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1678 to 1757.

New edit. corrected and enlarged. In 2 vols. 8vo. illustrated with Portraits. Lond.

Description statistique, historique et politique des Etats-Unis de L'Amerique septentrionale: par D. B. Warden. Edition traduite sur celle d'Angleterre. 5 tomes. 8vo. Paris. 1820.

The Reign of George the Third. To which is prefixed, a view of the progressive improvement of England, in prosperity and strength. By Robert Bisset, LL. D. Author of the Life of Burke, &c. Continued to the decease of the King. 6 vols. 8vo.

Annals of the Reign of George the Third. By John Aikin, M. D. 2 vols. 8vo. a new edition, brought down to the period of his Majesty's decease.

Histoire de la Chute de l'Empire de Napoléon, ornée de huit plans ou Cartes pour servir au récit des Principales Batailles livrées en 1813 et 1814, par Labaume. 2 vols. 8vo.

A Chronological Chart, showing, at one view, the contemporary sovereigns of Europe.

The Life and Adventures of Antar, a celebrated Bedowen Chief, Warrior and Poet, who flourished a few years prior to the Mahomedan æra, now first translated from the original Arabic. By Terrick Hamilton, Esq. Oriental Secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople. 4 vols. 8vo. Lond.

Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, delivered in the University of Dublin. By George Miller, D.D. M.R.I.A. Vols. III. and

IV. 8vo.

LAW.

Fifth Volume of Wheaton's Reports. R. Donaldson. New-York. Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, from its establishment in the year 1789, to February term, 1820; including the cases decided in the continental court of appeals in prize causes, during the war of the revolution. By H. Wheaton, Counsellor, &c. [In the press by Donaldson.] New-York.

(Foreign.)

Fifth Volume of Maule and Selwyn's Reports. Boston.

Adams on Ejectment, from the London edition of 1820; with notes and references to American decisions. By a Counsellor of the state of New-York. [In the press-by Wiley & Halsted.]

A Treatise on the Law of the prerogative of the Crown, and the relative duties and rights of the subject, &c. By Joseph Chitty. Royal 8vo. Lond.

Commercial Law. By J. Chitty. Lond.

MECHANICS. (Foreign.)

Traité complete de Mécanique, appliquée aux arts; contenant l'Exposition methodique des theories et des experiences les plus utiles pour diriger le choix, l'invention, la construction et l'emploi de toutes espèce de Machines ;-Par M. J.-A. Borgnis, Ingenieur et membre de plusieurs academies. 4 vols. 4to.-Composition des Machines. pp. 428. pls. 42. Paris. Paris. 1818.

Des Machines employées dans les Constructions diverses. pp. 319. pls. 26.

Mouvemens des Fardeaux. pp. 335. pls. 19.

Des Machines hydrauliques. pp. 294. pls. 27. 1819.

These four volumes, a description of which follows, were received in the beginning of this month, (October,) for the Literary and Philosophical Society of this city, from Captain the Chevalier Montgery, now at New-Castle. His letter to the Society indicates, that M. Dupin of Paris is associated with M. Borgnis in this great work, which he calls "les ovurages de M. M. Borgnis et Dupin." We are indebted to Doctor Mitchill (to whom they were transmitted) for this information and notice.

The first volume of this Complete Treatise on Mechanics, as applied to the Arts, exhibiting methodically the theories and experiments best adapted to direct the choice, invention, construction, and use of all sorts of machines)describes the composition of machines, under the several titles of the receivers, communicators, modifiers, supporters, regulators, and consummators, of the intended motion or action.-Another volume displays the machines employed in civil architecture, in hydraulic architecture, in military constructions, and in naval constructions.-A third treats very extensively, on the means of moving loads or burthens,-comprehending the transportation of all inanimate bodies, and changing their position: the several machines therefor having been described, the movement of bodies along horizontal and oblique planes, and the raising them vertically and obliquely, are fully discussed. The fourth volume treats of the different kinds of Hydraulic Machines,-for raising and translating water; and of the particular kinds to perform those services for domestic and agricultural purposes: and it contains the description of the machines necessary to produce temporary exhaustions of water-as in coffer-dams, dry docks and leaky ships;-and it exhibits the modes of drawing water from mines.— We have a notice of the recent publication of,

Partie VII. Des Machines qui servent à confectionner les étoffes, avec 44 planches.

MEDICINE, CHEMISTRY AND BOTANY.

Lectures on the natural history and management of the Teeth, the cause of their decay, &c.; by L. S. Parmly, Dentist to the principal members of the royal col. of phys. and surg. of London. [An American.] 8vo. pp. 99. New-York. For the Author. 1820.

The Medical and Surgical Register: consisting chiefly of Cases in the New-York Hospital; by John Watts, Jun. M. D. Valentine Mott, M.D. and Alexander H. Stevens, M.D. Part II. Vol. I. [Part L was published in 1818.] This part contains Dr. Watts' account of the Yellow Fever of 1819, in various parts of the United States. Collins & Co. New-York.

A Flora of North-America, illustrated by original coloured figures, drawn from nature. By William P. C. Barton, M. D. U.S. N. Prof. of Bot. Univ. of Penn.-Nos. 1 and 2.-[monthly.] Philadelphia. M. Carey.

(Foreign.)

Dictionaire des Sciences Médicales, tom. xliii. 8vo. Paris.

Flore du Dictionaire des Sciences Médicales, Livraisons 88-99. 8vo. Paris.

Traité de La Fievre jaune, par jean Devèze, Docteur en Médicine, de la faculté de Paris, &c; ancien Médicin en Chef de l'hôpital mili

taire français établi à Philadelphie; membre de la Société Philosophique de la même ville, &c. 8vo. pp. 311. Paris. 1820.

This work contains a description of the yellow fever, as the author observed it in the epidemic of Philadelphia, in 1793-and he discusses the question whether this fever is an infectious or contagious disease: and concludes with proofs of the non-contagion of the yellow fever.

Humboldt et Bonpland. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, cura C. S. Kunth, Fasci XIII. et XIV. in 4to. et folio.

Paris.

A Grammar of Botany, with Plates. By Sir James E. Smith, &c. &c. 8vo. [In the press, Lond.]

Mr. Accum has in the press, a Treatise on domestic Chemistry, with concise instructions for preparing good home-made bread, beer, wine, vinegar, pickles, conserves, &c. Lond.

NOVELS. (Foreign.)

Octavo Edition of Scott's Novels-each volume to contain a separate work of the author-with a copious glossary of the Scottish words. {Publishing.] D. Parker. Boston. Price $150 per vol.

The Abbot, by the Author of Waverley, &c. 3 vols. 12mo. [Edinb. and] Philad.

The One-Pound Note, a Tale of Mid-Lothian; the Wife, the Mistress, and the Friend, a Tale of Mystery; and the Prophecy, or the Earl and the Gamekeeper, a Tale of Wonder. By Francis Lathom. 2 vols. 12mo. Lond.

Sir Francis Darrell; or, the Vortex. A novel. By R. C Dallas, Esq. Author of Percival, Aubrey, Morland, &c. 4 vols. Lond. Tales of the Heart. By Mrs. Opie. 4 vols. 12mo. [Lond. and] New-York.

Tales of Imagination, by the Author of Bachelor and Married Man, &c. 3 vols. 12mo.

Lond.

Precaution, a Novel. 2 vols. 12mo. [In the press, by Goodrich & Co. New-York.]

The Bandit's Bride, or the Maid of Saxony, a romance, by Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Author of " Montbrasil Abbey," &c. 3 vols. 12mo. Philadelphia.

Ancient Spanish Romances, relating to the Twelve Peers of France, mentioned in "Don Quixotte," with English Metrical Versions, by Thomas Rodd, preceded by the History of Charles the Great, and Orlando,' translated from the Latin of Spanheim. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. POETRY-THE DRAMA-AND FINE ARTS.

The Pleasures of Religion. A Poem. 18mo. pp. 72. Wiley & Halsted. New-York.

Yamoyden, a tale of the wars of king Philip; in six cantos. By the late Rev. James Wallis Eastburn, A. M. and his friend. 12mo. Published by James Eastburn. New-York.

Songs of Judah, and other melodies. By William B. Tappan, Author of "New-England," &c. 18mo. pp. 204. Philad.

A Conference on Society and Manners in Massachusetts. A Poem. Wells & Lilly. Boston.

American Bards, a satire. [Not by the mountaineer of the west,-but by a South-sea traveller.] New-York.

Picturesque views of American Scenery, engraved by Hill, from draw. ings by Joshua Shaw, landscape painter, and President of the Society of Arts of Philadelphia. Imp. fol. No. 1-[to be comprised in six numbers. $10 per No.] Philadelphia. M. Carey.

(Foreign.)

Poems by Anna Lætitia Barbauld; to which is added an Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. 18mo. Boston.

The poems of Barry Cornwall. [In the press, by Goodrich & Co. New-York.]

The Sceptic. By Mrs. Hemans.

Trivial Poems and Triolets. By P. Carey. Edited, with Preface, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edinb.

Julia Alpinula; with the capture of Stamboul, and other poems. By J. H. Wiffen, Author of "Aonian hours, &c."

Lond.

18mo. pp. 237.

The Brothers, a Monody, and other poems. By Charles Abraham Elton, Esq. Lond. The Author wrote,-

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, translated into Rhymed and Blank Verse; with a Dissertation on the Life and Era, the Poems and Mythology, of Hesiod, and copious Notes. s. 8vo. And,—

Specimens of the Classic Poets, from Homer to Tryphiodorus, translated into English Verse; with Biographical and Critical Notices.

3 vols. 8vo.

A Geological Primer, in Verse; with a Poetical Geognosy, or Feasting and Fighting, and sundry Right Pleasant Poems; to which is added, a Critical Dissertation on King Coal's Levee, addressed to Professors and Students at the University of Oxford. 8vo. America, an epistle in verse; with other poems.

12mo.

Lamia, Isabella; The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems. By John Keats, Author of Endymion. F. cap 8vo. Lond.

The Funcy: a Selection from the Poetical Remains of Peter Corcoran, of Gray's-inn, Student at Law. With a brief Memoir of his Life. F. cap 8vo. Lond.

Poems, descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. By John Clare, a Northamptonshire Peasant. 3d edit. F. cap 8vo. Lond.

The instance before us is, perhaps, one of the most striking, of patient and persevering talent existing and enduring in the most forlorn, and, seemingly, hopeless condition, that Literature has at any time exhibited.—Quar. Rev.

The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. Translated by the Rev. H. F. Cary, A. M. 2d edit. With additional Notes, a Life of Dante, and an Index. 3 vols. 8vo. Lond.

"Of all the translators of Dante, with whom we are acquainted, Mr. Cary is the most successful; and we cannot but consider his work as a great acquisition to the English Reader. It is executed with a fidelity almost without example; and though the measure he has adopted conveys no idea of the original stanza, it is perhaps the best for his purpose, and what Dante himself would have chosen, if he had written in English, and in a later day.”—Edinb. Rev. No. 58.

Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods, from the Italian of Torquato Tasso; by Leigh Hunt. With a portrait of Tasso. Lond.

POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. (Foreign.)

Monarchical Projects, or the whole of the Documents relating to the Buenos Ayres Monarchy, with other illustrative matter. Lond. De Pradt, De la Révolution Actuelle, de l'Espagne, et ses Suites. 8vo.

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. [Milton's.] With a Preface, referring to Events of a deep and powerful Interest at the present Crisis; together with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative; with a Review of the Controversy between Milton and his Opponents. By an Eminent Civilian. 8vo. Lond.

The Parliamentary Debates [Vol. XLI. of Hansard's.] Comprising the Session at the close of the Reign of George III.-This Work commenced with the year 1803; and forms a Continuation to the present Time, of the Work entitled, "The Parliamentary History of England, from the earliest Period, viz. 1066." Roy. 8vo.

State Trials. By J. Howell. Vol. XXVII. roy. 8vo. Lond.

Journal of an illustrious Traveller, including memoirs and anecdotes of her Court, and correspondence with the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Whitbread, &c. 8vo.

The Defence of her Majesty the Queen, against the charges that malice, supported by perjury, brought forward against her Majesty, when Princess of Wales, in 1806. By her Majesty the Queen; with an Introduction. Lond.

The Queen's Case stated. By Charles Phillips, Esq. Barrister at Law. Lond.

Proceedings at a Public Dinner given at Edinburgh, on the 21st of February, 1820, in honour of Lord Erskine's visit to his native country; also a Sketch of the Life of the Hon. Henry Erskine. By Mr. Jeffrey, &c. &c. &c. 8vo. Edinb.

THEOLOGY.

Letters on the Ministry, Ritual and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church; to the Rev. W. E. Wyatt, D. D. associate minister, &c. Baltimore, and professor of theology, &c.-in reply to a Sermon exhibiting some of the principal doctrines of that church. By Jared Sparks, A. M. minister of the 1st independent church of Balt. 8vo. pp. 268. Baltimore. N. G. Maxwell.

Historical Documents and critical remarks on Unitarianism and Mahometanism, in reply to Mr. Henry D. Sewall. By the Rev. Henry J. Feltus, Rector of St. Stephen's church. New-York.

Reply to the Rev. Henry J. Feltus, &c. on the alliance of Unitarianism and Mahometanism; with the Unitarian's Appeal. By Henry D. Sewall. New-York.

Observations on Bishop Hobart's Charge, entitled "Corruptions of the church of Rome, contrasted with certain Protestant Errors." By George E. Ironside, A. M. Washington City.

(Foreign.)

Locke's Essay on the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles; and Le Clerc on Inspiration. 18mo. Boston.

An abbreviated Synopsis of the Four Gospels, so arranged as to lay beVOL. I.

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