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QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,
From August to November 1817.

AGRICULTURE.

The Farmer's Magazine, No. 72. 3s.

A Review (and complete Abstract) of the Reports to the Board of Agriculture, from the several Departments of England. By Mr Marshall. 5 vol. 8vo. 37. 3s.

ASTRONOMY.

Eight Familiar Lectures on Astronomy, with Plates and Diagrams. By W. Phillips. 6s. 6d.

Ladies' Astronomy. From the French of De Lalande. By Mrs Pengree. 3s.

Eight Familiar Letters on Astronomy, intended as an Introduction to the Science. For the Use of Young Persons, and others not conversant with the Mathematics. Accompanied by Plates, numerous Diagrams, and a Copious Index. By W. Phillips. 12mo. 6s. 6d.

FINE ARTS.

The Genuine Works of William Hogarth; with Biographical Anecdotes. By John Nichols, F. S. A. and the late George Steevens, F. R. S. & F. S. A.; containing Clavis Hogarthiana, and other Illustrative Essays; with 50 additional Plates. Vol. III. 4to. 4. 4s. Chromatics, or an Essay on the Analogy and Harmony of Colours. Royal 4to. Illustrated with Plates and Diagrams. 21. 2s. A Manual of useful Knowledge; being a Collection of Valuable and Miscellaneous Receipts and Philosophical Experiments; selected from various Authors. By William Pybus. 18mio. 10s. 6d.

An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation; preceded by a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders; with Notices of nearly Five Hundred English Buildings. By Thomas Rickman. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The Journal of Science and the Arts; edited at the Royal Institution. No. 7; with Plates. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

ANTIQUITIES.

British Monachism, or Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England. To which are added-1. Peregrinatorium Religiosum, or Manners and Customs of Ancient Pilgrims. 2. Consuetudinal of Anchorets and Hermits. 3. Account of the Continentes, or Women who had made Vows of Chastity. 4. Four Select Poems, in various Styles. By Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke, M. A. F. S. A. Sl. 3s.

The Third Part of Neale's Illustrated History of Westminster Abbey.-Royal 4to. 16s.-Imp. 4to. 17. 4s.-Crown Folio (to correspond with the New Edition of Dugdale's Monasticon, of which on?

ly Fifty Copies are printed) 17. 11s. 6d.-Imperial Folio, 27. 12s. 6d. Proofs on India Paper, and Etchings, 27. 12s. 6d.

The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, comprising Specimens of the Architecture, Sculpture, and other Vestiges of former Ages, from the earliest Times to the Union of the Two Crowns ; accompanied with Descriptive Sketches, Biographical Remarks, and a Brief History of the Principal Events that have occurred in this interesting part of Great Britain; together with Illustrations of Remarkable Incidents in Border History and Tradition, and Original Poetry. By Walter Scott, Esq. In Two Volumes 4to. Price

91. 2s. 6d.; or, large paper, price 13. 18s. The whole of the Engravings executed by Mr John Greig, from Paintings made expressly for this Work, by Mr George Arnold A. R. A., Mr A. Nasmyth, Mr L. Clennel, and Mr Renton.

Pompeiana, or Observations upon the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii. By Sir William Gell, F. R. S. F. A. S., &c. and J. P. Gandy, Esq. Architect. No. II, 8vo. 8s.

ARCHITECTURE.

Hints for the Improvement of Prisons, and for their better Regulation. By James Elmes, Architect. 6s.

Civil Architecture of Vitruvius, comprising those Books of the Author which relate to the Public and Private Edifices of the Ancients. By William Wilkins jun. M. A. F. A. S. Fellow of Gonvil and Caius College, Cambridge, Member of the Society of Dilettanti, and Author of Antiquities of Magna Grecia. With 27 Engravings, by W. Lowry. Part II. 31. 3s. in elephant 4to.-or 67. 6s. Royal Folio.

BIOGRAPHY.

The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life. 2 vol. 8vo. 1. 1s.

Historical Anecdotes of some of the Howard Family. By Charles, Tenth Duke of Norfolk. 8vo. 7s.

Dr Watkins's Memoirs of the Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan; the Second and concluding Part. 4to. 1. 11s. 6d.

Memoirs of the Last Months of the Life of Mr Thomas Vaughan, late of Pentonville, and a short time Deputy-Purveyor of the Forces under Lord Wellington. 12mo. 3s. 6d.

Memoirs of the Life of the Elder Scipio Africanus; with Notes and Illustrations. By the Rev. Edward Berwick. Post 8vo. 7s.

BOTANY.

A Botanical Description of British Plants in the Midland Counties, particularly of those in the neighbourhood of Alcester; with occasional Notes and Observations: To which is prefixed, a short Introduction to the Study of Botany, and to the knowledge of the principal Natural Orders. By T. Purton, surgeon, Alcester. With Eight Coloured Engravings, by James Sowerby. 2 vol. Svo.

The Florist's Manual, or IIints for the Construction of a gay Flower Garden; with Observations on the best Method of preventing the depredations of insects, &c. 4s. 6d.

CHEMISTRY.

Chemical Amusement; comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry. By Fred. Accum, operative chemist. 12mo. 8s.

A System of Chemistry. By T. Thomson, M.D. F. R.S. &c. the fifth edition. 4 vol. 8vo. 31.

COMMERCE.

Considerations on the British Commerce, with reference particularly to British India, the United States of America, and the Slave Trade. 1s.

DRAMA.

The Persian Hunters, or the Rose of Gurgestan; an Opera, in Three Acts, performed at the English Opera-house: the words by Tho. Noble, the music by Mr Horne. 2s. 6d.

The Bohemian; a Tragedy in Five Acts. By G. Soane, A. B. 4s. 6d.

Account of Mr Kemble's Retirement from the Stage. 8vo. 9s. Characters of Shakspeare's Plays. By William Hazlitt. 10s. 6d.

8vo.

Incog; or Three Weeks at a well-known Hotel: a Farce in Two Acts, as performing at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. By W. A. Keep. 2s. 6d.

The Vicar of Wakefield, a Melo-dramatic Burletta, in Three Acts. By Thomas Dibdin, Esq. 18. 6d.

The Youthful Days of Frederic the Great; a Melo-drama, in Two Acts.

The Peasant of Lucern, a Melo-drama. By Geo. Soane. 3s. 6d.

EDUCATION.

Ancient History, abridged for the Use of Schools. By the Rev.: John Robinson, LL. D. stereotyped, with Engravings. 6d. 6d.

The Schoolmaster's Assistant; or the First Introduction to Geography. 4to. 7s. Containing twelve half-sheet Copperplates.

A New School for Adults; with three hundred instructors, called pictures; being a new plan, whereby grown persons may learn to read almost without a teacher. Also a Book to teach Children to read. By John Goss, of Hatherleigh. 1s. 3d.

Chrestomathia; Part I. Explanatory of a School for the extension of the new system of instruction to the higher branches, for the nse of the middling and higher ranks; 1816, vo. Part II. Essay on Nomenclature and Classification; including critical examination of Bacon's Encyclopedical Table, as improved by D'Alembert, 1817. By Jeremy Bentham, Esq.

A Key to Dr Noehden's Exercises for writing German. By J. R. Schultz. 3s. 6d.

Stories explanatory of the Church Catechism. By Mrs Sherwood.

12mo. 5s.

A Practical Essay on Intellectual Education, with an ample CataJogue Raisonné of Elementary Books of Instruction, and a View of the most approved Methods of Tuition. By William Jaques, 4s. 6d.

A Lexicon of the Primitive Words of the Greek Language, inclusive of several leading Derivatives upon a New Plan of Arrangement. For the Use of Schools. By the Rev. John Booth, Curate of Kirby Malzeard, near Ripon, Yorkshire. 8vo. 9s.

Questions resolved; containing a plain and concise Explanation of near Four Hundred Difficult passages of Scripture, and concise Answers to important Questions in History, Biography, and General Literature. By the Rev. G. G. Scraggs, A. M.

Institutes of Grammar as applicable to the English Language, or as introductory to the Study of other Languages, systematically ar ranged and briefly explained. To which are added, some Chronological Tables. By James Andrew, LL.D. 8vo. 6s. 6d. Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pentameters.

2s.

The Dauphin Virgil, with Dr Carey's Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana prefixed.

History made Easy; or a Genealogical Chart of the Kings and Queens of England since the Conquest. By Mr Reynard.

A Key to the same.

Letters on English History, for the Use of Schools. By J. Bigland. 12mo.

6s.

A Companion to the Globes; comprising the various Problems that may be performed by the Globes, accompanied by more than One Thousand Examples. 4s. 6d.

GEOGRAPHY.

The Edinburgh Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary. Vol. I. Part II. 8vo. 9s.

GEOLOGY.

Transactions of the Geological Society. Vol. IV. Part II. 4to. 31. 3s.

HISTORY.

Outline of the Revolution in Spanish America. By a South American. 7s. 6d.

An Abridgement of Universal History, commencing with the Creation, and carried down to the Peace of Paris in 1763. By the Rev. E. W. Whitaker. 2 vol. 4to. 81. 8s.

The History of the Ancient Noble Family of Marmyun, with their singular Office of King's Champion; collected from the Public Records. By T. C. Banks, Esq. 4to. 17. 15s.-Svo. 18s.

A new History of Berwick-upon-Tweed; with Historical Notices of the Neighbouring Villages, including a Compendium of Border History, accompanied with a Plan of the Town. By the Rev. T. Johnson. 12mo. 5s.

LAW.

Reasons for a further Amendment of the Act 54 Geo. III. c. 156, being an Act to amend the Copyright Act of Queen Anne. By Sir Egerton Brydges, Baronet, M. P. 2s. 6d.

A Treatise on the Law of Arbitration; with an Appendix of Precedents. By James Stamford Caldwell of Lincoln's-Inn, Barristerat-law. 18s.

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Reports argued and determined in the Court of Exchequer, Easter Term, 1816. By George Price Esq. Part III. Vol. II. Royal

8vo. 5s.

Supplement to a Treatise on Pleading. By J. Chitty Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law. 17. 11s. 6d.

A Compendious Abstract of the Public Acts passed anno 1817; with Comments, Notes, and a copious Index. By Thomas Walter Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq. 12mo. 48.

The whole Proceedings on two Petitions in the Court of Chancery, ex parte Crosby in re Crosby, and ex parte Wilkie in re Crosby, heard before the Lord Chancellor in Lincoln's Inn Hall, August 22.

1817. 18.

A Treatise on the Game Laws, in which it is fully proved, that, except in particular cases, Game is now, and has always been, by the Law of England, the Property of the Occupier of the Land on which it is found and taken; with Alterations suggested for the Improvement of the System. By Edward Christian Esq., Professor of the Laws of England, and Chief Justice of Ely. 8vo. Kearsley's Tax Tables for 1818. 1s. 6d.

10s.

A new Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England, on the Plan of Sir Mathew Hale's Analysis, &c. By J. H. Thomas Esq. 3 vol. 8vo.

A Select Law Library, containing the whole Law now in force relative to Parish Officers, Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers; Wills, Codicils, and Revocations; Bankrupts; Bills of Exchange; Buying and Selling of Horses, Game, &c. By Henry Clavering Esq., Barrister-at-law. 8vo. 11. 2s. 6d.

The Law of Bankrupts, their Creditors and Assignees, from the Issuing the Commission to the Allowance and Confirmation of the Certificate by the Lord Chancellor. By Soame Whitaker Esq., Barrister-at-law.

4s.

Form of Process before the Jury Court. By John Russell Esq., Clerk to the Signet, one of the Clerks of the Jury Court; with an Appendix, containing the Act of Parliament, the Acts of Sederunt of the Court of Session, and the Rules and Orders of the Jury Court for regulating the Form of Procedure. Svo. 5s.

MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &c. An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. By James Parkinson, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. 3s.

Letters to a Mother on the Management of Infants and Children. By a Physician. 5s. 6d.

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions published by the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. Vol. VIII. Part I. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The Principles of Diagnosis, Part II. The Diagnosis of the more 8vo. 12s. general Diseases of Adults. By Marshall Hall, M. D. The Hospital-Pupil's Guide; being Oracular Communications addressed to Students of the Medical Profession. By Esculapius. 3s. 6d.

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