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affirmed that good works are not the meritorious causes of acceptance with God, our author represents the advocates of this scriptural doctrine as teaching, that good works can never be accepted by God.' If he cannot perceive the wide difference between these positions, we are confident that no attempts on our part, to illuminate him, will succeed.

On the whole, it is, we think, quite plain that Mr. W. in the present undertaking, has very imperfectly studied the strength of his shoulders. As we have already said, on subjects which have been before discussed by Derham, Ray, Paley, Sturm, and others, he advances what is solid, judicious, and instructive; his mistake lies in fancying himself equal to encounter the hydra of fanaticism.'

Art. XXI. Sacre Historia Epitome, in usum Scholarum. 18mo. pp. 100. Law, Longman and Co. &c. 1911.

IN passing through Mr Valpy's press, it appears to us that Professor L'Homond's humble abridgement of Scripture History has been considerably improved It is hardly necessary to mention that the work is designed for beginners. The plan is progressive; the sentences gradually becoming longer as the scholar advances, and the Latin more idiomatical. Each chapter has a title indicative of its contents. Where the book is used, we have no doubt that this edition will be very generally preferred.

Art. XXII. A Guide to Trade; or a new Exercise Book for the use of Schools, &c. By T. Mercator. 12mo. pp. 100. Price 2s. Longman and Co. 1811.

THIS little book has certainly the merit of containing a good deal

of useful information on the most common affairs of trade.' It begins, very properly, with explaining technical terms, and ends with some remarks on Receipts, Bills of Exchange, and Promissory Notes : but the author's principal design has been to furnish schools with an exercise book, which may enable young persons, designed for trade, to write and compute Bills of Parcels with accuracy and ease.' We must acknowledge however that, in a discreditable number of instances, Mr. Mercator has laid himself open, to a censure passed by Congreve, on a certain description of critics, when he says,

"Rules for good writing they with pains indite,

"Then shew us what is bad by what they write."

Not to dwell on the numerous acknowledged errors of computation, it is sufficient to glance the eye over a single page, (15) where Mr. William Rusher of Banbury, (who by the way is the printer of the book, accuses Mrs. Vinders of having purchased Montgomery's West Indian; and Mr. Samuel Grainger, of Newbury, with a flintiness of conscience not exceeded, we will venture to affirm, in the memory of taylors, actually puts down the abominable price of £390 for two pairs of braces! Such oversights as these detract considerably from the utility of a school book.

ART. XXII. 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.

GRBAT BRITAIN.

In the press, and nearly ready for publication, A Series of Letters to a Friend on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Christian Religion; designed chiefly for young persons. 2 vols. 12mo. By Dr. Gregory of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

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Dr. Thomas Thomson has nearly completed for the press a History of the Royal Society, introduced as a companion to the Recent Abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions. The object of the work is to trace the progress of sciences since the establishment of that illustrious society, and to take a comparative view how much they are indebted to British, and foreign. cultivation. Biographical Sketches of many distinguished Fellows of the Society will be interspersed throughout the work.

Mr. Boothroyd has just completed the third part of Biblia Hebraica or Hebrew Bible in 4to. without points. The fourth part which will complete the Pentateuch is at press and may he expected in the course of the month.

Mr. Frey has also completed the second part of Vanderhooght's Hebrew Bible in 8vo. with points, and is going on with the subsequent parts. The work will not be advanced to subscribers though from its great expences it must be raised to non-subscribers after November 1.

In the press, in an 8vo. volume, Lectures on the Pastoral Character. By the late George Campbell, D. D. F. R. S. Edin. Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Edited by James Fraser, D. D. Minister of Drumoak, Aberdeenshire.

Speedily will be published, in 4to, with a number of engravings. Travels. in Iceland, during the summer of the year 1810, with maps and other plates. This work contains the observations made in that interesting island, by Sir George Mackenzie, Bart. Mr. Holland, and Mr. Bright. A preliminary dissertation on the history and literature

of Iceland, will precede the journal of the travellers. In the journal will be described the country, the hot springs, volcanoes, and other natural curiosities, and also the manners and customs of the inhabitants; and it will be followed by distinct chapters, on rural, political, and ecclesiastical affairs; on the present state of literature; on natural history, botany, and mineralogy.

A Translation of the Continuation of Humboldt's Travels, &c. in New Spain, recently arrived in this country, is in the press, and will be speedily `published.

To be speedily published, in 4to. with plans of battles, &c. &c. Observations on the Present State of the Portuguese Army, as organised by Lieutenant-general Sir William Carr Beresford, K. B. Field Marshal and Commander in Chief of that Army. With an account of the different military establishments and laws of Portugal, and a sketch of the campaigns of the last and present year, during which the Portuguese army was brought into the field, against the enemy, for the first Time, as a regular force. By Andrew Halliday, M. D.

Dr. Aikiu will speedily publish, in an octavo volume, the Lives of John Seldon, Esq. and Abp. Usher, with notices of the English literary characters with whom they were connected.

Mr. Nichols has nearly completed his very laborious work on Leicestershire; also his extended edition of Anecdotes of Bowyer, which will be in six octavo volumes.

A second volume of Dr. Brichan's Sermons, and a new edition of the first volume, may be expected by the end of next month.

Mr. James Gillman, Surgeon, Highgate, will shortly publish, An Essay on the Bite of a Rabid Animal; being the substance of an essay that received a prize from the Royal College of Surgeons.

Mr. John Thelwall, author of the Vestibule of Eloquence, will shortly publish, in an 8vo. volume, Elements of English Rhythmus; with an Analysis

of the Science and Practice of Elocu- of the Rev. Thomas Spencer, late of tion.

A Translation of Mad. de Genlis' new work is preparing for the press; the original is entitled, "Histoire des Femmes Françaises les plus celebres, et de leur influence sur la Litterature" &c., and conta ns anecdotes of the most distinguished French female writers, criticisms upon their works, &c.

Mr. Walker has set to music for three voices with a piano forte and flute accompaniment, Montgomery's translation of "Ranz des Vaches" or "The "Swiss Cowherd's Song". It will be published in a few days.

Early in next month will be published a series of twenty-four etchings in soft ground. By Mr. W. P. Sherlock. After drawings by the following masters of the British School, D. Cox, Rd. Frebairn, T. Girtin, S. Owen, W. Payne, N. Pocock, C. M. Powell, P. Sandy, R. A., I. Varley, Rd. Wilson, R. A., &c.

A translation of Chateaubriand's Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, in 1806-7 is printing in two 8vo volumes.

Mrs. Bitson has ready for the press, The Poetic, Chain, consisting of miscel laneous poems on familiar and interesting subjects.

An edition of Jarvis' translation of Don Quixote is printing in a manner to correspond with the British Novelists, edited by Barbauld.

Selections from the Portfolio of the Lady Ursula, consisting of poenis, essays, &c. said to be the production of a late amiable viscountess, will shortly appear embellished with an elegant portrait.

The long expected edition of Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, will be published in the course of next month.

The Projector, a periodical paper, revised and corrected by the author, is expected this month, in three 8vo. volumes.

Mr. Parkes has in the press a new and improved edition of his Chemical Catechism.

The Rev. C. Buck has in the press a a work entitled Serious Enquiries or Important Questions relative to this world and that which is to come, to which are added Reflections on Mortality occasioned by the much lamented death

Liverpool. In one volume 12mo. price 3s.

Mr. Harwood, son of the late Rev. Dr. Harwood, will shortly publish in Latin, a description of more than a hundred imedited Greek brass coins, most of them lately acquired, with illustrations and plates.

Guy's English School Grammar, in which practical illustration is, in every step, blended with theory, by rules, examples, and exercises, will be ready for sale, by the middle of October.

Mr. Jefferson of Basingstoke, has in the press a Sermon occasioned by the appearance of the Comet in our hemisphere.

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Proposals, we understand, are in circulation for publishing by subscription a volume of Sermons, by Mr. Styles. The work is to consist of twenty-eight 8vo. sheets of letter press, and will contain, about twenty-five sermons interesting and important subjects. Price to subscribers i0s. 6d. Subscriptions are received by T. Williams, Stationers Court; Button, Baynes, Hamilton, Paternoster Row; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, Leadenhall Street; and by the author, Brighton. Those who wish to forward this work are requested to send in their subscriptions as early as possible.

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Shortly will be published, in one volume: 1. "Certayne notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or rymes." By George Gascoigne, Esq. Imprinted at London, by Henrie Binneroan, Anno Domini 1575.-2. Ane Schort Treatise, containing some reulis and cautelis to be obseruit and aschewit in Scottis Poesie. By king James the VI. of Scotland. Imprinted at Edinburgh, by Thomas Vantrollier, 1584.-3. Discource of English Poetrie. gether with the Author's judgment touching the reformation of our English verse: by William Webbe. Imprinted at London, by John Charlemond, 1586, From the extreme rarity of these very curious volumes, the present reprints of them published at a fifth of the price which the old editions have produced, will, it is presumed, be considered an acceptable service rendered to the collectors of early English poetry. The text throughout, is printed verbatim; and the addition of indexes, &c. renders the present edition more complete than the former.

Mr. George Barrett of Petworth, bas issued proposals for publishing by subscription a very extensive set of Tables for determining the value of Life Annuities and Assurances: amongst which there is one table that will occupy the whole of a large quarto volume, for ascertaining the value of an annuity on three joint lives for every possible combination of age, and according to the Swedish observations, The author has been employed twenty-five years on the work; and its publication will depend on the success of the subscription.

FRANCE.

M. Ch. Fr. Viel, architect, member of the Council of Public Works in the department of the Seine, and one of the special committee appointed by the minister of the Interior for the purpose of reporting on the plan proposed for the dome of the Halle au Blé at Paris, has published Dissertations on the Plans received for the strengthening the exterior wall of that Building against the pressure of the Circular Vaulted Roof; preceded by general and particular principles of the construction of Vaulted Roofs, of Peristyles, of Pediments, and supports of Domes.

The Beauties of English History, a work designed for the instruction of youth is published at Paris, and consists of accounts of the most interesting and remarkable epochas, customs and manners, and famous battles from the commencement of the Monarchy to the end of the reign of George II.

M. J. R. Selves, has published a work entitled "Destruction to Law Suits," intended to perfect civil process, with an explanation on the origin and the secret of trial by Jury.

M. Calvei has published an Essay on the Cultivation of the Beet-root, particularly considered as to the Sugar extracted therefrom.

M. G. B. Depping has published the first two volumes of a general History of Spain, from the earliesf times to the end of the eighteenth century; these volumes contain, Spain under the Phenicians, Carthaginians, the Romans, the Roman Emperors, and the Gothic Kings.

AMERICA.

Messrs. Hastings, Etherige, and Blisɛ, have engaged in an edition of Select

Miscellaneous Classics, comprising the entire works of Pope, Swift, Smollet, Addison, Goldsmith, Johnson, Sterne, and Fielding, in sixty volumes duodecimo, to be ornamented with plates engraved by the first American Artists. This work is now publishing by subscrip tion in Boston; on a fine vellum paper, at one dollar per volume. In extra boards, and hot-pressed, at one dollar and twenty-five cents. The two first volumes have already made their appearance.

Hopkins and Earl, Philadelphia, propose to publish by subscription, a systematic and practical Treatise of the Doctrines of Divinity, intended to explain some of the most essential articles of the Christian Faith. By the Rev. William C. Davis. To be comprised in one vol. 8vo. containing nearly 600 pages.

A History of the United States, by Benjamin Trumbull, D. D. Proposals are issued for publishing this new and valuable work, being the first and only general History of the United States ever published: it is written at the request of the general association in Connecticut for the purpose of displaying the divine agency in their settlement, its growth, and protection, especially during the late revolutionary War; and will contain an accurate and faithful narration of the first Principal Discoveries of North America, its Settlement and subsequent Events which have transpired to the present time. On the reputation of the author as a scholar and historian, his history of Connecticut, and his numerous other productions, are a sufficient comment. It will be comprised in three vols. 8vo. of about five hundred pages each, of the size of the English edition, of Doctor Gordon's History of the Revolutionary War. The first volume, the MSS. of which has been submitted to the critical inspection, and received the decided approbation of the Rev. Doct. Durght, President of Yale College, and the Honorable John Trumbull, one of the Judges of the Superior Court in Connecticut, is at press.

Proposals are issued for publishing by subscription 'in four vols. 8vo, a New Translation of the Sacred Scriptures, the Old Testament from the Septuagint, and the New from the most correct Greek Text: with occasional notes. By Charles Thompson, late

Secretary to the Congress of the United States. The conditions are, that the work will be delivered to those who subscribe before the first volume is completed, at eight dollars, for each copy. The first volume of this work is published.

Thomas and Whipple of Newburyport, and M. Carey of Philadelphia, propose to print by subscription, four kinds of quarto Bibles, to be published at six, seven, ten, and twelve dollars, to be handsomely printed on good paper, and neatly and strongly bound in plain or elegant bindings, to be embellished with from ten to twenty maps and historical engravings.

E. and E. Hosmer, Albany, propose, by subscription, a work entitled the Testimony of Christ's second appearing; containing a general statement of all things pertaining to the faith and practice of the church of God in this latter day. Published by order of the ministry in union with the church,

A course of Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, delivered to the two senior classes of Haward College by John Q. Adams, Esq. late professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in that seminary, one vol. 8vo, is in the press by William. Stilliard, Cambridge.

Thomas and Whipple, Newburyport, have in the press a new System of Modern Geography, or a general Description of all the considerable Countries in the World; compiled from the latest European and American Geographies, Voyages, and Travels. Designed for schools and Academies. By Elijah Parish, D. D. Minister of Byfield Massachusetts. Author of a Compendious

System of Universal Geography, &c. &c. ornamented with maps.

Messrs. Mills and Day, New Haven, propose to publish by subscription an edition of the Hebrew Bible, without points, from the text of Van Der Hooght, carefully correcting the fcw typographical errors which occur by a comparison with the large Bible of Kennnicot.

A new edition of Lord Hale's Treatise De Jure Maris, &c. and De Portibus Maris, with notes referring to late decisions in the American Courts; some of which have never been published, by Daniel Davis, Solicitor General of Massachusetts, is in preparation for the press.

Mr. William Allen, Regent in the University at Cambridge, has prepared and is about immediately to publish, in a handsome octavo volume of about 500 pages; an American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, containing an account of the lives, characters, and writings of the most eminent persons in North America, from the first discovery of the country to the present time, and a summary of the History of the several colonies of the United States.

Bradford and Inokeep, Philadelphia, are publishing by subscription in imperial quarto, price 12 dollars each volume, half bound in Morocco, on a rich vellum paper, vol. 1. of American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States; comprehending those resident within our territory, and those that migrate hither from other regions, among which are a great number of land and water birds hitherto undescribed, &c. &c. By Alexander Wilson.

ART. XXIV. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY.

A historical and descriptive accouut of the four species of Peruvian Sheep, called Carneros de la Tierra: to which are added, particulars respecting the domestication of the two wild species, and the experiments hitherto made by the Spaniards, to cross their respective breeds, to improve their wools, &c. Also a particular report on the different kinds of wool brought from South America; their applicability to manuracture; with general ideas of the dyes used by the Indians in their manufac

ture. It is proved that the Vicuna can be domesticated; and its introduction is strongly recommended to cross with our own sheep. By William Walton, Jun. 8vo. 8s.

On the name and origin of the Merino, sheep, a historical essay. 8vo. 2s.

A report on the farming system of Thomas Greg, Esq. at Cols, in Hert. fordshire. 8vo. 2s.

Historical inquiries concerning forests, and forest laws; with topographical remarks upon the aucient and modern state of the New Forest in the County

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