View of Collections in the Eleven Parish Churches N.B.-The Collections of the Eleven Parish Churches amount, in one year, to W £.2027 » 6 u 84, which, divided by 11,274, being the number of persons accommodated, is 3s. 7d. and two-fifths of a farthing each person, per annum. This is on the supposition that the Churches are filled; but, taking it at 7516, which is two-thirds of the number, it makes 5s. 43d. each person, per annum, on an average. WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. LONDON. Towards the end of April, or early in May, will be published in royal 4to., (illustrated by twenty-four engravings), The Fossils of the South Downs, or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. By Gideon Mantell, F.L.S. member of the Geological Society, &c. Sacred Lyrics; by James Edmeston, Vol. III. will shortly appear. The Account is printing of a Journey, undertaken in the year 1820, into the Oasis of Siwah, with maps, plans, and views of all the most interesting objects that are found in that district, principally with a view to ascertaining the Site of the Temple of Ammon. By A. Linant. To this will be added, views and particulars collected in the Desert of Mount Sinai; including details of some considerable Egyptian remains found there, and many hieroglyphical inscriptions, now brought thence for the first time, being the result of a journey made through that country, by the same traveller. The Life and Correspondence of Bishop Horsley is preparing for publication, by his son, in an octavo volume. The biography of Public Men of all Nations Living in 1822, will appear in April, and be embellished with 150 engraved portraits, in 3 vols. In the press, and speedily will be published, a new edition of Mr Hall's Apology for the Freedom of the Press. Speedily will be published, an Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone, with etchings. By John Hughes, Esq. A.M. of Oriel College, Oxford. Dr Carey has in the press a small edition of Quintilian, de Institutione Oratoriá, as a part of the Regent's Pocket Classics. A work on the Statute and Criminal Law of England, is preparing, by John Miller, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn. 8vo. Cataline, a Tragedy in five acts, with other Poems, will be published in a few days, by the Rev. G. Croly, A.M. author of Paris in 1815, Angel of the World, &c. &c. Mr John Wainwright, of Sheffield, is preparing for publication, in two quarto volumes, an Historical and Topographical View of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill, in Yorkshire. John Gage, Esq. is preparing the Hisory and Antiquities of Hengrave, in Sufolk, in a royal quarto volume, with porraits, and other engravings. Mr Dawson Turner is preparing a splendid work, containing fac-similes of the hand-writing of one thousand of the VOL. X. most eminent characters in England, from an early period, with short biographical notices, and some portraits. The first part of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London will ap pear in a few weeks. Wm. Wordsworth, Esq. has a poetical work in the press: the Memorials of a Tour on the Continent. The Rev. I. Taylor will soon publish, in a duodecimo volume, Scenes in Eng land, illustrated by 84 engravings. Sermons and Miscellaneous Pieces, by the Rev. Robt. Wynell Mayow, with a memoir, will soon appear. A translation of Abbe de Pradt's work on Europe and America in 1821, will be published in a few weeks. Mr Farmer has in the press, a new edition of his work on Head-aches and Indigestion, with considerable additions and improvements. William Lilly's Memoirs of his own Life and Times, illustrated with numerous portraits of eminent Astrologers, &c. are reprinting. A work, called Revolutionary Causes, with a brief notice of some late publications, and a Postscript containing Strictures on Cain, will soon appear. Mr Thomas Tredgold, the Author of a useful treatise on carpentry, timber, the dry rot, &c. &c. has now in the press a small work, intended to supply to engi neers, mechanics, and builders, a great desideratum, viz. easy rules and tables, for computing the requisite dimensions, and the strength of cast-iron, when ap plied in beams, columns, pipes, &c. &c. Shortly will be published, in two volumes octavo, a Poetical Translation of Voltaire's Maid of Orleans, being the first time it has appeared in English metre. This arduous undertaking is illustrated by copious Notes of the translator, Mr W. H. Ireland, Member of the Atheneum at Paris. In the press, the fifth, being the concluding part of a series of Views in Savoy and Switzerland, and on the Rhine; engraved in mezzotinto, from drawings made on the spot, by John Dennis, and accompanied with letter-press. Messrs T. Keyworth and D. Jones are preparing a second edition of Principia Hebraica, in two pocket volumes, to be sold separately. One volume to con tain the grammar revised-the other volume to comprise a grammatical analysis of three hundred verses, taken from the Psalms, together with a selection of single words, classed according to their forms 3 Y and containing every common root not in the three hundred verses. The Rev. N. J. Hollingsworth will speedily publish a new and enlarged edition of his Defence of the Doctrine and Worship of the Church of England, in a Series of Letters addressed to the Rev. John Lingard. The Rev. R. W. Bamford, of Trinity College, Cambridge, late superintendant of the Blue-coat Hospital at Liverpool, has in the press, a work entitled Essays on the Discipline of Children, particularly as regards their education. Proposals have been circulated in London for publishing, by subscription, an Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas, containing Maps of North and South America, with all their divisions into states, kingdoms, &c., on the plan of Le Sage; intended as a companion to Lavoisne's Atlas. It will con tain fifty-three maps, all of which will be well executed, from the best and most recent authorities. Shortly will be published, Popery the Mystery of Babylon, or the Abomination of the Church of Rome. By a beneficed Clergyman of the Church of England. Collections towards a History of ancient Institutions, Customs, discoveries in Science, and Mechanical inventions, selected and abridged from the Beytrage zur Geschichte der Erfindungen of Professor Beckmann, of the University of Gottingen, with various important additions, are printing in London. In a few days will be published, the Pharmaceutical Guide, containing a Latin Grammar, in which all the rules are illustrated by examples, selected from the London Pharmacopoeia; and an interlineary translation of such formulæ in the Pharmacopoeia as have been found difficult to be comprehended by some young medical students: to which is affixed, a collection of words and phrases most frequently employed in prescriptions. Charles and Eugenia, or the Paternal Benediction, translated from the French of Madame de Renneville, will shortly be published. Shortly will be published, in three volumes, Pargas, a Tale of Spain. Cœur de Lion, or the Third Crusade, a Poem, in sixteen Books, by Miss Eleanor Anne Porden, author of the Veils, the Arctic Expeditions, &c. is in the press. EDINBURGH. Pen Owen, handsomely printed in 3 vols. post octavo. On the first of May, beautifully printed Scottish Life; a selection from the pain post octavo, Lights and Shadows of pers of the late Arthur Austin, Student of Divinity. On the first of May, in royal octavo, Part I. with twenty plates, of the Exotic Flora; containing Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or little-known Exotic Plants, principally designed from such as are cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden of Glasgow. By W. J. Hooker, L.L.D. &c. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. Early in May, in a pocket volume, the Seasons Contemplated in the Spirit of the Gospel. Six Sermons. By the Rev. Thomas Gillespie, Minister of Cults. The Youth of Reginald Dalton. By the Author of "Some Passages in the Life of Adam Blair." By Alexander Paton. volume octavo, Annals, including the By the 1st of May will be published, Delineations Historical, Topographical, Sea-Bathing Places of Scotland; including and Descriptive, of the Watering and a concise Topography of the Navigable Parts of the Rivers Forth, Clyde, and Tay; together with a Description of the Trossachs, Loch-Katrine, and the Vale of Monteith. By the Rev. W. M. Wade, Author of Walks in Oxford" A Tour of Modern, and Peep into Ancient Glasgow," &c. |