ART. X. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending information (post paid) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend upon being communicated to the public, if consistent with its plan. In the press, The Domestic Minister's Assistant, a course of Morning and Evening Prayer, (for five weeks) for the use of families; with Prayers for particular Occasions. By William Jay. In the press, Christianity no cunningly devised Fable. Six discourses on the Evidences of Christianity. By the Rev. H. C. O'Donnoghue, A.M. The Rev. John Knight, of Ponder's End, will publish early in December, a pamphlet entitled, Revelation Defended, being a compendious view of the truth of the Scriptures, with appropriate reflections. Mr. Andrew Horn, will publish in January, The insufficiency of Nature and Reasou, and the necessity of Revelation, to demonstrate the existence and perfections of the Deity. 1 vol. 12mo. Speedily will be published, A Sabbath among the Tuscarora Indians, a true, narrative. This little work is intended chiefly for the use of young people, and contains an account of a missionary station; with brief notices of the manners, customs, and present condition of the American Indians, illustrated by a neatly engraved frontispiece. It will form an excellent Premium Book for Sabbath Schools. In the press, The History of the Cru sades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land. By Charles Mills, Esq. Author of a History of Muhammedanism. 2 vols. 8vo. The object of this work is to supply the want in English Literature of a full relation of the European Expedition into Palestine. A view is also taken of the Chivalric Institutions and the Latin States in the East, during the heroic ages of Christendom. In the press, Itineraries to Timbuctoo and Kassina, recently received by the Academie des Inscriptions, translated from the Arabic by M. de Walkenaer, and translated into English, by T. E. Bowdich, Esq. conductor of the Mission to Ashantee. By whom are prefixed, Mr. Robert Sweet is preparing for the press, The Botanical Cultivator, a gene ral work on the cultivation of hothouse, greenhouse, and hardy plants. Mr. Richard Lawrence, late of the cavalry, has in the press, A Dissertation on the Form and Paces of the Horse, illustrated by numerous plates. The Rev. H. J. Todd will soon publish, A Vindication of onr Authorized Translation of the Bible, and of preceding English Versions. Mr. Smart has in the press, The Prac tice of Elocution, being the Sequel to his Theory of Elocution, lately published. Professor Robison's System of Mechanical Philosophy, with notes, by Dr. Brewster, is printing in four octavo volumes, with plates. Mr. Leake has an octavo volume in the press, On the Topography and Antiquities of Athens, with engravings. Dr. O'Beirne, bishop of Meath, is printing a volume of Sermons on practical subjects. Thomas Phillips, Esq. is preparing for publication, Parochial Collections for Oxfordshire, compiled from the writings of Wood, Tindale, Hutton, Dugdale, Dodsworth, &c. Mr. Jehoshaphat Aspin has in the press, A Systematic Analysis of Universal History, from the creation to the present time, illustrated by tables, maps, charts, and other engravings. It will make four quarto volumes, and the first is now printed. Mr. Theophilus Holdred will soon publish, in 4to. An easy and expeditions Method of Solving the Roots of all Equations, by a correct process, and in a manner hitherto unattempted. Aristophanes' Entire Works, translated by Mr. Thomas Mitchell, with numerous illustrative notes, is printing in three octavo volumes. Mr. Malthus's Principles of Political Economy, considered with a view to their practical application, is nearly ready for publication. The Author of Letters on Sacred History, has nearly ready, a similar volume of Letters on Profane History. A Second Series of Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, in three volumes, is preparing for publication. A Translation from the French of F. S. La Croix's Algebra is printing in an octavo volume. An English edition of Count Orloff's Memoirs of the Kingdom of Naples, is preparing for the press. Dr. Haslam has in the press, Sound Mind, or contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect. A Greek and English Manual Lexicon of the New Testament, with examples of the irregular inflections, &c. is printing in a small size. Mr. Oxley's Journal of an Expedition in Terra Australis, with a map and other plates, will soon appear in an octavo volume. The Rev. Dr. Pegge is preparing for the press, Fitzstephen's Description of London, translated from the latin original, with a commentary, and some additional notes and variations; to which will be subjoined a correct edition of the original. The third edition of Prof. Dunbar's Prosodia Græca is in the press, which, beside several additions, will have a Lexicon comprehending most of the words that occur in the first book of the Iliad. Mr. Nash's beautiful Drawings of Views in the City of Paris, and of the scenery in its environs, have been put into the hands of the first engravers in the country, and a superb work is an. nounced to make its appearance on the first of February next, and to be continued by quarterly numbers. The proprietors, ambitious that it should combine every species of interest which such a publication can fairly include, have engaged Mr. John Scott, the traveller in France and Italy, to conduct the Literary Department; and the de. scriptions will be of a more complete kind, than generally accompany eugravings. The historical and literary recollections, and the anecdotes belonging to each object, or suggested by it, will be carefully collected; so that the whole together, it is presumed, will form the most splendid and interesting picture of Paris that has yet appeared. On the first of January, 1820, will be published No. 1. of two weekly literary papers to be continued in numbers and parts. The one stamped for foreign and country circulation to be called, "The New Literary Gazette, or Journal of the Belles Lettres, Sciences, &c." The other not stamped, for town sale, to be entitled "The London Literary Gazette, &c. &c." to be edited by J. Polidori, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. and Dr. Pittman of Oxford, assisted in the foreign department, by Dr. Frank, of Vienna, &c. ART. XI. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. bridge. With plates, volume I. part I. 8vo. 12s. HISTORY. The History of Brazil. Volume III. Containing a description of the present state of the country. By Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate, and Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, of the Royal Spanish Academy of History, and the Royal Institute of the Netherlands. 4to. 31. 3s. *** The work complete, in 3 vols. 4to. 71. 15s. Historiæ Brittonum; commonly attributed to Nennius, from a manuscript lately discovered in the library of the Vatican Palace at Rome, edited in the tenth century, by Mark the Hermit, with an English version, a fac-simile of the original notes, and illustrations. By the Rev. William Gunn, B.D. rector of Irsted, Norfolk. royal 8vo. 15s. MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY. Surgical Essays. Part 11. By Astley Cooper, F.R.S. and B. Travers, F.R.S. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Also, Surgical Essays. Part I. By the same authors. Third edition. 10s. 6d. MISCELLANEOUS. An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology; to which is subjoined, a critical Examination of the remains of Egyptian Chronology. By J. C. Prichard, M.D. Illustrated by engravings. Royal 8vo. 11. 78. A Practical Treatise, to render the art of Brewing more easy; wherein is exemplified the method of brewing the several sorts of malt liquor most generally esteemed; inculcating the use of the Saccharometer in their production, and elucidating its utility by examples: accompanied by instructions for the purchase of malt and hops, and some valuable hints as regards the use of these ingredients in brewing. With tables of the net excise duties on strong and table beer. By C. N. Hayman, Common Brewer. 12mo. 4s. 6d. The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. A new edition, carefully revised and corrected, with a portrait. 10 vols. 8vo. 51. 5. POETRY. Nugæ Canora: poems. By Charles Lloyd, author of Edmund Oliver, Isabel, and translator of Alfieri. The third edition. 8vo. 9s. 6d. The Juvenile Poetical Moralist; being original miscellaneous poems, intended to assist the youthful mind in the formation of virtuous and religious principles. 18mo. 1s. 6d. bound. POLITICAL ECONOMY. Elements of a Plan for the Liquidation of the Public Debt of the United Kingdom; being the draught of a declaration, submitted to the attention of the landed, funded, and every other description of proprietor, of the united kingdom. With an introductory discourse. By Richard Heathfield, Gent. 8vo. 2s. Mr. Owen's Arrangements for the Distressed Working Classes, shown to be consistent with sound principles of Political Economy; in three letters, addressed to David Ricardo, Esq. M,P. 8vo. 2s. 6d. THEOLOGY. Village Sermons, Vol. the VIIIth. and last, with short prayers, adapted to all the sermons contained in the eight volumes. By George Burder. 2s. 6d. The Evil and Danger of neglecting the souls of men, a sermon, by Dr. Doddridge. Re-published by G. Burder. 6d. Homilies for the Young, and more especially for the children of the National Schools. By the Rev. Harvey Marriott, Rector of Claverton, and Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. Lord Kenyon. 12mo, 5s. 6d. Discourses on the Three Creeds; and on the homage offered to our Saviour on certain and particular occasions, during his ministry, as expressed in the evangelical writings, by the Greek term ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΕΣΙ. Preached before the University of Oxford at St. Mary's, in the years 1816, 1817. With a copious and distinct appendix to each set of sermons. By Edward Nares, D.D. Select Preacher, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, and Rector of Biddenden, Kent. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Sermons and Extracts, Consolatory on the Loss of Friends; selected from the works of the most eminent divines, and published for the sunday school (now the national school) at Cheltenham, under the patronage of her late Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. The second edition, considerably enlarged. 8vo. 13. Sermons on Various. Subjects. By the late Rev. Matthew West, Rector of Caunallaway, and Vicar of Clane, &c. in the diocese of Kildare, 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s. An Introduction to the New Testament. By Sir John David Michaelis, late Professor in the University of Gottingen, &c. Translated from the fourth edition of the German; and considerably augmented with notes. By the Right Rev. Herbert Marsh, D.D. F. R.S. Lord Bishop of Peterborough, and Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, Cambridge. The third edition. 6 vols. 8vo. 31. 3s. The Religious Improvement of Natural Blessings a Sermon preached Nov. 5th, at the weekly lecture founded by the late W. Coward, Esq. By John Hawksley. 8vo. 1s. 6d. A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Subject of certain Doctrines of the Church of England termed Evangelical: occasioned by the observations contained in two letters addressed by the Rev. E. J. Burrow, Minister of Hampstead Chapel, to the Rev. Win. Marsh, Vicar of St. Peter's, Colchester: including a brief inquiry into the objects and constitution of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By a Lay Member of the Established Church. TOPOGRAPHY. Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, in the County of York; with historical and -descriptive notices of the parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton, and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfiel J. By Joseph Hunter, Honorary Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Crown folio. 41 4s. Large paper. 81. 8s. ***This work contains an account of a district of considerable extent hitherto undescribed, and is embellished with several highly finished engravings from drawings of Mr. Edward Blore. ERRATA IN THE LAST NUMBER, Page 412 line 8. for abuses, read denies. Page 418 line 5 for Jewish read parish. and behaviour, 15, 16. Architects of the ancient ecclesiastical edi- Blair's revival of popery, 39, et seq.; and Scotch Roman Catholics, 45; Lord 47. Blenheim, battle of, 311, 12. Blossoms, early, by Dr. Styles, 572, et Bowdler, J. short account of his life, 576, 489, et seq.; character of the pieces, |