To the Nymph of the Mountain The sun declines, his joyous course is The Editor 290 The late Mrs. J. Hunter 301 Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square. Just published, THE LITERARY GAZETTE AND JOURNAL OF BELLES LETTRES, ARTS, &c. PART I. CONSISTING OF THE FIRST THIRTEEN WEEKLY NUMBERS OF THE YEAR 1823, PRICE NINE SHILLINGS. THIS Part, which comprises the First Quarter for 1823, contains 618 columns of information, (closely and handsomely printed) on the Literature, Arts, and Sciences of the period, so as to form a very full compendium of the novelties and progress in each. The Reviews embrace 8 quartos, 55 octavos, and 24 duodecimos ; in all, 87 volumes, or above 27,500 pages! with complete Analyses and copious Extracts, to enable every reader to form a correct opinion of the works. Every discovery in Science is immediately recorded, and no Exhibition or remarkable production of Art, is passed without due notice. Among the Miscellaneous matter, will be found the Correspondence and Contributions of many of the most distinguished men of the age. To afford a more definite idea of the extent of inquiry and labour bestowed upon this weekly sheet (and indeed to exhibit, in a curious point of view, the nature of the Periodical Press) we are induced to add the following Memoranda of our Printer, though only made for the regulation of his own charges. There are three sizes of type used:-of that which predominates there are 240 lines in a page-and in 16 pages 3840 lines. But as one-fourth of every Number of the Literary Gazette is composed of the two smaller kinds of type, to the 3840 lines may fairly be added ................... 180 Making the aggregate.... 4020 This divided by 30, the number of lines in a demy octavo page in |