of his style, the animation of his descrip tions, the justness of his observations, the fidelity of his details, supported and completed by the exquisite productions of his pencil, unite to confer an extraordinary interest on his work. An event so remarkable as the invasion of Egypt, by a powerful army, accompanied by a subsidiary troop of artists, and learned men, enables the public to possess faithful representations and correct descriptions of those objects of ancient Art which equally interest the Architect and the Scholar the Artist and the Patron. Dr. E. D. Clarke, whose travels are in a course of publication, having passed through the same districts as Baron Denon, refers perpetually to the plates contained in this work as illustrative of his volumes. This series of Engravings, therefore, forms a valuable and necessary supplement to the works of that learned traveller Mr. James Dallaway will soon publish, in imperial octavo, Statuary and Sculpture among the Ancients; with some account of specimens preserved in England; embellished with numerous etchings. HISTORY. Sir George Buck's History of Richard the Third is printing from the original MS. in the possession of the editor with an Appendix of notes and documents, by Charles Yarnold, Esq. in a quarto volume. MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY. Dr. Alex. Marcet, one of the physicians to Guy's Hospital, will soon pablish an Essay on the Chemical History and Medical Treatment of Urinary Calculi, with plates. Dr John Reed, formerly physician to the Finsbury Dispensary, has in the press, Essays on Nervous and Hypochondriacal Diseases, and other subjects. Dr. W. R. Clanny has in the press, a Treatise on the Mineral Waters of Gilsland, in which is given an account of their chemical composition and medicinal qualities. MISCELLANIES. by various charters, statutes, customs, &c. Since the commencement of Dr. H's, laborious investigation of these subjects, the inhabitants of Southwark have been extremely desirous of ascertaining the validity of those privileges which the Corporation of London claim to exercise in that district, as is evinced by their re-establishing various Courts of Record in that Borough. Of this valuable and interesting work, which ought to be in the hands of every Freeman of London, only a limited number will be printed. Abbe J. A. Dubois, missionary in Mysore, has in the press, in a quarto volume, a Description of the People of India, with particular reference to their separation into casts. A Historical Account, interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes, of the illustrious House of Saxony, will soon appear in a crown octavo volume, embellished with por Preparing for the press, in one thick vol. 12mo price 6s. in boards, Theological and Literary Essays on a great variety of Experimental and Interesting Subjects. By the Rev. George. Glyn Scraggs, A.M. of Buck Mr. Berry, late of the College of Arms, and Author of a History of Guernsey, has in the press a Series of Tables entitled, "The Genealogical Mythology," intended as a book of reference for classical students.ingham. The work has received the sanction of many of the most eminent scholars in the kingdom, to whom the MS. has been submitted. The Third Volume of the Pulpit; being a Biographical and Literary Account of Eminent Popular Preachers, by Onesimus, will appear early in the present month. Dr. Hughson, the historian, is engaged, at the express desire of the Lord Mayor, on a work relative to the Privileges of London and Southwark, as specified and confirmed Speedily will be published, Sermons on Various Subjects and Occasions. By G. S. Faber, B. D. Rector of Long Newton, Durham. 8vo. The Rev. R. P. Beachcroft has in the press two volumes of Sermons. The Rev. John Hewlett has in the press, in five octavo volumes, Commentaries and Annotations on the Holy Scriptures. Biblical Criticism on the Books of the Old Testament, and Translations of Sacred Songs, with notes, by the late Bishop Horsley, are preparing for publication. The Works of the Rev. Oliver Heywood are printing, in four octavo volumes. Mrs. West, Author of Letters to a Young Man, &c. has in the press, Scriptural Essays adapted to the Holidays of the Church of England. Mrs. Cappe has in the press a second edition of Discourses, chiefly on devotional subjects, by the late Rev. Newcome Cappe. A new edition of the Rev. John Venn's Sermons, in two volumes, will appear in a few days. An edition of Stackhouse's History of the Bible, corrected and improved by Dr. George Gleig, one of the bishops of the Scotch Episcopal Church, is preparing for publication, in three quarto volumes, and will appear in parts. A work on Scripture Genealogy is in the press, in a royal quarto volume, consisting of thirty-five engraved tables, exhibiting the genealogy from Adam to Christ, accompanied with descriptive letter-press, and some curious vignettes. TOPOGRAPHY. written by himself, and continued to the time of his death, from his diary, notes, and other papers. With an original portrait, after Opie. 3 vols. 12mo. 11. is. The Biographical Dictionary; Volume XXVII. Edited by Alex. Chalmers, F.S.A. 8vo. 12s. Volume XXVIII. will be pub¬ lished on the 1st of July next. GEOGRAPHY. 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The number of copies is limit-parrative of the whole events of the war of ed to three hundred and fifty, upon crown 1815. By William Mudford, Esq. Accom folio. panied by a series of coloured engravings, plans, &c. from drawings by James Rouse, Esq. Part I. imp. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d. Mr. Aston, Author of the Manchester Guide, has in a state of forwardness, A Picture of Manchester, embellished with woodcuts of the principal buildings. The History of the Inquisition, as it has subsisted in France, Italy, Spain, &c. Aabringed from the elaborate work of Philip Limborch, Professor of Divinity at Austerdam. With engravings. 8vo. 13s. Sir Cuthbert Sharp will soon publish, History of Hartlepool, in the county of Dur ham. Mr. Benjamin Holdich has in the press, A History of Crowland Abbey, digested from the materials of Mr. Gough, including an abstract of Mr. Essex's Observations on the Abbey. WORKS PUBLISHED. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby will submit the following libraries, &c. for public sale, during the present season:→ The musical collection of the late Dr. Harington, of Bath, together with some curious tracts and manuscripts. Part of the library of a Gentleman, now resident on the continent. The entire library, astronomical and philosophical instruments, of the late William Walker, Esq. removed from his house at Hayes, Middlesex. The library consists of many scarce and valuable books relative to every description of the arts, sciences, and literature, and a great and extensive collecion of instruments. Minute and descriptive catalogues are preparing The entire, extensive, and very rare mathematical Library of Charles Hutton, LL.D. Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and of the Philosophical God the Author of Peace: a Sermon, Societies of Haarlem, and America, and preached in the Dissenting Chapel, at Mill- Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the hill, in Leeds, on Thursday, January 18, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, pre1816, being the day appointed for a public paratory to his intended retiring into the thanksgiving on the conclusion of a general country. Likewise some very curious mathepeace. By the Rev. Thomas Jervis, Minis-matical instruments, formerly the property ter of Mill-hill Chapel. 1s. 6d. Academical Sermons: containing, 1. A defence of the Liturgy of the Church of of the celebrated Dr, Franklin. The library of the late Rev. John Dewhurst, of Hackney.. Foreign Literary Gazette. AUSTRIA. will, we presume, attach more than usual importance to a work lately announced at Paris, in two volumes, large quarto; but of which the first only is published, under the title of La Langue Hebraique restituée, &c. The Hebrew Language restored, and the and proved by their Analytical Analysis :" true sense of Hebrew Words established By Fabre d'Olivet. 66 Erfindung,&c.-Notice of a Mass in the form of a Paste, which, when it is perfectly dried, exceeds in solidity the most compact wood, and when coated with a suitable varnish, completely resists humidity." This is announced in a single volume, with three plates, published at Vienna, 1815, at the price of one florin. We know nothing more of it; but, if it answers the description and the idea we have formed of it, it might prove benefi-ligious profession, that it has been long lost; cial to certain artizans among us, especially, perhaps, to those connected with building: to say the least, it might be worth a single florin on the while to throw chance. FRANCE. The History of a Piece of Wood, presents, at first sight, nothing better than a very dry subject; but under the hands and intellect of a philosopher it becomes truly interesting and instructive. It leads in the first place, to a consideration of the general principles and powers of vegetation, considered in the reproductive energy displayed in the shooting or propulsion of an embryo bud, and the embryo itself, or vital grain, contained in that bud. The sap on which the nascent branch depends for its existence and increase, next demands attention, and at length the conformation of the constituent parts. This has been lately exemplified in a Work under this title by M. Aubert du Petit Thouars, Director of the Royal Shrubberies, &c. which has lately appeared at Paris. The sap of vegetables has been the subject of this gentleman's particular examination, which he extends also to the etiology of layers, and off-sets. After a variety of reflections on the nature and number of the nerves in leaves, and in the parts of certain flowers, on the growth, &c. of plants, the learued writer comes to the main object of his volume, and traces the History of a piece of wood, from the first burgeon, or shoot, through its subsequent increase in substance, diameter, properties, &c. till it acquires the characters of wood, and answers to the description of that article which the author had in view, and submits to his rea der. Hebrew Language retrieved. The encreased study of the ancient Hebrew language, with the number of Hebrew Bibles, &c. now publishing among us, VOL. IV. No. 21. Lit. Pan. N. S. June 1. All the learned who have devoted themselves to the study of Hebrew, and who have endeavoured to penetrate the principles and genius of that antient and celebrated language, have unanimously agreed, whatever was their previous country or re that is to say, that the true sense and imPort of its terms is no longer understood, and that grammars and dictionaries, endea tic version of the ouly book remaining in voured to be grounded on the ouly authen the language, are founded on erroneous whom we are beholden for a Critical Hisprinciples. The famous Richard Simon, to tory of the Bible, collected all the opinions and researches which had been made on this matter. His conclusion was, that the language was lost as early as the Babylonish captivity; insomuch, that nearly six centuries before our era, the Jews no longer uns derstood the language of their ancestors, but spake a corrupt mixture of Chaldee, Persian, Syriac, &c.: so that in reading the of the people, it was, of necessity, paraLaw in their synagogues for the instruction phrased, and interpreted. In this jargon, [ill denominated Hebrew, enriched in later ages with various words derived from the Greek and Latin, the Talmuds are written, with the greater part of those books which the Jews call antient; such as Zohar, and certain Cabalistic works known among the Rabbins. This loss of a language essentially combined with the history of the earth, and on which rests the credibility of many me of a great number of very laborious men, morable events, has exercised the sagacity at different periods, and among all sects. Not only Christians, but Jews and Mahometans, have rivalled each other in zeal on this subject; but in vain have they consumed their lives (many of them). The author was led to this object by particular circumstances, and almost unknown to himself. He was employed on an Archaiologic HisHis studies had other purposes in view. tory of the Earth; when, engaging deeply in researches on the principal languages of Asia and Africa; such as the Chinese, the Sanscrit, the Arab, the Coptic, &c. he was led to examine the Hebrew, with which he had been acquainted R |