen. tleman..

This interesting work is a great curiosity. Remarks on England by a student from the University of Alcala, are

LAND.

Messrs. Munroe & Francis, of Boston, are publishing, in one* duodecimo volume, an elegant, and very

The English edition ' very diffusely printed in three. One of the principal advantages we derive from the repablication of british books is, a portable size, and consequent cheapness. The enormous prices of foreign books, enhanced by the illiberal, disgraceful, and absurd imposts of our government, nearly interdict Literature from our country. Learning should never be taxed, and Genius disdains the idea of a manacle.

but the most extraordinary circumstance remains behind.

After a very careful perusal of these letters, we have acquired the right to declare, that it is the most accurate description of English scenery and manners, that in the form of a tour has yet appeared. We have not access to the original, but the English translation is extremely spirited and elegant.—Ibid.

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The Tenth Volume of the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is in the press of Munroe & Francis of this town, and will be published in February.

An Elementary Treatise on Pleading in Civil Actions, by Edward Lawes, of the Inner Temple, is just put to press by Messrs. Thomas & Tappan, Portsmouth, Newhampshire, in an 8ve volume.

Munroe & Francis of this town have in the press, and will publish in ten days, in a handsome 12mo. volume, Letters from England, by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. Translated from the Spanish.

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Wright, Goodenow, & Stockwell, of Troy, have in the press, and will publish about the middle of next month, a new and interesting work entitled "Travels in the year 1806, from Italy to England, through the Tyrol, Styria, Bohemia, Gallitia, Poland and Livonia; containing the particulars of the liberation of Mrs. Spencer Smith" (sister in law to Sir Sydney Smith and daughter of the Austrian Ambassador at the Ottoman Porte) "from the hands of the French Police, and of her subsequent flight through the countries above mentioned: effected and written by the Marquis De Salvo, member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature at Turin, &c.-the first American Edition.

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Mr. T. S. Manning of Philadelphia has in the press The Lay of an Irish Harp,' and the third edition of The Wild Irish Girl,' by Miss Sydney Owenson, the Mrs. Sheridan of Ireland. Both these works merit the attention of the friends of female genius.

B.& T. Kite of Philadelphia have in the press Chaptal's Chymistry, with improvements and additions by James Woodhouse, M. D. professour of chymistry in the University of Pennsylvania, in two volumes octavo. They have also in the Press, a letter on the Innoculation of the Vaccine; practised by Dr. Francesco Calcagni, translated from the Italian, by Edward Cutbush, M. D. A sketch of the character, and an account of the last illness of the Rev. John Cowper, A. M. written by his brother, the late William Cowper, Esq. of the Inner Temple.

Saul, a poem, by Sotheby, the elegant translator of Oberon, is in the press of David Carlisle of this town. It is a blank verse epick, in two parts, four books to a part.

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E. & J. Larkin of this town have issued proposals for printing An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations. By Adam Smith, LL.D.; with notes, supplementary chapters, and a life of Dr. Smith, by William Playfair. Two vols. octavo, at 6 dols.

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Russell & Cutler of this town have in the press a collection of Delicate and Amatory Songs.

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Dr. Waterhouse of Cambridge is about publishing A continuation of the progress of vaccination in America; together with a narrative tending to shew the importance of Decorum in a young physician.'

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Mr. S. F. Bradford will shortly publish a new and interesting work, entitled "A Portraiture of Methodism," being an impartial view of the rise, progress, dicipline, doctrine, and manners of the Wesleyan Methodists, by Joseph Nightingale.

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Buck's Miscellaneous Works, in three volumes 12mo., price $3, are proposed to be published, by subscription, from the Theological and Literary Press of W. W. Woodward of Philadelphia.

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Doct. James Ewell of Savannah, has issued proposals for publishing a new work entitled the Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion.

Proposals are issued by the Rev. William Price and Joseph Jones of Wilmington, Delaware, for republishing Gill's Expositions of the New Testament in 4 Volumes.

ERRATA. In the laft No. of Silva, in the line from Virgil, at the beginning, for fortibus' read fontibus. In the 9th line, by fome unaccountable mistake, the word Adventurer' crept in, for which read Rambler;' and for furnitures' read furniture-all on page 545 In a part of the impreffions of the prefent No. p 615, line 15, for 'drooped' r. dropped;' line 27, for 'foliliquy's. Soliloquy.'