paffage in Livy, lib. XLIV. chap. 6. He alfo corrects D'Aville's account of the courfe of the Dniefter, to the North of Kotchim, from a plan of the city, taken by Prince Galitzin, and communicated by Mr. Keralio. The fubfcription having been clofed fince 1779, the price is a little higher now than it was to the firit fubfcribers. It is fomething between five and eight fhillings a volume, and varies according to the fize. Befides this work, the author has published Elementary Cofmography; Elements of Roman History; and an abridged Geography of Greece. NATURAL HISTORY. Effay Historique fur la Bibliotheque du Roi, et fur les differens fonds qui la compofent, avec la defcription des batimens et des objects les plus curieux à voir dans ces depots, on y joint la lifte hiftorique des bibliotheques publiques et particulieres de Paris, avec l'indication des jours ou des heures ou elles font ouvertes. 1 vol. 12mo. 400. 2s. LAW. Traité de la peine de mort traduit de l'Italien de Mr. Paolo Vergari qui parut à Milan en 1780, fuivi d'un difcours fur la juftice criminelle. Par Coufan. 21. 8s. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliographie inftructive, vol. X. being a fupplement to Mr. De Bure's Bibliography, and his catalogue of Mr. Gaignat's books, with feveral additions to thefe works, and a difcourfe on bibliography, and the duties of a bibliographer. 2s. THEOLOGY. New Analyfis of Bayle, or Bayle's attacks on religion and manners refuted from his own writings, with a differtation on Suicide, by L'Abbé de Launay. French. 4 livres. CHEMISTRY. Count Sickengen, a refpectable chemist, has found out a new manner of purifying platina, by means of the Pruffian alkali, and finds that its bitterness and infufibility are chiefly owing to a large proportion of iron. When When feparated from the iron, it is more ductile than even gold, and its specific gravity is to that of gold as 27 to 25. Dr. Ingenhousz has lately communicated to the Royal Society fome new experiments on the property vegetables have to produce pure dephlogifticated air. Thefe experiments were made in anfwer to Dr. Priestley and Meffrs. Cavallo, who were of opinion that the air was not produced by the plants, but by a property in vegetables to purify air which comes in contact with them. The moft interefting thing in the paper is, that the doctor thinks it might be a very wholefome thing to sprinkle the water in which air has been produced from vegetables on the floor of clofe rooms, or even to keep it in the room and ftir it frequently. This he imagines might purify the air tainted by frequent refpiration. ENGRAVINGS. Plan of the fiege at Minorca, with the camps and works of the Spaniards, with explanations in French and Spanish. By J. P. Sarrazin, engineer to the duke de Crillon. il. IOS. The two following collections are offered for fale: 1. A fet of upwards of 8000 maps and topographical charts and drawings. It confifts of the best original maps of every country in a regular feries, from the year 1595 to 1747. Amongst them are the great works of Ortelius, Schenk, Hondius, Janffon, Moll, Coronelli, Otten, Nolin, Blaeu, &c. The fingle maps and drawings amount to about 6000, fome of which are rarely to be met with, fuch as thofe of Kepler, Ab Langrèn, Kærius, Gastaldi, Vadagnino, de Rubis, Forlani, &c. 2. A collection of upwards of 11000 engraven portraits of illuftrious men. Among other valuable books of heads it contains Benavidii imag, &c. Venet. 1567. Capriolo cento capitani illuftri Roma 1596. Curtii elogia Eremit. Auguftin. Antw. 1636. The fingle plates are about 7000 in number, all in good condition. Those who wish for farther information are to apply to Profeffor Zimmerman at Brunswic. NOVELS. A lame imitation of Le danger des Liaisons. Clariffa. forbidden at Paris, from, I fuppofe, fome-refemblance to true history. 4 vols. 8vo. POETRY. Poems by Mr. Scott. Buckland, 10s. 6d. BIOGRAPHY. Materials defired by Dr. Difney of Swinderby for the Life of Dr. Sykes. Effays fur la Phyfiognomie, by Mr. Lavater. THE first volume of this fingular work, of which I gave an account in my last number (which I mean foon to refume), is juft come over, and is to be be had of Elmily, for Three Guineas. The author gives notice, that, as fome of the Vignettes in this Volume are not fo well executed as he could with, the subfcribers to the whole, which is to confift of three Volumes, and contain upwards of an hundred plates, with four hundred vignettes, will have other vignettes given them with the fecond volume. We are likewife informed by the author, that this is not a bare tranflation from the German; but that he has himself changed the order of feveral pieces in the original, and made very confiderable additions. There is just published at Paris, an Eulogium on Count Maurepas, late prime minifter of France, read at a public meeting of the Academy of Sciences; and, on account of the importance of the subject, permitted by that Academy to be feparately publifhed, contrary to their ufual rule. As Count Maurepas was at the head of all the literary labours of his countrymen, and as he alfo raised the storm which now thakes Europe, I fhall procure the work, and, if I find it deferving, fpeak more fully of it in my next. The author is The Marquis Condorcet, diftinguished both as a mathematician and elegant writer, now fecretary to the Academy. |