WORKS ANNOUNCED.

T. S. Manning, of Philadelphia, proposes to publish by subscription in two vols. 12mo. price $2, the Novice of St. Dominick, by Miss Owenson.

Adams' Roman Antiquities, 1 large vol. 8vo. 640 pages, $3. To be published in the fall, by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia.

A volume of Sermons on important subjects by the late Rev. and pious Samuel Davies, A.M. some time President of New-Jersey College. This is an additional volume, collected from the author's manuscripts, never published in America. To comprise 450 pages 8vo. $1,75 to subscribers. Northampton, S. & E. Butler. 1807.

Messrs. Andrews & Cummings, and Lemuel Blake, of this town, propose to reprint by subscription, A Dissertation on the Prophecies, that have been fulfilled, are now fulfilling, or may hereaf. ter be fulfilled, relative to the great period of 1260 years; the Papal and Mohammedan apostates; the tyrannical reign of Antichrist, or the infidel power; and the restoration of the Jews. By the Rev. George Stanley Faber, B. -D. vicar of Stockton-upon-Tees. one 8vo. volume, containing upwards of 600 pages, at $2,25, boards.

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Mr. Horatio G. Spafford, of Hudson, N. Y. is preparing for the press, a very useful school book, entitled 'Universal Geography, and rudiments of useful knowledge, (in a pocket volume) containing a short but comprehensive system of geography, in its several parts; together with a brief survey of the principles of natural philosophy.' The work is divided into twelve sections, arranged under general heads.

A literary gentleman, from the University of Cambridge, Eng. who arrived at Philadelphia in the autumn of last

year, is employed in writing a work, which he entitles The Stranger in America,' to be comprised in 4 vols. 12mo. The first volume contains his observations in and near Philadelphia, during a residence of six months. The other three volumes will consist of views of society and manners in the United States, in the year 1807. Each volume will be embellished with appropriate vignette, sketches of publick buildings, &c. We understand that the first volume is already forwarded to England for immediate publication, and it will be published in Philadelphia about the month of September next.

Proposals have been issued for publishing The Speeches of His Excellency Caleb Strong, Esq. to the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts, with their Answers and other official publick papers of His Excellency, from 1800 to 1807. It is intended this work shall contain between 2 and 300 pages 12mo. ornamented with an accurate, engraved likeness of Mr. Strong, executed by Mr. W. Hooker, of Newburyport. The price of the volume will be $1 in boards.

Messrs. Lothian and Beals, of this town, are printing A Sketch of the Christian Denominations,' by John Evans, A. M. The first Boston, from the 9th London edition. This work is to be in one 12mo. volume, containing 300 pages, and embellished with an engraving, price $1,12 in extra boards.

Proposals have been issued in Ohio for publishing, in one vol. royal duodecimo, the long and interesting Trial of Charles Vattier, lately convicted of Burglary and Larceny, by stealing at various times, from the receiver of publick monies for the district of Cincinnati, large sums to the amount of many thousands of dollars, chiefly belonging to the United States.

GREAT-BRITAIN.

STEREOTYPE Printing has not been adopted by the booksellers of London, because it does not appear that more than twenty or thirty works would warrant the expense of being cast in solid pages; consequently the cost of the preliminary arrangements would greatly exreed the advantages to be attained. On a calculation, it has appeared

to be less expensive to keep certain works standing in moveable types, in which successive editions can be improved to any degree, than to provide the means for casting the same works in solid pages, which afterwards admits of little or no revision. As the extra expense of stereotyping is in all works equal to the expense of paper for 750 copies, it is obvious that this art is

not applicable to new books, the sale of which cannot be ascertained. Although these considerations have induced the publishers of London not to prefer this art in their respective businesses, yet it has been adopted by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford; and from the former some very beautiful editions of Common Prayerbooks have been issued to the publick; probably the art of stereotyping applies with greater advantage to staple works of such great and con'stant sale, as prayer books and bibles, than to any other.

The improvements introduced by Lord Stanhope, in the construction of printing-presses, have been applied to the greater part of the working presses of the metropolis. Other improvements have lately been developed in the art of printing, the introduction of which into practice we shall gladly announce; one of them relates to a more simple method of working presses, by which the number of pressmen would be considerably diminished; and the other to a superiour method of casting types.

The Memoirs of John Lord de Joinville, Grand Seneschal of Champagne, written by himself, and translated by Thomas Johnes, of Hafod, esq. M. P. are on the eve of publication. They contain a history of part of the life of Louis IX. King of France, surnamed St. Louis, whose contemporary and friend Joinville was, as well as his comrade in all his wars. An account of that King's expedition to Egypt in the year 1248, is included in these volumes. They contain many historical facts not noticed by any other historians, and exhibit an interesting picture of the times to which they refer. Mr. Johnes has added the notes and dissertations of M. Ducange; together with the dissertations of M. Le Baron de la Bastie on the Life of St. Louis, and of M. L'Eveque la Ravaliere, and M. Falconet, on the Assassins of Syria, from the “Memoirs de l'Academie de Belles Lettres et Inscriptions de France." Our readers will recollect that this

is the second of the old French historians which has been submitted to the Hafod press in an English translation.

Mr. Johnes has also just finished The Travels of the Lord de la Broquiere, Esquire, Carver to Philippe le Bon, who returned from Jerusalem to France overland, about the year 1345, and reduced the account of his journey to writing, by command of the Duke, his master. This author,little known to the general reader, treats his subject with that naiveté so characteristic of the period to which this indefatigable translator has devoted his labours.

The Chronicles of Monstrelet, who took up his history from the year 1400, where that of Froissart ended, and brought it down to 1467, will be the next work in the series, ranging after Froissart, and forming a necessary continuation of those interesting and popular chronicies. Monstrelet gives a copious and authentick account of the civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, the occupation of Paris and Normandy by the English, the expulsion of the latter, and other memorable events both in France and other countries. We understand that the transla tion of the first volume is finished, and that by great good fortune it has escaped that calamity which happened at Hafod, on Friday the 13th of March. For it will be read with very painful feelings, not only by those who have been in the habit of participating in the classical hospitalities of the place, but by all who have been drawn as strangers to explore a country which owes its redemption from wildness and from waste to the publick spirited proprietor of Hafod, and even by those who have only read the description of its beauties in the various tours of Wales, that this noble mansion has just been destroyed by fire. The misfortune is too recent for any very minute particulars to have reached the metropolis. But we much fear that the mischief is most extensive, and, in many instances, irreparable, though not extending to the loss of life.

The books in the lower part of the library are many of them, we will hope all, saved; but the gallery was inaccessible, from the circumstance of the fire breaking out above stairs, and close by it, and in that gallery were some of the most rare books in that curious and extensive collection. A complete series of all the romances mentioned by Don Quixotte, as composing his library, are probably in the number of the irreparable losses. The pictures are many of them, saved, but the invaluable painted glass in the anti-library must necessarily have been destroyed. Mr. Johnes was in London, in obedience to the call of the House, at the time of the accident. On receiving the intelligence he immediately hastened to his family, who had been obliged to remove to the inn at Devil's Bridge. Buoyed up with thankfulness for their providential preservations, he left town, bearing, though feeling his calamity, like a man.

With that enthusiasm which has led him to devote his life and fortune to the creation of a paradise out of a wilderness, he means still to inhabit his Eden in spite of this flaming minister, and still to divide his rural leisures between agricultural improvements and literary labours. Men in general would think it late in life to set to work a second time; but we still hope to see a Phoenix rise from the ashes, and to announce Monstrelet and Comines from the same press which has already produced Froissart, Joinville, and le Brocquiere. By way of sequel to Comines, and to complete the series, Mr. Johnes proposes concluding with the Memoirs of Oliver de la Marche, which are very entertaining, and furnish many curicus facts. Other private memoirs of those times will be interspersed, to serve as illustrations.

We have to announce to the admirers of fine books, that two magnificent editions of Gil Blas are in preparation, the one in the original French, the other in English, both under the superintendance of Mr.

Malkin, author of the Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales, and several other works, who has undertaken to supply the deficiencies of the English edition, under the name of Smollet, by an entirely new translation. Should this be executed with spirit and fidelity, it will furnish what has so long been wanted, an appropriate English dress for the best novel which was ever written. These two editions are to be printed uniformly, in the best manner. They will be illustrated with plates, executed by the first engravers, from pictures painted by that admirable delineator of life and manners, Robert Smirke, Esq. R. A. In such hands it may be presumed that this work will rival the most elegant productions of the press, in an age when the arts of printing and engraving are carried to so great a degree of perfection.

A very interesting work, by a member of the University of Oxford, will speedily appear in three volumes, under the title of 'Oxoniana,' consisting of anecdotes and facts relative to the colleges, libraries, and establishments of Oxford; with extracts from, and accounts of, the curious unpublished manuscripts with which that university abounds; accounts of celebrated members, professors, &c. so as to comprise a history of the rise and progress of that ancient seat of learning.

Dr. Charles Fothergill is now engaged in preparing a work for the press, which can scarcely fail to excite very general interest. With a view of clearing up some doubtful points in the Zoology of Great-Britain, he last spring made a voyage to all the northern isles, comprehending the Orcades, Shetland, Fair Isle, and Fulda, and remained amongst them during the greatest part of the year, employed in the investigation of their natural history, antiquities, state of their agriculture and fisheries, political importance, manners, customs, condition, past and present state, &c. &c.; a general and particluar ac

count of which will shortly be given to the publick, accompanied by maps and numerous engravings; containing the fullest and completest description that has yet been published of those remote and hitherto neglected regions.

Thonwaldson, a Swedish sculptor, is engaged at Rome upon a colossal statue of Liberty, for the United States of America, to be erected at Washington.

The Rev. Thomas Kidd, of Trinity College, Cambridge, proposes to publish a new edition of the Iliad and Odyssey; of which, in the Iliad, the Townleian Codex, aided by the Marcian MSS. and a faithful collation of the Harlein copies, will form the ground-work. It is intended, at present, to insert the Digamma in the text, on the authority of the great Bentley, whose unpublished papers upon the Iliad and Odyssey will, through the kind permission of Trinity College, Cambridge, contribute to enhance the value of this edition. The body of variations from the Vienna, Breslaw, and Moschow MSS. as published by Professors Alter & Heyne, as well as those gleaned by a reexamination of the MSS. consulted by Barnes, will be classed according to their respective merits under the text, and incorporated with an accurate collation of the first, second Aldine, first Stratzburgh, and Roman editions; the peculiarities also of the venerable document dispersed through H. Steph. Thesaurus Ling. Gr. will be specified in their proper places. The text of the Iliad, with the variations, will be given in two volumes, octavo. A supplement to the Villoisonian Scholia, from the Townleian and Harlein translations, with short notes, shall form the third volume; and a fourth volume will contain the text to the Odyssey, with various lections, to be introduced by fac-similes of the characters and descriptions of the respective MSS. engaged in the service of the text; to which will succeed a small volume of Scholia, chiefly from MSS. with short notes, a dissertation upon the genuineness of Od. n, a collation of the pp.of Ed.Rom. and Bas.

of Eustathius, with the omissions of the latter and application of the Digamma to the remains of Hesiod.

The Works of Sallust, translated by the late Arthur Murphy, Esq. are about to be re-published.

SWEDEN.

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Some years ago, several Swedish naturalists formed a society for the purpose of giving a complete ac count of the Botany of their native country. Forty-six numbers of this work have already appeared, each containing a coloured engraving, of four or five plants, with their names in the principal languages of Europe, and a short and luminous description, in Swedish. The editors of this work have begun another work on the same plan, relative to the Zoology of Sweden, of which the first number has already appeared. Mr. Wertring has lately published a very curious work on Lichens; in which he gives an exact description of each species, and indicates its use in medicine and domestick economy, and particularly the mode of extracting colours from them, for the purpose of dying silk and wool. The plates accompanying this work, which does honour to Sweden, represents, 1st. The mosses of the class of Lichens, engraved and coloured, after nature; and 2d. the various colour which they communicate to cloth in the process of dying.

GERMANY.

The system of Gall is now ridiculed throughout Germany, and he was unable to procure an auditory at any of the places where he lately attempted to deliver lectures.

The memory of Luther never received so many honours as during the last year. Besides the grand drama, of which he is the hero, and which has been acted with prodigious success on the royal theatre at Berlin, M. Klingemann brought upon the stage of Magdeburg,a tragedy entitled 'Martin Luther.'

ERRATA. In a few impressions of the Observations on the Picture of Boston, the following errours escaped. Page 292, col. 2, line 2 from bottom for collection, read collective. Page 293, col. 2, 1. 16 from bot. for among r. many. Page 294, 1.21, for has r. have. Col. 2, 9 lines from bottom for those read these.