1818. Works preparing for Publication. WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. LONDON. THE continuation of Sir Richard Hoare's History of Ancient Wiltshire will, in the ensuing season, be presented to the public. It is written on the same plan as the South Wiltshire, and will describe the antiquities worthy of remark in the northern district of the county, and be accompanied with engravings by Messrs Cooke, Basire, &c. A Description of the Islands of Java, Messrs Longman and Co. have lately re- The Rev. H. J. Todd has a work in the It M. Kotzebue is preparing for publication his account of the Russian Embassy to Persia, which will appear at the same time in London and Weymar. Dr James Johnson, author of " The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions," &c. will speedily publish a small work, entitled, The Influence of Civic Life, Sedentary Habits, and Intellectual Refinement, on Human Health and Human Happiness; including an Estimate of the balance of enjoyment and suffering in the different gradations of society. Shortly will be published, Memoirs on the Present State of Science and Scientific Institutions in France; containing a descriptive and historical account of the Royal Garden of Plants; the Royal Institute; the Polytechnic School; the Faculty of Sciences; the College of France; and the Cabinet of Mineralogy: the Public Libraries; the Medical School; and the Hospitals; with plans of the latter, never before published, &c. &c.: illustrated by nume rous plates and tables; by A. B. Granville, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. M.R.I., &c. VOL. III. Dr Spiker, one of the librarians of the King of Prussia, who recently visited this country for literary and scientific objects, has published, in German, the first volume of his Tour through England, Wales, and Scotland; a translation of which will be with some additional remarks by, the author. published here, under the authority of, and Memoirs, Biographical, Critical, and Literary, of the most eminent Physicians and Surgeons of the present time in the United Prescriptions, and a specification of the disKingdom; with a choice Collection of their eases for which they were given, forming a copecia: to which is added, an Appendix, complete modern extemporaneous pharmacal institutions in the metropolis, scientific containing an account of the different mediand charitable. The Rev. S. Clapham of Christ-church, or Five Books of Moses illustrated; conHants, will shortly publish the Pentateuch, taining an explication of the phraseology incorporated with the text, for the use of families and schools. Underwood's Catalogue of Medical Books for 1818-19, with a List of the Lectures delivered in London, is in the press. Anderson and Chase are preparing for publication their Annual Catalogue of New and Second-hand Medical Books, with a London, their terms, hours of attendance, complete List of the Lectures delivered in &c. Dr Jones's new translation of the Four few days. Gospels into Welsh, will be published in a Sermons, in two volumes, by the Rev. Charles Moore, are in the press. Robert Southey, Esq. has in the press, in two octavo volumes, Memoirs of the Life of John Wesley, the founder of the English Methodists. Mr G. Russell, of his Majesty's Office of Works, has in the press, a Tour through Sicily in 1815; performed in company with three German gentlemen of considerable literary attainments. Mr H. B. Fearon will soon publish, in an octavo volume, Sketches of America, being the narrative of a journey of more than five thousand miles through the eastern and western states. Two volumes of Sermons, by the late Rev. E. Robson, thirty-seven years curate of St Mary, Whitechapel, selected from his MSS. by the Rev. H. C. Donnoughue, are' in the press. Mr John Chalmers, author of a History cester, abridged from the histories of Dr of Malvern, is printing a History of Worinformation. Nash and Mr Green, with much additional 4 Z Mr Henry Thomson will soon publish, Remarks on the Conduct of a Nursery; intended to give information to young mothers, and those likely to become such. Mr A. T. Thomson has in the press, in an octavo volume, the London Dispensatory; containing the Elements and Practice of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, with a translation of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias. The Rev. Fred. Nolan is preparing a Grammatical Analysis (on a plan altogether new) of the French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Syriac Languages, with a Classed Vocabulary; to be printed in a duodecimo volume. The third edition of the late Dr Saunders' Treatise on Discases of the Eye, with a short account of his life by Dr Farre, will soon appear. The fifth edition of the History of the British West Indies, by Bryan Edwards, continued to the present time, in four octavo volumes, with a quarto one of maps and plates, is expected early in next month. EDINBURGH. A MOST accurate Compendium of the Faculty Collection of Decisions, from its commencement in 1752 to the Session of 1817; by Mr Peter Halkerston, solicitor in the Supreme Courts. Martin's Voyage to St Kilda in 1697, and Supplement to the Feuds and Conflicts of the Clans, from an original MS. in 1656. A new edition of Inquiry whether Crime and Misery are produced or prevented by our present system of prison discipline; by Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq. M.P. Reports of Cases Tried in the Jury Court, from the Institution of the Court in 1815, to the sittings at Edinburgh ending in March 1818. Mr Brydson, Edinburgh, is preparing for immediate publication, in 4to, a new work on Distinctions of Rank, as belonging to the Governments of Modern Europe, and derived from the Political and Military Institutions of the Feudal System. A part of this treatise, under the title of Heraldry, was formerly laid before the public, and met with a favourable reception. The present publication will include, I. An historical deduction of the feudal system, in its territorial structure, and distinctive military constitution termed Chivalry-the former consisting of fiefs, or feudal possessions in land, the latter of incorporeal fiefs, or feudal possessions in dignity, rank, and precedence. 2. A view of the government of the British kingdoms, in reference to the general de sign of this work. 3. Of distinctions of rank as inseparable from the establishment of society. 4. The specific degrees of gen tlemen and esquire, the dignity of knighthood, and the pre-eminent dignity of the peerage, belonging respectively to the poli tical department of the feudal system, and designated by titles and symbols of Chival ry, which symbols are here exemplified in a series of vignette armorial engravings. The Appeal, a tragedy; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh. MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. LONDON. ANTIQUITIES. 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David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk-are appointed Commissioners for keeping the Crown and Regalia of Scotland, by a warrant issued under the sign manual, and commission expede under the Great Seal of Scotland. The Commissioners have appointed Capt. Adam Fergusson to be Deputy-keeper. Donald M'Intosh, Esq. is appointed his Majesty's Consul for the State of New Hampshire. II. ECCLESIASTICAL. The Right Honourable Lord Napier has presented Mr John Bennet, preacher of the Gospel, to the church and parish of Ettrick, vacant by the death of the late Rev. Charles Paton. The Magistrates and Town Council of Dumbarton have presented Mr William Jaffray, preacher of the Gospel at Stirling, to the church and parish of Dumbarton, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Oliphant. The Right Honourable Lord Douglas of Douglas has presented the Rev. Archibald M'Conechy, Glasgow, to the united parish and church of Buncle and Preston, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Campbell. 1818. 9 F. 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