Lord Glenbervie, chairman and first commissioner of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Laud Revenues, is preparing for publication, a quarto volume, Outlines of a Treatise, practical and experimental, in the Cultivation of Timber, particularly Oak, for domestic and other purposes.

Mr. Salt's Second Voyage to Abyssinia, undertaken by order of govern ment, is printing uniformly with Lord Valentia's Travels, and will be accompanied with a map of the country on an extended scale, several charts, views, &c.

Mr. T. H. Horne has in the press, an Introduction to the study of Bibliography; comprising a general view of the different subjects connected with bibliography, some of the most celebrated public libraries, and a notice of the principal works on the knowledge of books; also numerous engravings illustrative of early printing.

The Rev. David Williams shortly will publish, in a small volume, a Historical Sketch of the Opinions and Doctrines of the various Religions in the World.

The Rev. John Mitford is preparing a complete edition of the English and Latin Poems of Thomas Gray, with critical notes and a life of the author.

Mr. Joseph Hopkins will publish carly in next month in a duodecimo volume, the Accoucheur's Vade Mecum, being the substance of a course of lectures on midwifery.

The second and concluding volume of Langsdorff's Voyages and Travels is in the press.

Mr. Crabb's new work on the Sy

nonyms of the English Language, in three octavo volumes, is in a considerable state of forwardness.

Sermones, or short Sermons with Anecdotes, by Miss Hawkins and Mr. H. Hawkins, will appear in the course of next month.

Mr. Cottle is preparing for the press, a poem of some extent, entitled Messias.

Chalcographimania, a humourous poem in four books, with explanatory notes, designed as a companion to Mr. Dibdin's celebrated Bibliomania, is nearly ready for publication.

Mr. Rouse has in the press, the Doctrine of Chances, combining the theory and practice of all games of hazard, with easy rules to calculate the probabilities of events.

The second volume of Wood's Athenæ Oxoniensis, by Mr. Bliss, is in great forwardness.

Some Account of the Life and Writings of the late Mrs. Trimmer, with Extracts from her Journal, are printing in two octavo volumes.

Mr. W. Jones, author of the History of the Waldenses, is preparing a Biblical Dictionary, on an improved plan, adapted equally to the use of ministers, students, and families.

The Letters of Klopstock and his Friends, translated from the German by Miss Benger; also

The Essays and Letters of Prof. Gellert, translated by Aune Plumptre, are in the press.

Mr. Gieseche is preparing for the press an Account of his Seven Years' Residence in Greenland, and his mineralogical discoveries during that period.

A second edition of Co!. Pinkney's Travels in the South of France, will speedily be published, in a thick octavo volume.

A new cdition of Keys' Treatise on the Management of Becs, in a small volume, will soon appear.

Mr. Copley is engaged upon an equestrian portrait of Marshal Wellington, attended by his aid de camps the Prince of Orange and Lord March, both of whom have sitten purposely for their portraits; The s ze is eight feet by six; and besides the three portraits, the back-ground is intended to exhibit a perspective of the battle of Sala.

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The Margravine of Anspach has composed, and intends to publish the memoirs of her life.

As the beautiful figures produced on paper by the oxidation of various metals with an electrical battery, cannot be effectually represented by engravings, Mr. Singer proposes to illustrate a few copies of his Elements of Electricity, with some real oxides, produced by his powerful apparatus.

The History of the Valiant Knight Sir Arthur of Brittany, a romance of chivalry, originally translated from the French, by Lord Berners, is carefully reprinting from the edition published in black letter, by R. Redborne, about the middle of the sixteenth century, and will be embellished with a series of plates from illuminated drawings, contained in a valuable MS. of the original Romance.

An Abstract of the Annual Reports and Correspondence of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, will speedily be published by direction of the Board of the Society.

The works of Ben Jonson, with Notes, critical and explanatory, and a Life of the Author, are announced by Mr. William Gifford, in ten volumes.

Mr. Campbell translator of Bishop Jewell's Apologia, is preparing for publication a translation of Grotius on the

Rights of War and Peace, and the Law of Nations, with Notes and Illustrations from the best writers.

Mr. Kerrison is preparing for the press an Inquiry into the Establishment and Progress of the Medical Profession.

Mr. W. Henley is about to publish a Series of Chemical Tables intended to exhibit the Properties of all the present known Bodies, with the Results of their union, &c.; forming a complete abstract of the Science of Chemistry.

A General Description of Leamington, with an Account of the Objects of Curiosity and Consequence in the immediate vicinity, by Mr. Bisset, late of Birmingham, is in the press.

The Rev. Mi. Sayers is preparing a History of Bristol and its Vicinity.

Mr. Phillipart will speedily publish Memoirs of General Moreau, embellished with a Portrait, taken a few weeks before his death, and a fac simile of his last letter to Madame Moreau.

An Easy and Practical Explanation of the Church Catechism is printing, by the Rev. Harvey Marriott, of Cla

verton.

M. Santaguello has in the press an Italian Class Book, after the plan of Blair's admired English Class Book, consisting of extracts from the best writers, in prose and verse.

Mr. Thomas Baynton, of Bristol, will speedily publish a new and successful Method of treating Diseases of the Spine.

Dr. Wollaston has contrived an instrument for freezing at a distance, called a Cryophorus, founded on the principles that a fluid, from which a por tion is evaporated, becomes colder in consequence of the heat absorbed by that part which assumes the the gaseous state; that fluids rise in a state of vapour at a lower temperature when the pressure of the atmosphere is removed, and consequently may be cooled to a lower degree by evaporation in vacuo than in the open air.

Let a

glass tube be taken, having its internal diameter about 1-8th of an inch, with a ball at each extremity of about one inch diameter, and let the tube be bent to a right angle at the distance of half an inch from each ball. One of these balls should contain a little water, and the remaining cavity should be as perfect a vacuum as can readily be obtained; the mode of effecting which

is well known to those who are accustomed to blow glass. If the ball that is empty be immersed in a freezing mixture of salt and snow, the water in the other ball, though at the distance of two or three feet, will be frozen solid in the course of a very few minutes.

M. Hoffman a German engineer who has been long engaged in examining the banks of the Rhine, with a view to ascer ain at what point Cæsar passed that river, has transmitted to the Gottingen Academy a detailed account of certain interesting objects discovered fear Neuwied. They consist of vases and instruments, coins and figures.

The first part of the Memoirs et Lettres du Baron de Grimm anterior to the year 1770, have lately been discovered and published in Paris. It is reported in the Journal de l'Empire to be even superior to the 2d and 3d part already published. A selection from them is printing in French and English on the same plan as the former volumes published in London.

A new periodical Miscellany will be published the 1st of Feb. entitled "The new Monthly Magazine," the political features of which will be in direct opposition to those of the old monthly Magazine at present edited by Sir Richard Phillips. Several Gentleman of distintinguished talent, will contribute to this work which will be open to disquisitions on every subject of general interest and will also contain the usual articles fnecessary information.

The Literary and Scientific Calendar (containing a biographical account of living authors, &c) the publication of which has been retarded by the labo. rious researches which it required is now in the press, and will certainly appear early in 1814.

In a few days will be published Letters addressed to Lord Liverpool, and the Parliament on the Preliminaries of Peace. By Calvus.

A humorous work is in the press entitled the school for good living or a Literary and Historal Essay, on the European Kitchen, beginning with Codonus, the Cook and King, and endr ing with the union of Cookery and Chemistry.

New editions are preparing for publication in French and English, of Madame de Stael's Delphine and of

the letters on the character and writings of Rousseau.

Early in January, 1814, will be published the first number of a new work to be called the Rejected Theatre, or a collection of dramas which have been offered for representation but declined by the managers of the Playhouses.

In the press, A sketch of the History and Proceedings of the Deputies appointed to protect the civil rights of the Protestant Dissenters.

Rev. D. Tyreman, is about to reprint his Essay on Baptism, and two Sermons on Domestic Discipline and Admonition to Youth, with a third Sermon addressed to the Aged.

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The Naturalist's Miscellany, lately conducted by Dr. G. Shaw, and R. P. Nodder, is to be 'continued under the title of the Zoologist's Miscellany. William Etford Leach, M. D. F.L.S," W. S. &c. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Surgeons of London. lilustrated with coloured figures of new, or highly interesting animals. By R. P. Nodder, Animal Painter, and Draftsman in Natural History.

Preparing for Publication. Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Bri tain with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions. By Edmund Lodge, Esq. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. Author of the Biographical Tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Part I, will be ready for delivery in January 1814, containing I. Sir Philip Sidney. From the original of Sir Antouio More, in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn.

II. Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. From the original in the collection of the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, at Castle Howard.

III. William 1st Lord Paget. From the original of Holbein, in the collection of the Earl of Uxbridge, at Beaudesert.

IV. William Poulett, 1st Marquis of Winchester. From a miniature by Pe ter Oliver, in the collection of the Marquis of Winchester, at Aiport House.

V. Sir Thomas Bodley. From the original in the Bodleian Gallrey, Oxford.

VI. Thomas Radclyffe, Ild Earl of Sussex. From the original of Sir Antonio More, in the possession of Wm Radclyffe Esq., College of Arms.

Specimens, both of the Plates, and of the Work itself, as proposed to be conducted, may be seen at the Publishers', Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsburysquare; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row ; Where subscribers names are received, and by whom the specimens will be forwarded, upon application, to per⚫ons resident in the country, and desirous of inspecting the plan of the work, the expense of carriage and return of the specimens being guaranteed.

Proposals have been issued for publishingby Subscription, in Two volumes Octavo, price 11. 1s. in extra boards, Political Portrits, in this new Æra; with Explanatory Notes-Historical and Biographical. By William Playfair. author of the Political Atlas, the Decline and Fall of Nations, and other works.

In the press. To be publishecbut Christmas. Patronage: by Miss Edgeworth, author of Tales of Fashionable Life, Castle Rackrent, Belinda, &c. &c.

A Continuation of Early Lessons, viz. Frank, Rosamond, and Harry and Lucy, will shortly be put to Press by the same author.