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To which are added, Mifcellaneous Poems, original and tranflated. By a young gentleman of very promifing talents of that city. A new thermometer has been invented for registering the highest and lowest temperatures in the absence of the obferver, which is faid to be a more fimple, as well as a lefs expenfive, instrument than Six's thermometer. It confifts in two thermometers, one mercurial, and the other of alkohols, having three ftems horizontal. The former has for its index a fmall piece of magnetical steel wire, and the latter a minute thread of glafs, having its two ends formed into Imall knobs by fufion in the flame of a candle. The magnetical bit of wire lies in the vacant space of the mercurial thermometer, and is pushed forward by the mercury whenever the temperature rifes and pushes that fluid against it; but when the temperature falls, and the fluid retires, this index is left behind, and fhews the maximum. The other index, or bit of glass, lies in the tube of the spiritthermometer, immerfed in the alkohol, and when the spirit retires by the depreffion of temperature, the index is carried along with it in apparent contact with its interiour furface; but on increase of temperature the fpirit goes forward and leaves the index behind, which therefore fhews the minimum of temperature fince it was fet. The fteel index is eafi A monthly magazine, on new plan,to be intitled The British Olio ; and North American Museum. This work is intended to be equally useful and entertaining to the readers of both nations. From a plan like this, the American citizen will be furnished monthly with the literary, commercial, and political ftate of Great Britain; while, in the fame number, he may meet with domestick occurrences, which have not been noticed, even by his own diurnal prints. The English reader, too, far removed from his native land, may calculate upon equal advantages; for, befides every thing neceffary for his information that can be found in London periodical publications, he will be gratified with ERRATUM. In page 291, first column, 6 a minute description of a country, rapid- line from bottom for paffiona read paffion. ly brought to the mercury by applying a magnet on the outside of the tube, and the other is properly placed at the end of the column alkohol by inclining the whole inftrument. EDITORS' NOTES. OUR present number is enrich ed with a production from the pen of the Hon. J. Q. Adams. By making use of the Anthology for enchasing the jewel, he has conferred an honour, of which we are not insensible, and a compliment of which we are proud. If the Professor of Rhetorick, in his new rambles through poetry and prose, should note any thing of " pleasant aspect" for the general view, we should be happy in displaying it for publick applause. We wish him complete success in his present literary exertions; and though, for each course of his lectures, he will not receive the splendid Didactron of Isocrates, a thousand mine, yet we trust, that his discourses will be such, as Quintilian might praise, and that the consequent renown will fully compensate the scanty pecuniary emolument of the new professorship. Many subscribers to the American edition of Rees's Cyclopædia have expressed in strong terms their disapprobation of the mutilated state in which several articles are exhibited. We shall not give, at present, any opinion respecting the extent of these mutilations; though, from the respectability of the complainants, we are afraid they are important. Should this appear to be the case, we have no hesitation in asserting, that such conduct is altogether unjustifiable. Let the American editors add what they think useful or important, provided they be careful to distinguish what they insert, from that which rests upon the authority of the learned and laborious Dr. Rees; but let us have no garblings, no mutilations, no index expurgatorius. The work in question is of the most respectable class. Upwards of forty of the first literary men in Great Britain and Ireland are engaged to furnish the various articles; and the whole is under the superintendence of an editor, who has already proved himself fully equal to the task. That any men should venture to alter such a work would argue no little hardihood, and he would more probably incur the suspicion of overweening confidence, than inspire a belief in his capacity to improve the publication. But that this should be done by anonymous criticks, of whose character for judgment and talents the world knows nothing, is an impertinence, for which we cannot find a name. It transfers the weighty responsibility of the work from those, who are able to sustain it, to the shoulders of a Mr. Nobody, whom we have neither seen nor heard. We hesitate not to say, that the whole of the Cyclopædia, as edited by Dr. Rees, ought to be given to the subscribers. The American publishers have an undoubted right to add, to explain, to correct an error, or insert a caution, within the limitation we have mentioned; but this right does not extend to mutilation or omission, which has a tendency to confound all literary authority, and to render the ground we tread upon uncertain and unsure. We desire to be understood, not as giving a decided opinion how far this has been done in the work referred to; but are the more earnest in our expressions, because the practice has been shamefully prevalent in American re-publications; so much so that no literary man is safe in depending upon many of them, as giving the ungarbled and unsophisticated sense of the original author. With respect to the work in question, we hope to give it, in a future number, a thorough examination, and to administer strict justice between the editors and the publick. |